Hi all,
This is my first entry to the Splinterlands Art Contests, but probably not the last. I've been a player for a little over two months and have been loving it!
Small back story about what pushed me to enter this contest. I was at work today, the day after Thanksgiving in the States, and it was incredibly slow. With hours ahead and very little to do i started to play around with the Excel Sheet in front of me and decided to try making some pixel art. I used to do it once in a while with classic 8bit characters like Mario and Link, but this time I tried something a bit more involved. Since I've been playing splinterlands so much I decided to try and create a pixel version of a splinterlands card. I chose Sea Monster because he is one of my favorite tanks in the game and a staple in my water deck
Materials:
- A Computer
- Microsoft Excel
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Process:
my first step to make all the cells the same size to create pixel squares. then I was to try to figure out how many pixels would be needed for a working space Width and length.
I used an image of a Pokémon card that was already in pixel form from the game boy trading card game and recreated the outline of a Nidoran to give me a good size to work with.
Now that I had a space to work I started on the individual components of the card. I created the mana, mele, speed and health counters first and would make adjustments and sub them in until the looked right.
It was really just a lot of trial and error from there forward. I was trying to make a close replica so it really came down to coloring the cells and zooming out to make sure it looked right then zooming back in to continue the work.
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here is the final product along with the original. I hope you enjoyed seeing it as much as I did making it.
I'm a big fan of pixel art! love it!
Splinterlands card maker
Thanks for the upvote and support. I've always loved pixel art too so hopefully the weekly art contest will give me an excuse to make more.
Thanks for sharing! - castleberry#6859
Crazy but it looks good.
I must say.
Looks like all those nft’s
@solymi check this out!! I love the pixelarts!
I love the process it seams a very soothing activity to do this in excel.
Just like weaving a rug.
A mosaic of cells.
!LUV and !PIZZA for the effort!
I would really like to see a tutorial on how to do pixelart in excel
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Cool pixel art! And extra thumb up for doing all of this in Excel 👍
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