08-21-2012, 08:39 AM
When referring to Nayr's topic I think the better question isn't "Why why sprite?" but rather "What is the goal of TSR and all its related boards as a community?". For a long time, even in the pixeltendo days, Spriting and Pixel Art has been treated as a place to come to improve as an artist, and I feel the forums have kinda been shaped by this. But as the forums are directly related to the main site now it would seem like the goal would shift from being a place to improve as an artist to a place to post and get opinions on custom pixels for games/comics/reference/fun/what ever you use sprites for. As a spriter's resource tsr excels when it comes to archiving and as a reference for people to use and learn from ingame sprites, but it fails as a resource for people when people come to get opinions and are met with tsr users questioning there artistic integrity. This is because pixeling isn't necessarily a form of art. Pixeling is a method of design. It can be used to create art (like everything else in the world) but by judging everyone as an artist (or anyone from that matter) shouldn't be the goal of the board. The difference between a good resource and what we have in the spriting and pixel art board is that a proper resource gives the nessesary information to create functioning designs (this often includes alot of artistic concepts yes). But it seems like the functionality of the users sprites for there goal isn't the criteria you guys rate sprites by, but rather if the sprites appeal to you as art .