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Do you think using Spritecraft and/or GIMP is "cheating"?

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UnknownHedgehog:
I've seen this come up a few times before where people who use GIMP or Spritecraft to make pixel art are accused of "cheating" for using those programs, and I'm curious as to what the rest of the community thinks about it.

Also, the reason why I gave GIMP and Spritecraft their own options is because setting up everything for the image to be turned into a pixel art/sprite is different between the two.

And I don't want to start any flame wars or anything. Just a civil discussion if anything.

arsenic_shark:
Sprite craft is rubbish, Ive used it on a picture of me and parts of my face became green. Using gimp made the picture alot better.


--- Quote ---cheat/CHēt/
Verb:   
Act dishonestly or unfairly in order to gain an advantage, esp. in a game or examination: "she cheats at cards
--- End quote ---

It is not unfair as it is open for everyone to use; most choose not to use. Also what if I was to enlarge a picture so I can see every pixel clearly or is that unfair. This is basic what GIMP does, but it also can adapt the picture then you have to take time to recreate it.

If you had the sprite as a schematic then imported it that would be classed as cheating in my opinion. Doing anything by hand is not cheating.

5OO:
I would only consider it cheating if they used GIMP or Spritecraft and then lied about it. But if they are honest I don't see a problem with it.

Cyan of the Griffins:
Hell no.

tiggy26668:
In the sense of "You making your own piece of artwork" it's cheating, because you're not creating the artwork, you're copying pixels out of a program and placing blocks until you've duplicated someone else's artwork into Minecraft.

In the sense of "Copying someones artwork into Minecraft as a sprite" it's not cheating, because that's what you're doing, and it'd be a pain in the ass to sit there with a picture and ruler/pencil to grid it out into pixels yourself.

so yea.... take your pick.

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