#Hexels tutorial full#

Usually I fix this my making one side lighter and the other darker, like in the top left corner of this image. I also put in some blue sky and randomized the checkerboard a bit. …But that blue sky needs some puffy clouds. When I need to add extra elements to a Hexels picture I just draw them off to the side and then combine them with Photoshop. In the document tab I set canvas color to transparent and then doodled some clouds with the brush set to low opacity. Then I arranged them in Photoshop! They are on a layer behind the rocks and grass. The sky is on yet another layer below them. I usually do some texturing and color tweaking in Photoshop (as described in this post) after all of the Hexels work is done.Marmoset Hexels™ is a unique, grid-based painting tool for vector art, pixel art, design, and animation. HexelateĪt the heart of Hexels lies a paintable grid of geometric shapes: a tessellating canvas built of hexagons, triangles, squares, and custom polygons. The Hexels grid allows artists to create complex vector designs with the stroke of a brush. It is a new kind of workflow that's intuitive and easy to pick up by a beginner, and a versatile tool in the hands of a pro. The grid-based canvas in Hexels is a natural fit for the forward-thinking pixel artist.

#Hexels tutorial full#

Make full use of the same great drawing tools. Keep track of colors and gradients with the palette. Set your canvas in motion with the animation timeline. Export a sprite sheet for every princess in every castle. Constructįor the craftsman looking to build worlds, Hexels provides a set of grids and guides for drafting all forms of isometric art. Raise walls, carve mountains, bend perspective to your will and build impossible wonders. Pixels and Trixels living in harmony! Hexels lets you combine layers of vector and pixel art on the same canvas. Carve pixel-perfect trim into isometric art.Ĭomplement angular Hexel art with soft, sweeping brushwork. Hexels gives you full control over the vector-to-pixel rendering process.īlock out whole cities in vector form, then dive in for the details. Advanced rasterization tools provide vector alignment, pixel-perfect isometric art, pixel scaling, and antialiasing at any export resolution. And because Hexels renders everything on the GPU, you'll see a pixel-perfect preview on the canvas as you paint. Animateīuild a world and bring it to life with the Hexels animation timeline. Breathe subtle motion into a still image with post effects and motion curves. Send shapes and colors twirling with layer transforms. Or tell a hand-drawn tale with a simple flipbook animation. Hexels is the perfect tool for exploring tiling designs and geometries. Paint tessellating patterns on an endless canvas. Explore advanced grid types like Voronoi. Draft your own grids with a powerful custom grid designer. Whether you are creating textiles or laying out an elaborate mosaic, Hexels can help.

Hexels is a versatile tool for the graphic artist working with multiple applications, at a print-ready resolution. Assemble your canvas out of existing images and animations. Keep organized with layers, masks and groups.

Add a pinch of procedural with a library of real-time post effects and shaders. Featured artwork by: Mark Knight, Mira Karouta, etall, Saskia Freeke, Will Wantz, Jen Maynulet, Jakobsen Beck, Charred, Ed Clews, Brunélie Lauret, Thomas Lonsdale, Beth Mohler, Andres Reinot, Tabby Rose Then export an SVG or layered PSD of your canvas for final touch-ups elsewhere.