Thursday, May 28, 2015

Has anyone ever made a shader that produces something similar to pixel art?


I find that pixel art is really pleasing to look at; it has this kind of crisp, satisfying perfection to it.


I've been following some beginner pixel art tutorials, when I got an idea: what if someone made a shader (in GLSL for example) that took 3D scenes and did the best possible job at making it look like it was drawn by a pixel artist? The concepts of anti-aliasing and shading should be relatively easy to perform. Constraining your colour palette would be very simple as well.


Of course, no computer program could outdo the manual work of a great pixel artist, but has anyone ever tried this before?



  • Is this idea at all possible?

  • Are there any games that use it?

  • Have there been (documented) failed attempts?





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