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What is Pixel Art?

Pixel art – It is a form of digital art that is created using software supporting this functionality, where images are edited on the pixel level. This form the backbone for the majority of graphics for 8-bit and 16-bit computers and video game consoles, not only this, as well as other limited systems like graphing calculators, is pixel art.

Creating or modifying pixel art characters or objects for video games is sometimes referred to as spirits. Spirit is a term that arose from the hobbyist community – a slang term.

Adele Goldberg and Robert Flegal of Xerox Palo Alto were the two people who in the Research Center in 1982 for the first time published the term ‘Pixel Art’. However, the concept is way back older than 11 years or even before that.

For example:

  • Richard Shop’s Super Paint system in 1972, also
  • Xerox PARC.

Traditional art forms which have occupied the Indian culture such as thread embroidery(which includes the most common cross-stitch) and some kinds of mosaic and bead work are very similar to the most of the pixel art forms. These art forms are combined together to construct pictures out of small colored units which are somewhat similar to the pixels of modern digital computing. A much bigger scale example demonstrating the same concept can be seen in the North Korean Arian Festival.

The pixel art and older artistic movements like Impressionism, Abstract Art, and especially Cubism have some similarities of technique and style between them.

Types:

Few basics:

  • Line Art: You might have also learned that drawings usually start with what is called the line art – the basic line that defines the character, building or anything else the artist is intending to draw. One of the few common techniques of linear is that they are usually traced over scanned drawings and are further often shared among other pixel artists.
  • Palette: It is often implemented in pixel art which is usually done to promote or to achieve different shades and colors, but due to the nature of this form of art this is done completely by hand. The more popular method for achieving is through Hand-made anti-aliasing.

Here are a few parts depicting a few of the techniques involved:

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  1. The first part of the image depicts the basic form of dithering which is done using two colors in a 2×2 checkerboard pattern. Changing the density of each color will lead to different sub-tones, the concept is simple but can do endless work.
  2. Stylized dithering – As shown in the second image, the stylized dithering is done with 2×2 pixel squares randomly scattered so that they can produce interesting textures. Small circles are also frequently used for this purpose.
  3. As per the third image, the Anti-aliasing can be done, by hand, to achieve smooth curves and transitions in your drawings. Some artists also do this internally but only the professional ones, to keep crisp outlines that can go over any background.

Uses:

Pixel art has its legs widespread and is often used in older computer and console video games since, olden times but with the increasing use and demand of 3D graphics in games, pixel art has lost some of its basic and widespread use.

Despite that fact, it is still a very active on the professional front, since mobile phones and other portable devices still have low resolution and therefore require skillful use of space and memory and Pixel Art here finds its use.Sometimes pixel art is used for advertising too.

Icons that used for operating systems also have limited graphics abilities and hence they also use pixel art. The limited number of colors and resolution that are present makes it’s a challenge when attempting to convey complicated concepts and ideas but a professional artist can still make it up for bringing it in an efficient way. You might have introduced that on the Microsoft Windows desktop icons are raster images of numerous sizes, the smaller of which are not necessarily scaled from the larger ones and could be considered pixel art. Icons are represented primarily by SVG images, but also with hand-optimized, pixel art PNG for smaller sizes such as 16×16 and 24×24.

Modern pixel art has been a reaction to the 3D graphics industry and still remains popular and some view it as restoring the golden age of second and third generation consoles, where it is argued graphics were more aesthetically pleasing and has been used in social networking virtual worlds such as City pixel and Habbo, as well as among hand-held devices such as the PSP, PS Vita and Cellphones, and in modern indie games such as Hotline Miami and FTL: Faster Than Light.

How to Make a Mine craft Pixel Art?

Pixel Art: Creating pixel art is very easy you can simply follow the steps provided later in this document. All you need to do is to replace every pixel in an image with a block that resembles the color of that pixel the most, this a crucial part. For this people usually use only wool, as the matching textures often look better, but you can use all blocks.

There are tons of pix elated images on the internet, both original artwork and images of famous cartoons, movies and other forms of entertainment. However, you can also change pictures in a higher definition to a pix elated version, this way you can create images of pretty much everything on your server.

However, note that it’s often best to stick to 1 color when recreating something with different shades of the same color, but mixing them will often make the result look weird and ugly, so stick to whatever shade of green is used most in the original image.

Pix elating an image: The best way to reduce an amount of colors and pixels in an image is by saving it as a 16-bit format, which can be done in paint and other editing programs. This will help you to reduce an amount of colors in the image making it look less sharp or reduce the pixels, and it will also make creating this image a lot easier in Mine craft, especially if you only plan on using wool.

