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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 · 14d

SNES Sherlock Holmes mockup

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

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

#pixelart #art A bunny in a lush red cape with gold trimmings, a red and golden carp, a yuanbao ingot, gold coins, huge carrots, and other symbols of wealth and fortune. A smaller bunny says hi from behind the big one

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

TMNT point and click, April-controlling, mystery-solving game. Would you play it?

#screenshotsaturday #gamedev

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

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 · 3d

#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 · 6h

Found this on my hard drive. It's old conceptart for a hyper casual game where you fight the same dragon and upgrade your swords

[ #gamedev #art ]

knight in front of a dragon. several swords on the right

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

I know. Also, it shows

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

you'll figure it out! If you have any questions feel free to ask :)

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

:D Keep it coming <3

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

Super cool

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

Found this on my hard drive. It's old conceptart for a hyper casual game where you fight the same dragon and upgrade your swords

[ #gamedev #art ]

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castpixel ⚧️⚢ @castpixel.bsky.social · Jul 17

my isometric #pixelart Chibi Metroid for the Game Boy. Explore a bunch of ruins. In 3D.

#indiedev

chibi samus celebrating cutscene #pixelart

Samus' ship interior, from Metroid Prime

Samus at a cryo-preservation chamber ruin #pixelart

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

Sel-out (selective outlining) isn't a pixelart-only technique. But it's out of favour in comic books and animation because it's too much work for dubious result

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

#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 · 9h

What's tricky about outlining? It's like pen and paper, just do the outline

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castpixel ⚧️⚢ @castpixel.bsky.social · 9h

Yes! But you can do 3D looking stuff with crosshatching, careful outlines etc. Pen and ink comics often do

castpixel ⚧️⚢ @castpixel.bsky.social · 9h

Monster world IV, emulate it on a mega drive emulator. One of my favourite platformer/ RPGs of all time

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castpixel ⚧️⚢ @castpixel.bsky.social · 13h

It's weird that common lived experience and common trauma give people an understanding. I know we understand each other in ways even some of my friends don't understand me. Please feel free to vent in private if the spirit moves you

castpixel ⚧️⚢ @castpixel.bsky.social · 13h

Not me. But 2 loved ones

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castpixel ⚧️⚢ @castpixel.bsky.social · 13h

Ditto me. I'm sorry Alex

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castpixel ⚧️⚢ @castpixel.bsky.social · 13h

You only need 4 colours to fully render 3D scenes did you know? A cube drawn on a surface has 3 sides showing. Plus a background colour for separation, that makes 4!

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

True!

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

Oh yeah! I forgot. 3 colors! Thank you

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

Haha sorry for the typo! It was for Sonic's 30th anniversary of course, a few years ago

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

Way smaller! GB is 160x144, pico8 is 128x128

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