Thursday, February 25, 2010

Droplet

Here's a nice flash game with a very 8-bit feel, made by Photon Storm.
Apart from being pixel-art style - it has a really nice gameplay. You can check the game here.

Droplet game

Friday, February 19, 2010

Paint 3D

You might want to take a look at a very nice 3D editor called Paint3D. You can create 3D images (and 3D pixel art) the same way as in ordinary Paint - how cool is that?

Monday, February 8, 2010

Some beautiful old art from vintage video games

Some time ago there has been a great post on webdesignerdepot.com, talking about video game design over the decades.
To me the begining part was the most interesting - games in the early 90's got a very nice pixel-art gamearts.
Check the list for yourself at webdesignerdepot.com.

Friday, January 29, 2010

Adam "SpriterDex"

Well - SpriterDex pixels are pretty damn sweet. And since he's just 16 - who knows what he can achieve in 5 or 6 years?
In the meanwhile - check out his profile at DeviantArt.

SpriterDex pixel art

SpriterDex pixel art

SpriterDex pixel art

Friday, December 11, 2009

Pixel Fokker t-shirt

Pixel Fokker

I've created a new pixel art for a t-shirt contest at Springleap. If you could spare a few seconds and put your vote on it - that would be great!

Tuesday, December 8, 2009

VeryImportantPixels

Very Important Pixels

Guys at VeryImportantPixels are creating a pixelized versions of the famous and important people (both real and fiction) - some of those are really cool!
Btw. There's a twitter contest going - 5 lucky winners will be pixelaized by VeryImporantPixels and placed on their site.

Wednesday, December 2, 2009

Juan Manuel Daporta

Juan Manuel Daporta is a great pixel art designer based in Venezuela. His pixel art building diorama got a Deviation of the Day award at deviantart.com - that's something!. Take a while and check his Deviant art gallery - it's really worth it.

Daporta Pixel Art
Daporta Pixel Art
Daporta Pixel Art

Monday, November 23, 2009

Pixel art tutorial at psdtuts



There's a new tutorial on Psd.tutsplus.com, describing "the way of the pixel" by Russell Tate.
It's describes the pixel art basic rules - good to refresh your memory.
There are also some top pixel art tutorials links in the article.

Tuesday, November 17, 2009

The real end of Pitfall

Do you remember the game Pitfall? Well, even if you don't - this fanart is a pretty damn funny;)



The piece was made by Brock Davis - check him on Behance

Sunday, November 1, 2009

Pixel art cover for Przekroj magazine

One of main polish magazines put some beautiful pixel art for their cover.
Good to see the pixels coming through to the mainframe media.
You can check the cover and some inside illustration at Przekroj.pl