A pixel animation commission made for a friend, Anakensic ( https://x.com/anakensic / https://bsky.app/profile/anakensic.bsky.social ), featuring their OC Occo surveying planets in a solar system.

This was one of my most expansive and detailed animations to date, and they encouraged me to post it on this subreddit (as well as make and use an account). I just cross the karma gate to post here so I thought I'd share it with you all!~

I cannot stress how much of a challenge this was to work on, from studying how the earth looks from space to figuring out a color gradient for the landmasses on the surface. Even the background star field required a lot of both practice and 'cheating' where I'd create a big circle, and copy past it a bunch of times to create a fake sense of depth and delete and blend them together where possible.

Doing this commission took me a couple of months, so alas it is not something that I can easily replicate on a larger scale. Not to mention it took a lot of wind out of my sails. You'll get so sick of pixels once you animate a long enough project with them! DX

Anyway apologies for the ramble, I wasn't sure what to put for the description and I apologize if this broke any rules. I'm trying to learn the formatting and rules necessary for posting things like this so I can get my work out there more. At the very least I hope you enjoy~

Been experimenting with animating some of my art, I'm really proud with how this piece came out.

10 Colour Palette, 78x78 Canvas, 24 Frames & 4 Layers.

A Storm Jelly impaled with a carved Ferrocoral spike. Though the jelly is long dead, its spark bladders remain intact, allowing the highly conductive coral to carry the charge and electrify the weapon

i usually sketch digitally but it was such a nice day outside i decided to get work done on the front lawn!

it's really fun to get back to traditional art sometimes after shrimping at the PC for hours

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P.S. if you've seen this post a sec ago, shhhhh no you didn't, this looks nicer!

I‘m really pleased with how it looks when it’s “on”. I might add some more bolts tho…

Bien... Otra semana, otros casi 50, y creo que sigue bastante pequeño el Pack, considerando que ni siquiera he empezado por las aplicaciones predeterminadas en el dispositivo jaja...

Hey there! I’m SJ and here are some images of The Spirit Apprentice! All drawn by myself 🥹

I have a little Kickstarter starting next month and if anyone is interested It would mean the world if you could follow along 💜

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/s-j/the-spirit-apprentice-east-asian-fantasy-rpg?ref=e4xo2v

Been working on larger pieces using a really limited palette and wanted to see how far I could push the detail without losing the pixel-art feel.

I’m pretty happy with the dragon and the framing, but I’m still experimenting with the balance between large black shapes and dense detail.

Would love feedback on the anatomy/pose, readability, and especially whether the environment is supporting the dragon or competing with it.

Made in Aseprite.

A few sprites from the “Steampunk World” series.