Well, I’ve never heard of that AI before, and honestly, I don’t want to pay for any AI tools. I only used ChatGPT to help make the banner and write the caption on this page because my English isn’t that good.
But if that AI can really produce something like this, I’d be curious to see it, can you show me? What I can show you is how I came up with this idea. I saw someone’s pixel art on Reddit 6 months ago, and I tried to recreate that style. I still have the original reference image, my first mockup, and all the step-by-step Aseprite files where I added details to each part of the building one by one.
It took me six months to learn this style, and I know it still looks rough. Maybe it looks like AI because I use the blur tool a lot (I know many pixel artists advise against that), but I find it helpful for adding detail to objects.
There’s a lot of proof I can show that this pack was made completely from scratch by me. But if you can show me even one solid piece of proof that this was AI-generated, I’ll delete this post or even my whole itch.io account.
You posted that comment in 3 seconds, but this took me 6 months. I say this respectfully: I understand why you said that, my art isn’t super clean, and I’m still learning pixel art. I’m just aiming to create something more realistic, or maybe “semi-pixel art” if that’s a thing. It’s far from perfect, but I’m still learning.
I really hate to sound like this, but comments like that honestly make me lose motivation. I’m trying my best and just want to keep improving.