Think pixel art is only for simple 2D games? Not necessarily. Modern hardware and a bit of technical wizardry allows today's ...

Growing up, Deborah Saez was inspired by everything from cartoons to games and anime. But it was Fumi Ishikawa’s work on Suikoden II that sparked her love of character design. “Her female designs were ...

Clair Obscur fans have been enamored with the game since its launch, and that adoration takes many forms, including wonderful ...

There’s a myth that true immersion into video games requires three dimensions: sidescrollers are good for nostalgia, but the future belongs to photorealistic 3D worlds. Fiquet says he created ...

From a list of 113 nominees, the following 15 students have been named as semi-finalists for the 2019 Artist of the Year in 2D visual arts. The students were chosen by a panel of teachers based on ...

Jack is a gaming features and news writer from the United Kingdom. He has been writing and publishing his own fictional stories and game-related blog posts since he was 14, but he's been playing games ...

HD-2D is the natural culmination of looking back to the NES and SNES eras of gaming for inspiration. In the 1980s and early 1990s, games sported pixelated art styles out of necessity. In 2024, that ...

Click to share on X (Opens in new window) X Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window) Facebook Zoe Zhang/MiC. As an artist and keen observer, it seems to me that 2D art uploaded to social media ...

DeathStick is a beautiful 2D pixel art Metroidvania / slasher platformer, where you follow a young girl Mako that starts an enthralling journey to save her world from destruction. The ancient God has ...

A hot potato: Producing 3D artwork for video games or other projects can be grueling and tedious – a job ideal for AI automation. A young startup is attempting to fulfill that niche, but a recent ...