The image can also be saved as a monochrome bitmap. In a monochrome bitmap, the image is free from all the colors and hence leaving you with a pix elated, black image hence making the job easy for you to recreate in Mine craft.

Now, you may also want to resize your image but remember resizing it further will reduce the number of pixels. Though this would be better for you as it will leave you with a manage ably sized image that you can easily recreate in Mine craft.

Larger or smaller pixel art versions: You don’t have to use just 1 block for every pixel, you could also use 2×2, 3×3 or even more blocks per pixel to create bigger versions. The reverse is also true, but it’s much more difficult to create smaller versions without resizing the image in an editor, like paint.

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3D Pixel Art: 3D pixel art isn’t too different from 2D pixel art, you simply repeat the steps in more dimensions.However, there’s just one problem with 3D pixel art that you will have to face, which is that the corners don’t remain the same as the original image version, this can be challenging for you.

An image uses 2D pixels, while we use 3D blocks, which means there won’t be any room to use 2 different colors on the corners, but using just 1 color will usually be fine.

The best possible suggested solution for you to make the recreated image wider is by simply creating both the sides ensuring that as you do this make them meet at 1 corner. Instead, leave an empty row of blocks at the corners, like the in the image below.

This is best used on enormous builds, though creating normal corners will usually look better.

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How to Create Mine craft Pixel Art?

Creating pixel art is fun and simple just carefully follow the steps illustrated below for your reference. The best blocks to use are this purpose are the wool blocks, given their multicolored nature. To begin, think of your blocks as colors in a painting and place them on a flat vertical surface (depending on the desired effect) that you want to bring out. Note: That more the blocks you use, the more details you can create, this is why video game artworks so well on the small scale.

If you want to make 8, 16, or 32-bit pixel art, simply find your favorite picture in said genre and copy it block by block into your game. It helps you to know that how many total numbers of blocks you require for a grid on the image or sometimes to further clarify how many “pixels” or blocks should go in each area of your image.

The best thing about pixel art is that you don’t need any artistic talent to make cool stuff, but that doesn’t mean some very creative people haven’t applied their talents to the art. There is some really detailed and original work made from pixel art.

Steps:

  1. Find an image: First search what image you want to edit using pixel art and then download it and use it for your future steps as this will make things easier for you. You can use anything that comes up in your mind, but video game sprites and “8-bit” pictures work the best for this.

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  1. Prepare your art: The Mine craft software/tool carries multiple different-colored materials. You can select any one that best matches up with your picture as it may have different colors. If you want to change the colors of your art, simply find a color that best matches the color of the art or you can edit the colors using a texture pack in the software.

Suggestion: You can use an image editing program(preferably Gimp) to edit a texture pack for this purpose. To view texture packs, follow the following steps:

  • Open your start menu
  • Type %app data% in the search field.
  • Press enter and a folder called “Roaming” will appear.
  • Click on a folder called “.mine craft” and open a sub-folder called “texture packs”.
  • You may insert and edit texture packs here.
  1. Create the world and decide placement style: Open the software Mine craft and to begin your design click on create the world for your pixel art. You may prefer your world to be in Creative Mode, as it allows infinite items and flying and note that your art will be either horizontal, meaning it is flat on the ground, or vertical, meaning it is “standing up” on the floor. Both offer different ways to make a pixel art, so select wisely before you proceed.
  1. Open image: Use your default image editor and open up your art that you chose in the initial step. Open up a grid if possible for the same.

p55.Begin creation: Choose a starting point on your art and start it by first tracing out the image, taking one part at a time and remembering to count pixels. Once you have an outline done, you can begin to fill it. There are different methods to do this, and it depends on your art style.

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6.Try using flat, creative, and peaceful mode. This is the easiest way to perform your art, no doubts in it. You can place blocks, fly out for an overview, and doesn’t risk death or destruction of your art.

You can also play around with a few different elements to change the final product:

  • Try changing the number of colors used: It is recommended to you use fewer colors in your art as more colors create a softer end result, while fewer colors create a more dramatic and abstract look.
  • Increase or decrease the number of pixels to change the size of the pixels in the final product. Increasing this number will mean smaller blocks in the final result; decreasing this number makes for bigger blocks at the end.

