[Firefly Study Log] Day 95 - Kids Pixel Art
The day before yesterday, I managed to do hearts fairly well, so I tried people today.
🎨 Today's theme: "Kids pixel art"
In conclusion, this was impossible after all 💦
📝 Today's prompt:
An extremely low-resolution 8-bit pixel art of two characters, a boy and a girl, standing side by side.
Retro Famicom/NES style, very blocky pixels like 16x16 sprites.
Chibi, 2-heads tall proportions with big heads and tiny bodies.
Flat 4-color palette with no shading, very simple and playful.
Solid light blue background.
I made various adjustments, but it just wouldn't produce what I was looking for.
📸 Output results:
🤔 Insights:
Firefly is strong at "cute pixel style" but struggles with "rough 8-bit authentic hardware feel."
Adding "chibi" or "cute" makes it lean toward modern-style characters.
Even when specifying "low resolution" or "blocky pixels," it gets cleaned up too nicely.
For authentic Famicom-style art, it's more realistic to use dedicated tools like Piskel or Aseprite instead.
Hmm... it's not bad, but it's not what I was looking for. By the way, I thought Gemini might do a good job, but it was not good at all. Pixel art is really difficult after all.