2x Sprites and what-not

[Cobalt Blue]

so answer me this: taking the sprite down to its lineart and redoing all the colors and shading from scratch counts as "takes no effort at all"?

in other words, everything in this thread below took absolutely no effort and counts as the lowest form of spriting?
http://www.spriters-resource.com/communi...705&page=1

you didn't said that because you'd be completely stupid because there is no point of comparision between these two but

i'll answer you that anyway:
taking the lineart of an existing sprite down to its lineart and redoing all the colors and shading from scratch is either:

1. a dumbfuck idea since in the time you removed everything from it you could pretty much make a lineart on your own and actually work into something new instead of reverse engineering something that already existed and then rework it to something that was already made.
   
2. at the same level as tracing anime images in mspaint and then post them as the so called bases so other dumbfuck lazy pieces of shit recolor them on mspaint with the finger they just pulled out of their ass in terms of quality and call it for a day.
   

and yes both take no effort or no skill at all to do so, since all you have to do is remove blocks of color and there is plenty of automated ways to achieve that effect in a matter of seconds. its like peeling a boiled egg and proclaim yourself as a chef.

the thread you have linked shows purely linearts and lazy blobs and shapes that users can use to practice they shading skills. if we were to compare that with removing the colors from an existing sprite, you'd notice you'd have no point of comparision since in the first case YOU are the one who determine wich colors are to be used and how and you have to actually figure what to do instead of following a spriting diaper as a base.