Any pixel art artists or fans of the medium?

PapaBPoppin

@TracerY said:
Thank you for this nice info thread, I felt in love with pixel art since the C64 times, but never thought that time, to start creating pixel art ny myself.
In the early 2000 ths we had a very cool Electro Punk project CD and my girlfriend created some very nice pixel characters on a Win XP system with the built in grafic software.( forgot the name) 😀

https://www.kreatives.org/fruu_svenja_trifft_herrn_goetz/

A few years ago I wanted to create some videos for some of our favourite Hits, and start redrawing those characters on iPad using medi bang with an extreme low resolution.
We liked the results and so I created some very basic animations and awake them to live by using LumaFusion video editor.

We hope you enjoy as much as we did 😂

Thanks again for all nice info here,
Will definitely check it out.

kind regards,
Götz

Those are great! I LOVE the slow parallaxing background behind the pan-down of the buildings in the 2nd one

Subtle but such an excellent movement choice

@FizzyLizzy27 said:
Blasphemous has some great modern pixel art. It’s on iOS for anyone interested.

I'm familiar enough with the name that it's been on my steam wishlist for a while, just don't know when I'll get to sink time into a full blown title these days. Love the style tho

That and Dead Cells stick in my brain in a similar way. Which is another great work in pixel artistry for sure

@Poppadocrock said:
There’s a cool photo app called Kino Glitch that can do something similar to those pics, it’s quite interesting.

I'll check that one out too! Thanks!

Got a familiar ring to it, might have skimmed by it a handful of times

rototom

@TracerY
geiiiiiil!:)

Squishy

@Poppadocrock said:
There’s a cool photo app called Kino Glitch that can do something similar to those pics, it’s quite interesting.

KinoGlitch looks neat! And only a buck? How could I say no?

Edward_Alexander

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PapaBPoppin

@Poppadocrock said:
There’s a cool photo app called Kino Glitch that can do something similar to those pics, it’s quite interesting.

Looks like there are two, ones Pro, but non-pro has sub/lifetime while Pro is one time purchase ($3 reg for pro, $7 for lifetime of base model)

Is there a major difference between em?

Looks like Pro has worse reviews

FizzyLizzy27

I’ve kicked around the idea of making a “color palette extractor” app mainly for pixel art. I hate when I use a photo to generate a color palette and end up with 2000 colors, so I started working on an app to upload a picture and extract the highest frequency colors. The number of colors to extract is determined by the user.

So far it’s actually working but it’s a rough mess coded primarily with ChatGPT. I would like to clean it up at some point though.

PapaBPoppin

For note: Pixel Hunt just went free! (Usually $0.99 it appears)

https://apps.apple.com/us/app/palette-hunt/id6449098473

Poppa just posted it in the sales thread and the timing felt serendipitous seeing how I just learned about it thru this thread

Thanks @FizzyLizzy27 for the recommendation!

Poppadocrock

One cool thing about App Raven that might get overlooked sometimes is the User Made “Collections” database

I went into the Collections category, searched Pixel, and got a ton of results. This particular collection called “pixel art” has 40 apps. Keep in mind they are user submitted, so they aren’t comprehensive lists, but some of the collections are very helpful. Especially when looking for particular types of apps like this. Cheers!

Pixel Art Collection
https://appraven.net/collection/37869871

This was in the list…
Pixel Art Artist is free
https://apps.apple.com/us/app/pixel-art-artist/id1538782628

It was removed from the App Store in September 2024 but it’s back up in The States.

Poppadocrock

@PapaBPoppin said:

@Poppadocrock said:
There’s a cool photo app called Kino Glitch that can do something similar to those pics, it’s quite interesting.

Looks like there are two, ones Pro, but non-pro has sub/lifetime while Pro is one time purchase ($3 reg for pro, $7 for lifetime of base model)

Is there a major difference between em?

Looks like Pro has worse reviews

Ohh I did not know this, I actually got it free like 3-4 years ago, and I guess I was grandfathered in, with the new subscription model, since I seem to have access to all features.

Ok, follow me a second, there is an app called iColorama for iPad by one developer and iColorama S for iPhone by another developer. I believe these developers are either the same person or they work together.

I think the apps are very similar if not exactly the same. The only difference I can see is Kino Glitch and iColorama S are for iPhone and iColorama/Kino Glitch Pro are for iPad.

Edit - removed - not sure if these are two separate developers who maybe worked together or what.