awesome-pixel-art

Pixel Logic is an in-depth pixel art tutorial book

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

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

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

Laid back adventure in a bronze age mountain wilderness. Dreamy soft colors in a living world affected by moon phases

Classic action adventure with an 8-bit retro aesthetic, taking the looks of a modern NES game

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

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

Manage a farm from a top-down perspective and engage with a charming and cheerful world in 16-bit

Travel across vibrant, colorful and expansive galaxies, including creative dynamic animations

Shoot giant pieces of space rock into black holes, using gravitational fields, physics-defying walls and wormholes in a minimalist top-down view

With a minimalistic design (only two colors palette). Minit is an adventure where each exploration journey is limited to 60 seconds

A collection of Sean Browning's pixel animations, ranging from simple scenes to recreations of popular shows like Steven's Universe and RWBY

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

Creative videos & streams including tips, discussions and tutorials

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

German, pixel art group founded in 1997 by Kai Vermehr, Steffen Sauerteig and Svend Smital. They are regarded as the “Godfathers of Pixel Art”

Australian, creating cute, sometimes cosmic and psychedelic, and sometimes weird nightmarish pixel art

Japanese, girlish style using bright and organic color palettes creating cute humans and animals

Australian, dark and mature: fan of knights, dinosaurs, pirates, epic beasts, anatomy and history as well as everything twisted and weird

Australian, capturing small animated scenes of everyday life in unsaturated colors

American, game designer with tons of material, game specific knowledge and mini-tutorials

Paid and source-available, works on Linux, macOS and Windows. Awesome UI with a lot of nifty tools to ease pixel art creation

Paid, works on macOS and iOS. Superb OS integration, create pixel art on a tablet using pressure-sensitive drawing

Paid with trial, works on Windows. Advanced features tailored to creating pixel art for games

Open source and free, works on Linux, macOS and Windows. Not specifically for creating pixel art but is more than capable to do so

Open source and free, works in the browser. Easy to try out in the browser and as a PWA offline

Open source and free, works on Linux, macOS and Windows. Minimalist and keyboard driven with animation support

Pico8 editor that give life to pixel art with a little wobble

Make 9-patch borders, export as CSS

Small character generator, including basic animation