Using Blender's shaders to render pixel art

[Monsieur OUXX]

Hi everyone! This is more for sharing than for receiving criticism.
Selmiak found this excellent video that could probably boost the productivity and results of some of you out there :

Making animated PIXEL ART with Blender 2.8 in 12 Minutes
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cLnyKRfBFsQ

[Jack]

Nice, thanks. I'm always interested in this topic.

[Ali]

The end result looks great - but am I right in thinking it's just a matter of using nodes to shrink and then scale back up without smoothing?

[Cassiebsg]

Almost. Seems to also be a good idea to reduce  the number of colors, plus a pixelate node in the middle of the scaling.

[Ali]

I *think* that the pixelate node just prevents the subsequent scaling node from using smooth scaling.