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castpixel ⚧️⚢

@castpixel.bsky.social

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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 · 3d

#pixelart Sonic comic book cover for client IDW. for Sonic's 40th anniversary comic! SEGA asked me to go for the classic character designs.

#art #pixelart An illustration of Sonic, Tails and Knuckles rushing somewhere under a clear sky. A ring cloud looms above, and there's dust in the ground.

SEGA requested I do the classic character designs for all of them

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castpixel ⚧️⚢ @castpixel.bsky.social · 16h

A few years ago I made a small point-and-click adventure game for Nerd Monkeys and Felicia Day ( Voyage to The Stars) . I handled code, animation, music and game design.

this is some of the animations

[ #art #gamedev #pixelart ]

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castpixel ⚧️⚢ @castpixel.bsky.social · 2d

Untitled Witch Game
Pico8, 4 colors

[ #pixelart #art ]

Caramel the witch visits a tower on her broomstick #pixelart #art

a few enemies (Griffin, Frankenstein's monster, werewolf, mummy, zombie, knight, pumpkinhead, gargoyle)

a few bosses! evil tree with acorns, spike pendulum, ghost, tiny mushroom, mr and mrs Dracula

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castpixel ⚧️⚢ @castpixel.bsky.social · 15d

SNES Sherlock Holmes mockup

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

Aaron is an amazing host, we had a great chat!

Aaron Makes Video Games @nemo10.bsky.social · 10h

Podcast episode 2 is out! My guest this week is legendary pixel artist @castpixel.bsky.social. She's been in the industry for 20 years as an artist, illustrator, art director, and more. In this episode we talk about developing a style, aphantasia, demakes, and more!
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castpixel ⚧️⚢ @castpixel.bsky.social · 16h

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

Jajaja!

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

Character select menu for Nitronauts.
No transparency, no shaders. It's just creative #pixelart

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castpixel ⚧️⚢ @castpixel.bsky.social · 11d

Game boy resolution, EGA 16 colours

A gender-reversed quest for glory.

#gamedev #pixelart

My girlfriend Maria wanted to be a shopkeeper in qfg2 #art #pixelart

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castpixel ⚧️⚢ @castpixel.bsky.social · 14d

LCD segments

All the segments for an LCD game I'm working on

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castpixel ⚧️⚢ @castpixel.bsky.social · 12d

#screenshotsaturday #pixelart #pico8

Bubble Symphony is the 1994 sequel to Bubble Bobble.

I went from 320x224px and 256 colors to 128x128px and 15 colors. Only achievable by very tight pixel art technique

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

#pixelart transformers comic book cover for client IDW

Shockwave manipulating Devastator #art #pixelart

Cover illustration for the comic Transformers Galaxies by IDW

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

Ah, classic

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

Shakes head in anti-NFT

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

That would be fun!

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

That was amazing

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

Ditto both jobs and connections

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castpixel ⚧️⚢ @castpixel.bsky.social · 6d

Lunar New Year illustration for Pico View zine. I filled it with gold ingots, bunnies, gold coins, carp, symbols of plenty and fortune

Pico 8 palette, 16 colors, 128x128px

#pixelart #art