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Deleted member 3465 · Oct 26, 2017

Introduction:

Hello everyone! :) Welcome to Resetera's appreciation thread for pixel art! Feel free to start a discussion or post images on absolutely anything & everything related to pixel art! Admired art, your own art and/or game projects are also very welcome in this thread. Doesn't matter if you're an artist or an admirer, but please remember to be kind to the people who decide to post their own artwork or projects! Happy Pixeling! ~

Pixel Art Tutorials & Links:
| Android Arts | Final Boss Blues | Retronater |
| MortMort on Youtube | Pixel Art Mastercourse on Udemy |
| Pedro Medeiros Weekly | Pixel Logic Book |
| Pixel Art Directory by Lospec |
| Another Pixel Art Compilation by Pixel Artus |

Recommended Programs:
| Asesprite | GraphicsGale | Pixaki (iPad Only) | Promotion NG | PyxelEdit |
Bonus: How to setup Photoshop for Pixel Art 'Tutorial'

A Few Upcoming Releases with Great Pixel Art:

Ancient Abyss:

ATONE:

Beam:

Beard Blade:

Blasphemous:

Bushiden:

Death Trash:

Deltarune:

Divinoids:

Doko Roko:

Down Ward:

Eagle Island:

Eastward:

Eitr:

Flynn: Son of Crimson:

Frontier Story:

Glitched:

Go Go Kudamono:

Hazelnut Bastille:

Heart Forth, Alicia:

Hegemone Pass:

Ikenfell:

Immost:

Into the Rift:

Irkalla:

ITTA:

Katana Zero:

Leilani's Island:

Little Love Story:

Long Gone Days:

Matter:

MegaSphere:

Naemo:

Narita Boy:

Noita:

NYKRA:

Oceans:

Omori:

Orion:

Pepper Grinder:

Picontier:

Project Harvest:

Resolutiion:

Scourge Bringer:

Secrets of Grindea:

Shattered Realms:

The Siege and the Sandfox:

SkyRider:

Sleepless Knights:

Tales of the Neon Sea:

Totem Teller:

The Treehouse Man:

Unsighted:

Untitled Adventure Project by 'Uma':

Untitled SHMUP by 'Juho Isokoski':

Vestaria Saga:

Virgo vs. The Zodiac:

Virtuaverse:

Wargroove:

Whippa Stitcha:

Yumori Forest:

And Way More! Special thanks to @wozmanz23 for providing a lot more games!

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Cancelled:
| Fara & the Eye of Darkness | Midora | Sealark |

Note: This is just a small sample of games with great pixel art. I am always adding more, but there's way too many to list! If you have any games, links, suggestions or anything else
you want to see added to the OP please let me know by PM or in this thread! :) Banner dimensions are 640 x 200 if you want to manually add a banner yourself, thanks!^^

*Cover art from "The Last Blade Series."

Deleted member 3465 · Oct 26, 2017

Guidelines: To be a part of the showcase in this OP please PM me with an image and a link you want to be featured here! Multiple links are okay! :) Any image dimension under 1028 x 1028 should be fine until the thread gets bigger! Multiple smaller images are alright too! :)

Resetera Pixel Artists! (Alpha Order):

Neoriceisgood:
Neoriceisgood's Twitter | Neoriceisgood's Deviantart | Neoriceisgood's Webcomic

Panzermoon:
Panzermoon's Twitter

Rephil:
Rephil's Twitter | Rephil's Dribble

Sbdesignworks:
Sbdesignworks' Twitter | Sbdesignworks' Instagram

Weltall Zero:
Weltall Zero's Game Divinoids | Weltall Zero's Twitter

Iva Demilcol · Oct 26, 2017

Awesome.

I'm pretty interested in both classic and modern pixel art.

Txai · Oct 26, 2017

A couple of original works from a film I'm working.

C.B. · Oct 26, 2017

I won't be able to contribute much but a huge fan of pixel work so I'll be keeping my eye on this thread! Hopefully I'll be able to add something in the future - love the kind of animations some can do. Anyway, excited to see a thread dedicated to it!

lvl 99 Pixel · Oct 26, 2017

been meaning to learn this style for a game a friend wants to make with me :)

rckvla · Oct 27, 2017

This thread reminded of me the days when I'm still addicted to pixelcars. Making and modifying those suckers are awesome.