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Craft Projects for Mine craft 

Mine craft Craft Projects is a collection of all the great ways you can make pixel-based art like Mine craft come to life! For those that might not be familiar with it, Mine craft is an indie game that centers on using the environment around you to mine, craft, and build whatever your creativity can imagine. The aesthetic is like that of the 8-bit pixel games of yesteryear, so the look is not only fun but very easy to recreate in real life! Here, you’ll find kid-friendly crafts such as beads, duct tape, paper crafts, felt, paint, and even a bit of crocheting. The pixilated look means it’s easy to adapt and change to your taste!

Some of the crafts projects include the Ore Light, which can be made to look like a block of diamond ore, red stone ore, or glow stone. When placed over a wireless light, it takes on the eerie glow of an ore block. The No-Sew Fleece Quilt is a fun project that’s made entirely by tying squares of fleece together. The Foam Tools project is a perfect way to bring your favorite Mine craft tools to life so they’re not only safer to play with but feel like the real thing! It takes a bit of effort, but you’ll find it’s simple to put together since the Creeper is made entirely of cubes! If you love the look of Mine craft and want to go into Creative Mode, I hope you’ll give the book a look and see if it’s for you!

The pix elated nature of the art means everything’s basically made from squares and cubes, making it so easy to recreate in real life and to adapt and change to your whims. A load of patterns and charts make it easy to follow for making the projects, though you can swap out the charts and use them on different projects to suit your taste. For instance, you can take the Cardboard Costume Head – while it’s shown as Steve, you can easily change the pixels and make it into a Creeper, Endear man, or Pig.

So, if you love the look of pixel crafts or want to go into Creative Mode and make some Mine craft items of your own.

Do your kids like Mine craft? It’s no surprise, Mine craft is a popular favorite with boys and girls today. Many of the Mine craft present here which you can make with your child, or they can make with a bit of adult supervision, depending on their age and craft skills level. Doing Mine craft crafts is a fun way to show how much they like Mine craft to friends and family. Are your kids obsessed with the Mine craft computer game as much as mine is? It’s a popular favorite with boys and girls around the world. These ideas are great for a party with friends or an upcoming birthday party too. These will be a hit with your kiddos!

Mine craft Food Crafts:

  1. Mine craft Creeper Pizza: Design your own delicious Mine craft pizza masterpiece using pixel art!

p12.Mine craft Rice Crispy Treats: Nerdy Mummies shows us how to make these tasty Mine craft crispy treats in this fun sequence of images. Super cute and yummy!

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3.Mine craft Creeper Munch: Your kids can munch on this yummy snack while playing Mine craft! Learn while you play with your children spending quality time.

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4.Mine craft Cake: Build this awesome Mine craft cake carefully choose your grid while making this! Remember earlier we talking about more the block the better it is.

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5.Mine craft Cake Pops: These cute cake pops are easy to make into little Mine craft characters. Learn how to make them from Eating on a Dime.

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Mine craft Birthday Party Crafts:

  1. Mine craft Pinata: This pinata is SUPER easy to make. It’s perfect for birthday party fun. Find the instructions and gift it to someone who will admire the effort put into making this.

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7.Mine craft Creeper Balloons: With black paper and green balloons you can make this easy Mine craft party decoration from Southern Revivals. Interesting!

 

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8.Creeper Gum Wrappers: Wrap gum in these Creeper printable and give them to party guests as favors. Get printable of your choice and design.
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9.Mine craft Party Bags: Stuff these Mine craft party bags with little treats and toys for all of your party guests. Let your guests be awe inspired by you and ask you the steps to prepare it.

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10.TNT Candy Favor: Make this easy TNT party treats with licorice candy. Get the details and make them with your parents to scare people off you home.

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Mine craft Crochet and Knitting Crafts: 

  1. Creeper Scarf: Stay warm this winter with this crochet Creeper scarf. Your kids will never want to take it off! Find the pattern and make it.

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12.Creeper Slouchy Crochet Hat: I love this slouchy crochet hat from The Heart of a Craft Mom. What a fun project to try!

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13.TNT Tissue Box Cover: How cute is this Mine craft tissue box? This would make a great gift for the holidays.

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14.Mine craft Knit Hat: Any Mine craft fan would love wearing this knitted hat all winter long. Get the pattern and stitch up on your hat to give it a nerdy Mine craft freak look.

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15.Dirt Block Beanie and Mittens: Practice your knitting skills and make this beanie and these mittens for your little Mine craft gamer. This pattern is from Love Knitting.

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Easy Mine craft Kid’s Crafts: 

  1. Toilet Roll Mine craft Creeper: Save your old toilet paper rolls to craft this Creeper with your kids. This would be real fun when you do it with your kids.

