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Feels so strange to be asking this, but maybe I have been an idiot all these years....
I always thought SNK's stages, so the backgrounds in fighting games, were bascially the peak of pixel art. That implies to me that they have been hand-drawn, so to say. Assembled pixel by pixel in a painstacking manner.
I've been playing early KOFs with a friend and I was sure he'd be aaaaall over those background graphics....but he's lukewarm on them, says many parts of them are pre-rendered and to him don't look very appealing, because rendering goes for realism, and 4096 colors aren't enough for that.
That completely boggled my mind. Sure, there are some rendered objects here and there....the gears in KOF95's Mexico stage, obviously. But ....the USA stage of the same game? That's all rendered are therefore not all that impressive?
His words have shook me a little, probably because he is a graphics designer by trade...so what he says does carry some weight. Have I been wrong all this time? Are KOF stages (or MOTW or LB) not the epitome of amazing?
Disclaimer: I'll always find them beautiful as fuck, no matter what. But I'm curious if he might be talking nonsense after all.
I always thought SNK's stages, so the backgrounds in fighting games, were bascially the peak of pixel art. That implies to me that they have been hand-drawn, so to say. Assembled pixel by pixel in a painstacking manner.
I've been playing early KOFs with a friend and I was sure he'd be aaaaall over those background graphics....but he's lukewarm on them, says many parts of them are pre-rendered and to him don't look very appealing, because rendering goes for realism, and 4096 colors aren't enough for that.
That completely boggled my mind. Sure, there are some rendered objects here and there....the gears in KOF95's Mexico stage, obviously. But ....the USA stage of the same game? That's all rendered are therefore not all that impressive?
His words have shook me a little, probably because he is a graphics designer by trade...so what he says does carry some weight. Have I been wrong all this time? Are KOF stages (or MOTW or LB) not the epitome of amazing?
Disclaimer: I'll always find them beautiful as fuck, no matter what. But I'm curious if he might be talking nonsense after all.