Hi there! I rarely appear on reddit to make posts, but as this fall right into my alley I felt obligated to at the very least acknowledge your analysis.
First off, well done! There are some good points made in your very long doc (I did not read it all to be frank).
The Old School Art style is very difficult to understand and explain yes. It has been my focus in the past year to deep dive in and figure out. I've come to roadblocks, done 180's midway through, taken a complete different direction to it until I have come to some conclusions.
The style of Old School is created by the hands of many different inputs, in the very early ages many of the art assets where in fact done by content developers.
Imagine this – You have planned to do a painting, you have not really decided the motif yet, but you are thinking it should be a medieval fantasy castle on a grass plain. Now you leave that painting not even half finished. In fact, you the person who ...
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