I do pixel art, but it's too time consuming and for a mech game I wanna try to make a 3D model, use this technique and then maybe clean it by hand. Thanks for this awasome video, it´s exactly what I was loking for.

This is amazing, one of the best tutorials on this subject on KZfaq!

I love this video! Super well done and the end product looks very good. You mention early on that you're still trying to figure out how to add in shading dither, and I think I've figured out a good way to do it. If you put a compare node after the color ramp and select for the band of color you want to dither, you get a black and white mask that you can plug into the factor of a mix RGB node. Then, you just mix between the color ramp and a checker texture and your output will have dynamic pixel dither!

dude!!!! this is really really cool!!!! thank you for sharing

This is actually pretty smart. Thanks for the very helpful tutorial!

I'm shit at art. You've just enabled me to do so much more!

The phong shader on top of a cavity shader/rim light shader would get you the edge highlights for free I'm pretty sure. Another thing for things like grass would be to have a particle system that samples the surface colors for it's particle color -- then you can sculpt some hills and have particles emitted on the surface to sell grass. I also don't think you need the dithering, use normal maps + cavity and you'll probably get a lot of that for free from the lighting.

Dude, this is really cool!!! Thak you for this tutorial! Liked and subscribed!))

Such a legend! This is awesome! You just made my day:)

This is seriously impressive and useful.

Yooo I'm going to use this, thank you soo much😩😭❤️❤️

This is awesome. Liked and subbed

Thank you very much, this will be really useful !

Thank you !! Very helpful video !!

incredible!

Thanks a lot for sharing your knowledge!

Really great tutorial! There are a lot of great tricks in here, I especially like the one about setting the sun strength really high and using the shader to rgb node!

Wait, you're back! You were one of my main inspirations to learn 3D and Blender

Okay, that's pretty friggin epic, it is like giving PicoCAD steroids! I'll look into using that tool sometime in the future.

great tutorial! You can also feed the Mix node with an RGB as color #1 and the same RGB + Contrast as color #2. By this you'll always get the same hue and you'll be able to use textures as well.

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Awesome work!! Thanks for this tutorial!!

Nice work bro!

This is amazing tyy!

I gave up on blender because it was so hard but now I wanna try it again. Thanks for this, it really inspires me.

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very nice, I've been trying to do this for some time.

this was an amazing great video.

Thank you for this

this was amazing, for the in between of shadows you could use a variation of default cubes comic book artstyle node based material shader i think Edit: i am talking about the "graphic novels are easy now" video, i think this technique combined with a ramp in which you basically have the options of lit, shadow, half-shadow and only the middle part basically does the thing of graphic novels are easy now could work well

Thanksss 😁

looks like an axonometric drawing.. Thanks for the tutorial!

Nice video, thanks :)

Next gen pixel art.👍

Some people are saying your pixel Art isnt beautiful, but i like it more than original Pixel Art, its like a... a genuine way to make it. This is art, and in this world you dont need much rules, its only what you like and what its feel good for you. So, continue please, your art is amazing. im started in Blender today, im very interested in this program.

Thanks you very much!

Thanks!

man you are the best

Amazing.

nice tutorial

There is one crucial thing to it. One cannot simply turn just any normal object into a good pixel art version. There has to be some sort of disproportion in it to emphasize important details which are normally small enough to act their role in low res image. Also, this direct rendering approach seems to be a little better at showing little details than Default Cube's pixelization postprocessing.

Thanks!!

thanks

thaaaanks!

Muchas gracias! (Thank you!)

One of my dreams is to do animations with pixelart in a 3d space. Extensively, 3d space in a pixelart world kind of games. A bit like Octopath Traveler. 3d 2d is already a thing (Guilty Gear with fbf animations). Why not pixelart? I'm deep in my research with this and this seems to give the best result for my needs so far. Excellent work! Subbed.

thank you

Great video, but you need to really increase the audio on your vids in the future, the closer you can get to 0 db without going over would be great.

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Filter size doesn't matter for sample size of 1, because the first sample has no random offsets, only next samples do. Instead of using Mix RGB, you could just choose those colors for swatches in the color ramp. Otherwise, you don't need to use the color ramp, which is expensive (not that it matters that much for a low resolution render, though shader compiling times can be annoying), and instead of a color ramp use a simple math:greater than or math:less than node.

