Zephos' Everyday Life

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With passing of New Year’s Day, I’ve had a craving for some good old fashion nostalgia trips down 8-bit lane! My absolute very first experiences with computer art was way back in 1996. It was the winter that Final Fantasy III had just made it to western shores and I had just inherited my brother’s old Macintosh Quadra. Ah, the good old days when the Mac icon still had rainbow color on the apple. So what was a gamer artist wannabe’ doing back then? Using ResEdit to make 8-bit gaming icons of course, ahahaha… okay, that wasn’t the most obvious answer, but go with me here ~^_^~. So back then if I recall correctly, the largest icon size on the Mac OS of the time was 32 pixels square and had to be restricted to 8-bit color which meant a palette of 256 colors. For a while now though, I’ve wondered what an 8-bit Xyni would look like, and here it is, faithfully reproducing the archaic technology of my childhood using Axialis Icon Factory! Well almost… this version you see here is blown up 10 times, because 32 square pixels is just laughably small on today’s high resolution monitors ^_^. Pixel art has a very amazing power, it allows people to fill in the lack of detail with their imagination and I enjoyed that aspect very much until the days when using Photoshop and layers wrecked my innocence, ahahah ^_^.

With passing of New Year’s Day, I’ve had a craving for some good old fashion nostalgia trips down 8-bit lane!

My absolute very first experiences with computer art was way back in 1996. It was the winter that Final Fantasy III had just made it to western shores and I had just inherited my brother’s old Macintosh Quadra. Ah, the good old days when the Mac icon still had rainbow color on the apple.

So what was a gamer artist wannabe’ doing back then? Using ResEdit to make 8-bit gaming icons of course, ahahaha… okay, that wasn’t the most obvious answer, but go with me here ~^_^~.

So back then if I recall correctly, the largest icon size on the Mac OS of the time was 32 pixels square and had to be restricted to 8-bit color which meant a palette of 256 colors. For a while now though, I’ve wondered what an 8-bit Xyni would look like, and here it is, faithfully reproducing the archaic technology of my childhood using Axialis Icon Factory! Well almost… this version you see here is blown up 10 times, because 32 square pixels is just laughably small on today’s high resolution monitors ^_^.

Pixel art has a very amazing power, it allows people to fill in the lack of detail with their imagination and I enjoyed that aspect very much until the days when using Photoshop and layers wrecked my innocence, ahahah ^_^.


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