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Pixel Art

Blackmask

A faux Game Boy game about a globetrotting raccoon treasure hunter, searching for lost artifacts to sell in his meager merchant store.

You can follow it’s development on the game’s website!

Cole Big Illustration Pixel Art
Green monochrome pixel illustration of an anthropomorphic raccoon wearing a large jacket, the camera looks over his shoulder to see a female anthropomorphic jackal wearing an eye patch long coat, ruffled neck collar, a sword and standing with a cane.
A green monochrome pixel art mock ups of a beach environment in Blackmask game to demonstrate a potential day and night system. The image is a compilation of two variants of the same scene. The top image is the palm tree forest in the day time with the player character, Cole Blackmask standing on the left and three treasure chests on the right with the center chest open. The bottom image is the palm tree forest in a starry night time, the treasure chests on the right, replaces with rocks.
A green monochrome pixel art mock ups of a forest environment in Blackmask game to demonstrate a potential day and night system The player charcacter, Cole Blackmask stands on the left. The image is a compilation of two variants of the same image. The top image depicts a forest environment in the day time with large, thick tree trunks behind bushes and foliage. The bottom image depicts the same forest environment in a dark forest with large, thick tree trunks behind bushes and foliage.
A monochrome green pixel art mock up of the interior of the ruins environment for Blackmask game.
Blackmask game environment pixel art mock up of a dark jungle environment with little light, the trees full of vines and foliage, with the player character on the right.
Monochrome green pixel art illustration showcasing sprites of the cast of enemy character in Blackmask. Going against a anthrpromorphic raccoon, is a fox with a knife, a fox archer, a weasel with a knife and a bear with a large club with thorns wrapped around it.
Cole's Swords
Blackmask Aseprite Tile Setups
A green monochrome pixel art mock ups of a beach environment in Blackmask game to demonstrate a potential day and night system. The image is a compilation of two variants of the same scene. The top image is the palm tree forest in the day time with the player character, Cole Blackmask standing on the left and three treasure chests on the right with the center chest open. The bottom image is the palm tree forest in a starry night time, the treasure chests on the right, replaces with rocks.
Blackmask NPC Cat and Dogs Animated
Monochrome green pixel animations of an anthropomorphic female and male deer doing different walk and talk animations. The two poses of female deer is on the left wears a knee length dress, white apron, and a white head scarf. The two poses of the male deer on the right wears dark shorts and vest with a white shirt underneath.
Monochrome Pixel Animations for the weasel bandit enemy in the upcoming indie video game. This demonstrates the weasel's ability to stretch it's body horizontal and vertical to attack with it's dagger at far distances.
Monochrome green pixel illusion of three anthropomorphic animal characters. Left is an an anthropomorphic female goat with a silly beard. Middle is a anthropomorphic female sheep carrying a travel sack on his back and a mini sword. Right is an anthropomorphic pig in overalls tipping his hat to the camera.
Out of engine art and animation test for the game Blackmask. This is a monochrome green scene reminiscent of classic profitable video game systems. This scene contains an assortment of anthropomorphic animal non-player characters to speak with personalized animations. Top row animal list from Left to Right: Raccoon, Fennec Fox, Wolf, Deer, Cat, Large Mystery Robe Figure, Medium Sized Mystery Robe Figure, and small Mystery Robe Figure. Bottom row animal list from Left to Right: Pig, Horse in Plain Clothes, Horse in Armor Bikini, Horse in Plate Armor, and Snake.
Monochrome green pixel animation of a sailboat in the middle of the ocean, sailing toward the rising sun. The bottom caption reads, "Onward to new horizons!"

Commissioned Sprites

Pixel Animation of an large landscape of a fire lit coliseum surrounded by lava pouring out of hellhound head statues.
Animated Pixel Art Icon of Methados's Final Fantasy 14 character, Mira, a Chocobo Warrior of Light. She has a short pecking bounce before turning to the camera and winking.
Pixel portrait animation of am anthropomorphic female fox with short red hair, wearing a blue jacked with white fur trim. She looks into the camera, then she pulls out a large chocolate chip cookie and eats it in three bites, crumbs spilling everywhere!
Pixel portrait of an anthropomorphic female fox wearing a red baseball cap, and a grey turtleneck sweater
16-Bit Pixel Animation of an anthropomorphic space bear with curled horns and a large scaly tail mouth with it's tongue hanging out. He wears a yellow and black space uniform and carries a blaster and capsule for space mining purposes. The idle animation is over a blue gradient background.
Green Monochrome Pixel Illustration of an anthropomorphic male dog in wrestling tights curling his bicep as he points his thumb at himself declaring to be the best.
Pixel Illustration of an anthropomorphic male fox in with ear piercings, and glowing blue cybernetic arms.
Pixel Animation of a anthropomorphic grey frog flexing their large muscles, breasts and thighs in a treasure hoard of a dungeon.
A high resolution pixel animation anthropomorphic female dobermann dog with pink hair and a pink tube top. She idles for a few seconds winking to the camera before flicking her hair in a flirty manner.
16-Bit Pixel Art Animation of a horse named Ta'kom Ironhoof. His long hair and indigo coat blows in the wind as he twirls his mustache in anticipation of his next move.
Pixel Animation of a green anthropomorphic wolf druid donning green armor over a transparent background. He wields an plant energy spear and burns with magical energy. He floats in place until slashing with his spear toward the bottom.
pixel animation of an yellow and brown striped anthropomorphic male dragon with brown spots in his wings and a scorpion-like stinger at the end of his tail. He wears full steel armor, a green scarf, an indigo rope belt at his waist, and yellow thorns wrapped around the horns of his helmet. The dragon stands at the ready with his long spear in hand.

