The Dark Emperor Manifesto

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Jun 5

hi! when making stuff in aseprite, what type of image file produces the highest quality? on a piece say 64x64 pixels. png, jpg or jpeg?

Anonymous

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Png. I talk a bit about it here:

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Also important to know:

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And finally:

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Ironically Tumblr also interpolates with bicubic or bilinear so these tutorial images look blurry because they were downsampled from 638px original to 540px tumblr width. Here’s the original GIF for pixel perfect viewing, although if you’re on any sort of retina display (or equivalent) the browser will double the resolution (to match the denser pixels) and blur things again. 

To circumvent that you need to see it on a website that has pixel scaling enabled in their CSS (like mine, when you go to the actual site, not on the Tumblr dash), or use an extension for your browser that injects that CSS into any page (like mine, safari only, but you can find similar things for other browsers I suppose).

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And that’s the story of pixel art formats and quality and the internet.

Jun 4

Conversation I had today.

”What kind of snacks do you want?“

"I want the kind of snack that will shave at least a year off the end of my life. I want the kind of snack that will sneak off down an artery during digestion and try to assassinate my heart directly. I want a snack that will do 1-3 points of damage per turn for 6-10 turns. I want a snack that comes out the other end exactly the same because my body refuses to touch it.”

“…so, what, pork rinds?”

Pictured: Congress

Pictured: Congress

A title page I did for my Monday night game. Coloring practice!

A title page I did for my Monday night game. Coloring practice!

May 7
This looks like the kind of sheep who wears winter hats to the beach.

This looks like the kind of sheep who wears winter hats to the beach.

May 7

aspiring-procrastinator:

do you ever get so frustrated drawing hands that you just

May 6

I drew some highlights from our Pathfinder game so far. (The first one is my character – her name means “ugly like a butt” in Irish Gaelic. :P )

And yes, my friend Alex based his gnome monk on Krillin from DBZ. In case you were wondering.

  • Me, driving: Aaaah! Jesus, take the wheel!
  • Jesus: What? Me? I'm from first century Judea, I don't know how to drive a car!
  • Me: AHHHHHHHHHHHHH
  • Jesus: AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH
Apr 3

captain-concrete-jr:

markingatlightspeed:

teratomarty:

shuffling-blogs:

(source)

Boston: because fuck you, that’s why.

Boston looks like a spiderweb constructed on coke

I’ve never been there but to me, Boston looks normal. Like a bunch of towns that just grew into each other. The way cities are meant to be. Etc.

It’s all right in the post-GPS-age. We make jokes about how a single cow in the 1600s decided the layout of every given street. I personally like the organic look but there is something to be said for a grid. Fortunately it has a very developed public transit system, so mostly you don’t have to drive it. 

(Source: its-okae-carly-rae)