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With the dawn of the Internet, came the rise of colourful, large graphics brought to us by a program known as Netscape Navigator. VGA, or "video graphics adaptor", is a generic term given to files that have a higher resolution than text or EGA mode. With VGA, gone were the limited constraints of any other art form.
VGA allows for sharper pictures with anywhere from 2 to 16 million colours. VGAs are mostly seen in the GIF and JPEG file formats being the most popular file formats on the World Wide Web. These files are usually larger in file size than ANSI or ASCII files due to increased resolution and colour depth. GIF files feature things such as transparency and interlacing. JPEG files can have a high rate of compression allowing very large images to be stored in a relatively small file. Some VGA file formats can be viewed on DOS, Windows, Amiga, Mac, XWindows, SGI and many other platforms. Users of these and other platforms can use paint programs or web browsers to load these images.
These days, VGA has surpassed ANSI as the format of choice because of its portability to other graphical formats and unlimited possibilities. Practically 90% or higher of any pack these days would be VGA content. With the growth of the Internet, many artist are able to display their art to a wider, more diverse audience.
Here's a hand picked selection all from the team at Acid. I tried to show a variety of different styles here.
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Pros
Acceptability: VGA art will always be prevalent as essentially all other art forms can be converted to it.
Compatibility: While the other formats have only a handful of dedicated programs for them, VGA art has copious amounts of devoted programs spreading across all computer formats.
Cons
Elitism: Many 'old skool' artists view VGA as a cop out because any toy with a nice set of plug-ins can throw up a decent piece.
File size: Full blown VGA's are usually around the 150kb+ mark, while your average ANSI never exceeds 40kb.