pixelArt: pixelArt buildings

pixelArt: Godzilla & friends

Halfshag’s pixelArt tool must be heaven for Eboy wannabes. Isometric pixel graphics might be oh-so-2002, but this tool gets big kudos for its cool architectural styling, more futuristic Modernist than retro Atari.

PixelArt is developed in Flash, by halfshag aka Richard Simpkins, a London-based Actionscript developer & designer. The tool itself is easy to use. Blocks are selected from a pre-existing library, and can then be dragged around the grid and placed on top of each other. No particular isometric skills are required, the tool does it all for you.

There are also community functions that allow you to save your and reload your creations once you’ve registered as a user. Saved pieces will be displayed in the pixelGallery, as well as in a downloadable screensaver. The screensaver retrieves creations from the web site, and shows them locally in high resolution. It’s almost better than TV.

The images shown above are the following (left to right):

• He shoots, he scores, by user shoots
• Title and link unknown (black creatures), by user Slim Jim
• Godzilla, by user pokeburro