Pixel art

A pixel cars or Manga Cars small pictures of cars are called, which are usually created and edited in Microsoft Paint. It is typical for pixel cars that when an image is always the front, side and rear view is displayed.

Formation

The origin of the first pixel cars located in Japan. A well-known under the pseudonym " kurukuru " User created in Paint some of his favorite cars in compressed form. These were created very easily and kept in comic or manga style. All pixels cars have today a black contour, which is gradually painted. ( KK; kurukuru ) To date, this type of pixel cars " KK " on the basis of their inventor is called. Some other users were aware of it and modified these cars according to their wishes, and the first modifications (also called " Tunes" ) emerged. Goods pixel cars initially rather caricatures created, parallel to the global spread a second art form, "scaled " ( "scale "; engl for scale. ). The declared aim of this initial subspecies it was possible to map the car truthful. Nowadays it is the most frequently encountered form. Meanwhile pixel cars are spread all over the world and there are thousands of Bases and Tunes.

Stock pixel cars

As Stock pixel cars or bases are called cars, which the " real cars " are nachgepixelt in production configuration in an image editing program (in most cases, Paint). In most cases, blueprints, which are freely accessible on the Internet, is correspondingly reduced, and then, simply put, painted. The position of the fictitious incident light is always right over the car, so that the shading usually starts at the window line with the lightest color and the bottom is darker towards. While it was still about five colors that were common to shaden, today there are usually about ten shades of color. Thus already have current pixel cars almost photorealistic quality. Another achievement is called anti-aliasing, or " AA". In this technique, the contour of the car is blurred with different shades of gray. In return, the color of the shading to the outer edge will always go darker, so that a smooth transition from car produced to the background.

Other techniques

There is also the possibility of an already existing car to " Reshaden " or " Remaken ". This is probably the easiest way to create a new base. Such a remake is to improve the shading, and possibly add AA because mostly somewhat older Bases are revised.

Further there is also the possibility to develop a base without blueprints or equivalent can be used. For this purpose, only photos are used as a template or base alone drawn " out of the head ". This method is considered the most difficult and is only used in exceptional cases (eg, if there are no blueprints for each car. ).

Tunes

As Tune is called pixel cars that have been altered with photo editing programs. As in the real tuning scene there are no limits to what you changed everything. You can either recreate a real car (so-called " replicas " ) or just the imagination run free. To create you need no special programs in principle. The simple Microsoft Paint, which is included on any PC running Windows, enough of this. Many users also use Adobe Photoshop.

Common terms

Credits

As most beginners can not create all the tuning parts themselves will make them often back on the already finished pixilated " Parts". So that no one spends it as his own and the work of the " creator " of option parts is acknowledged, one has taken the scheme that specifying all the nicknames of those people whose parts are used. Thus, for example, about 90% of the published Tunes the rims no own production.