Been really busy at work lately so haven't had much time to work on my PixelBlocks art. I figured I'd give an update on the process I go through to make these creations. Its sort of something I figured out on my own, and have been refining the process to make it easier and quicker for me to do. 1) I find a digital copy of the character I want to do online somewhere. There are quite a few websites that post "ripped sprites" from video games, so there's a lot to choose from. Couple of the sites I find them from are Game Sprite Archive and NES SNES Sprites . 2) Once I have the sprite, I convert it to a custom color palette in Photoshop. There are only 20 different PixelBlocks colors (and I own 18 of them), so this can be quite a challege. Some colors don't have an equivalent PixelBlock color, so I have to either fake it or skip doing that character entirely. Magus from Chronotrigger unfortunately was skipped for this reason; I didn't have a good pur
Photo blog of the pixelblocks creations I am building at work.
Thanks for sharing your creations. Cool stuff. I just finally got around to getting some of these blocks myself, and am sad that I seem to have missed the boat on the full 20 colors as they don't seem to be available anymore. Doh!
ReplyDeleteYou might be able to order the additional colors directly from the company, you can find their phone number at: http://pixelblocks.com/contact.php
ReplyDeleteI tried emailing them from that form and haven't gotten anything. With the shop online link leading offsite, I was assuming they'd just folded up.
ReplyDeleteThey were a little slow in responding to me when I emailed them before. You may have better luck calling them. When I emailed them back in July, the rep who replied back to me said I could order through one of them over the phone. I'm going to try and call them soon.
ReplyDeletei've tried calling & emailing several times with no such luck. please let me know if you guys get a hold because i really do need to order like 3000 black pieces. i'm sad, is it true they don't make all the colors anymore??
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