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What's unique about PC98 art?


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This educational video provides an overview of characteristics of PC-98 and PC-88 artwork from the perspective of a pixel artist. This video has subtitles and a transcript.

You will learn about:

  • Colours
  • Aspect Ratio
  • Information Density
  • Detail Simplification
  • Character Art
  • Background Art
  • Anti-aliasing
  • You will also learn about:

    • Difference between colour depth and colour palette number
    • How to pick colours suitable for a PC-88 or PC-98 style artwork
    • How to size elements on the screen
    • Differences in line weight between PC-98 and PC-88 artwork
    • How to balance contrast between the foreground and background
    • When to use anti-aliasing
    • Where to get dithering brushes for Aseprite, Clip Studio Paint, and Krita
    • Timestamps

      1. 00:00 Introduction
      2. 00:36 Background and Hardware
      3. 01:59 Visual novels and other games
      4. 03:11 Video Overview
      5. 03:35 Colours
      6. 05:34 Additive and Subtractive Mixing
      7. 08:03 Information Density
      8. 08:59 Detail Simplification
      9. 11:18 Character Art
      10. 12:24 Background Art
      11. 13:35 Anti-aliasing
      12. 14:48 Summary
      13. 15:15 Dithering Brushes
      14. 15:26 Contact
      15. Credits

        Music, sound effect and image credits are available at the bottom of the blog post (References section).

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