Questions tagged [pixel-art]
Questions about the design style that mimics the blocky pixelation and simple style of early video game graphics.
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How can I resize pixel art to keep black pixels
An older 90s mac paint program implemented a black-and-white image scaling algorithm that for lack of a more precise description, "preferred the black pixels" over the white. A consequence ...
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can you make textures in magicavoxel?
I'm working on a project that allows the player to purchase different skins. Can you make textures in MagicaVoxel? If not what are some good programs to make textures? I aiming to make blocky 3d ...
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How to make photoshop pencil tool 8x8 pixel square
I was making some pixel art and at some point I doubled the image size so now in order to continue to make my nice squares I want the pixel tool to be an 8x8 pixel square tip. Is it possible?
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Simplest way to resize a folder filled with pixel art
I'm trying to compile a nice website/portfolio for internships etc, and I have a folder filled with pixel art I've done (100's of images, not feasible to do them one at a time except if absolutely ...
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Is there a way to count the number of pixels of each colour in a picture?
I make cross stitch designs, lately been using Affinity Photo/Designer. So I can figure out how much of each colour thread I need, I want to count the number of each pixels of each colour (in the ...
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How to convert raster image to vector using only vertical and horizontal segments
I'm trying to convert an image to a pixel art vector. I want the output to be Only with horizontal and vertical segments "―" "|" (no "╱"). I tried to use several online ...
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GIMP : Is it possible to use a lower resolution layer
I want to make pixel art, let say 32x32 using a higher resolution image as guide.
I can create the 32x32 layer on top of the image, but I cannot scale it so it covers the original image. resize layer ...
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Pixel art from "classic" adventure games: 320x200 or 320x240?
I want to draw pixel art that should look like it is a scene from one of the LucasArts adventure games released around 1990-1995 (e.g., The Secret of Monkey Island and Monkey Island 2).
Most games ...
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Create this type of gradient background?
I'm trying to create a pixelart picture and I'm having problems with background. I need to do this effect:
Is a gradient but I think is not created with Aseprite Gradient Tool. And in PS I don't know ...
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Photoshop : Taking existing Pixel art and Automatically creating individual layers
Right here is an interesting one. For a project I need each pixel of existing pixel art on an individual layer.
There are potentially hundreds of images so i cant just copy, paste to new layer for ...
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Software to reduce colors to optimized 512-color custom palette
I need to take a full RGB image, and turn it into image that is optimized for a specific 512 color palette that I already have(I've been hired to make graphics for a Sega Mega Drive game). I can't use ...
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Pixel Art defined in Photoshop
I'm starting to learning pixel art and I have doubts.
My idea is do something like this:
The pixel is perfectly defined. I'm trying to do this in Photoshop and I cannot do it unless point by point ...
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Modify pixel art size without losing aesthetic
I have this platform of pixel art:
I want to modify its size to make it bigger, and I want to conserve the pixel-art aesthetic, like this:
But when I press Start to set the size, the piece turns ...
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Fastest way to make SNES Style pixel art?
I'm trying to make an illustration as SNES pixel art and I think it takes a lot of time. I'm not sure if I could do it for myself or is an idea too hard for a particular creator.
Idea is that this ...
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Pixel difference between illustrator and photoshop?
I'm starting to learn pixel art and I have a problem when I try to use sprite sheet for reference.
I have this sprite sheet in Photoshop, and I select the pointed area:
Problem is when I paste it in ...
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Convert PNG pixel arts to SVG without tracing
For a personal project, I designed some icons as PNG files and would like to export them as SVGs.
I know the next question: I don't want a raster, I need vectors. I found this question but since it's ...
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How do I make an image look pixelated, like old school arcade graphics?
I want to take some stock art (can be of any dimension) and make it look pixelated, kind of like old Mario Brothers video games circa the 80's.
Part of the image manipulation would require scaling ...
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Pixel Art: Can't create "hero walking" animation
I'm creating a game and animating my hero image using sprite sheets, but I can't seem to manage creating the walk cycle animation - the output is a weird animation that looks like the hero is just ...
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How should I insert sharp, crispy, pixel-perfect text into a pixel art?
There're many free pixel-style fonts available, like FontsArena's W95FA and wixette's Dotted Chinese Pixel Fonts with Unicode support.
However, when trying to use those pixel-style fonts into pixel ...
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How to make a pixel perfect circle?
currently I'm using AI for creating icons. However, When I tried using a 1-pixel border for my circle. the arc side is pixelated can you show me how to make it pixel perfect? Thanks
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How to make pixel art 2D 64x64 from 3D models/photo?
Such a question, need to make pixel art 2D 64x64 from 3D models/photo as a need to process pictures so they were as similar to the drawings. With a thick black outline, saw that it is necessary to ...
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Is there a program which can do pixel art antialiasing automatically?
Problem seems to me so incredibly simple it boggles my mind it isnt a feature everywhere:
When drawing a line/square/circle/any other shape the lines are automatically anti-aliased between primary and ...
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What genre of pixel art were MS-DOS and NES games? How to draw them?
The image below is characteristic of MS-DOS and NES games. What is this kind of pixel art called, and how to paint on a similar canvas where pixels take on a diamond sort of asterisk look (*). 8-bit ...
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How to display pixel art on a website?
Pixel art of the sizes 16x16, 32x32, 64x64 px is too small in size (ranging from 100-500 Bytes). How do I display them properly scaled on a website?
for ex: cryptopunks website has punks which are ...
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Can one customize the angle of a straight line made using Shift-Ctrl?
I would like to be able to use the pencil tool to draw lines angled exactly 2 units to the right for every 1 unit down, at angles of about 27 degrees from vertical or horizontal.