Hecht · Oct 27, 2017

This is relevant to my interests

bananas · Oct 27, 2017

I made a banner for you guys if you want to use it

https://i.imgur.com/r2e9Dta.png

Robin · Oct 27, 2017

Hey there everyone! Glad to see this is a thread! I already posted this in Game Dev but it seems like this is a more appropriate location. I just started working on pixel art for the first time really this month and have been having an absolute blast. I know it needs a lot of work but I'd love some comments and criticism. So far I've had a blast and I'm looking forward to keeping it up!

Deleted member 3465 · Oct 28, 2017

The OP is finally pretty much completed now. Rehosted the images so hopefully they show up for others now!

lvl 99 Pixel said:
been meaning to learn this style for a game a friend wants to make with me :)

Love the username! And awesome, this is the perfect time to start! :) Do you know what kind of game it will be?

Robin said:
Hey there everyone! Glad to see this is a thread! I already posted this in Game Dev but it seems like this is a more appropriate location. I just started working on pixel art for the first time really this month and have been having an absolute blast. I know it needs a lot of work but I'd love some comments and criticism. So far I've had a blast and I'm looking forward to keeping it up!

I'm not an expert so I can't offer any constructive criticism at this moment, but these look really good to me! Amazing you only started learning a month ago!

Txai said:
A couple of original works from a film I'm working.

Wow really good stuff! Love the amount of detail and I'm interested to see the final product

Kintaro · Oct 29, 2017

I'm curious as If whether people use a drawing tablet or just mouse to draw their pixel art? Do you sketch it before hand or just drawn on the computer?

faerith · Oct 29, 2017

Kintaro: I haven't pixeled since a few years, but with things like characters, portraits, trees &other plants that are not 8bit-style, to help with the proportions, I usually do a rough sketch (Photoshop 7 then the acursed CS2) using my wacom which I then pixel over on another layer.
With fullart I've done both, scan in the art or directly sketch in PS.

Robin: your links are broken- imgur doesn't play nice anymore. Alas I opened only one pic: are you going for the Earthbound/Mother-style? Or do you want to flesh it out more to haved it look more like Illusion of Gaia?

SmileROM: great OP!

Supernorn · Oct 29, 2017

Nice OT! I'm a pixel artist / animator for chucklefish so I'll be posting in here pretty regularly!

I primarily use a Cintiq 13 tablet and Aseprite. Although before that i was using a regular mouse and Photoshop to do everything. Aseprite has much better animation tools so I'd recommend it!

Deleted member 3465 · Oct 29, 2017

faerith Thanks!! :)

Supernorn said:
Nice OT! I'm a pixel artist / animator for chucklefish so I'll be posting in here pretty regularly!

I primarily use a Cintiq 13 tablet and Aseprite. Although before that i was using a regular mouse and Photoshop to do everything. Aseprite has much better animation tools so I'd recommend it!

Awesome, can't wait to see your work! Also I'm really looking forward to Spellbound, looks great! Forgot to mention it in the OP :O

I also would recommend Asesprite for anyone else wondering. The program still gets updated regularly compared to a few of the other pixel art programs and most the tutorials I've seen use it as well which is super helpful. They're also working on a phone app which I'm interested in trying too.

Aeferis · Oct 29, 2017

Nice thread and congrats on the OP. That upcoming games list is enthralling, there's some wonderful wonderful stuff in there. Also, I'd like to point out this game: Dark Devotion. Their Kickstarter campaign was successful and I think the game is slated for release in 2018.

Deleted member 3465 · Oct 29, 2017

NeuralProxy said:
Nice thread and congrats on the OP. That upcoming games list is enthralling, there's some wonderful wonderful stuff in there. Also, I'd like to point out this game: Dark Devotion. Their Kickstarter campaign was successful and I think the game is slated for release in 2018.

Thanks! :) And thanks for bringing this title up, I had never heard of it before! Looks craaaazy good, adding it to the OP!

Robin · Dec 23, 2017

Hey y'all! Got a couple more work in progresses. I've been really neglecting my art but I've been trying to get back on the horse today and yesterday.

Txai · Dec 23, 2017

Robin said:

Try to avoid pillow shading and focus on a lightsource for shades.

Robin · Dec 23, 2017

Txai said:
Try to avoid pillow shading and focus on a lightsource for shades.

Honestly, yeah. That's valid and helpful. I was feeling the same thing when I finished that one up and kind of decided that was the last one I'd be doing like that. I'm kind of ready to put that one behind me and move on but after I read your post I went in and tried to fix it up a bit.

Txai · Dec 23, 2017

Robin said:
Honestly, yeah. That's valid and helpful. I was feeling the same thing when I finished that one up and kind of decided that was the last one I'd be doing like that. I'm kind of ready to put that one behind me and move on but after I read your post I went in and tried to fix it up a bit.

