Saturday, September 13, 2008

Isometrix Pixel Art

History of Isometric Pixel Art
Pixel art was first published by Adele Goldberg and Robert Flegal in1982. Some others traditional art forms, such as cross-stitch, masaic and beadwork, bear some similarity to pixel art. It constructing pictures out from a small colored units analogous to the pixels of modern digital computing. A similar concept on a much bigger scale can be seen in the mass game.

Pixel Art can be found at:
Pixel art lives both in and beyond computer screen. Artists design pixel art posters, magazine covers, album covers, desktop wallpapers, paintings, “pixelish” video ads and even pixelated tattoos.






Dig Dug (Game)




Froger (Game)



Burp! Brazilian and German bloggers Thiago, Pi, Jojo and Mariana present themselves as friendly and laughing pixel characters.


Pixel Art Desktop Wallpaper
This artwork was created by Juan Manuel Daporta (Caracas, Venezuela) in MSpaint in about 8 months in and out. Impressive.


3 Square
A painting in the pixel art style. Pixels also live beyond computer screens. Notice how well we can understand the idea behind the pixelated painting. That’s a hard thing to achieve.


Kirby’s Cupcake
A painting in the pixel-art-style. Created by Ashley Anderson.


Pixel City
Notice the how well different perspectives are used. For instance, Sony and Coca-Cola logos are orthogonal to each other.

URLS/ links of my foundings
1.http://www.humanbalance.net/gale/
2.http://hello.eboy.com/eboy/index.php
3.http://www.smashingmagazine.com/2008/05/05/pixels-go-mad-the-celebration-of-pixel-art/

Some example of Isometric pixel art



a sign board at Ponos





































1 comment:

. said...

Nice references! - joannek