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Dec 19 - Dec 25, 2022
Inspiration / Games
- Minit - With a minimalistic design (only two colors palette). Minit is an adventure where each exploration journey is limited to 60 seconds.
Oct 11 - Oct 17, 2021
Community / Artists
- Syosa - Japanese, girlish style using bright and organic color palettes creating cute humans and animals.
Apr 12 - Apr 18, 2021
Tools / Miscellaneous
- Broider - Make 9-patch borders, export as CSS.
- pixeldudesmaker - Small character generator, including basic animation.
Dec 28 - Jan 03, 2020
Tools / Editors
- PixelCraft - Open source and free, works in the browser. Easy to try out in the browser and as a PWA offline.
Dec 21 - Dec 27, 2020
Inspiration / Games
- Hyper Light Drifter - Top-down action in a sci-fi world that radiates light and warmth. Using a colorful palette and kaleidoscopic neon yet setting a grim ambiance.
Dec 14 - Dec 20, 2020
Tools / Editors
- Wobblepaint - Pico8 editor that give life to pixel art with a little wobble.
Apr 13 - Apr 19, 2020
Books / Animation
- Pixel logic - Pixel Logic is an in-depth pixel art tutorial book.
- Make Your Own Pixel Art - Walks you step-by-step through the available tools, pixel art techniques, the importance of shapes, colors, shading, and how to turn your art into animation.
Feb 17 - Feb 23, 2020
Tools / Editors
- rx - Open source and free, works on Linux, macOS and Windows. Minimalist and keyboard driven with animation support.
Jan 13 - Jan 19, 2020
Tutorials / Basics
Oct 14 - Oct 20, 2019
Tutorials / Color
Tools / Editors
- Aseprite - Paid and source-available, works on Linux, macOS and Windows. Awesome UI with a lot of nifty tools to ease pixel art creation.
Oct 07 - Oct 13, 2019
Inspiration / Games
- Void Golf - Shoot giant pieces of space rock into black holes, using gravitational fields, physics-defying walls and wormholes in a minimalist top-down view.
Community / Artists
- eBoy - German, pixel art group founded in 1997 by Kai Vermehr, Steffen Sauerteig and Svend Smital. They are regarded as the “Godfathers of Pixel Art”.
Dec 10 - Dec 16, 2018
Community / Artists
- Slynyrd - American, game designer with tons of material, game specific knowledge and mini-tutorials.
Jun 04 - Jun 10, 2018
Inspiration / Games
- Starbound - Travel across vibrant, colorful and expansive galaxies, including creative dynamic animations.
Inspiration / Videos
- MortMort channel - Creative videos & streams including tips, discussions and tutorials.
Inspiration / Other
- Lospec palette list - Collection of color palettes for pixel art with examples and artist information.
May 28 - Jun 03, 2018
Inspiration / Videos
- Sean Browning - Pixel Art Animation Reel 2018 - A collection of Sean Browning's pixel animations, ranging from simple scenes to recreations of popular shows like Steven's Universe and RWBY.
- Pixel Paul - An Interview with Pixel Artist and Animator Paul Veer - Paul Veer, a professional pixel artist with work on games such as Super Crate Box, shares his interest in pixel art as well as his workflow and style breakdown.
Community / Hubs
Apr 30 - May 06, 2018
Tutorials / Animation
Dec 25 - Dec 31, 2017
Inspiration / Games
- Super Mario World 2: Yoshi's Island - Play as Yoshi carrying Baby Mario, platforming through a dangerous world. The painted feel and soft pastel colors create an hearth-warming handmade style that breathes the charm of a children’s book.
Nov 06 - Nov 12, 2017
Inspiration / Games
- Stardew Valley - Manage a farm from a top-down perspective and engage with a charming and cheerful world in 16-bit.
Jul 31 - Aug 06, 2017
Tools / Editors
- Pixen - Paid, works on macOS and iOS. Superb OS integration, create pixel art on a tablet using pressure-sensitive drawing.
- Pro Motion - Paid with trial, works on Windows. Advanced features tailored to creating pixel art for games.
- GIMP - Open source and free, works on Linux, macOS and Windows. Not specifically for creating pixel art but is more than capable to do so.
Jun 26 - Jul 02, 2017
Inspiration / Games
- FEZ - Explore a 2D retrofuturistic world by rotating in the third dimension. The minimalistic style, bright vibrant colors and dynamic lighting bring the 16-bit era into the future.
- Superbrothers: Sword & Sworcery EP - Laid back adventure in a bronze age mountain wilderness. Dreamy soft colors in a living world affected by moon phases.
- Shovel Knight: Treasure Trove - Classic action adventure with an 8-bit retro aesthetic, taking the looks of a modern NES game.
- Owlboy - Explore a detailed steampunk world in the clouds. With it's range of endearing animations and expressions the world and it's characters come to life.
Community / Artists
- Paul Robertson - Australian, creating cute, sometimes cosmic and psychedelic, and sometimes weird nightmarish pixel art.
- Thomas Feichtmeir - Australian, dark and mature: fan of knights, dinosaurs, pirates, epic beasts, anatomy and history as well as everything twisted and weird.
- Toyoi Yuuta - Australian, capturing small animated scenes of everyday life in unsaturated colors.
May 29 - Jun 04, 2017
Tutorials / Basics
Tutorials / Color
Tutorials / Animation
Feb 27 - Mar 05, 2017
Tutorials / Basics