Yeah, it improved a bit!

Also keep in mind that unless you make the floor shadow purposely centered, it might be affected by the light source as well. Plus, I think only one tone of that shadow is enough for the cartoon style you're going for.

Robin · Jan 19, 2018

Haven't had as much time lately to keep practicing, but last night I spent some time practicing a more realistic style, using a selfie as my guide. Needs a lot of work but I'm starting to get more comfortable and want to make a more genuine attempt in the future w/ shading and different colored light sources.

EDIT:
Made Heihachi from Tekken and a cute bun!

malyse · Jan 27, 2018

I guess this thread will do.

Just found this.

More_Badass · Feb 3, 2018

Here's a site that might be of interest to this thread
https://pixelartus.com

Rephil · Feb 5, 2018

Great thread! And it makes me happy to see "Flynn: Son of Crimson" listed above. I'm one of the two pixel artists on that project!

Another great guide to pixel art is Michafrar's "Pixel Logic" series. It's still being written, but there are plenty of tutorials already available. He breaks down the various techniques used in pixel art, and brings in other talented pixel artists to discuss said techniques.

This is usually the tutorial series I suggest to people asking how to get into pixel art, as I feel the presentation of the material is easy to swallow and fun to read through.

You can check it out here: http://pixellogicbook.com/

More_Badass · Mar 25, 2018

Sae this game recently on Twitter

Deleted member 33 · Aug 10, 2018

We moved this thread here so it can receive more visibility.

This is a great idea for a thread.

Dark Knight · Aug 10, 2018

Oooh nice, didn't even know this OT existed. I'm big into pixel art! I'd participate in a monthly challenge in a heartbeat.

Deleted member 3465 · Aug 12, 2018

Emily said:
We moved this thread here so it can receive more visibility.

This is a great idea for a thread.

Wow thanks! :) I'm working on a big update for the thread that i'll post in the next few days. Sorry to everyone for neglecting the thread!

FeistyBeard · Aug 12, 2018

This is great, also https://lospec.com/ is a great resource for everything pixel art :).

DrKelpo · Aug 12, 2018

very nice thread,
subbed :)

Deleted member 3465 · Aug 19, 2018

OP finally updated. Will start the first challenge next month & will stop neglecting this thread as of now! Sorry for the delay!

DrKelpo said:
very nice thread,
subbed :)

Thank you so much! :)

FeistyBeard said:
This is great, also https://lospec.com/ is a great resource for everything pixel art :).

Thank you! Added your link to the OP! :)

Dark Knight said:
Oooh nice, didn't even know this OT existed. I'm big into pixel art! I'd participate in a monthly challenge in a heartbeat.

Awesome! Excited to see your work! :)

Rephil said:
Great thread! And it makes me happy to see "Flynn: Son of Crimson" listed above. I'm one of the two pixel artists on that project!

Another great guide to pixel art is Michafrar's "Pixel Logic" series. It's still being written, but there are plenty of tutorials already available. He breaks down the various techniques used in pixel art, and brings in other talented pixel artists to discuss said techniques.

This is usually the tutorial series I suggest to people asking how to get into pixel art, as I feel the presentation of the material is easy to swallow and fun to read through.

You can check it out here: http://pixellogicbook.com/

Thank you! I absolutely love your sprite work! Very inspiring stuff! Also added pixel logic book to the OP, really good tutorial! :)

More_Badass said:
Here's a site that might be of interest to this thread
https://pixelartus.com

Awesome thanks! :) Added to the OP along with Gestalt Vanguard, great find! Pixel work is really good!

malyse said:
I guess this thread will do.

Just found this.

Nice find! Looks amazing so far! Added to the OP!

Robin said:
Made Heihachi from Tekken and a cute bun!

Wow thanks for sharing! Your work is incredible! :)

Neoriceisgood · Aug 19, 2018

Oh sweet, pixelart thread! Yes please.

Obligatory spam of my latest project, doing the entire smash ultimate cast:

https://twitter.com/Neoriceisgood/status/1027580232570740738

jahasaja · Aug 19, 2018

I have only released one concept pixel art for my next game but hopefully it will be some rememberable pixel art. At least that Is what we are aiming for.

You will be the judge:

Mental Atrophy · Aug 19, 2018

I'll post some old stuff, I guess. I would post new stuff, but I don't really have any. Been kind of busy the last few. Typically do a lot of NES-grade stuff, but I can do more SNES-like as well.

