Hi.
I am not sure if you're looking for a pixel artist,
but take a look at my works at: www.behance.net/DANIELMMAFRA
I am sure you'll enjoy the different styles and arts there. :)
New pixel arts created for Dead Mage are now live.
Focused on style, structure, design and good assets.
Full project:
www.behance.net/gallery/2445...
Currently available for new projects.
DM me here.
#pixelart #pixelartist #Retro #openforhire #artdirection #digitalart #scifi #16bit
Before you, I knew nothing about it. So I am still learning about it. Thanks for the explanation. :)
Thanks. I am already checking it out. And looking for a code... :)
How much good is to be on VGEN?
What's positive on it?
No fake exclusivity.
No magical thinking.
Quality and realism beat hype. Every time.
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The real issue is planning and honesty.
Know what you can build.
With the team you actually have.
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This isnโt a Brazil-only problem.
This isnโt a LatAm-only problem.
Indies do this everywhere.
The younger the studio and/or devs,
the more often youโll see it happen.
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Thought of the day // Game dev note
Never promise exclusivity if it isnโt real.
Focus on quality. Always.
When money comes before the product, something is already wrong.
The result will show it.
If the client doesnโt see it, the player will.
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#gamedev #indiegame #indiegamedev #indie #gamedesign
Even as a professional pixel artist,
I constantly work across other disciplines.
The creative mind doesnโt stop.
Today Iโm in Figma,
working and always studying UI design.
#pixelart #pixelartist #UIart #UIdesign #figma #UIUX
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End-of-day question:
We talk about game genres as if they were obvious.
But are they?
When does something stop being a game,
and when are we just afraid to admit it isnโt one anymore?
Who gets to draw that line?
And how would you define a game genre?
Your move. Letโs talk.
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#videogames
This morning I was working on a 1-bit pixel art commission for a Playdate game.
Iโve been refining a technique I developed for precise dithering using Photoshop.
Simple manual workflows still do what plugins canโt. :)
Iโll upload the outcome soon.
#pixelart #pixelartist #playdate #1bit #techart
If you're prompting do to pixelizated images and calling yourself a pixel artist and that pixel art,
Sorry,
you're cheating and that's no pixel art.
Art is what you should be doing by your hands instead of typing commands on a interface.
#Aiart๏ธ #pixelart #pixelartist #fakepixels #digitalart
It isnโt about hiring or stores.
Itโs about process and craft.
Pixel art isnโt just a visual outcome.
Itโs a method.
Grid control, consistency, and pixel placement matter, regardless of platform or rating.
This distinction is important for clients, professionals and the industry.
#pixelart
AI?
#pixelart #pixelartist
I just published The Cyborg Without Metal
danmafrawords.medium.com/the-cyborg-w...
An article about AI.
Comment below!
#AIใคใฉในใ๏ธ #AIart #AI็พๅฅณ #AI #creativity #article
I can count the problems on the fingers of one hand.
And in just one of them, the solution.
But youโre free to form your own opinion โ just read it and fire up your own synapses:
www.in.gov.br/web/dou/-/le...
(Use your browser or another app to translate.)
#brazil #brazilianthing #multimedia
Brazil is funny.
I read Law No. 15,325, from January 6, 2026, sanctioned by the current president.
It regulates the practice of the multimedia profession.
I read it.
I thought about it.
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I thought about it some more.
#laws #digitalart #youtuber #politics #brazilisfunny
Remember He-Man?
And the Masters of the Universe?
A promising game inspired like Golden Axe is coming.
By Bitmap Bureau, the studio behind Xeno Crisis.
No release date yet.
But definitely one to keep an eye on.
bit.ly/4aOiwGJ
#pixelart #gamedev #steam #heman #mastersoftheuniverse #goldenaxe
This week has been an important one.
Pixel art and UI projects moving forward.
An artistโs life, when professional, always brings a new challenge.
Ten minutes ago, I was debating whether a game mechanic should have many A and one B, or many B and one A.
Thatโs a Tostines kind of problem.
Iโll leave this as an observation and a point for analysis and discussion.
- Dan Mafra
#AIart #gamedev #digitalart #EthicalAI #AIใคใฉในใ
The same logic applies to any concrete object: a cartoon-style leaf, a Maltese dogโs snout, or even a door lock. Reality itself imposes natural limits on variation.
In many cases, this cannot be proven, even if one knew that a given work was present somewhere in the training data.
For this reason, visual similarity alone is not a sufficient criterion to prove direct copying from another artist.
This means that different artists, working independently and without AI, can often arrive at very similar visual results.
Concrete visual forms, like a human eye, have a limited number of plausible variations within certain parameters (angle, proportion, color, lighting, anatomy).
Thereโs an important factor that often gets overlooked: structural coincidence.
Because of this, it is practically impossible to identify which specific work or fragment would have been โusedโ, since the final result is structurally different from any individual source.
AI models are trained by analyzing millions of images and videos, producing visual results that emerge from this process. These outputs are transformed, synthesized, and reorganized by the system.
At the same time, agencies and companies are already offering these services to clients, replacing traditional practices such as live-action video production and 2D/3D animation.
