本教程将为您提供一些关于“像素艺术”的基本指导,并展示一些示例,说明如何使用它进行创作。
定义
像素艺术指的是玩家使用方块制作在现实生活或Mincraft的某些物体。这些方块通常是彩色的方块,如羊毛或混凝土。像素艺术并没有真正的生存目的,但是向你的朋友展示你在Minecraft中使用有限数量的方块所能创造的一切可能会很有趣。生活中的物体往往很难制作,因为它们不是由方块组成的。
在Minecraft里的设计
从Minecraft中复制出来的设计通常是生物或方块,这样一个像素就等于一个方块。这使得复制Minecraft材质的像素艺术比生物或方块大16倍。为了使这些更大,你可以使一个像素等于一个2×2的4块区域。对于一个完全巨大的生物或方块,使1像素等于一个4×4的16个方块的面积。有无限多的可能性。
方块
方块使用像素艺术是相当困难的,因为有些块对每个像素使用许多不同的颜色,但它们都非常相似。这使得像素艺术难以实现的原因是可能没有足够的羊毛或混凝土颜色来模拟每个像素。如果出现这种情况,您可以尝试找出什么颜色的块最接近每个像素,或者使用非羊毛、混凝土或陶瓦的块。不是这些颜色的方块内部通常有许多不同的颜色,但从远处看,它看起来是相等的。
海晶灯
海晶灯可以说是像素艺术最容易制作的方块之一。因此,它们是一个很好的开始。简单地用青色羊毛或混凝土制作每个面部的外边缘。然后,在你刚刚做的东西的角落里加入青色羊毛/混凝土。下一层向内的其余部分,使用淡蓝色羊毛/混凝土。再一次,在你刚刚做的东西的角落里加入淡蓝色的羊毛/混凝土。最后,在中间填充白色羊毛/混凝土。你完成了。
石头
石头块中的像素是不同深浅的灰色。为像素艺术制作一块石头应该由灰色羊毛或混凝土、浅灰色羊毛或混凝土和石头本身组成。如果你想要一个更大的对比度,你可以使用白色混凝土作为一个石头块中最轻的像素。
黑曜石
对于黑曜石块中的紫色,使用以下几个块的组合:品红羊毛或混凝土,紫色羊毛或混凝土,品红赤陶土,和/或蓝色赤陶土。对于黑色,使用黑色赤陶土和黑色羊毛或混凝土的组合。用黑色的羊毛或混凝土制成更纯的黑色。
Cake
Use red terracotta and brown wool/concrete for the base of the cake, or the actual "cake" part. For the top of the cake, or the "icing" of the cake, use a combination of light gray and white wool/concrete. For the specks of red on top, which simulate "strawberries", use red wool or concrete. If 1 pixel is equal to 1 block, The cake should be only 8 blocks high, rather than 16 blocks, as a cake only takes up half of a block.
Pumpkin
For most of the pumpkin, use a combination of at least 3 of the following: orange wool/concrete, brown wool/concrete, orange terracotta, light gray terracotta, and/or white terracotta. For the "face", or front of the pumpkin, use brown terracotta or brown wool/concrete for the lighter parts, and gray terracotta or black terracotta for the darker parts. The "stem", or the center of the top, should be made with green terracotta, yellow terracotta, and yellow wool/concrete.
Glowstone
For the dull background of the glowstone, use cyan or green terracotta. For the highlights, use a combination of white wool/concrete, yellow wool/concrete, white terracotta, and yellow terracotta, and surround these highlights with brown wool/concrete and gray terracotta. Do this on each of the 6 sides.
Mobs
Mobs have varying heights in Minecraft, depending on what mob it is. Like blocks, they can be difficult to create, but generally, mobs have slightly more varying colors than blocks.
Zombie
A partially completed pixel art zombie made with concrete and terracotta, with a head and 1 arm missing.
The "feet" of the zombie should be made of gray wool or concrete. The legs should be made up of purple wool/concrete, with blue terracotta to highlight the "knees". The torso of the zombie should be made of light blue wool or concrete, with cyan to highlight certain spots, and the arms should be made of green and lime wool or concrete. Finally, the head of the zombie should be made with lime wool/concrete and green wool/concrete, or if desired, also include green and lime terracotta, and white wool/concrete.
Creeper
Creepers are very intricate in their colors, so use plenty of different colors when making a creeper with pixel art. Use white wool/concrete, lime wool/concrete, green wool/concrete, white wool/concrete, and light gray wool/concrete, for different parts of the creeper. If you want even more variations for colors similar to these, use the same colors but in terracotta for some parts of the creeper, so that you can have a slight contrast. Also, you may want to use blocks that are not wool, concrete, or terracotta, such as stone or slime blocks. The most important thing when making a creeper is to line the blocks up perfectly with the pixels on the creeper's face, as this is the most noticeable part.
