Pixelation
General => General Discussion => Topic started by: Syn on May 18, 2007, 05:21:46 am
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Just found out about this neat little craft called Perler Bead.
http://www.perlerbeads.com/
Basically you use little beads to make drawings point by point. Much like in pixel art and that is why a lot of people recreate game sprites using these. You can see some of those here: http://beadsprites.informe.com/bead-sprites-df1.html
I was wondering if anybody turned their pixel work into real life Perler Bead art. I suddenly feel the urge to go buy these, my walls need some Mario sprites! ;D
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I think I used these when I was younger.
Is an iron involved to melt the little beads together?
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My little sister loves those.
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yeah you place a piece of their paper over it and iron. i think my sister still has some
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"Just found out about"? Oh my god. I was drowning in those things when I was little! My grandma had a HUGE bucket of them, my friends in the same village had a bunch, they had them in the pre-school place I was in, and they had them in school for the first two years... And the last time I used them was... two years ago. At school.
But yeah, can be kinda be used as pixel art.
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I didn't know they were that old. I wish they had them at my school when I was a kid. But I just can't believe how much bead art the people on that board are making.
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ya there pretty old like 15 years ago old :blind: maybe 10
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Now I want to do that too.
Which piece would I do first, hmm...
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These are cool. I'm gonna pick me up some and do the characters from Day of hte Tentacle. I'm gonna do a super metroid samus one too. I'm thinking a mid stride running ice beam shot :D :D :D :D :D