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17. DIY Mine craft Pencil Cube: Get your kids away from the screen for a little bit for some hands-on creating with this pencil cube craft from Crafts ‘n Coffee.

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18. DIY Mine craft Ornament: Hang these Mine craft ornaments on your Christmas tree this year. What a fun holiday craft idea from A Girl and a Glue Gun.

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19. DIY Mine craft Swords: Your kiddos can have their own Mine craft swords with this craft idea and give them a new unique toy to flaunt and play within their friend circle.

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20.Mine craft Perl er Beads: Unplug from the TV and the computer with this peeler beads craft from What Rose Knows. This is an easy Mine craft themed craft that your little ones will really enjoy.

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21. DIY Mine craft Weapons: Step into the world of Mine craft with your own DIY weapons. Give your kids a new set of weapons and allow them to live and about nomadic life.

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22. DIY Mine craft Pillows: These no-sew pillows are super simple to make. Help your kids make these to put in their room!

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23. DIY Mine craft Creeper Book Ends: Decorate your child’s room with these DIY Creeper Book Ends. These turn out so cute. This has given the bookshelf a new and interesting look.

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24.Creeper Desk Organizer: Keep your kid’s desk organized with this fun Creeper desk organizer.

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25.Felt Plush Mine craft Cubes: Teach your kids simple sewing with these cute plush Mine craft cubes.

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31+ Mine craft Pixel Art Templates 

Pixel Art has become quite famous.

Did you know that pixel art has taken away the need to spend countless hours creating three-dimensional objectives for your next video games pixel art?

Yes, there is even no need to hand-draw complex subjects to achieve your final objectives. The Mine craft Pixel Art Template helps you do the job conveniently, and as long as you have the knowledge in pixel art, you will never have to worry about results because you will always do great.

The Templates:

Created by a wide range of developers with you in mind, the free and premium Mine craft Pixel Art Maker Templates helps do your Mine craft Pixel anime Art with ease, and you never have to worry about the time spent because you will spend less than you would if you were doing this from scratch.

  • You can use the Free Mine craft Pixel Art Templates as is, or you can modify them as you wish.
  • There are thousands of templates to pick from and this only means you can be sure you are going to have a wider selection.
  • You can use the Best Mine craft Pixel Art book Templates for references if you prefer developing your won from scratch. This is a great way especially if you are new to pixel art.

Quality:

It is important to remember that quality is something no one can compromise with at all cost. You can be sure you are going to download only high quality pixel craft mine craft website template for your next project, be it a school project or a real-time job that involves pixel arts.

· Arcanine Mine craft Pixel Art Templates

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· Cool Dock Mine craft Pixel Art Templates

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· Dragon Mine craft Pixel Art Templates

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· Small Dino Free Mini Craft Pixel Art Template



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· Easy Pixel Art Template Free

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· Simple Frog Mine craft Pixel Art Template

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·   Funny Dragon Blueprint Mine craft Pixel Realistic Art Template

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· Mickey Mouse Mine craft Pixel Art Drawing Templates

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· 3D Mine craft Angry Birds Template

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· Mine craft Planner Template Free Download

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· Mine craft Bulbasaur Pixel Art Free Template

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· Mine craft Pixel Art Template Creator

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· Mine craft Pixel Art Template Pokemon

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·  Mine craft Pixel art Templates

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· Big Mine craft Pixel Art Pikachu

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· Mine Craft Pixel Art Angry Birds Face Template

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Wool Mine Craft Pixel art Template

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Pokemon Pikachu Mini Craft Grid Template Free

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· Pony Mine craft Pixel Art Template

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· Rainbow Dash Flying Mine craft Pixel Art Template

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· Scooby Doo Mine craft Pixel Art Template

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· Shiny Flying Mine craft Pixel Art Template

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· Sonic Mine craft Pixel Art Template

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·Spitfire Mini Craft Template

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·  Star War Mine craft Pixel Art Templates

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·  Super Mario Mine craft Pixel Art Templates

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· Super Sonic Pixel Art Template

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·  The Little Mermaid Cutie Ariel

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· Amazing Tyrannic Free Mini Craft Template

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.Simple Mine craft Pixel Art Under-tale

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· Mine craft Pixel Art Food

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Mine craft Pixel Art Statues       

Art and Bragging in Mine craft: Somebody has jokingly called Mine craft the brag game as he was proud of his creations within this game world that he really wanted to show it off. Contrary to especially GTA III, where he preferred watching someone else play at a safe distance, the role of the spectator was less appealing in this game – here he wanted an audience.

