像素风格与网站 ---- Pixel Style and Pixel websites

 

Author:Ilou

----- CHINESE VERSION --------

       从事像素艺术半年多来,看了不少国内外好的网站与作品,不妨借此说说有特点的像素风格和像素的网站。

    说到像素网站,大家一定首先想起的是eboy,eboy可以说是国际上像素最出色的网站,四个人的工作室,像素作品十分大气,颜色鲜艳跳耀,人物造型生动大胆,而且产量高得惊人!从他们的作品中可以看到野性不羁却不失大将风度,这种味道正是像素艺术中特点结合的一种表现。Eboy作为一个创作小组有自己的批品牌,做过很多的商业作品,用一个字来形容他们就是:牛!

    德国还有一个很有名气的像素艺术家,Mathias,自由设计师,他的像素网站是www.mrwong.de。其中最为壮观、举世瞩目的就是他的像素大厦,每个楼层代表一个像素网站,其中不乏国际上知名的像素站,当然也有个人的楼层,真正把各种像素风格融入到一个作品中,让人感受到像素世界的魅力与团结。这幢大楼也成为世界像素艺术的一个标志。

    Pixelzentrum.de也是一个德国像素网站,我看到过他的四次改版,但据说他们一共改了7次,版版精彩,且风格不一,从这点可以看出网站主人非凡的像素功力。

    南美洲的巴西有两个像素站很棒,一个是electriconland,另一个是pixelfreak。前者很早就出名了,是四名巴西学生组成的工作组,以完成商业作品为主,他们的像素作品很有南美风情。Pixelfreak的主人是Rene Hernandez Miranda,他住在萨尔瓦多,巴西的港口城市,他的像素作品非常幽默,以像素GIF图片出名,这些小图片的剧情简单但情趣十足,这个孩子为人很好,我曾经和他打过交道,很热情。

    亚洲的像素艺术也很发达,台湾的高子,年龄和我相近,但出道比我早很多,在国际上也很有名气,一个骑着助动车的人在城市中行驶就是他网站的logo。他的像素作品非常可爱,许多台湾大型的网站都请他为他们的bbs做人物头像的创作,可以说他是台湾像素的代表,也是亚洲像素的特征。

    韩国日本的像素艺术也很出色,最近看到一个韩国的像素站Zeeha,水平相当了得,里面的场景和人物十分有味道,带有一种非洲的感觉,很难想象韩国有这样的高水平的像素艺术家,作品完全可以和eboy匹敌。

    国内有一个像素网站在国际上很有名气,那就是iconcn,国内第一家专门做像素艺术的网站,站长铅笔头画的美猴王更是将中国的像素艺术展现在世界面前。精妙的技术与中国味十足的作品,真正代表了国内的像素水平。只是现在网站不做更新,出道时的光芒已经大减。

    灰灰菜和Dannie大家应该也不陌生,这两个人是中国像素鼻祖级的人物,他们没有自己专门的像素网站,但是国内许多论坛的像素人物都是他们制作的,而且可以很容易找到他们的作品。灰灰菜是国内响当当的网页设计师,在我还不知道什么是像素艺术的时候,她已经将像素造诣发挥极至了。Dannie我一直把他称作“中国像素第一人”,看看他的像素作品,人物的神情与动作是那么的自然却幽默诙谐,在画像素人上,绝对没人能比。

    如果你想了解世界像素你可以到PixelMuseum去,上面的像素展厅收录了国际上知名的像素艺术家的作品,可以很容易得发现他们之间的区别与特点。

    说了这么多,还有好多优秀的网站和作品没有说到,像著名的k10k,法国的Nascimpact,英国的Pixelhungger,瑞士的的ala,西班牙的Chacura,日本的iconstore,国内的像素森林等等,都是像素世界中不可缺少的一部分,对他们为像素艺术所做的贡献,我们应该深深地表示敬意!

    希望国内的像素爱好者通过这篇文章,能够了解一些像素历史。以上也是本人的个人见解,如果你有什么自己的高见,欢迎与本人交流。

----- ENGLISH VERSION --------

I have seen quite a few pixel websites since I engaged with pixel design half year ago, hence today I would like to talk about some unique pixel websites and their styles.

By talking about pixel websites, your first impression must be EBOY, which is one of the most brilliant pixel websites in pixel world. It is a four framer workgroup, by famous for their simple and colourful works with dramatic characters. Impressively, they have a exordinary high-yeild! I could sense the creativity from their works, which is the output of the mixture of pixel design. EBAY has its own product label as a great workgroup.

There is also a siginificant pixel designer in Germany, Mathias, who is soho designer. His most exordinary job is the Pixel Skyscraper. Every floor in that building represents a pixel website. Both business and personal pixel websites comprise the building. This is the building represents pixel's spell and togetherness. This is also the landmark in pixel design area.

Pixelzentrum.de is also a German pixel website, I have seen it is revised for four times. Actually it has revised for seven times since it began. With different style in every revision makes this site exordinary.

In South America, Brazilian pixel sites-electriconland, framed by four Brazilian students. It is mainly for business purpose with their Brazillian imagination. Additionally, there is another Brazilian site named Pixelfreak, which is owned by a Salvadorean, Rene Hernandez Miranda. There are huge amount of sense of humor in his work and famous for his pixel GIF print. And he is also a great guy i have never met.

Pixel design artwork is also popular in Asia. Gaozi, a Taiwanese boy in my age. Famous for his site logo, which is a person riding a motorcycle in the city. With his cute pixel work, quite a few Taiwan Companies asked him to design the BBS logo.

There is also a overwhelming tide of pixel design in SOuth Korean and Japan. I saw a siginificant Korean site - Zeeha, with a sense of Africa makes it different. It is quite hard to imagine that Korean has such site could compete with EBOY.

In China, there is a international pixel site called ICONCN. The Monkey King drawn by its Webmaster represents the Chinese sense of pixel design which WOnderful techniques mixed with pure Chinese taste. But with its upgrade for several times, it's not as good as before.

Huihuicai and Dannie, who is the explorer of Chinse pixel design. Though they do not have their own pixel site, there are lots of exordinary icons are created by them. It's quite easy to find their works with their fresh styles. Huihuicai is one of the most excelent pixel designer in China. She's already a superior before I knew her. Dannie who is the guy I would like to call him "the first pixeler in China", with his remarkable works, there is no one could compete with him.

If you want to find more about pixel design, you could logon to PixelMuseum. It contains quite a great amount of would-famous pixel works, you could easily tell the difference of them.

By far, I haven't mentioned some nice sites like k10k, French site-Nascimpact, British site-Pixelhungger, Swiss site-ala, Spanish site-Chacura, Japanese site-iconstore, Chinese site-pixelforest.I give my sincere thank to them for the contribution to pixel art design.

I hope by reading through this article you could have a general idea of pixel design history. As this is my personal opinion, if you have any idea about this, you are always welcomed.