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castpixel ⚧️⚢

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🎨 Senior game artist and art director with 20 years of experience | 🎮 Pixel artist & gamedev | Playdate dev | ⚧️⚢ 🍉 🇵🇸 Clients: Mojang (Minecraft), WB Games, Hasbro, SEGA, Panic, Unity, IDW 📬 [email protected] 🎨 castpixel.artstation.com

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castpixel ⚧️⚢ @castpixel.bsky.social · Dec 5

Hi! I'm Christina-Antoinette, aka castpixel. I'm a veteran pixelartist, animator and indie gamedev.

illustration of the game Bayonetta as an older isometric style capcom arcade game.

demake of metroid in a game boy resolution

demake of thundercats roar as a capcom brawler

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castpixel ⚧️⚢ @castpixel.bsky.social · 21m

Thank you my sweet! It's a labor of love

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castpixel ⚧️⚢ @castpixel.bsky.social · 3d

The unlicensed Astro Boy I'm designing is moving along. I have no idea what I'm doing in this space or whether anyone would want to buy it. If you have advice, I'm all ears!

I just know I am compelled to make it, and keep it as close to Tezuka's original lineart as possible. So much research!

Astro 3D sculpt, and blueprint of what's in him, based on all the artwork Osamu Tezuka has of Astro Boy dissected or X-Rayed (that's 6 drawings!)

cover for the Kappa Comics De Luxe Astro Boy, Issue 1. Original Osamu Tezuka view of Astro's insides

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castpixel ⚧️⚢ @castpixel.bsky.social · 35m

So dynamic!

castpixel ⚧️⚢ @castpixel.bsky.social · 37m

Oh god that caused me d20 psychic damage

castpixel ⚧️⚢ @castpixel.bsky.social · 39m

I'm sorry 😔

castpixel ⚧️⚢ @castpixel.bsky.social · 39m

It's easy to get a screenshot inside Photoshop or aseprite and compare pixel sizes, or try to scale down to the apparent base pixel resolution, and see if anything distorts and breaks. Spotting it with a naked eye comes with experience, but isn't necessary at all!

castpixel ⚧️⚢ @castpixel.bsky.social · 42m

Huh. Never thought about it, you're right! All the ports I played outside the arcade were pc ports, striving to be identical to the original, and Europe didn't have censorship on pc software. Taito certainly had leverage back then, as well.

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castpixel ⚧️⚢ @castpixel.bsky.social · 18h

"pixelart game, mixed resolutions"

🏰meg⚔️ @Birthright Audiobook! @impavid.us · 3d

In honor of spooky month, share a 4 word horror story that only someone in your profession would understand

I'll go first: Six page commercial lease.

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castpixel ⚧️⚢ @castpixel.bsky.social · 1h

No no! 🥰 It's just, I've been doing this professionally for 20 years and mixel inconsistencies, which also includes sub-pixel positioning, jump at me immediately

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castpixel ⚧️⚢ @castpixel.bsky.social · 3h

It's not my position. It's mixels

castpixel ⚧️⚢ @castpixel.bsky.social · 3h

Lovely to see you on bsky Gabe!

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castpixel ⚧️⚢ @castpixel.bsky.social · 3h

There's mixels on the screen. It's not an edge case, it's just a beloved game that people don't mind mixels on

castpixel ⚧️⚢ @castpixel.bsky.social · 4h

what a lovely interview! @maddymakesgames.com and @noelfb.bsky.social I've known you parasocially for a decade, you were utterly delightful here. <3

castpixel ⚧️⚢ @castpixel.bsky.social · 4h

that's wild though, it's extremely obvious. To me it speaks of fear of low resolutions. But it's ok to do it, and it's ok to like it. I just don't

castpixel ⚧️⚢ @castpixel.bsky.social · 10h

I'm loving it so no need to apologise 💜

castpixel ⚧️⚢ @castpixel.bsky.social · 10h

Ah you found out about Drunk? Yeah it's a stereotypical depiction in some Japanese media. Also the peaches that have leaves at the bottom

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castpixel ⚧️⚢ @castpixel.bsky.social · 10h

I never had the artistic purity lens, I just know, :cause it is my job, what cheapens pixelart a lot. and that is mixels, rotated pixels, lighting effects, 3d like octopath traveler, and similar approaches to the medium, or fear of small resolutions. I don't mind. But embracing pixelart can be magic