this is actually revolutionary for me. im a pixel artist but never did the "rite of passage" of making isometric pieces due to my difficulty with spatial visualization but this would make building 3d forms so much easier!
Seems fun too I’m excited to try it out. Not that far off from what I imagined, but now I don’t have to sort out the intricacies. Also I’m not tryna main art
"i hope you found this workflow useful" homie i feel like you just blew my mind. i've always struggled with trying to conceptualize some creative process and some way to get a finished piece out of my beginner level artistic skills. i felt like this opened up a whole new world and super quick way to start building up my skillset and actually giving into those creative urges!
Quick tip, rather than having your squares be a 1:1 ratio (16x16, 32x32), try to have them as 1:1.10 (16x18, 32x35) If you keep them at 1:1, blocks of different heights will perfectly align and will throw off the depth of your piece and reduce its readability It will also appear more correct, if you'll look up an isometric cube, you'll notice that it's actually slightly taller than it is wide. The math isn't exactly 1:1.1, but that'll mostly be accurate and is all I can explain without external links, I think my previous comment got deleted because of links.
hey, where can I find more info/resources about it? what should I search for? I am curious in how different it looks and why one over the other would be prefered
@@vih-silva-36-7 It seems any comments with links get automatically deleted, try googling 'eniko fox / enichan isometric cube', you'll see a comparison.
@@vih-silva-36-7 an example of the problem can be seen at 5:57 in the video with the roof piece. The roof has the appearance that its off centered because of how it perfectly overlaps the blocks on the pillars.
there is actually many different isometric perspective variations that all over the world. This approach is the “real “ isometric one and the one that you are talking about is called “dimetric” because there are 2 angles that are same and 1 is different, the last one is called trimetric which is every angle is different. but you should note that the curves have also different regulations in the world that varies from region to region. ayou can choos whatever you like.
As someone who still struggles with the isometric look two years later and who kinda fears doing it, this actually is SUPER useful and is making me excited to try out making some more isometric works. So glad you made this video since this will help me out so much in the future~!
An interesting thing in iso-pixel art, is that you can focus on the parts you do want to make, unlike in minecraft or lego, where you'd have to take more perspectives into account
While this doesn't necessarily make the process more efficient, it certainly makes it substantially more accessible, and that's something always worthy of praise!
seeing the blocks move during the CRT time makes it feel like old timey tv commercials on a brand new block toy, or educational videos for kids. great vibes!
Was literally making my own shapes in minutes, thanks a TON for this idea. My biggest struggle with art is that I'm bad at visualization (probably why I'm primarily a writer), so being able to build stuff out of blocks first is extremely helpful.
I've been drawing isometric geometry since I was six, and that came with me when I started working on pixel art, but I never thought about approaching it in this modular way. You've really kind of blown my mind. So often, there are instructional videos that are correct, but implementing the information feels predicated on already possessing the instructor's skill level. In just seven minutes, you have improved me as an artist. Thank you so much!
Brandon you inspired me to make pixel art like pixel consoles pixel games scenes and logos thank you for being a you for being a youtuber you inspire me and hundreds of others who do pixel art thank you
Hi Brandon: thanks a lot for showcasing this system for making isometric pixel art buildings. I've been compiling a bunch of notes and I'm planning on developing a story driven game in the next few years. I was contemplating maybe doing pixel art for the world design and I think this video just persuaded me. It might take me some time to make all the little pieces, but having a template of pieces I can pull from to make lots of different structures opens up an ability to make a quite large game world full of small towns and large cities.
I love your videos been a big fan. This video made pixel art much more easy and fun to understand. Thanks so much will continue to look forward to your new videos and art.
This looks so beautiful. I'm really into pixel art but i haven't seen this kind of style in creating pixel art. This is very useful for game creation, instead of creating individual houses, we can easily copy paste the base form and just start adding details into it. Thank you for this!
Really great video! I wonder how you would go about making isometric pixel art in a more lineless style. I've tried to do it many times, but I've had a bit of trouble. Also, I'd be super interested to see your take on making character sprites from a pre-rendered 3D models like in Donkey Kong Country. I feel like that method has a lot of unexplored potential to be used in conjunction with this sort of isometric pixel art. I tried it with Blender and got some really cool results!
This tutorial was something I always kind of knew, but seeing it done in front of me has locked it in... I'm absolutely using isometric tiles to build my game world. This process will be hugely helpful in making buildings and stuff, and Godot has a pretty easy to use tilemap system for everything else, like terrain, fences, doodads, player-built stuff... your videos have me hyped, I thank you a ton.
