Spriting Dicussion: Forums

[Medical Meccanica]

I don't know if discussion on spriting in general is allowed here, but here's hoping.
So. It's come to my attention that PMF is pretty much dead. C Spriting is also going the way of the Shed-dodo. If you look up Pokemon Spriting Forum on Google, the main things that come up are crappy Proboards sites and the big Pokemon forum's spriting sections: Serebii, PC, Marilland, and possibly even TCoD (I didn't look very hard for it).
Now, there are several advantages to a forum such as PMF/CS. I will list them here:
1. More of a focus on spriting - this allows for better spriting contests, special features like the Spriter Test/CS Dex, but still lets members discuss Pokemon in offtopic forums.
2. CRITIQUE. Oh god yes. If you go to Serebii even once I'm sure you've seen the abysmal critique/lack thereof. It's sickening. I remember forums like PMF and CS having amazing critique, especially CS and the mid-days of PMF.
3. Community Togetherness. Instead of having spriters scattered around the large forums, why not one place where they could all talk and share ideas? I mean, really, why hasn't this succeded in this day and age?

So, I'm asking you, spriters - why are Pokemon spriting forums so unpopular nowadays? What can you do sprite-wise on major Pokemon forums that you couldn't do there - plus so much more? And goddamn, there's sure as hell not a shortage of spriters - look at Serebii!

tl;dr Pokemon spriting forums are dead and I can't figure out why

 

[Involuntary Twitch]

Because most of the Pokemon community resides in larger forums as opposed to specific ones? The "spriting community" is rather broad, and I think lots of people consider themselves Pokemon fans first and spriters second. It's just not as big of a deal as it used to be, now that every large Pokemon forum has a Pixel Art subforum. *shrug*

Critique was never all that high quality actually, but again most forums (such as this one) have a thread for posting sprites and critique in.

Basically it's like any other smaller forum, really; people are less inclined to join communities where they only know a few people, or that hold no interest to them.

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[Green]

because most people go to sites more inclined towards spriting, see /good/ sprites that aren't slopped together from a few parts, get a little bit of critique, and run away.

of course, i used to be like this on serebii until bynineb's critique actually helped me :B