Introduction to pixel art

Creating a cube

Creating round objects

Outline basics

Outline colors

Getting started from scratch with Aseprite

Creating a color palette

Color palette and HSL

Moawling's color palette process

Walking animation cycle in games

. Tutorial series on 2D walk-cycle animation for games.

Tips for animating 2D games

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.

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.

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.

Lospec palette list

Collection of color palettes for pixel art with examples and artist information.

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.

Reddit /r/PixelArt

. Pixel art subreddit.

Pixel Joint

Pixelrepo

Lospec

🟪 - A Pixel Art gold mine (Job Board, Pallette Database, Tutorials, Resources, and more).

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.

Draw!

Editor for creating tiny GIF animations. Open source and free, works in the browser.

Broider

Make 9-patch borders, export as CSS.

pixeldudesmaker

Small character generator, including basic animation.

PixelArtChallenge

Pixel art recreation challenges, practice solo or compete in real-time 1v1 matches.

Palette Extractor

Free and works in the browser. Pull a sprite's exact palette, export .gpl, Lospec .hex, CSS or JSON.