Many classes are overlooked, but none so much as art class. For many students, art is a paint-‐and-‐palette kind of class, though this journal has made me entirely rethink that idea! Many Kinds of computer – animated art (Like ipad or pixel art) already exist, but Minecraft offers a simple, low-‐def pixel system for its textures. Each “block” is 16x16 pixels on each side, and can be individually edited to change the look of blocks. Of course, with certain edits, the terrain pixels can be improved to be more than 16x in pixels. These alterations to game textures are called HDfixes.
Texture packs are packs where only graphics are included, and they change the way blocks and items in the game look. Among the fantastic
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