Nice video! There was this old and dead website from 2010 that encourage pixel artists to use modular isometric block. They even have _mind-blowing_ tutorial on how to create isometric swimming pool using such technique complete with detailed water texture. Legend said there's two ways to create irregular shapes in high-res isometric pixel art: 1. Modular isometric block building (a.k.a Lego-ing) 2. Modular isometric block sculpting I hope you can show how the second way is done, too.
It's similar how the old 1st person Dungeon crawlers were done where you create the illusion of 3d with modular blocks to create an infinite of maze layouts.
Beautiful and so well explained! You’re as talented teacher as you are an artist. I would love to see how you approach isometric character designs, such as those in Final Fantasy Tactics Advance someday.
I wrote a program to do something like this on my ZX Spectrum back around '84. Only cubes. I still have the project I submitted for the class (all printed out on paper, of course). There were many isometric games at the time, many of them by Ultimate (who were responsible for Rare).
first of all nice to have you back! i want to know i simple thing ! when i create a pixel art sheet , should i scale it up to be used in different game engines ? or should i just keep it at its size !
This is great. I've always loved isometric art but never had the patience to do any. Unfortunately I still use PSP 7 for all my pixel work because It still works with Windows 11 after all these years. I've tried many times to move to something else like Photoshop or Gimp etc, but struggle with all the keyboard shortcuts and to this day cannot get my head around layers. This guide seems to make layers really easy to use. Any chance you could show how you acheived this so easily with iso art? Regardless, this video gets a thumbs up and subs button hit from me. :)
Really nice video, thumbs up. May I ask, how you do these animations? Which software do you use and how do you did them, can you make a short video about that, please? Would be really nice. I would like to become an indie game dev sometimes in the future and therefore I would like to do some videos with explanations as well, but I have no clue whats the best or fastest way, to create some small explanatory 2D animations. Maybe someone else as a good tip for a tutorial for that as well from the community or yourself, I would appreciate it. Thanks in advance.
this is actually revolutionary for me. im a pixel artist but never did the "rite of passage" of making isometric pieces due to my difficulty with spatial visualization but this would make building 3d forms so much easier!
I hope this process helps you. Good luck! ❤
I think that is because this technique best represents architecture in real life from a fundamental Euclidean aspect. Peace!
Seems fun too I’m excited to try it out. Not that far off from what I imagined, but now I don’t have to sort out the intricacies. Also I’m not tryna main art
"i hope you found this workflow useful"
homie i feel like you just blew my mind. i've always struggled with trying to conceptualize some creative process and some way to get a finished piece out of my beginner level artistic skills. i felt like this opened up a whole new world and super quick way to start building up my skillset and actually giving into those creative urges!
Quick tip, rather than having your squares be a 1:1 ratio (16x16, 32x32), try to have them as 1:1.10 (16x18, 32x35)
If you keep them at 1:1, blocks of different heights will perfectly align and will throw off the depth of your piece and reduce its readability
It will also appear more correct, if you'll look up an isometric cube, you'll notice that it's actually slightly taller than it is wide.
The math isn't exactly 1:1.1, but that'll mostly be accurate and is all I can explain without external links, I think my previous comment got deleted because of links.
hey, where can I find more info/resources about it? what should I search for? I am curious in how different it looks and why one over the other would be prefered
@@vih-silva-36-7
It seems any comments with links get automatically deleted, try googling 'eniko fox / enichan isometric cube', you'll see a comparison.
What!?
@@vih-silva-36-7 an example of the problem can be seen at 5:57 in the video with the roof piece. The roof has the appearance that its off centered because of how it perfectly overlaps the blocks on the pillars.
there is actually many different isometric perspective variations that all over the world. This approach is the “real “ isometric one and the one that you are talking about is called “dimetric” because there are 2 angles that are same and 1 is different, the last one is called trimetric which is every angle is different. but you should note that the curves have also different regulations in the world that varies from region to region. ayou can choos whatever you like.
As someone who still struggles with the isometric look two years later and who kinda fears doing it, this actually is SUPER useful and is making me excited to try out making some more isometric works. So glad you made this video since this will help me out so much in the future~!
An interesting thing in iso-pixel art, is that you can focus on the parts you do want to make, unlike in minecraft or lego, where you'd have to take more perspectives into account
they cannot see the unfinished back side
@@LoraLoibu Grian would love this type of building, he'd never need to make backs to any of his builds.
