Creating a Scene for my 3D Pixel Art Game 

FAQ: 1. Can I buy this? The package I'm building is for a game project I'm working on, so I currently don't have resources to support external users. Plus the code is in a constant state of flux. I may revisit this in the far future toward the end of my project, if there is interest at that time. 2. Can you make tutorials for how to achieve this? I've written about the techniques I've used in the video descriptions of my older videos, and plan on making new higher quality videos as I work on new features that I think are interesting or have educational value. I don't always have time to make a detailed video for every thing, but I'm always happy to respond to specific questions here in the comment section, or privately over on twitter. 3. Where did you pick up your skills? I mostly learned graphics programming through following the tutorials of Inigo Quilez and Catlike Coding online. I also highly recommend Sebastian Lague and AdamCYounis' channels here on RU-vid.

I could imagine an entire game being made in this style and at the very end of the game, the camera pans in and moves around to reveal the game was 3d the whole time.

I never worked with any of these programs... But WOW, 2 hours for this?! Insane! I am impressed by the quality of this piece of art.

"To make the rocks more realistic, I let the computer do it for me."

Wow, the final scene is amazing!!! Congratulations and thanks for sharing 👍

Even without the pixel engine the scene looked pretty nice and serene, but that engine stepped it up so much, very nice.

When they said “trees are just cylinders with some merged spheres on top.” I felt that

That displacement and decimation technique is so cool I’ll try to figure out how to do something like that, great video!

Holy hell. The final result is goddamn gorgeous!

This youtube channel must be the best thing I found this year, you are really talented dude... it makes me envious... in a good way

the colors and little grass/leaves movement really make this scene! looks so good!

Please, PLEASE, teatching us how to make something like it! It’s AMAZING!

Your pixel art is superb, the lighting/shading is perfect to emphasize the shapes of objects in pixel art, like your water line is very light, if a stone is sticking out, u have a lighter gray highlight around where it differentiates it from the ground (4:23 stone next to pillar). Your style is so perfect.

This is kinda wild, spending time to make a whole 3D scene just so you can flatten it out and turn it into 2D

This is genius and your Pixel art engine looks great. Are you planning to sell some of your tools in the asset store?

leaves made from spheres and rocks being low poly distorted cubes is such a familiar aesthetic in these indie games tbh

Yo, I'm stifled. Your work looks fantastic! Thanks lord RU-vid algorithm.

Wow, the pixel shader you have going on here is absolutely amazing.

I'm at a loss for words at how beautiful the final product is. Just subbed!

Dude this are literally the most nostalgic beautiful and timeless graphics design I have ever seen, imo the market is too full of games that think realism is the ultimate goal

I absolutely love this art style. the combination of pixels and realistic reflections in the water make it look to warm but immersive at the same time.

Watching these videos I'm always thinking I could do it too. I start planning out the landscape, what I want to show, the colors... Then comes the time to actually do it.. Needless to say I've never finished a project. GG to you, looks super nice. Couldn't help but sub for the next one ;)

This is really beautiful. The fact the trees are just spheres beneath all the well-animated pixel leaves is something I'd have had trouble believing just looking at the final product.

From the title I thought you programmed your own Engine instead of using Unity. Looks gorgeous though! And your Remesh -> Displacement -> Decimate - Method is brilliant! I might steal that ;)

wtf. too good. That pixel art shader/rendering engine is gorgeous. I'm jealous. I'd buy it from the asset store wink wink.

Man that style is so chill and relaxing, somehow it gives me some nice anime atmosphere... Nice

as someone who just sometimes models and rigs random unpainted monsters in blender for fun, this makes game scenery and for some reason, breath of the wild scenery, even MORE breathtaking. thank you.

This is some incredible work! Can't wait to play whatever games you make with this system.

This already looks so cool, like this as an entire game just- damn Amazing work so far

as a pixel artist im blown away by how good the final piece turned out. the colours are incredible.

Well done! This is an incredible pixel generation. Thank You for sharing!

Mind blown by the end result

The pixel engine part blows my mind, the finish is so cool

This is my favorite art style for games

gaaaah damn, that pan at the end had me feelin somethin. looks super, super good, but I'm sure you already knew that. amazing work!

I love the cloud shadows in the final version! and that pond reflection looks great.

Man thank you for your video? First of all I love to watch time laps-blender builds. They are really entertaining to watch and often I discover a few new tricks. Even more so when there is some commentary!

Wow, the result looks so nice and cozy, the water is very eye catching too

That procedurally generated pattern on columns, stairs etc. was brilliant. I'm not a pro blender user, nor I'm a game developer so I've never heard of that technique. Really clever. I'll need to try it

yoooooooooooo those pixel shaders are NUTS! this is totally great.