Ты гений . Это же и анимацию упрощает 👍

10/10 очень круто и спасибо за урок :)

so coooool

Give the toon shader a go! Gives you similar shadows!

i am an apprentice game designer (coding) for a small company due to us having 4 people and our graphics designer just quit and I didn't want to dump the project (we can not afford another graphics designer) so hopefully we can get this working so we can complete the game

Supa useful

Ive been wanting to make a game for some time that has the same visual style as some pc games from the late-90s early-2000s. games like the first 2 fallouts, age of empires etc

Increíble

Hey! Very cool material concerning the topic of creating pixelart style effect. It sure shows well what we should generally aim for when making this kind of thing. I was actually wondering, if that effect would be possible in real time - lets say, recreating this in Unity engine. Anyone there, that used to work with it before and can spill the tea, if it contains the same or at least alternatives to blender's nodes and camera settings? Cheers and thanks for explaining and covering the topic

Gracias 😁☺️😁☺️😁

Great tutorial! One question I have is does anyone know why my shadows disappeared after created all the material nodes? I even went back and rewatched the nodes section a second time to make sure I didn't mess anything up and I put everything in correctly, as far as I can tell. Is it a lighting setting? I'd love some help! Thanks!

Bro, great tips, please work on getting your audio to the right levels.

Would ya know how to make a post process effect in unreal engine to do this? :)

Great tutorial! Do you think it is more efficient to create pixel art this way when someone is more competent in 3d than 2d drawing/pixel art? Due to my day job (mechanical engineer) i work a lot with CAD software and 3d Models

Could someone help me by pointing out where to get a 100% / 1:1 pixel render ? Id like a png that can be edited by hand from the effect seen in grease pencil's viewport ....

how do we get this into unity?

have you tried to use the solidify modifier with inverted normals for the outline? I feel like it could work

14:30 - wouldn't it help to have the floor as a thin box? Using a plane tends to be problematic with a lot of things like this (also collisions, etc.)

Short question, what software did u use to display all die reference art at 1:01 ? Or is this just a picture

how to stop pixel art in the blender. I want to stop pixel art from rendering in pixel, how do I shift to normal rendering

Would it be possible to replace the color of the outer edges?

very interessting to see how u can cheat on pixel art :D

Any way to remove the outline jaggies?

:o

you know you could just apply a constrain track to object? right

Why didn't you set the viewport samples to 1 too? I think you could make it so you would see everything in the viewport as you work on it.

My render turns into black after sampling complete. What should I do?

I someone new a similar tutorial but in Unity?

Can you bake the pixel art on top of the 3D model as UV texture.

What software were you using for that artboard with your references? That looks very useful!

hi Mezaka, please just wanted to know if we are allowed to use your pixel addon for commercial use and if we need to give you credit in any ways?

Great tutorial, but I have one question: How do I get my renders to be high - resolution? Right now they are only at 200x200..

Can this technique be used toward character models?

still waiting for eastward to come out.. 🥴

i cant find the shader to rgb node pls help...

Do you know how to export the artwork in an acceptable size? Please help me

do you have more work that used this technique ? I would like to see his possibilities

is there a way to add another color for each material?

Try use pizalate in compose

When I change shadow strength to 1k the shadow on the plane starts to disappear :/

why the freestyle outlines works on the new project when I add it on a cube , but not on my main project which I want to use the outlines?

i'm really noob with this, but can it get imported to unity???

does this add on work on any version of blender?

when i render a single image. its good but when i render it as ffmpeg it gets very low resolution. how can i fix this?

У меня есть предложение - ты мог бы сделать полный обзор на аддон с пикселизацией в блендере т.к в русском ютубе на него обзора ещё не сделали, а аддон классный

THIS IS CHEATING BUT I LIKE IT

can i ask? why did you put emmision shader?

Blender+pixelart is so difficult. What about Magika Voxel? Same 3D-pixelart but much more easier

My render wont get pixelated.. please help

Great video and great art, but your audio levels are whack. Perhaps raising them a bit and adding a wee bit of compression would be helpful to viewers.