Anti-alaising Tutorial, My first pixeling tutorial!

It's pretty small and simple, so here you go:

nice, text is very hard to read though

not bad, although to keep the roundness of the circle you could put dark gray (almost black to dark gray) along the circle it self, not outside of it.

That's just a different way to AA.

Pretty nice tut gets the idea across and gets it done


Matt

yeah, AAing can be adapted into new AA technique
much like when you invent your own dithering style.

nice tut for people who dont know AAing, shows what Anti Aliasing's purpose is.

OK to add up with the tutorial.

i will discuss the complexity in AA.

I claim that,
AA can also increase your number of colors
because in AA you must follow the rules and that is
by adapting the color of the background

in HalfDemon's example he uses only white background
but what if the background has to be different colors?

this what happens


so AA clearly, doesnt serve its purpose, and ofcourse you wont do this
with your pixelart.

in that case you have to increase the colors
and adapt the color of the background from
the object's (circle) base color (which is black)
to the backgorund's color.. you create 3 levels
of shade from those 2 colors.

and this is the result.


that is one complexity in AA that we all have to know
when using the AAing technique to our pixelarts.

Nice addition. AAing sprites is especially hard when making them for games with changing backgrounds.

Unless you use inner AA.

another thing to add to this is you shouldn't AA onto a 45 degree angle. a 45, just like a straight line, is the most crisp line that the computer can generate. By adding AA to it, you are only blurring it.

in your first circle example, you AA'd on a 45

I learn something new every day.