PixelSquid has so many uses for hobby artists and professional artists alike! This month, we sat down with film and video game concept artist, Kenny Callicutt, for a short Q&A, and a walkthrough of his creative process. His humorously titled piece, “Windy Day” uses a combination of 3D modeling, PixelSquid objects, and Photoshop paint-over to conceive a post-apocalyptic character, vehicle, …
Michael Wandrey’s Surreal Compositions with PixelSquid
Michael Wandrey, aka @Foxmikey1 on Instagram, is a popular digital artist and photographer who has made incredible works of surrealist art using PixelSquid objects. His racing snail composition using a PixelSquid Engine and Snail were featured in a full two-page spread in the 2019 edition of PhotoshopBIBEL. He’s shared his process for creating this super-charged racing snail as a video …
Our favorite new compositions
Here are some of our favorite new compositions shared with us on instagram from PixelSquid artists. Be sure to follow @PixelSquid360 and these amazing artists for more inspiration. View this post on Instagram A post shared by Shaun Ryken (@shaunryken) on Nov 14, 2018 at 2:02pm PST View this post on Instagram A post shared …
PixelSquid Contests
PixelSquid Contests are back! Submit your compositions for the chance to win six free months of PixelSquid. The contest opens on the first Wednesday of the month and closes on the last Wednesday of the month. Here’s how to submit. Submissions: Either, post your image on Facebook, Twitter, or Instagram with the contest hashtag. It will be different each time, so …
PixelSquid Spotted in the Wild
We’re always excited to share the incredibly creative ways artists incorporate PixelSquid into their workflows. One such artist, Kevin M. Wilson, is a UK based illustrator working primarily in the entertainment industry and the collectible screen-printed poster market. He’s found that PixelSquid is particularly useful in adding quick details to his designs. In the Pulp Fiction inspired silk-screen print, Royale …
Tutorial: Quick, Fun Images with PixelSquid
As graphic designers, we are often called upon to create awesome, eye-catching images on a strict time budget. Creating imagery for PixelSquid is no exception, so here’s how I used our Photoshop Extension tool to both inspire a fun image and put it together very quickly for a promotion we did earlier this year. My goal was to create something …
Combining KitBash3D, OctaneRender, and PixelSquid to Create War of the Worlds
KitBash3D recently announced a concept art contest featuring their Warzone Kit. It struck me as an interesting project, and I decided to enter a concept piece. I considered a few options, but I eventually landed on re-imagining a scene from one of my favorite Sci-Fi inspirations, The War of the Worlds. While planning the image’s composition, I remembered the Rubble …
Tutorial: Party Animals by James Popsys
There are two things we at PixelSquid love more than anything: the level of creativity and expertise that PixelSquid users put into their compositions, and seeing all the fun ways PixelSquid objects are incorporated into scenes. And James Popsys‘ work is no exception. We’re so fortunate to have James back with another charming tutorial to show how fast and easy …
How PixelSquid Has Improved Mosaic’s Workflow
Mosaic is an experiential marketing agency with activations at retail spaces, music festivals, pop up shops and even on the streets. Mosaic uses PixelSquid 3D content to help bring their environmental renderings to life. With multiple offices in the US and Canada, Mosaic’s integrated sales and marketing agency builds programs that engage consumers across four divisions: retail, experiential, shopper and …
“Latte Departure” by James Popsys
We spotted this fun user creation in our social feeds, and we wanted to share. PixelSquid user James Popsys put together this great image using a stock photo and one of our objects. Watch his video on YouTube to see how PixelSquid helped him quickly pull this image together.