Nearest-neighbor interpolation preserves these sharp edges, but it increases aliasing (or jaggies; where diagonal lines and curves appear pixelated).
The resulting choppy, pixelated imagery makes it appear as if the software that rendered the final video outputted a low-resolution, artifact-heavy product.
The visuals are presented in two dimensions using pixelated sprites and environments.
However, when played on some music channels, these areas are pixelated.
Close up, everything is blocky and pixelated, but even from far away the walls and textures look like big, chunky blocks.
With raster graphics, all icons need to be extremely high resolution, so as to not appear pixelated on higher resolution screens.
A simple, pixelated style makes up the top screen, while the bottom screen has a pre-rendered, detailed art style.
Each team had a time limit of two hours in which to create their pixelated images.
