08-23-2012, 03:35 AM
Quote:This Board's main purpose is to help people work on their development as pixel artists/spriters.Look at the words "main purpose". This pretty much leaves the possibility of other related purposes. Weird huh?
If you ask me, people should be free to showcase their works, edits, recolours, whatevertheyhave. Other users are free to comment and explain why they probably should not do them et cetera paule paule. However, everyone should stay respectful and rude attitudes are not okay. Don't be penetrant, don't force them. If they disagree, that's it. No nead to rage out, no need to feel offended, accept it and move along. Once noobe replies to the things they post, they may realize nobody cares. In case people keep replying, oh look, there's interest. I honestly do not see a problem there. Starting arguments reiterating the same point over and over does not convince people.
As far as I've seen, the forums are not getting flooded with bad edits and recolours lately so I don't see what the fuzz is all about.
Furthermore, I personally do not see where the problem is when someone decides to focus on a style. Everyone should be free to make what they want to make, regardless of whether it may help them with their artistic development in the long run or not. Everyone can give advice, but it still is up to them to accept it or not. Everyone had to decide for themselves what's best for them. Not everyone has the same ambition or aims.
Regardless of anything. What even happened at Nayr's Archive? He was posting his sprites, some of them edits, alright. Some people liked to see them, some commented, re received criticism concerning them. So far, everything alright. Some mentioned he should consider doin cutsom work, too. That's fine. He said he didn't want to. Sad, but alright. Accept it, deal with it, there's worse. Give him time, let him do his FE, one day he may be fed up and move on to customs. From what I've heard, many spriters started with edits and moved to customs only later, right? Don't rush new people just because you have years of experience already. Don't freak out about edits just because you have seen so many in your time. Give new people time to develop. Telling them how they can progress faster is goof, really, but forcing them is not. Sometimes, you need to make a few experiences yourself before you can grasp their concepts. People are different and understanding someone elses reasoning is always complex if not even impossible.
If you think someone is incredibly stubborn and stupid and whatever and upsets you, report the post and let a mod handle it, please.
Long story short. If someone comes here to get comments on the sprites he does want to work on, he should be free to do so and should not be scared of with three pages of derailing on whether or not he should do something else but FE when that is what he wanted to get comments on. It's fine to mention advice once, twice, maybe a third time, but don't beat them dead with it.~
In the end, one can never know, maybe we're all wrong and his FE mugshots will help him to become the best M&L spriter of all times.