Removing Digitization Artifacts with Color Work?

[Miru]

The Masked Warrior from Pit-fighter would probably work as a base for Lord Humongous, albeit with a lot of color work to fix the digitizing artifacts.

DC

This has made me rather curious about how to remove the various digitizing artifacts from digitized sprites to make them look more like standard pixel art, so they can work in more projects...

It will take a lot of color work, and I do use GIMP, so does anyone have any tips on this?

 

[kimono]

Hi Miru, I work like this to convert anything into pixel art: the Warrior has a 32 colors, so I reduce to 8 colors. Then I reshade the sprite with this kind of palette:

The Pit Fighters can be nice converted into true pixel art and maybye with more intermediate frames.