By the way, your Seiken Densetsu 3 image is actually from Legend of Mana.

missile · Aug 19, 2018

Tried to come up with an pixel art depth of field effect for my game which
doesn't need any blending (hence, works with limited color palettes). Still
working and improving on it now and then.

Deleted member 3465 · Aug 19, 2018

Neoriceisgood said:
Oh sweet, pixelart thread! Yes please.

Obligatory spam of my latest project, doing the entire smash ultimate cast:

https://twitter.com/Neoriceisgood/status/1027580232570740738

Lovely!!! :O I absolutely love how you captured so many iconic characters perfectly, but stylistically they still all really feel like your style. Super impressive stuff! :)

jahasaja said:
I have only released one concept pixel art for my next game but hopefully it will be some rememberable pixel art. At least that Is what we are aiming for.

You will be the judge:

Wow super great job! :) I love the atmosphere of this! Feels very Berserk like, was that an inspiration?

missile said:
Tried to come up with an pixel art depth of field effect for my game which
doesn't need any blending (hence, works with limited color palettes). Still
working and improving on it now and then.

Wow amazing! :O That's such an amazingly ambitious idea and the images you posted so far are also very mesmerizing to look at! Good luck with it! :)

Mental Atrophy said:
I'll post some old stuff, I guess. I would post new stuff, but I don't really have any. Been kind of busy the last few. Typically do a lot of NES-grade stuff, but I can do more SNES-like as well.

By the way, your Seiken Densetsu 3 image is actually from Legend of Mana.

Lol wow you're right - it is from Legend of Mana, not sure how I missed that! Thanks for pointing that out :O!

And thank you for sharing all those images, they're great! You really have the NES style perfected I feel! :O Do you prefer the NES style because of personal taste or do you find it's just easier to work with? Your other stuff is amazing too!

jahasaja · Aug 19, 2018

Panzermoon said:
Lovely!!! :O I absolutely love how you captured so many iconic characters perfectly, but stylistically they still all really feel like your style. Super impressive stuff! :)

Wow super great job! :) I love the atmosphere of this! Feels very Berserk like, was that an inspiration?

Wow amazing! :O That's such an amazingly ambitious idea and the images you posted so far are also very mesmerizing to look at! Good luck with it! :)

Lol wow you're right - it is from Legend of Mana, not sure how I missed that! Thanks for pointing that out :O!

And thank you for sharing all those images, they're great! You really have the NES style perfected I feel! :O Do you prefer the NES style because of personal taste or do you find it's just easier to work with? Your other stuff is amazing too!

I should point out that I am not the artist (I do programming and animations). Ben is the artist https://www.deviantart.com/wolfenoctis

The got the inspiration from seeing videos of real clouds played a 10x speed..

Rephil · Aug 19, 2018

Great stuff Mental Atrophy! I particularly love that NES platformer mockup :D

And I'm always impressed when someone decides to draw an entire cast - especially one as big as the Smash Bros roster - awesome work, Neoriceisgood!

Here are a few fanart pieces I've done over the course of this year and last year. Been too swamped with game dev work to do much personal work lately.

Looking forward to seeing more people share their work!

Rackham · Aug 19, 2018

Just looking for a new pixel art game suggestion.

Kind of narrowed down to Death's Gambit and Dead Cells. I own Hyper Light Drifter and Shovel Knight. Love those games.

I own a PS4 and Vita. It could even be something like Fez which I don't own yet and have only played the demo and enjoyed. Taking suggestions though.

Please don't just list games. Tell me why I might like them.

XaviConcept · Aug 19, 2018

Rephil said:
Great stuff Mental Atrophy! I particularly love that NES platformer mockup :D

And I'm always impressed when someone decides to draw an entire cast - especially one as big as the Smash Bros roster - awesome work, Neoriceisgood!

Here are a few fanart pieces I've done over the course of this year and last year. Been too swamped with game dev work to do much personal work lately.

Looking forward to seeing more people share their work!

Oh HOLY FUCK IVE SEEN THESE BEFORE. AMAZING WORK! Big fan!

Do you draw these at native res or just scale in PS with nearest neighbor? I do pixel styff sooometimes but I still havent found a method I fall back on.

Rephil · Aug 19, 2018

Raging Spaniard said:
Oh HOLY FUCK IVE SEEN THESE BEFORE. AMAZING WORK! Big fan!

Do you draw these at native res or just scale in PS with nearest neighbor? I do pixel styff sooometimes but I still havent found a method I fall back on.

