I need help.
Printed From: Pixel Joint
Category: The Lounge
Forum Name: Resources and Support
Forum Discription: Help your fellow pixel artists out with links to good tutorials, other forums, software, fonts, etc. Bugs and support issues should go here as well.
URL: https://pixeljoint.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=4434
Printed Date: 13 September 2025 at 11:45pm
Topic: I need help.
Posted By: Royall
Subject: I need help.
Date Posted: 14 June 2007 at 5:50pm
Look at pixelmoon. http://www.x-panded.com/pixeldam/pixelmoon.html
Here's one I'd like to talk about in particular:
http://www.x-panded.com/pixeldam/images/pixelmoonimgs/michel_lux-depot.gif
Look at the building. Notice the meaningless panels. See how they jump right off the building?
Now look at this one:
http://www.x-panded.com/pixeldam/images/pixelmoonimgs/Matriax_moon-base.gif
Look at the lines on the building. The Jigsaw puzzle lines. Look at how they shade them so they look indented into the building.
My question is, how do they learn how to do that? I've scoured the internet, looking for isometric tutorials that explain these things. I've found none. Can someone explain how they learn these shading rules?
-------------
"Ignorance is the night of the mind, but a night without moon and star." -Confucius
|
Replies:
Posted By: jalonso
Date Posted: 14 June 2007 at 7:51pm
You are wasting your time looking. Take those two examples and zoom in on them and study them. Then make practice making a version of your own. Pay attention to lighting and the iso grid. It's all patience and practice :)
------------- http://www.pixeljoint.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=9378&FID=6&PR=3 - PJs FAQ <•> http://www.pixeljoint.com/forum/forum_topics.asp?FID=6 - Sticky Reads
|
Posted By: AdrianJensen
Date Posted: 14 June 2007 at 10:44pm
It's not hard. To make the line look like it's poping out, you put your light color over the dark color. To make it indented, the dark goes over the light.
Like jalonso said, just zoom in on them and you'll see what I'm talking about.
------------- My gallery lives here:
http://www.pixeljoint.com/p/8355.htm?pg=1&sec=icons
|
Posted By: Royall
Date Posted: 15 June 2007 at 8:37am
I was thinking of doing that, but I wanted to know how THEY learned. I guess they did the same thing.
-------------
"Ignorance is the night of the mind, but a night without moon and star." -Confucius
|
Posted By: AdrianJensen
Date Posted: 15 June 2007 at 9:27am
I guess so. I think that's why PJ has that need zooming feature. Whenever I see something I like the first thing I want to do is zoom in and see if I can't figure out how they did it.
------------- My gallery lives here:
http://www.pixeljoint.com/p/8355.htm?pg=1&sec=icons
|
|