Pixel Art
Basics
6_ENTRIESColor
3_ENTRIESAnimation
2_ENTRIESBooks
2_ENTRIES- 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.
Games
11_ENTRIES- 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.
- 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.
- Undertale
A story-driven RPG where you explore a world of monsters. Turn-based combat. Retro 16-bit visuals, a rich narrative, and multiple endings based on your choices.
- Shovel Knight: Treasure Trove
Classic action adventure with an 8-bit retro aesthetic, taking the looks of a modern NES game.
- 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.
- 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.
- Stardew Valley
Manage a farm from a top-down perspective and engage with a charming and cheerful world in 16-bit.
- Starbound
Travel across vibrant, colorful and expansive galaxies, including creative dynamic animations.
- 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.
- Minit
With a minimalistic design (only two colors palette). Minit is an adventure where each exploration journey is limited to 60 seconds.
Videos
3_ENTRIES- 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.
- MortMort channel
Creative videos & streams including tips, discussions and tutorials.
Other
1_ENTRIES- Lospec palette list
Collection of color palettes for pixel art with examples and artist information.
Artists
6_ENTRIES- 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”.
- Paul Robertson
Australian, creating cute, sometimes cosmic and psychedelic, and sometimes weird nightmarish pixel art.
- Syosa
Japanese, girlish style using bright and organic color palettes creating cute humans and animals.
- 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.
- Slynyrd
American, game designer with tons of material, game specific knowledge and mini-tutorials.
Hubs
4_ENTRIESEditors
8_ENTRIES- Aseprite
Paid and source-available, works on Linux, macOS and Windows. Awesome UI with a lot of nifty tools to ease pixel art creation.
- 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.
- PixelCraft
Open source and free, works in the browser. Easy to try out in the browser and as a PWA offline.
- rx
Open source and free, works on Linux, macOS and Windows. Minimalist and keyboard driven with animation support.
- Wobblepaint
Pico8 editor that give life to pixel art with a little wobble.
- Pixelrepo
Free and works in the browser. Import files and palettes, save locally. Minimalist, easy to use, and perfect for quick pixel art editing.
Miscellaneous
2_ENTRIES- Broider
Make 9-patch borders, export as CSS.
- pixeldudesmaker
Small character generator, including basic animation.