Notes from the studio.

Tutorials, design notes, and product updates - mostly about making and exporting block textures for voxel games.

July 23, 2026

Best Pixel Art Software in 2026: 10 Tools Compared

Aseprite, Piskel, Pixelorama, Krita, Photoshop and more, with what each one costs, what it is genuinely good at, and where it falls down. Hexcalibur is on the list, limits included.

13 min read

July 15, 2026

How to Make Seamless Pixel Art Textures (3 Ways)

Three ways to make a pixel-art texture tile without visible seams: paint with the repeat on screen, use the classic offset-by-half trick, or convert any texture in one click.

7 min read

July 12, 2026

See Your Block Textures in 3D as You Paint

Hexcalibur mirrors every brushstroke onto a live 3D block, so you catch seams and tiling problems before you export.

6 min read

July 7, 2026

How to Make Minecraft Block Textures (No Photoshop Needed)

A start-to-finish guide to drawing your first 16x16 Minecraft block texture in the browser, from picking a palette to exporting a pack you can drop into the game.

8 min read

June 30, 2026

Export Block Textures for Minecraft, Tiled, and Any Voxel Engine

Paint a texture once, then export it the way each target expects - Minecraft Java and Bedrock packs, Tiled tilesets, or universal PNG and atlas files that drop straight into Godot, Unity, ThreeJS, or Babylon.

7 min read

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