Personal Sprites

Green monochrome pixel animations three characters for a fictional video game character selection screen Left character is, Omar, a human vampire man with hair locs, grey t-shirt, black pants, chain necklace, wrist jewelry and gym shoes. Image is over a green background. Center character is, Phillis, an dark elf woman with long hair, long jacket with a belt, and heels. She holds a single edged sword in her hand. Right character is, Killian, a bald bearded leprechaun man wearing a bowler hat, white shirt, stripped trouser held with overalls. He stands in a ready boxing stance.
Pixel Animation of an anthropomorphic female talking puma, in a mall, wearing a purple shirt with the word "Meow" on the chest.
Jungle Cat Pixel Animation
Pixel Animation of an anthropomorphic cat witch named Claudia wearing a two pointed witch hat reminiscent of cat ears, a black dress with a stripped long sleeve undershirt and stockings. She rides on top of a broom in the twilight indigo sky like a skateboard or surfboard.
Pixel Illustration of an anthropomorphic female mouse with long bushy fur. She stands on top of a rock wearing a white skimpy loincloth and tube top with tusk earrings and necklaces. She also wields a crystal spear.
Pixel Artwork of a full-figured female kaiju girl with a green pompadour, leather jacket, red top and pink skirt. She hands around at a blue city sky line posing with a peace sign for the camera
1-bit Pixel Art of an anthropomorphic flexing muscular female shark in dark make-up, corset and fishnets.
Pixel illustration of Callie Briggs from the cartoon SWAT Kats: The Radical Squadron. Callie is an anthropomorphic female cat with blonde wearing glasses and a pink suit and skirt. She also carries a clipboard for office work.
1-bit Monochrome pixel animation of an anthropomorphic female rabbit with a slashed ear standing in dark dungeon, with sword and shield ready to battle.
FOXPOPVLI Secret Santa Pixel Art
The collection of Super Mario Bros. Fan Resprites featuring Mario, Luigi, Bowser, Princess Peach, and Toad, using the original color palette of the real game's sprites on the Nintendo Entertainment System: Red, Brown, Yellow, Green, White over a Black background.
An alternate interpretation of Mario and Luigi's sprite from Super Mario Bros, using their shared color palette of Red, Brown, Yellow, and Green.
An alternate interpretation of Bowser's sprite from Super Mario Bros, using the NES Hardware's color palette of Red, Yellow, and Green, over a Black background simulating the outlines.
An alternate interpretation of Princess Peach's sprite from Super Mario Bros, using the same color palette of Red, White, Yellow, and Black.
An alternate interpretation of Toad's sprite from Super Mario Bros, using the same color palette of Red, White, Yellow, and Black. This remake emphasized Toad's hands, which was misinterpreted from his original sprite to be giving the rude gesture of showing the middle finger to the camera.

CRT Archive

Pixel Animation mock up of an in-game screenshot depicting two anthropomorphic spotted hellhounds, left grey fur with dark spots and right dark fur with light spots in a ready fighting pose, crackling with power with their full super meters, over a large landscape of a fire lit coliseum surrounded by lava pouring out of hellhound head statues. The image has a filter simulating a Cathode-Ray Tube Screen.
Pixel Animation of an anthropomorphic talking puma, in a mall, wearing a purple shirt with the word "Meow" on the chest. The animation is under a filter simulating a Cathode Ray Tube monitor.
CRT Pixel Animation of an anthropomorphic cat witch named Claudia wearing a two pointed witch hat reminiscent of cat ears, a black dress with a stripped long sleeve undershirt and stockings. She rides on top of a broom in the twilight indigo sky like a skateboard or surfboard.
pixel animation of an yellow and brown striped anthropomorphic male dragon with brown spots in his wings and a scorpion-like stinger at the end of his tail. He wears full steel armor, a green scarf, an indigo rope belt at his waist, and yellow thorns wrapped around the horns of his helmet. The dragon stands at the ready with his long spear in hand. The entire animation with a filter reminiscent Cathode-ray tube screen.
A high resolution pixel animation anthropomorphic female dobermann dog with pink hair and a pink tube top. She idles for a few seconds winking to the camera before flicking her hair in a flirty manner. It has a filter simulating a Cathode-ray tube monitor like the computer video games of old.
Pixel Animation with a filter reminiscent Cathode-ray tube screen depicting a green anthropomorphic wolf druid donning green armor over a blue background. He wields an plant energy spear and burns with magical energy. He floats in place until slashing with his spear toward the bottom.
A pixel animation at with a Cathode-ray tube filter of an anthropomorphic border collie dressed in blue gym attire. She performs a jumping pre-running warm up dance reminiscent of Australian Olympic hurdler, Michelle Jenneke.
Pixel Animation of a anthropomorphic grey frog flexing their large muscles, breasts and thighs in a treasure hoard of a dungeon. This variant is simulated of Cathode-ray tube screen, reminiscent of old computer video games.
1-bit Monochrome pixel animation of an anthropomorphic female rabbit with a slashed ear standing in dark dungeon, with sword and shield ready to battle. The animation is filtered under a simulation of a cathode ray tube screen.
FOXPOPVLI Secret Santa Pixel Art CRT

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