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How to create a grid on top of an image, so that each singular grid box can cover each pixel?
Okay, so I've been trying to create a grid, but so far I can't seem to get it right.
Basically, I want a grid, that covers each pixel in an image. Like, each pixel has a black outline, sort of. So far,...
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How to create random pixel art pattern in GIMP?
I just need to do the same process that was done in
this post,
but in GIMP.
I can add noise to the image in gimp, but I don't know which sliders should I move to get the wanted effect.
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What are Aseprite's strong points over Photoshop for creating static pixel art?
I'm in doubt of buying Aseprite for my pixeling needs, but I'm not very eager to have to learn using a new piece of software. Currently, I'm using Photoshop for pixeling, and my workflow in there is ...
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Can I have layers with different pixel resolution in Photoshop?
I use Photoshop for pixel art. When I have a reference photo, I'd like to be able to use that image as the background and start drawing my pixel art on a layer on top of it.
The thing is, the best ...
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Aseprite - How do I create a glow effect?
NOTE: I copied this from the default Stack Exchange website. Additionally the picture attached is not my own.
This question is based on the software known as Aseprite, a sprite and pixel art creation ...
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What are the names of those thicknesses of lines in pixel art?
Above are shown demonstrations of various thicknesses of lines (non-anti-aliased).
But I wonder how they're named.
Is a named "a thickness of 1"?
Is c named "a thickness of 2"?
What would b be named ...
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upscale but keep pixilation
I want to keep the quality of my image low! I'm asking here because all my searches have answered the opposite of my question. To simplify: I've drawn a 60-something x 60-something pixel circle in ...
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How to fix Visible white lines of grid (hairline) after exporting pixel art on Illustrator?
I made a pixel art piece on Adobe Illustrator, painting singular squares of a generated grid. I turned off the stroke so no grids are visible, but when I export, there are very faint hairlines. How do ...
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In Adobe Illustrator, is there a way to lock only an object's position?
In Photoshop, I am able to lock specific aspects of a layer individually: transparency, content and location. I find myself in need of this functionality in Adobe Illustrator.
Is there a way to have ...
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How to create a shifting colour hue in Asprite
I am new to learning pixel art and trying to study from examples, such as in the image below: I would like to understand what tools exist to simplify the shade/gradient transition effect below (rather ...
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How can I resize Pixelart so that every pixel mentains its correct width and height
As example, this example here. Every pixel is taking a 5x5 grid. The selected image in there is 75x75 pixels tall. Now what I did is that I took the 100% and changed it to 80%, 60% and so on, which ...
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Why does modern low-res art seem to look better than retro low-res art?
N.B: I previously used the term "pixel art", which I took to mean "modern, intentionally low-resolution art," though that's an inaccurate definition, so I edit the title
It seems to me that modern ...
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Rendering 3D model with animation as pixel art
I have been making games for a while now and have a substantial understanding of the 2D animations and processes. However my understanding with 3D modeling is limited even though I have made some low ...
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Pixel art software for Windows 10
I am into game design and I want to make my game in pixel art style. I saw a program called Graphics Gale. Is it good for pixel art?
Can anyone recommend some open-source, or free, Windows 10 pixel ...
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Why does the Photoshop Fill tool change pixels outside of the boundary I'm filling?
In the example image, I am trying to fill a white area and the black pixel lines around it are being changed. Also, there are a few gray pixels created at the bottom corners, outside my outline. Why ...
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Is there any software that can make drawing transitions for us?
I want to start a 2d game containing pixel sprite as characters. To make a walking animation, I know I need to simultanously put different sprite to make it seem like he walk and I can make it more or ...
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What color should be use on the edge of isometric pixel art
Is there a general rule to put outline/contour in isometric pixel art and what color should be used?
I know the inside can be outlined not by black but by the color used, but what about the outer ...
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Isometric color shading rule for pixel art
Lets say I have a cube in an isometric pixel art with the 'normal' color #ff0000 (red) and I want to shade remaining sides, is there a rule for selecting the top (brighter red) color and the darker ...
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Is there a way to convert pixel art into vector?
I've made some high resolution pixel art in PS by drawing it down at the pixel level and then increasing the image size with the nearest neighbor setting to keep it crisp. In the web browser, however, ...
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1px pencil draws 3px in Photoshop
I am trying to draw with 1px pencil but it draws 3px square. I checked my grid settings and Im sure that every grid is 1 px. How can I fix that?
as you see this is 3x3px canvas and pencil is 1px but ...
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Any way to create an image from pixel settings?
Meaning if I were to provide coordinates and a colour for each individual pixel e.g.(7,12, #767963), specify a pixel size for the entire canvas, can I make a picture from it? Which program has this ...
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Pixel Art - Very beginner help guides (Intermediate-Expert computer user, rookie artist)
Hi everyone my first time here but I'm hoping to turn a lot of my attention toward working on graphic design. I already have a fair bit of experience making 3d scenes (Blender, Maya, Max, etc), and I ...
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Does anyone know a good pixel font 7px tall?
I'm looking for a pixel font which I'll use later on to convert/use on an lcd type of display and the maximum height is 7px.
I've started by checking out dafont's bitmap fonts, but it takes quite a ...
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How do you make top down tileable mountain ranges like fire emblem?
TL;DR: my goal is to gain the knowledge necessary to make these kinds of mountains from scratch.
I've been searching hard all over for tutorials and dissecting tilemaps but I just can't figure out ...
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How to create metalic reflection effect in pixel art?
Currently I just randomly drawing right leaning segments with lighter colour, and sometimes It looks better sometimes it doesn't. But I don't understand what kind of pattern should I follow.
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