Pixel-art tips
Practical tips to make your pixel art and game sprites look sharper.
Is AI Good at Pixel Art?
AI can generate pixel-art-style images, but most tools fake it with diffusion and grid-snapping, which leaves blurry edges, off-grid pixels, and the wrong size. Here is how AI pixel art really works, where it fails, and how true pixel-art-by-construction fixes it.
Read →12 Pixel Art Tips for Beginners
Twelve practical pixel art tips that instantly level up your sprites — from palette discipline and readable silhouettes to hue shifting, avoiding pillow shading, and keeping a clean grid.
Read →10 Tips for Better Pixel Art Animation
Ten practical tips for animating pixel art — frame counts, timing, easing, anticipation and follow-through, onion-skinning, and looping walk and idle cycles for game sprites.
Read →How to Choose a Pixel Art Color Palette
A practical guide to building pixel art color palettes — how many colors to use, how to make color ramps, hue shifting, and ready-made palettes like NES, Game Boy, and PICO-8.
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