Pixel art creations (post yours here!)

[Ginsu Victim]

Some coasters I made for newkillergenius

Wizard of Wor, Fire and Barrel from Donkey Kong, and a Pac-man Ghost


Glow-in-the-Dark Galaga ship


Alright, here's what I worked on this evening. This is the first of three characters I'll be making from the hit series "The IT Crowd"

Moss

16" tall



Roy and Jen coming soon...

[Ginsu Victim]

Bump. Added the coasters.

[Franco B]

Very nice Ginsu. Esp like the Moss

I keep meaning to make some more bead things, it's just having the time. I do like working with them though, I find it quite therapeutic.

[Ginsu Victim]

Thanks Franco.

I might get some pics up later of some of the other creations I've done, like Mega Man, Tanooki Suit Mario, Mushrooms, and a glow-in-the-dark Pacman ghost.

I'm also looking to make a 3D Weighted Companion Cube from Portal.

[HaRuMaN]

I'm also looking to make a 3D Weighted Companion Cube from Portal.

Do it!

[Ginsu Victim]

I've seen some people make them, but only as a flat-sided cube. I'm going to attempt it with depth.

[Ginsu Victim]

Here are a few other small ones I did this weekend

[HaRuMaN]

Where do you find the patterns for these, or are you making them?

[Ginsu Victim]

With the game related ones, I download or rip the sprites and print them in a grid and use that as my guide. For the Kuroneku (Trigun cat) and The IT Crowd ones, I looked at a reference and drew them pixel by pixel, then printed them out. Sometimes instead of printing them, I just pull 'em up on my laptop.

[wp34]

Love The IT Crowd.  Very nice likeness of Moss.   

[Ginsu Victim]

Love The IT Crowd.  Very nice likeness of Moss.  

Thanks. I'd been playing a lot of old Lucasarts SCUMM games lately, rewatching The IT Crowd, and making stuff with the perler beads, so the Maniac Mansion-esque style caught my eye.

I've already had one member here offer to pay me to make him a set of IT Crowd characters.

[Ginsu Victim]

Over at pixelgasm, member "kenobius" just posted this animation of how he makes his bead creations. Pretty cool.

[Franco B]

Very cool 

Thanks for the heads up to pixelgasm, I hadn't seen that site.

Lostmitten at Etsy has made some cool stuff. That's where I got the idea for my Mario Bros Wiimote tidy from. [This] is her store.

Couple of my favourite bits of hers:

SMB coin box:



Space Invaders notepad:



Mario Coasters:



Space Invaders and Tetris fridge magnets (needlepoint obv but you could do the same with beads):

[mrclean]

digging up my old post from March  2009 on KLOV-

cool, I actually know of an incredible nifty free program for what your doing and might help you it's called "Artopik" I used it for making some perler bead coasters; You just need to download any sprite / bmp image and then "import" it into "artopik" and it will create where you need to make the colors. It's actually really for stitching patterns which is what your doing but fun for coasters.

I made a bunch more since then maybe i'll post a pic tomorrow. All of them are coasters for the bar. But seriously just google "artopik" its free and it rocks.

[Ginsu Victim]

Nice coasters, Josh. I use an online program called PerlerPal. Works great.

[Epyx]

Awesome Ginsu! Moss rocks...nuff said

[Ginsu Victim]

Thanks...and he's fully seated.

[Ginsu Victim]

Just made Jen from The IT Crowd. Sorry for the blurry pic. I need to order more beads and I'll be able to make Roy.

[Malenko]

where do you get the beads from? I wanna try this!

[Ginsu Victim]

The brand in the US is Perler, and the UK has Hama.
Walmart and Hobby Lobby carry them in mixed buckets, or you can order individual colors (and you'll need pegboards) from http://www.koolstuff4kids.com/perlerbeads.html

[Ginsu Victim]

Made some fridge magnets and sent them as a bonus item to newkillergenius. Check 'em out on his black fridge!

[HaRuMaN]

Oh cool....  I have a black fridge...  added to list of projects I need to get done, lol.

[drventure]

Ok, i've seen you guys doing these things but how to they stick together? Do you bake em or something?

[Ginsu Victim]

Iron and parchment paper

[Franco B]

Love the centipede ones 

You have given me the idea to do some spacies ones for our fridge. It dark grey rather than black but it should still look nice I think.

I have found a bag of 1000 white, I think we will need some more but we should be able to make a start tonight

Oh yeah, for anyone in the UK, http://www.beadmerrily.co.uk/ is where I get mine from.

[mrclean]

that centipede perler makes me want to keep my centipede cabinet and start that project hehe.. oh sorry i'm a few months late.. more coasters...

[mrclean]

not sure what character this is.. but it's a little larger and can support a bottle.

[Ginsu Victim]

Nice coasters, mate.

[Franco B]

Very nice mrclean 

We were going to do some spacies for the fridge last night but I only wanted to do them in white so they would stand out against the fridge but some parts of the spacies are not connected with the rest of the body and so wouldn't have melted together properly.

So we decided to do some quick and easy coasters instead:





I know some of you guys like the melted side up but I much prefer the non melted side.

We are thinking about doing an image from a spacies screen grab, something like this:



The spacies resolution and therefor pixel count is 224x260 which means we will need 58240 beads I am going to ask her today to see if she is up for it.

Each bead is about 5mm in diameter so this would give us a image size of 1.12m x 1.3m which I think would look pretty nice once framed and in the game room

[thatitalian]

Nice work Ginsu! Love the Mario stuff!

Man, I need to build me some coasters. Those look pretty badass!

[Ginsu Victim]

I know some of you guys like the melted side up but I much prefer the non melted side.

They stay together better and don't tend to warp as easily if you do both sides.

The spacies resolution and therefor pixel count is 224x260 which means we will need 58240 beads I am going to ask her today to see if she is up for it.

Subtract the black. Just mount it on foam core.

[Franco B]

Yeah I agree they will stay together better but I haven't had any problems with mine coming apart or from warping.

I was speaking to the GF earlier and I think we are going to leave the black out and mount them on a 1.2m x 1.4m piece of glossy black acrylic. That brings it down to about 4000 beads (~£6 + £14 acrylic) rather than £80 for 58000 beads and should take a whole lot less time too! 

[Ginsu Victim]

Yeah I agree they will stay together better but I haven't had any problems with mine coming apart or from warping.

Well, if you flat iron one side and just melt the hell out of them, they'll stay fine. I tend to lightly melt both sides, with the most melting happening on the back.

[garnerb350]

Ginsu...that is awesome...Ive seriously been thinking of doing some for some quick wall art...Now I know where to start....

[Ginsu Victim]

It's a lot of fun and the level of difficulty depends on what you want to do. Last night I was bored, so I made a Pac-man while I watched TV. It was the easiest sprite I'd ever done, but I wanted one to go with my ghost. However, there are people who do some INSANE work. For me, the IT Crowd characters have been my biggest project so far. Here's an example of what the pros can do, though:

[Aceldamor]

I am genuinely interested in doing some of this stuff, do you have a repository you use to get sprites from? I would start very genero..then work myself up to like megaman, sonic, ryu, crap like that.

I think it would be cool to do some of the mario ones and decorate a kids room with them.

[Billy_Goatfeet]

  Very cool!!   

[Malenko]

You've inspired me.

[Ginsu Victim]

Good to see I helped inspire someone else to get into this hobby.

[Malenko]

Good to see I helped inspire someone else to get into this hobby.

its like crack.