Submit your building ideas! No pixel art skill required!

[Alais]

Building design!

Surprisingly, you don't need any pixel art skill to contribute to PU's building designs! Submit your concept for a type of building here, by sticking to a few simple rules. Designs can be as simple as you like, and can have colour or be outline drawings.

The tile size is 48x48 pixels. The grid you can see above is from Photoshop, but other free programs also have grids.

You have probably noticed that pokemon cities have one style of building per city, and this is what gives the city its feel so you remember it. The way you get many different buildings in the same style without much work, is to make sure the tiles for each one are reusable. Here are some simple examples:

         

         

As you can see, every feature (wall and roof edges and corners, doors, windows etc.) occupies as few tiles as possible. The door is on one, the window is on two but makes good use of the extra space. The roof on the first house has corners that only take up one tile. You get the idea.

Another good idea is to keep all the parts simple. This doesn't mean you can't add lots of parts (flower pots, door signs, chimneys, aerials etc), it just means that each thing you add should be clean and simple looking.

Here is what it might look like if I was to take the first house and finish it for PU, although this is just a quick example using old stuff:

         

You can take inspiration from pictures of real buildings on Google images, or from the official Pokemon games for some starting help.

Good luck!

[The Fireball Kid]

What a neat idea. This should be a good project. Gonna attempt this one.

[TrainerReacts]

What a neat idea. This should be a good project. Gonna attempt this one.

i agree it is a good idea
good luck buddy

[srslytho]

I will be submitting one either today or tomorrow, depending on how long it takes me to scale this design I have up.

[tda killer]

AHA a chance to shine. il be submitting one tommorow of i have the chance

[srslytho]

Well, this is the original design. It is quite literally 48x48 pixels. I am in the process of changing and scaling it up. I figured I would go ahead and submit the basic design though.

[osmar]

Well, this is the original design. It is quite literally 48x48 pixels. I am in the process of changing and scaling it up. I figured I would go ahead and submit the basic design though.

GAH it's really hard to see your picture xd

[srslytho]

Sorry that the last picture of my design was so tiny. I remade it, with a few small tweaks here and there, but this time, I made it much larger. (It was much harder too!) I wasn't quite skilled enough to include the light fixture above the door, like in the previous tiny picture. Also, the building is supposed to be bricked, but again, paint is a low level program.

[Mr_Dark]

BUMP FOR JUSTICE!

[LeoReborn]

Church
Harbor
Log Cabin
Bamboo house
Hut
Brick house...

Try these, It'll keep you busy

[Blaze]

I was thinking more of a city-style building. Full of glass panels, tall, shiny and expensive looking. Could be used for a big city mall... I'll try and whip something up tomorrow.

[Monzta]

Try a castle. When you enter it, you will either see the whole royalty thing or just a museum. Team Rocket is trying to rob it for the ancient artifacts and Giovanni wants the riches and jewels. You obviously need to stop them. That was just the short of it.

[DrPinkies]

Cause thats never been seen before...Team (insert one of your choosing here) stealing from a museam, and you being the only one who can stop them.  Cause police fail.

[Baka]

Who cares? This topic is for sharing art, not talking off topic.

Anything off topic below this line will be removed, and user will be warned.

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[Kiyoshi]

Hideout for a secret group of trainers:



Yeah, it's sort of basic, and I didn't add that much detail, but it's supposed to be vague and mysterious (or maybe I'm just lazy )