lastlifeleft / blender-pixelart

Blender templates to render pixel art

blender-pixelart

Blender templates to render pixel art.

Supported Blender versions: 2.8x, 2.9x

Render engine: Eevee

Basics of rendering

• Copy a template you need in a folder where you have a copy of respective lib_*.blend file, so that you have an empty one when you need another.
• Add a model:
  • File > Import
  • Paste from another Blender instance
  • Model yourself
• When you are satisfied with position, rotation and scale in the camera view, hit F12 to render and then Alt+S to save the image when it's ready.
• Settings to tweak when results are not satisfying:
  • Render Properties > Film > Filter Size
  • World Properties > Surface
  • Freestyle (you can have different styles at least per model)
  • Node groups inputs in compositing
• When some part of the model is not sized appropriately, try either moving it a bit considering the grid on the camera so that it takes more or less space in certain output pixels or even separating a thin part and adding a Solidify modifier to make it thicker.
• Due to camera angle, Z rotation of the model that makes it diagonally placed in the render is not 45° but somewhere around 36° 35.264° https://blender.stackexchange.com/a/139478/1958
• The easiest way to disable a node group in compositing is muting it with M keyboard shortcut.

Credits

FakeReduceBits node group by aliasguru https://blender.stackexchange.com/a/90949

Originally developed for filling UltiCa tileset for Cataclysm Dark Days Ahead https://github.com/I-am-Erk/CDDA-Tilesets/

Used hammer model by hdvdeargentina https://sketchfab.com/3d-models/free-tools-bfc817e59a5f496b9a0a6e4ec1d5a32d

Please consider crediting this project when you release rendered images.