Pixel cars

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As pixels cars or Manga Cars small images are called of cars, mostly with Microsoft Paint to create and edit. It is typical for Pixel Cars that a picture always shows the front, side and rear view.

Emergence

The origin of the first pixel cars lies in Japan. A user known under the pseudonym "KuruKuru" created some of his favorite cars in compressed form under Paint. These were created very simply and kept in comic or manga style. To this day, all pixel cars have a black outline that is gradually being colored in. To this day, this form of pixel car is called "KK" after its inventor (KK; KuruKuru). Some other users became aware of this and changed these cars according to their wishes and the first modifications (also known as “tunes”) were made. While pixel cars were initially more like caricatures, a second art form, "scaled", arose parallel to the worldwide spread. The declared aim of this initial subspecies was to depict the cars as truthfully as possible. Nowadays it is the most common form. Pixel cars are now common all over the world and there are thousands of bases and tunes.

Stock pixel cars

Stock-pixel cars or bases are cars that are re-pixelated in an image processing program (in most cases paint) to the "real cars" in the series state. In most cases, blueprints that are freely accessible on the Internet are scaled down accordingly and then, to put it simply, colored in. The position of the fictitious incidence of light is always directly above the car, so that the shading usually begins at the window line with the lightest color and becomes darker towards the floor. In the past there were around five colors that were common for shading, today there are usually over ten color gradations. Thus, today's pixel cars have almost photo-realistic quality. Another achievement is anti-aliasing , or "AA" for short. With this technique, the contours of the cars are softened with different shades of gray. In return, the colors of the shading become darker and darker towards the outer edge, so that a harmonious transition from the car to the background is created.

More techniques

There is also the option of “Reshadening” or “Remaking” an existing car. This is probably the easiest way to design a new base. Such a remake consists of improving the shading and, if necessary, adding AA, since a bit older bases are usually revised.

Furthermore, there is also the possibility of developing a base without using blueprints or the like. For this purpose only photos are used as a template or the base is drawn "out of the head". This method is considered to be the most difficult and is only used in exceptional cases (e.g. if there are no blueprints for the respective car).

Do it

Tune refers to pixel cars that have been modified with image editing programs. As in the real tuning scene, there are no limits to what you can change. You can either simulate a real car (so-called “replicas”) or simply let your imagination run wild. In principle, you don't need any special programs to create them. The simple Microsoft Paint, which is included on every PC with Windows , is sufficient for this. Many users also use Adobe Photoshop .

Common terms

  1. Base = unmodified car
  2. KuruKuru = compressed car
  3. Scaled = true to scale car
  4. Pretuning = tuning on an unpublished base
  5. FA, SA, HA, TV = perspectives : front view, side view, rear view, top view (bird's eye view)
  6. 3/4 = Mangacar in a sloping profile
  7. Bonus (View) = extra work on z. B. a tune, which is either 1. atypical or 2. with extended content (e.g. an extra view or scene)
  8. WIP "Work in Progress" = unfinished work on a tune is published before it is completed in order to inquire about unseen errors or simply opinions of others

Credits

Since beginners in particular cannot create all of the tuning parts themselves, they often fall back on already pixelated "parts". So that no one passes them off as their own and the work of the "creators" of the tuning parts is also appreciated, the rule has been made that all the nicknames of those people whose parts are used are given. So are z. B. in about 90% of the published tunes the rims are not produced in-house.

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