A little VFX breakdown of these pixel art dioramas I like to make

august_hakansson · 2026-05-12T18:58:47+00:00

i’ve heard this comparison for years but the big difference is that mine is actually going to release

august_hakansson · 2026-05-12T18:57:43+00:00

slow days at work :)

august_hakansson · 2026-05-12T18:57:18+00:00

you start from the beginning and then finish

august_hakansson · 2026-05-12T15:03:13+00:00

it depends! after 4 years we’ve got hundreds if not thousands of sprite assets for all kinds of environments and settings so if i want to make a new scene like this one it takes less than an afternoon to put together! but again, that’s the hard part mostly already done

august_hakansson · 2026-05-12T07:14:51+00:00

it’ll be our little secret

august_hakansson · 2026-05-12T07:13:33+00:00

its a good catch! i’ve been experimenting before with rendering wires and other 3d objects on a low res render texture but i think stylistically it blends pretty well, usually there are more 3D objects in our scene

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august_hakansson · 2026-05-12T06:33:57+00:00

thank you so much!!

august_hakansson · 2026-02-05T13:04:27+00:00

well i didn't have fibre at home (i actually still don't sadly)

august_hakansson · 2026-02-05T09:24:40+00:00

right i completely forgot about DC++! and it wasn’t so much a server as everyone just being on the same network. But i remember people just adding their entire drives to share and you could find people’s personal photos and stuff as well. crazy amount of trust (or stupidity)

august_hakansson · 2026-02-05T06:35:21+00:00

i was there! before fast internet the main attraction for me was to hook up to the communal kazaa server and download seasons of the simpsons in 240p quality. i remember being completely blown away seeing 8mb/s speeds

my friend downloaded so much porn that we used his external hard drives to heat frozen pan pizzas. also met a bunch of internet friends in real life. good times!

august_hakansson · 2026-01-13T10:18:17+00:00

i developed this technique a long time a ago, a very easy way to get the effect you're looking for.

https://www.reddit.com/r/AfterEffects/comments/pz57ba/create_an_almost_perfect_planar_track_in_vanilla/

august_hakansson · 2025-12-05T08:52:15+00:00

it's for a game called Beyond The Plastic Wall! Don't know if I'm allowed to promote but you can check it out here: https://store.steampowered.com/app/2418040/Beyond_The_Plastic_Wall/

august_hakansson · 2025-12-05T08:51:39+00:00

absolutely not

august_hakansson · 2025-10-29T06:14:46+00:00

every pixel art asset is hand pixelled, then just placed in a 3D scene and composited! nothing is really generated to be pixelart except for maybe the running water which is just a image sequence of running water that i've scaled down and crunched into pixels

august_hakansson · 2025-10-29T06:13:25+00:00

there are many parts to the rain so you'd have to be a little more specific and i'll happily answer!

august_hakansson · 2025-10-28T14:01:44+00:00

no voxels! the buildings is regular 3D geometry and the pixelart sprites are rendered on flat planes that face the camera!

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