Witch
Witches are slightly easier to make than the mobs mentioned previously, as witches do not have quite as many colors in them. Their "feet" should be made of light gray wool/concrete and yellow terracotta, and their "legs" should be made of green, lime, and purple wool/concrete. Their torso should be made of mostly purple wool/concrete, with blue terracotta to highlight the center of it. Their face should be made with white terracotta, with light gray terracotta for highlights. Their eyes should be made with purple terracotta and white wool/concrete, their eyebrows black wool/concrete, and the area below their nose with orange terracotta. Finally, their hat should be made of black wool/concrete, gray wool/concrete, green terracotta, lime wool/concrete, and green wool/concrete.
See the following grid for an example of how to make a witch's face:
Iron golem
The basic layout of the iron golem is white with "rusted" parts that are more brown. For the white or light gray parts of the iron golem, use white wool/concrete and light gray wool/concrete. For the slightly "rusted" parts, use white terracotta, light gray terracotta, and gray terracotta. White and gray terracotta are actually slightly browned, making them perfect for this circumstance. Use red and black wool/concrete for the iron golem's eyes.
If you look at an iron golem, you will notice that they have vine-like streaks of green running down their left side. These can be made with yellow, lime, and green wool/concrete. If you want, you can even mix in a little bit of lime terracotta or green terracotta, for some variation, or simply replace the lime and green wool/concrete with terracotta.
Designs in Real Life
Designs in real life refer to taking objects that can be found in the world, and building them in Minecraft using blocks. You can also build objects that don't exist in real life but do in movies.
Overview
When building something from real life, first you will need to decide what you're going to build. It's recommended to build something easy, such as a box, before trying to build much more difficult things, such as a car. If you're in survival mode, make sure you have all of the necessary materials before starting to build. When in survival, it's strongly recommended to use primarily renewable materials for larger pixel art.
Once you know what you're going to build and you have the materials, you need to make sure that what you are going to build in Minecraft is proportionate to what real life object you're basing it on. The easiest way to do this is by setting a legend for what a block equals. For example, you may decide to have 1 block equal 1 square inch, or 1 square centimeter. For bigger objects, such as buildings, 1 block may equal 1 foot or 1 meter, or for giant objects, such as the Earth, maybe a whole mile. It all depends on the size of the object, and how detailed you want it to be.
Something that is fun to do once you have completed your pixel art project, is to make a hole to go inside of it. If you want, you can even turn the inside into a parkour course, a maze, a house, or a mine. If you're advanced with redstone, you may want to add some to the inside of the pixel art. There are many possibilities - it's up to you to decide which one to use.
Shapes
When building advanced pixel art from real life that contains anything other than squares and rectangles, you will need to know how to build shapes that may be difficult to make in Minecraft. These include circles, triangles, prisms, spheres, and more. If new to building shapes, start off by breaking 3-dimensional shapes down into 2-dimensional, and combining the 2-dimensional back together. To learn more about how to build shapes, see "Tutorials/Creating shapes."
Examples
Here are some examples of real life objects you can simulate in Minecraft through pixel art.
Piano
A piano is one of the more simple real-life objects to build in Minecraft as pixel art, as it is mostly made up of squares rather than round shapes. The coloring is also pretty simple, you just need black and white wool or concrete. Here is an example of how 1 octave may look on a piano.
Always remember, the bigger you make something in pixel art (especially for real-life designs), the more precise it looks.
Map Pixel Art
It is possible to make pixel art using a map. To do this, create a pixel art figure that can take up most of a map. The figure can either be a giant version of a Minecraft mob or block, something copied from real life, or something completely made up. It must be on the ground facing upwards, as maps only show the ground below them. Any block that would be on a map but that does not contain a part of that figure should be a neutral color, such as white.
Once you have created your figure, take your map, and center yourself on the figure. Then, right-click the map, and you should see the picture of whatever you drew. Take your map and place it in an item frame for an even better look. For very large figures, you can use multiple maps and place them in multiple item frames.
Videos
The following video is a pixel-art creeper in Minecraft. Note that this creeper is a three-dimensional pixel art creation, meaning that it has depth, width, and height.
This video is a timelapse of Harley Quinn (Suicide Squad) being created in Minecraft using two-dimensional pixel art.
The next video is a tutorial on a relatively easy way to make "The Flash" with pixel art. This one, like the previous, is two-dimensional.
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