blog archive for the 'pixel art' tag

nitrome games

I love these minigames from Nitrome. Beautiful pixel art, fun interactivity, excellent time-wasters. If you have a few hours to waste (I do) go have a look.

[via drawn.]


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Everything Japanese is cute.

i regularly visit Best Flash Animation Site to take a gander at the weekly list of the top 6 sites that use Flash. They’re usually pretty up and up on the good and the bad.
I like the top site for this week: elisasassi.com.

If you take a look at the ‘work’ she does, it’s pretty […]


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pixel art gallery

The Pixel gallery is now back up and running. It was not easy. Unfortunately, I haven’t actually created any new pixel pieces. But now that I have a forum, I’ll be spending a little more time clicking away at these tiny little illustrations. I hope you like them.
About the technology: I ended up using the […]


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Yasser Arafat is 100% Officially DEAD!

It’s true. It’s real. Yasser Arafat is dead. Finally. It’s a shame that the Israelis were never able to do it more violently, but I am glad he’s finally done. Maybe now there is a small sliver of hope for peace in that region.
I did a pixel person of Arafat one time… Part of the […]


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eboy

eBoy redesigned. I love these guys pixel work. It makes me look like an asshole, but in many ways’ it’s inspirational. Go have a look if you want to see what real pixel art looks like.

[via boingboing.]


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solopixel

The poeple over at eBoy made a great site for the Canadian Cellphone provider, Solo. Solopixel.com is pretty awesome. This Stone Cold Steve Austin is pretty cool. Take a look.

[via trevor.]


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pixel art tutorial

This is a really great tutorial on isometric pixel art. Not too good for pixel people, but great for buildings and shadows and highlights.

[via kottke.]


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a progression of me

I have been pixelating again, as you may have noticed. I really love the Edward Scissorhands. I even started using photoshop (instead of director) to make them, which is improving my photoshop skills, and opening up a whole new level of color and control that I have never explored. I decided that while I was […]


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kickflopflyin

Craig Robinson over at FlipFlopFlyin has redesigned his site, posted more minipops (we haven’t seen those in a while), and created some great pixel trading cards of European soccer players (futbol). Minipops were some of the original inspiration for my pixel people. I LOVE this guy’s work. He even has a poster of all the […]


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happy birthday darlin!

Everybody, please join me in wishing Lori a very happy birthday. I won’t go blurting out her age or anything, so don’t ask. Happy Birthday Lori!


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dalai lama

I decided that I needed to do a pixel person of somebody really good for a change. I went on that streak a while back of doing the evil dictators and leaders. You might remeber the Osama, and Saddam, and Kim Jung Il, and the Pope… Well, the goodest guy I could think of was […]


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