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Isometric
Pixel Art (IPA) is a modern form of digital art that only recently
has been accepted as a new art form. I’m sure most of us have
seen this typical type of artwork in old games such as ‘X-Com’
or the relatively old ‘Ultima Online’. The 2-Dimentional (2D)
representation of a 3-Dimentional (3D) object is fascinating to
many people. This is possibly because of the simplicity and amount
of small details that can fit into a single IPA piece. It doesn’t
need that much brain power to figure out, yet it is pleasing to
the eye. IPA can be compared to cartoons in many ways, as people
like to look (watch) and accept the 2D art form as it is very
simplistic and easy to follow. The main purpose of any art work
is that it draws your attention. In many ways IPA is set out to
achieve this, that is, to represent something that looks like
it could come from the real world, yet you know it’s just a computer
generated image (CGI).
Each separate IPA image is always going too made up of single
computer generated blocks, known as pixels. Each pixel is the
same size as any other pixel, but it can be any colour you can
think of and it can fit together with other pixels, any way you
can think of. You can think of a pixel-based image as you can
a mosaic in real life that is made up of tiles to form an overall
picture. To see an example of a single pixel take a look at this
letter ‘i’, the single pixel is the small dot you see above the
long vertical line. In fact the whole letter is made up of single
pixels that have been joined together to appear as one long stoke
or line. The pixel will be explained further along in this reading
when we look into tools used to create IPA.
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