@@doriantermini 💀
While this doesn't necessarily make the process more efficient, it certainly makes it substantially more accessible, and that's something always worthy of praise!
seeing the blocks move during the CRT time makes it feel like old timey tv commercials on a brand new block toy, or educational videos for kids. great vibes!
as someone who was a sculptor for years and got into pixel art only a couple of years ago, this is exactly the kind of crossover I needed. thank you
That's soo cool. I appreciate the mini tutorial. The idea of creating a kind of lego block system is genius.
6:11 This is amazing, it looks like it would be in a top down isometric adventure / puzzle game
Was literally making my own shapes in minutes, thanks a TON for this idea. My biggest struggle with art is that I'm bad at visualization (probably why I'm primarily a writer), so being able to build stuff out of blocks first is extremely helpful.
I've been drawing isometric geometry since I was six, and that came with me when I started working on pixel art, but I never thought about approaching it in this modular way. You've really kind of blown my mind.
So often, there are instructional videos that are correct, but implementing the information feels predicated on already possessing the instructor's skill level. In just seven minutes, you have improved me as an artist. Thank you so much!
The joy and love for pixel artwork hasn't diminished since the 80's for me!
I love youtube. It's like learning and enjoying ur time at the same time.
Thank you sir for this video !
Brandon you inspired me to make pixel art like pixel consoles pixel games scenes and logos thank you for being a you for being a youtuber you inspire me and hundreds of others who do pixel art thank you
I'm watching out for your new videos not just because you're my inspiration/motivation to improve, but also a life saver!
YOU INSPIRE ME!! Time to jump into Asprite again.
this is so awesome! i wish you got more views nowadays brandon :c
Hi Brandon: thanks a lot for showcasing this system for making isometric pixel art buildings. I've been compiling a bunch of notes and I'm planning on developing a story driven game in the next few years. I was contemplating maybe doing pixel art for the world design and I think this video just persuaded me. It might take me some time to make all the little pieces, but having a template of pieces I can pull from to make lots of different structures opens up an ability to make a quite large game world full of small towns and large cities.
Oooh, this is a game changer. I might have to use this technique in the future.
Yet another piece of media that just reinforces my love of the Megaman Battle Network series of games.
That's actually so great! I'll need to try this soon, because the final effect looks amazing with all those small pieces attached.
the CRT animations are sooooooo nice to watch. so satisfying. this was awesome!
This looks like a really nice tool for brainstorming designs!
I love your videos been a big fan. This video made pixel art much more easy and fun to understand. Thanks so much will continue to look forward to your new videos and art.
This looks so beautiful. I'm really into pixel art but i haven't seen this kind of style in creating pixel art. This is very useful for game creation, instead of creating individual houses, we can easily copy paste the base form and just start adding details into it. Thank you for this!
This is like the "cheat sheet" I've always wanted for making isometric art. Nice!
Oh my god this is amazing. You are genuinely my favorite TH-cam channel as of late.
Really great video! I wonder how you would go about making isometric pixel art in a more lineless style. I've tried to do it many times, but I've had a bit of trouble.
Also, I'd be super interested to see your take on making character sprites from a pre-rendered 3D models like in Donkey Kong Country. I feel like that method has a lot of unexplored potential to be used in conjunction with this sort of isometric pixel art. I tried it with Blender and got some really cool results!
i just got started on learning pixel art, i love your channel !
This makes isometric art seem much more accessible and I want to give it a try now
this brings me back to my furcadia days. :] so satisfying.. excellent tutorial!!
Your method is really interesting, I don't work much in isometric, but it's very inspiring.
This tutorial was something I always kind of knew, but seeing it done in front of me has locked it in... I'm absolutely using isometric tiles to build my game world. This process will be hugely helpful in making buildings and stuff, and Godot has a pretty easy to use tilemap system for everything else, like terrain, fences, doodads, player-built stuff... your videos have me hyped, I thank you a ton.
This is absurdly satisfying to both watch and do.
:ooo the best technique for isometric buildings!!!!
always so excited whenever you upload a video :D
I've wanted to try isometric for ages. This is going to be a big help.
this video is very cool. I'm glad with the thumbnail and in the video you made me feel like I could make Pixel art like Lego builds
Super dope Brandon!
Thank you! You are so skilled and inspirational
This made my brain go 😮. It's like that itch I used to have for Minecraft now focused elsewhere
I could also see this be usefull for DMs in DnD, creating some simple buildings / structures to easier explain the terrain.😀
Nice video! There was this old and dead website from 2010 that encourage pixel artists to use modular isometric block. They even have _mind-blowing_ tutorial on how to create isometric swimming pool using such technique complete with detailed water texture.
