{"id":4634,"date":"2023-03-09T21:57:29","date_gmt":"2023-03-09T21:57:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nft.runfyers.com\/index.php\/2023\/03\/09\/low-res-masterpieces-9-pixel-art-virtuosos-you-need-to-know-makersplace-magazine\/"},"modified":"2023-03-09T21:57:29","modified_gmt":"2023-03-09T21:57:29","slug":"low-res-masterpieces-9-pixel-art-virtuosos-you-need-to-know-makersplace-magazine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nft.runfyers.com\/index.php\/2023\/03\/09\/low-res-masterpieces-9-pixel-art-virtuosos-you-need-to-know-makersplace-magazine\/","title":{"rendered":"Low-Res Masterpieces: 9 Pixel Art Virtuosos You Need to Know | MakersPlace Magazine"},"content":{"rendered":"

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To state the obvious, pixel art is a form of digital art that uses individual pixels as the building blocks of image creation. This is why pixel art is often considered of a kind with impressionism, pointillism, mosaic, and cross-stitch. As an art form, pixel art revels in its constraints, employing false limitations that partially or totally re-create the technical limitations of the past, such as limiting the number of pixels or colors used.<\/p>\n

Visual complexity and color palettes were heavily constrained by the capacity of available screen resolution in the 70s, 80s, and 90s. As resolution goes up, pixel size goes down, and visual complexity can increase \u2014 more details, more colors, more fine-tuned movement.\u00a0<\/p>\n

While most modern HDTVs are 1920\u00d71080 resolution, Nintendo Entertainment System had only 256\u00d7240 pixels to work with and the Atari 2600 only 192\u00d7160. Shigeru Miyamoto, the creator of Super Mario, gave his most famous creation a big nose and mustache to get around the lack of facial detail.\u00a0<\/p>\n

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