In my own experience, Pixelator is way faster to get results of a decent quality. There is a wide range of commercial and freeware tools that you can use transform your pictures to pixel art, though I personally recommend Pixelator ( ) and PixaTool ( ). Usually, photo editing tends to take a lot of time and you’ve to be quite skilled at it to avoid it looking fake.įortunately, since the collage is going to go through an agressive process of loss of quality, you can get away with really bad photo collages, as long as the shapes are clearly readable.Īs an example of what kind of things you can pull of, check how I just pasted a blanket on top of a picture of an abandoned hospital near my city… and it kind of worked:Īnother example: a picture of a dragon toy, a photo from a friend on a medieval recreation and a shutterstock background… it you’ve got a very basic set of rpg assets in less than 15 minutes: STEP 2: PIXELIZATION Usually, I divide the creation of an asset in 3 stages: COLLAGE, FILTERING AND CLEANUP. ![]() The main handicaps is that it’s a bit limited on what you can achieve, specially if you don’t want to invest tons of time. ![]() Since this methodology skips a lot of work of drawing and coloring, it allows create graphics really fast and it allows to get a passable quality even if you have low art skills (like me: I can’t draw…). ![]() The core of the technique can be summarized as “creating a photographic collage, and then pixelizing it through a filter”.
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