Thanks dude! I do everything at native res in Graphics Gale. I just scale up in Photoshop when sharing work online/in my portfolio so people can actually see it (also helps with compression issues, especially on Twitter).

Neoriceisgood · Aug 19, 2018

Panzermoon said:
Lovely!!! :O I absolutely love how you captured so many iconic characters perfectly, but stylistically they still all really feel like your style. Super impressive stuff! :)

Thank you! Yeah I always try to stay true to a character's general aesthetic while also making it my own, I try to balance it out rather than just fully making it my own thing.

Rephil said:
Great stuff Mental Atrophy! I particularly love that NES platformer mockup :D

And I'm always impressed when someone decides to draw an entire cast - especially one as big as the Smash Bros roster - awesome work, Neoriceisgood!

Here are a few fanart pieces I've done over the course of this year and last year. Been too swamped with game dev work to do much personal work lately.

Looking forward to seeing more people share their work!

Thank you! At least Smash only releases once every few years so it's a big project with loooong breaks, worth the effort imho.

Love your art btw, it's super cool~ [initiate operation: stalk twitter]

XaviConcept · Aug 19, 2018

Rephil said:
Thanks dude! I do everything at native res in Graphics Gale. I just scale up in Photoshop when sharing work online/in my portfolio so people can actually see it (also helps with compression issues, especially on Twitter).

Oh very nice. I havent used it myself so I'll definitely look into it.

My normal stuff is very painterly so when Ive done pixel work Ive gone fairly minimalistic, but Id like to go much further than what Ive done so far

Mental Atrophy · Aug 19, 2018

Panzermoon said:
And thank you for sharing all those images, they're great! You really have the NES style perfected I feel! :O Do you prefer the NES style because of personal taste or do you find it's just easier to work with? Your other stuff is amazing too!

Both, really. My nostalgia has always been strongest for the NES. But I mostly leaned that way because it's easier to get something up and running. I almost exclusively stick to game jams and it's much quicker to get something up and running with simpler NES-like graphics when I also have to do the programming and audio in that same 48-hour window.

Rephil said:
Great stuff Mental Atrophy! I particularly love that NES platformer mockup :D

Thanks. Not a mock-up, though, but actually from a game jam several years ago: https://globalgamejam.org/2016/games/virgin-ritual

A really poor recording of it:

Wozman23 · Aug 19, 2018

Here are a few more I've had my eye on:

I'm particularly excited for Eagle Island and Narita Boy - I backed both on Kickstarter - as well as Pepper Grinder, and Beam (which I just discovered a few days ago).

Ancient Abyss

ATONE

Beam

Down Ward

Eagle Island

Irkalla

ITTA

Matter

MegaSphere

Naemo

Noita

NYKRA

Oceans

Orion

Pepper Grinder

Resolutiion

Scourge Bringer

SkyRider

Sleepless Knights

Tales of the Neon Sea

Totem Teller

The Treehouse Man

Unsighted

Untitled SHMUP by Juho Isokoski

Yumori Forest

missile · Aug 19, 2018

Robin said:
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Nice!

Robin · Aug 19, 2018

Wozman23 said:
Here are a few more I've had my eye on:

I'm particularly excited for Eagle Island and Narita Boy - I backed both on Kickstarter - as well as Pepper Grinder, and Beam (which I just discovered a few days ago).

Wow there's some great art there!

missile said:
Nice!

Thanks!

I have mostly been working on non-pixel art lately but I have a few things I've worked on since i posted here last.

Quick little character idea, thinking of him as a shopkeeper in a rural area.

First attempt at any sort of environment, never finished it. I like how the crypt looking thing turned out although the perspective is seriously wonky. Recently discovered those miniboss pixel art tutorials and think I'm going to be starting from square one in regards to enviornment. Still, it's been a fun learning experience!

Kae · Aug 19, 2018

Great thread! It's always fun getting to see what other pixel artists are up to. I'm still early in development, so I haven't done a lot of art yet. I do have enough hopefully to give people a feel of the style I'm going for! Working title is still Project Harvest until I get my story properly sorted. Looking forward to sharing things alongside everyone as I progress!

Mental Atrophy · Aug 19, 2018

Katu said:
Great thread! It's always fun getting to see what other pixel artists are up to. I'm still early in development, so I haven't done a lot of art yet. I do have enough hopefully to give people a feel of the style I'm going for! Working title is still Project Harvest until I get my story properly sorted. Looking forward to sharing things alongside everyone as I progress!

The flashlight stuff looks really good too. I'm also very curious about the screen transition effect. What's a good resource to learn about writing rendering functions like that--anybody?

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