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Pixel Art / [WIP] Building a better Lego brick
« on: October 31, 2007, 11:46:30 am »
After reading the forum topic on Bacca's new bub--and reminiscing a little on the really early Lego sets--I thought I might tackle an ISO pixel art piece. I dug through all my old Lego instructions and settled on this one:

Lego set 615, the forklift. Released in 1975. Classic!
Here's my start. Just the basics, really. Trying to work out what looks best. I did some with a 3 pixel edge, but read somewhere that cubes done like that are ugly when stacking. All these blocks are based on the two pixel edge. I think the circled blocks look best. But just wondering if anyone else here has attempted to recreate the magical blocks in pixel art and if there are any sage pieces of advice on working on a piece like this.

I had this wild idea of a collective of pixellers creating a whole library of pieces. Then you could just work up creations from them and add tiles to some giant, sprawling web page; something like this:
http://lenser.spb.ru/pict2/panoram/pixelart.htm

Lego set 615, the forklift. Released in 1975. Classic!
Here's my start. Just the basics, really. Trying to work out what looks best. I did some with a 3 pixel edge, but read somewhere that cubes done like that are ugly when stacking. All these blocks are based on the two pixel edge. I think the circled blocks look best. But just wondering if anyone else here has attempted to recreate the magical blocks in pixel art and if there are any sage pieces of advice on working on a piece like this.

I had this wild idea of a collective of pixellers creating a whole library of pieces. Then you could just work up creations from them and add tiles to some giant, sprawling web page; something like this:
http://lenser.spb.ru/pict2/panoram/pixelart.htm