Well here is my first attempt at iso:

Let me here thoughts and tips! Also the beach i have only just started that is why it seems empty





Edited by Saint Minor - 02 December 2006 at 3:10pm

edited: now PNG

Also i cant find an effective way to get what i want without blurring the beach etc. any adice with this?


Edited by Saint Minor - 02 December 2006 at 3:11pm

what program do you use? i suggest you use paint.

Well the beach isn't pixel art.
I suggest you fix that right away.

some things that could be fixed:
consistancy in the picture, things vary in size a LOT, most notably the big brown building in the corner has windows that are colossal, plus the chimney thing on it seems pretty out of place. Also, as Jalonso said, it looks strange to have black outlines on a few buildings, and no outlines anywhere else.
About the barn (if it's not a barn, then I'm talking about the red building with the grey roof), the roof looks a little off. If you draw a line from the center of the roof, it doesn't line up with the center of the building.

Good luck with future edits of this piece :)

Just wanted to add, as far as pixel art goes, no programs are really superior. The great thing about pixel art is that it's purely the manipulation of pixels, so you don't need a big fancy program to do it (although, layers and opacity options help TONS).

As long as you lay things pixel by pixel and turn off any anti-aliaising algorithims, using photoshop should be no different than using paint, really (except for the layer bit).

It is looking better but the beach still isn't pixel art.

http://spriteart.com/tutorials/01_dither.html
has a good tutorial if you don't know what dithering is :D


Edited by Cryssy - 03 December 2006 at 10:35am

Please keep your images as small as possible when posting. All that white isn't needed.

So this is an edit of things that may help you in creating your pixel. You have many areas where you used the blur tool. That not only looks terrible but it makes it Not Pixel Art. The pool and even the buildings have blurred tool things here and there.

• The tower on the building is so disproportionate it just looks wierd, I think.
• I made a person and door that may keep you focused in scale (see you already started on that). I broke the factory into stories based on the other buildings.
• You are coloring your buildings with an odd sense of lighting. The barn is lit from the right while the factory from the left and that middle building not lit at all. Pick one and stick to it.
• Your way of coloring 'corners' is really wrong looking (see image for comparison)
• Illustrated what Brianna mentioned about the slope of the barn roof.
• Many of your detail items are not in iso view but flat 2D. I illustrated some to show you, umbrealla and chair. On the lower right is a sheep, tree and the iso circle for the fountain I was too tired to draw.
• Finally, I have shown a seashore in the simplest possible way I could think of. There are many other more intricate ways of doing it, but this seems to go with your style. Study it closely and you'll figure it out (pallete included)




EDIT: These are my ideas for you only. There are other ways of doing things ;)


Edited by jalonso - 03 December 2006 at 9:42pm

this is looking much better but upon zoom in the shadows under the umbrellas are still blur/darkened
also jalonso's bit about the umbrellas would make them look much much better :D

There's still blur in the pool, too.

Nice i have to say......

I didn't know you could copyright iso grids

But maybe he copyrighted the color green that's left! Oh, wait... :)

Edited by brianna - 05 December 2006 at 1:22pm

I'm patenting reds. If you'd like to use a red in the near future, you can rent one for $100 a month by sending me a message :)

lol, now let's get back on-topic 

What point would there be in making an iso grid if people CAN'T use it?? e_e

Hey, this is coming out quite nicely! (take off the brushed shadows from the umbrellas and put some real pixel shadows instread please!)

The construction site and church are a cool addition, and You made the crane quite well. Try giving the sand & water area more form, more texture. As it stands now, it just looks like a flat beach with flat water and a little seafoam where the two intersect. A few pixels in the shape of waves would suffice to give the entire piece more of a beachy atmosphere. You can also have a go at texturing the sand (try long, thin dunes of sand), but that's quite hard to do.

Keep it up!

looking good :D

Yes i know i am redoing the umbrella shadows