Make Pixel Not War, by Nasc February 1, 2010

I always wanted to know how they made Pixel art. It’s a very interesting technique. Searching for some artists I found Nicolas also know as Nasc, a 32 years old French guy who is doing Pixel art over 8 years. Great! As usually, I wanted to know more and more so I sent him an email.

Nicolas is the head of Flash in a Web agency, based in Paris. His passion for the Pixel art certainly came from video games (8-bit games, where each pixel was important) and Lego, when he was young. Nicolas prefers 3D isometrics, because he thinks it’s a bit like 3D handmade.

One of his latest creations is a remake of an old Pixel art creation that reminded Tiananmen Square. Nicolas is pretty happy with this item, because he could apply new techniques of drawing. “Make Pixel Not War” took approximately 15 hours, because he worked each element separately and finally assembled them into a full scene, which allows him to reuse some.

Follow Nicolas on Twitter and find more geeky pixels on his website www.nasc.fr. From now, each time when I’ll play Minigore on my iPhone I’ll remember you, Nicolas. Keep on doing awesome pixels and please share your new works with us.