Just wow! I really like it ... I got some nostalgia feels ... and combined with the background-music, they got enhanced :)

Wow, this is my first time seeing this kind of technique, and i gotta say this blew me away! thanks for sharing your technique! learned so much.

The end product looks incredible my guy. A tutorial on the procedural editing for the trees and stone would be super dope but I understand you're busy.

This is so good. You made this seem so simple to make

This is sick. I am not into pixel art and the realistic art style is more my cup of tea, but man this looks so neat. Awesome job dude.

The water looks so amazing

indie game dev its the ultimate, making more with less. it looks so beautiful... when i saw how simply youve made the trees i though, man i gotta get me a pice of this 3D pixelart action. its so cool, the way you do bolean oprations and make use of procedual modifiers / shaders. how you dont even care about perfect topology, cause the only thing that matters in the end is "does it look good", and man does it ever. thank you for sharing your process, it has inspired me to be much more ~lazy~ energy efficient! also thanks for sharing who you've learned from, i also learned a lot from sebastian league, my intro to making cool interactive grafical things comes from Daniel Shiffman's videos (the coding train) (makes many coding challenges and tutorials)

Yooo, those materials that You using are just insane. They are giving so much to this project

I've seen alot of 3D pixel art and I can tell its very hard to pull off, but I find your artwork not just a perfect execution of this technique but also incredibly tasteful

Holy Cow, this is beautiful!

that has to be one of the most beautiful things ive seen in a long time.

Ignoring the title, to me this is actual art

There are several different 3D pixel art videos out there on youtube, but I think you nailed it the best with your engine, filters, shaders and whatsoever. Can't wait when the actual game will come. And also when after the release you will make efforts toward sharing your way of doing, in form of tools, lessons, etc., - also can't wait. Good luck.

Thank you, o kind algorithm gods, for this wonderful suggestion

This looks absolutely stunning! I would be overjoyed to watch or play something that looks like this!

That pond touched my soul

Absolutely stunning result

Loving your content. The end result is always astonishingly beautiful.

Studying game dev at uni right now, this is really inspiring. I'll share this around, love what you're doing.

I've never seen anything like this before. Simply in awe here. Amazing job! Keep us posted please.

Fantastic work, I live your pixel filter. Good to see I'm not the only one using 3D specifically to get a 2D result

This is incredible, I have to take notes from this!

the model might've been 2 hours, but the coding and making of the engine feels like fruitful hard work!

god your style of this made me so pacefull

DUDE, this is awesome! hope you do well with your project.

That water reflection is magic

Reminds me of Breath of Fire from PS1, a game that I miss so much.

That's insane! Awesome job and thanks so much for show us!

I ADORE the look of what you've made.

Increase upload frequency of this quality and youll have a very, very large following very quickly

I'm blown away by this. It's absolutely incredible!

Very successfully pulls off the illusion that it's pixel art. Gorgeous, nice job!

This is very interesting and useful. Thanks

Wow i'm really impressed by this channel and the vibe. Love the render of that pixel art

Awsome workflow! the displacement trick is 👌👌

That looks insanely good!

That end result is absolutely incredible

Bro, this is absolutely amazing looking. Great job.

That’s like, op. Like wtf how are you allowed to do that. The jump to pixel art. It’s too good x(

the water is so gorgeous

Thanks for the FAQ section bro. Good work. The output you get there is fantastic. Until the end ,render scenes, i was like "oh its something ordinary like begginer course or simplist game" and i was wrong.

Image an open-world game in this style! Amazing!

It is beautiful and inspiring, quite innovative idea too

you make it look so easily and flawless but my instructors always go "Everything must be in a single piece" like tf

I wish this was able to be used publicly. I would definitely learn blender just for this specific feature. I would love to make backgrounds with this. There is so much potential, I can’t wait to see different textures.

woooahhh woahhhh woahhh there buddy, explain the procedural detailing, that just brought the map from insanely mid to great.

a game like this thats able to shift from top down to 3rd person revealing its 3d would be fucking crazy cool take my money please

I love this and I hope you've made progress on this game!

Very beautiful! Make a decently long camera pan animation, like you have, loop it perfectly and use for a lofi hip hop radio RU-vid station, and I'd guarantee everyone would be clicking yours over any other! I know I would. So relaxing and aesthetically pleasing!

It's amazing, wonderful work.

This is awesome! Can't wait to see more.

Dude this looks fantastic!!!! Absolutely amazing work

Nah it's incredible what you did here

very impressive. After I played through a short hike I knew that this was the style I wanted to go for.

This is beautiful! Keep uploading more videos, it was well edited and nice to watch :D

omg, I've been looking for something like this for so long and finally I found you. hope to learn something new from you.

so so cool, would love to see you set up more scenes like this :)

this looks stunning

I really enjoy your artstyle. Looking forward to your completed project with it

As a tree, i can comfirm we are just cylinders with spheres on top of our heads