Pixel art beginners often scratch their head to get their drawing right and sometimes don’t know what exactly is off. Here are the 8 elements :
1) No outline
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See the difference between those 2. One is with a black outline, one without. The one without blends in better !
2) Light and Shadows
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Light and shadows add a whole lot of realism. You distinguish a sphere from a circle by shadows !
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see the shadow of the boats
even trees !
3) Animations
a) as a whole : boats
b) piece : turbine blades
4) Details
a) fine details
which appear nice from far
b) big piece details
those accompanying elements were not needed with the turbines but adding them increased the level of realism :
5) Proportion
well known but important
no mismatch between the size of vehicle, bus stop, building, road and trees !
6) Shades
in a tree for example, adding different shades (in the same shadow face) makes stuffs look cooler :
see the sea details for same tone
same with trees
same with ground :
7) Transparency
Transparency makes that blinking light appear more real : less strong away from source :
8) No approximation style
there is no flat edge. every detail is defined. compare with :
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nice pixelling !
beautiful examples, this is some amazing stuff
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haha
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thank you !
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This are really amazing samples of pixel art. Thanks for sharing!
Pixel art doesn’t seem an easy discipline to master: I bet it takes lots of time, and patience to learn to do images like that.
The part about working in a zoomed in image, so that when zoomed out it will look nice, and detailed seems very difficult!
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actually see my post on setting up pixly editor. a good pixel editor always allows you to have 2 views one close one far.
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though me too i develop theotown pixel art plugins those are from theotown android game
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