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Minecraft pixelart images explained
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I’ve had so many people ask me if these pixelart images I’ve made are “legit” or really made block by block, or what have you. So to save myself from having to type in this explanation yet another time, I’ll put it all down here in one place to set the record straight.
Instead of getting into what is “legit” or not, I’ll just explain what I do, and let you be the judge for yourself.
When I first started experimenting with this at all, it was in the fairly early days of minecraft, and the “palette” of available colors/blocks was very limited. But it was about as legit as it gets. I pl
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Thank you very much for the watch! 
Thank you so much for the watch !!
Your Minecraft works are very impressive and I imagine that they must have taken a lot of time to build!
Thanks! Glad you like them. When I first started doing them, it was a very manual process. I think the first 3 or 4 were done by placing one brick at a time, and they took about a month to do.
At a friend's insistence, I started investigating ways to automate parts of the process. It ended up requiring some custom programming to analyze an image and turn it into commands that the latest version of minecraft could use to build it with, but it did eventually work. I now have the process down pretty well, and I can churn out a new image in an evening.
At a friend's insistence, I started investigating ways to automate parts of the process. It ended up requiring some custom programming to analyze an image and turn it into commands that the latest version of minecraft could use to build it with, but it did eventually work. I now have the process down pretty well, and I can churn out a new image in an evening.
Oh wow! Thats very cool! I imagined that it would have taken A LOT of time to do it manually! @-@
Thanks for the llama!
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I'll be adding stuff back in here soon. Just needed a fresh start. Patience, Daniel-San.