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Talented example pixel grafiki.Vse we remember the funny characters of the «Super Mario Brothers» - plumbers, traveling to the pixel world, in order to save the beautiful princess. This game was drawn by a small, but nevertheless, it is noticeable to the eye points - pixels.

Pixel graphics - a form of digital art created on a computer using a bitmap graphics editor, where the image is edited on the pixel level. Artist pixel-art hand pixel by pixel creates an image using simple tools graphic editors.

The heyday of pixel art came in the 90s of the last century - the booming video game consoles on the 2nd and 3rd generation. And on the consoles of the 4th generation (Sega MD, SNES, TurboGrafx-16 and Neo Geo) out of the game with the most beautiful and perfect for the technique of pixel graphics.

Further advances in technology, the emergence of first 8-bit color, and then True Color, the development of three-dimensional graphics - all in time ousted pixel art in the second and third plans. However, pixel art is alive to this day. Some enthusiasts use it as an imitation of the past. But others believe that it revives the tradition of console games second and third generation.

Modern pixel art exists outside monitors. Created posters with pixel-art, magazines and pictures, "Pixel" video ads, and even a tattoo in the form of pixels.

The site presents the best examples of pixel graphics. This is a scene from the video game series «The King of Fighters» 1995-1999-ies developed by the Japanese company SNK. Gif-animation makes the frames of computer games in the animated illustration.