Art – A BIT OF MYSTERY

Palette shifting

December 8, 2013

Someone I follow on twitter shared this a while ago: 8-Bit color cycling in HTML5 canvas. And while it’s basically a sort of HTML5 tech-demo, it shows a very old but interesting technique used in games and interactive media back in the day: Animating complex landscapes by cycling colors in the palette. This is how complex […]

Pixel Art: Shantae

October 4, 2013

| No Comments

| Pixel Art

Ok, so continuing with my experiments on pixel art I’ve done a small animated sprite of Shantae, the main character of the Shantae franchise by WayForward. Shantae started as GBC game and later got a sequel for DSi/eShop. There’s a third installment coming out on the 3DS later this year and also an AMAZING kickstarter […]

Pixel Art: The bouncy treasure box

September 19, 2013

| No Comments

| Pixel Art

So it’s been a while since the last time I did pixel art for a game or project (or just for the fun of it). When I was younger I worked alone in almost every game project or demo/prototype I developed, so I was not only the coder but the artist as well. And while […]