Legend said there's two ways to create irregular shapes in high-res isometric pixel art:
1. Modular isometric block building (a.k.a Lego-ing)
2. Modular isometric block sculpting
I hope you can show how the second way is done, too.
this style of art is actually really amazing, want to give it a try when I get home
This is so cool, im gonna have to give pixel art a try now
I like this concept! Makes me wonder if any studios have used this technique before 🤔
This method can be totally applied with vector art as well and then weld the proper shapes out of the piles,maybe or just trace again.thank you!!
Love the concept. I'm using voxel art, and will need to figure out building modularity. This'll be great for inspiration!
Bro. Bro. You are working on a different level. Make your own virtual legos
YEEEESSS!!! This would do wonders for my cousin!
The building block phase reminded me of the old ZX Spectrum Game 'Ant Attack'.
Not sure why, but the CRT segment at the end just hits different on this one. Like it really, really fits.
Mans made an asset system for pixel art
This is so cool! Thank you!
thanks Brandon you helped me in my game a lot!
This technique is so good, thank you for sharing lodi.
це справді геніально та дуже просто у використаніі, дякую)))
Very well executed!
Really inspiring! Thanks!
this is an awesome concept!
It's similar how the old 1st person Dungeon crawlers were done where you create the illusion of 3d with modular blocks to create an infinite of maze layouts.
yoooow! this is so informative. thanks for sharing
Awesome video, truly inspiring and at the same time relaxing to watch ^^
Cool idea for the isometric stuff. I am a lego fanatic so seeing this is like digital legos... but the artwork for "detailing" the pieces escapes me.
This looks fun to do, I'm gona try it
you're a genius! thanks for share
Your videos never fail to disappoint !
Beautiful and so well explained! You’re as talented teacher as you are an artist. I would love to see how you approach isometric character designs, such as those in Final Fantasy Tactics Advance someday.
Not quite the exact thing you're looking for, but he DOES have a video where he made an isometric RPG battle screen mock-up.
I wrote a program to do something like this on my ZX Spectrum back around '84. Only cubes. I still have the project I submitted for the class (all printed out on paper, of course).
There were many isometric games at the time, many of them by Ultimate (who were responsible for Rare).
You are actually a god damn genius
You make it look easy
I wish you had an exhibition IRL and I could attend!
I don't understand English very well, but this video is really VERY useful. Thanks! I wouldn't have thought of that myself :)
i love pixels and voxels and now they've fused
using this for my game. thanks!
Great video!
Thank you!
i'm not a pixel artist and i'm not going to use any of this but I love watching it.
wow this is awesome!!
This is so cool!!!
Nice technique. 🎉
wow man nice tutorial
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Awesome!
This kinda sounds like voxel art but with extra steps. Looks great though.
Interesting way to draw!
Is is awesome i love this idea and im definitely going to try it
first of all nice to have you back!
i want to know i simple thing !
when i create a pixel art sheet , should i scale it up to be used in different game engines ? or should i just keep it at its size !
This is so cool
This is a good tutorial
I would like to see how you made the vending machine asset here at the end
"Superintendent! I was just uh... s-stretching my calves on the window sill! Modular Isometric exercise. Care to join me?"
That technique would make a decent randomly generated pixel art city
You could actually assemble a number of buildings pre-styling using smart objects.
i love the way you speak
thank you so much
This is great. I've always loved isometric art but never had the patience to do any. Unfortunately I still use PSP 7 for all my pixel work because It still works with Windows 11 after all these years. I've tried many times to move to something else like Photoshop or Gimp etc, but struggle with all the keyboard shortcuts and to this day cannot get my head around layers. This guide seems to make layers really easy to use. Any chance you could show how you acheived this so easily with iso art? Regardless, this video gets a thumbs up and subs button hit from me. :)
Knightlore! 🧙♂
I'd spend hours drawing this kind of stuff on graph paper as a kid.
Really nice video, thumbs up. May I ask, how you do these animations? Which software do you use and how do you did them, can you make a short video about that, please? Would be really nice. I would like to become an indie game dev sometimes in the future and therefore I would like to do some videos with explanations as well, but I have no clue whats the best or fastest way, to create some small explanatory 2D animations. Maybe someone else as a good tip for a tutorial for that as well from the community or yourself, I would appreciate it. Thanks in advance.
love it