Zombie Factory

December 13, 2011

Zombie Factory art is all created in the digital art form called pixel art. It is reminicent of the type of art used in the early consoles, and the handheld game devices (like the GameBoy) of the 90s. Apart from that is a really easy and fun art style that I felt was more suited for me (as I am more of a programmer than a graphic artist.

I had been looking around for some simple pixel art for the characters for a while. Much of the pixel art that people are making today come in two styles, retro and isometric. Retro uses more of the small limited color scheme of early consoles. The isometric style is a kind of 3D pixel art. You can see examples of each below. On the left is the retro pixel art, and on the right is the isometric pixel art. Retro pixel art is pretty cool, but it was not the kind I was looking for. Isometric pixel art is amazing, and the colors are always pretty vibrant, and awesome. There is only one problem with isometric pixel art. It is near impossible to program with. Don't belive me? Why don't you take a look at this wikipedia article on isometric projection and see if you understand any of it.

Finally after months of "research" I found the perfect game that is 2D but uses really awesome colors like found in isometric pixel art. The game is called Dude and Zombies, and you can play it here if you want. If you play the game you can see the main characters from Dude and Zombies is the base for the characters in Zombie Factory. Follow the base, it is pretty easy to make any type of pixel art characters, and I actually might do a tutorial on this at some point. Here are just some of the sprites I have put togethere so far as tests: I still have a bunch of work to do on the art, and I will update you as I do!