Forums and video sharing sites, such as YouTube are both a Mecca for spreading the creativity and ingenious installations and constructions of the Mine craft players. They range from massive architectural buildings to sculptures and cunning engineering installments, cementing the fact that art can thrive in virtual worlds, contrived by people who perhaps wouldn’t even identify themselves as artists.

The creations of the players are also tales of labor, planning and often longevity that people not playing Mine craft probably wouldn’t derive from the videos and screenshots. However, some people use an editor and bypass being an embodied constructor when building some of the conceptions below, so the stories of labor embedded in the creations, are not always of the same endeavor.

He had roughly put the creations into six categories:

  • Constructions
  • Pixel Art
  • Landscaping
  • Installations
  • Transportation and Movement
  • Events and Performance Acts
  1. Constructions:

Often architectural buildings, but also sculptures.

The number 1 winner of the Mine craft fan art contest on Worth 1000 featuring the Hungarian Parliament. It’s so big you can’t even see the individual blocks when fitting the whole building into the frame.

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Perspective really becomes tangible with this sculpture called “The Hopper”.

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“The ancient Golem” –  winner of Abstract Art on Worth 1000.

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  1. Pixel Art:

The blocks can be used to create flat images using the principle of pixelation.

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If the piece is big enough, the pixelation effect is barely detectable, as is the case with the image underneath. This image shows the winner of Worth 1000’s Mine craft Pixel Art Characters contest (They included 3D, which I would categorize under constructions as sculptures though).

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It’s made from a total of 218,505 blocks …

  1. Landscaping:

It’s a tricky one because the game conjures beautiful landscapes on its own prior to the player even crafting pick axes. However working with the landscape, itself to mold it to one’s wishes, is so integral to anything built in Mine craft, so I felt like it deserved its own category.

“Mountainous Desert”

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Underground landscaping here done by using explosives.

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4.Installations:

Mine craft has an inbuilt electrical circuit system, which basically enables you to build a computer within the game out of a number of compounds.

For example, you can build a music box, although you need to DJ it too.

Or hand out the free cake of karma to random passerby’s.

5.Transportation and Movement:

This includes water slides, roller coasters, and intercontinental railways:

6.Events and Performance Acts:

Example: Explosions are generally put under this category. Blowing up a creeper symbolically is probably something every Mine craft player can get a vindictive satisfaction from watching.

Mine craft pixel art is a puzzling phenomenon. Why spend thousands of hours building 2D images with Mine craft blocks when there are plenty of robust applications designed specifically for pixel art? Maybe the allure has to do with the physicality of placing each block by hand. Or maybe, as in the four examples below, pixel art simply happens when an artistically-inclined Mine crafter gets carried way, way away.

  1. 649 Pokemon

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In 2013, one Mine craft creator built pixel-art versions of every #Pokémon in existence at the time – 649 in all. You can check out the full album here. Not everyone was impressed – a comm enter in the associated Reddit thread posted the following snarky message:

“Wow, that’s great that you spent so much time in a 3D game moving 3D blocks around to recreate 2D images. Such creativity! Such depth!”

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Well. At least the creator can take solace in the knowledge that, throughout history, there has never been a great artist without a cadre of venomous critics.

  1. Mine craft Pixel Art of Mine craft Pixel Art

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Reddit user Albert_yon-son built a pixel art image of another poster’s screenshot of a pixel art image of Nyan Cat, presumably out of sarcasm, or maybe plain old garden-variety insanity. The joke’s on albert_yon son: his artwork appears to be many times larger than the original poster’s, which means he probably spent way more time building it. Check out the full Reddit thread here.

  1. PSY – 32,480 Blocks’

Why would one go to the trouble of building a 32,480-block Mine craft version of Korean pop star PSY? One can only assume that this took place at the peak of “Gangnam Style” madness. But don’t assume it was just a Korean pop obsession that started this user’s passion, they also have time lapses of Skrillex and David Guetta.

  1. 18 Months of Mine craft Pixel Art Museum

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Reddit user PXL_LHudson is one of the most dedicated Mine craft pixel artists out there. He spent 18 months building Mine craft images of characters from video games and movies.

His subjects include a long list, among them:

  • Adam Jensen from Deus Ex
  • Amaterasu from Okami
  • Big Daddy from Bioshock
  • Bayonetta
  • Connor Kenway from Assassin’s Creed 3
  • Clementine from The Walking Dead
  • Faith from Mirror’s Edge
  • And much, much more

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