Another entry for a Pixel Joint weekly challenge. This time to create a 64x64 avatar that is a 'fantasy self portrait'. Started off with a quick line art of myself doing a bit of an evil grin sorta thing and then kept changing and adding bits til I got this gargoyle thing (I had Disney's rather fine tv show in my mind). Kept to under 16 colors even though there was no limit on colors for this challenge. Just wanted the low color practice so it came out at 14.

Shortly after I did the R-Type Mode 0 Amstrad CPC mock up I pixelled up a couple of rough sprite ideas of how a shoot 'em up designed specifically for the Amstrad CPC might look. A couple of days ago I reworked them and pixelled a complete mock up for them. Again chose to use the 16 color wide-pixel Mode 0 (as opposed to the 4 color regular sized pixels Mode 1) as it's best suited for the horizontal shooter format on the CPC, in my opinion.

Needed me a new 64x64 avatar as I've been using the same one (Howlin' Jack) for years now on various sites and am sick of it. This here be a fairly quick pixel of the Transformers G1 character Carnivac whose name I use in various places such as this site. He's an ex-Decepticon (Marvel UK comic plotline) hence why I gave him a scratched Decepticon insignia. Also tried to get a sorta Geoff Senior (Transformers UK comic artist that inspired me to draw when I was a kid) look to the face and use of black. At some point I might pixel the concept sketches I've done of this character using a more TF movie-like asthetics too. But for now I have new avatar... UPDATED FEB 2008. Restyled the picture with a helmet more closer to the toy version and some highlights and reworking of that stuff I wasn't happy with before.

Made this for a Pixel Joint weekly challenge where you had to 'remake' the graphics of an old 8 bit game. I chose to base my entry on a little game called 'Werewolves of London' which was on CPC, Spectrum and C64 which had you as a man who turns into a werewolf at nightfall and having to kill people to regain blood while you hunt down the people who made you that way. Started all graphics from scratch and tried out a semi-real/semi-cartoon style I've not really done before and I'm pretty darn pleased with the result, especially with the short amount of time I had to complete it in. Maximum amount of colors allowed in the challenge was 32 so I reused a lot of my palette and ended up only using 26 of the colors so it's been good practice in plenty of ways. Note this is only a mock up shot and not a playable game.

This is Chase's old walk cycle from the Hero Prelude game. I tried hard to get a lot of fluid motion in this despite the low color and small size of the sprite. Chase's walkcycle has since been reworked extensively and this old version is likely to be modified and recolored to represent Chase's fathers suit.

These are ships from 'Return To Sector 9', sequel to 'Ambush In Sector 9' by Pug Fugly games. Was a massive fan of the first game so I jumped at the chance to do some sprites for the sequel. The first ship is the main craft, the only one you can use at the beginning. The second craft is the first unlocked ship. The bottom groups of ships are the heavily revamped 'Ambush' enemy sprites that feature in the 'remix' mode of 'Ambush' within 'Return'. Members of Eo contributed to all the other types of playable ships unlocked in the game and they all look great and varied each with a vastly different special weapon. Also my third playable ship in the game is the old 'Junkyard Jackal' from my abandoned project 'Onslaught' from a few years ago. It's not shown amongst this group. Game is out now and available at either the YoYo Games site or Pug's own website. Enjoy!

Piece I did based on the lineart by a fellow artist named Serena, as did several other people on the website Pixelation. I went for a more sci-fi/fantasy hybrid style and I'm happy with the way it turned out. Check out Serena's original version at her Deviantart page for it.

Another 'Wee' pixel done mainly because I'd been using my old ThunderCats ones as an MSN avatar and my friend Melanie asked for one of herself. Check out her Deviantart page for great photos and paintings that she does.

Running sprite done of myself for one of my games. It's actually massively edited (with new frames added) from the 'Beverly Hills Cop' main sprite I did some years ago too.

Spend some time on the Game Maker Community forums helping out some kids and stuff with graphics now and then. Just lil bits for practice, particularly things like this where they provide a basic template for characters in their game and request other people come up with characters. It's fun working with someone elses template and has me pixelling a character I may never have done before.

Wasn't happy with the earlier sprite I did for my planned Astro Marine Corps remake so relegated him to enemy grunt status and did these two guys who are much more like proper sci-fi action heroes.

Brought back and polished up my old Gameboy Color Robin Hood RPG sprites now choosing to use them in a platform game for a Retro Remakes challenge but didn't finish. Will be continuing this mini platformer so check the Games page when it's up

Portrait graphic for my Hero game. This is the mission controller known as 'Chase' who is also the main playable character in the Hero Prelude game though that is set a fair while before this time of her life. Thanks to Mirre for tweaking the lips a little and getting that lil smile looking better.

These are the color variants and main sprites/portraits of the second player character in my Hero game. At time of typing this he is still unnamed but is a more mysterious and quieter character than 'Player 1'

These are the color variants and main sprites/portraits of the second player character in my Hero game. At time of typing this he is still unnamed.