Lecture Topic:

History & Digital culture

PIXEL ART

Evolution of the pixel:

The Parallel Analysis of Vision:

Modern Art & Modern Science:

* Pointillism

* Daltonism/ * Color Blindness

* Chuck Close: the grid

Pace Prints

Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Missouri

The Pixel

Alvy Ray Smith creator of Paint, the first full –color program

“A pixel is a point sample, - the value of a continuous thing at a single point (with zero dimensions).”

* What is a pixel?

http://www.webopedia.com/TERM/p/pixel.html

http://www.perceptivepixel.com/

* What is pixel art?

See examples at:

http://hello.eboy.com/eboy/?cat=42

See: How to do a pixel head:

http://www.flipflopflyin.com/g/2006/06/how-to-do-pixel-head.html

Other Reference:

1. Pixel Art Tutorial english

2. Flash Pixel Art Tutorial

3. Museum of Pixel Art

4. Isometric Pixel Art (complete guide)

5. Pixel Freak

6. Flip Flop Flyin'

7. Paul Robertson's Journal

8. Graphical Illusion

9. Pixeldam | home

10. Final Redemption

11. :: dot-invasion :: and the invasion begins ::

12. LOVEPIXEL

13. Pixel NascImpact - Pixel Art, Galerie, News, Brushs, Goodies, Tutorials (Photoshop, Flash MX)

14. DB DB Pixel Art Characters

ASCI Art 
wiki
good application: asci_gen_b13/Ascgen.exe

Screenings:

The Story of Computer Graphics

Visiting artist:

none

Readings:

none

Studio skills:

**Pushing pixels and making the pixel art head portrait:

techniques in:

Photoshop: setting up an original image, png/gif file formats, pencil tool, fill tool, seeing and simplifying color.

Image-Ready: importing folder as frames, tween, timing, save as optimized

Project:

1. Create a pixel art head (of your agreed upon classmate in your section team).

2. Then make an animated gif of all of your team’s images. See samples below.

Task:

Using techniques covered in lecture, studio and your own artistic research, create a pixel art head (of your agreed upon classmate in your section team) using a one pixel pencil tool and eraser. Keep in the tradition of the pixel art viewed in class.

Then put all completed team heads into a folder. In Image-Ready “import” that “folder as frames”. Use the tween tool with 5 frames to add, all layers, check all parameter boxes (position, opacity, effects). Then use .5 second frame delay time interval for each frame. Then go to file, save optimized as, images only gif (animated gif).

Deliverables

1, 73 x 100, png pixel head of your agreed upon classmate in your section team.

1, animated gif of all 4 heads tweened with .5 second frame delay time interval

See example:

Pixel Art Head:

Animated Gif:

Pixel Art Student Samples

Other Student Samples

Grading Criteria:

1. Assignment completed on-time

2. Adherence to the size and file format specifications

3. Appropriate use of tools.

4. Exploration and application of creative tools in Photoshop and Image-Ready

5. Quality and clarity of class presentation

6. Likeness of your image to the actual individual

7. Quality of your animate gif morph