![]() ![]() In this blog post you can get a copy of a free 26-color pixel art template I have created for Google Sheets which includes several built-in activities. Lots of educators have created pixel art templates and activities including Alice Keeler here and here and here and Patrick Johnson here. ![]() As with any creative activity, pixel art can have many applications for education. However, everything old is new again, so there has been a resurgence of love for retro-games and their nostalgic pixelated style.Īnd so we have " Pixel Art" which is making images out of a small grid with limited number of colors. Today video games are so hyper-realistic that you can't tell if you are watching a real-life video or a computer simulation. With some imagination we could see a jumping plumber or a flying spaceship in those 8x8 or 16x16 grids of colored dots. When video games first started out, the screen resolution was so low that all your game characters and items were made of big blocky squares called pixels. Growing up with video games in the 70's and 80's, I was well aware of pixels. ![]()
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