One thing aspiring and amateur pixel artists may not know: You’ll spend time reading, drafting, reviewing, and negotiating contracts. That isn’t separate from the creative work. It’s part of being a professional. #pixelart #pixelartist #pixelartbusiness #artbusiness #gamedev #digitalart #danmafra

I was on Discord and spotted a guy using a character portrait I made for Astro Burn as his profile picture. He probably have no idea I created it. It’s wild to see your work out in the world like that. The game: store.steampowered.com/app/3810660/... #pixelart #pixelartist #astroburn #indiegame

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Dodge everything. Destroy anything. Stack ridiculous firepower and unleash anime style Catnip powered chaos in this fast paced cute-em-up bullet hell. Play as Astro, a space cat with her robot compani...

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At the moment, I’m working on a 1-bit, high-tech board game for a Playdate title. The board spins, creating a really nice animation effect. Pretty cool. Maybe I’ll share it here someday, after the game is released. #danmafra #pixelart #pixelartist #digitalart #indiegamedev #gamedev #indiegame

If an artist is expected to prove that every pixel and stage of their work is original, that extra verification process should be treated as additional labor, and charged accordingly. Do you agree? How should artists handle this kind of request? #pixelart #pixelartist #indiegames #gamedev

#02 Today’s Pixel Thought ▫ Pixel Grid: The grid that defines the exact position of every pixel. It controls alignment, proportions, edges, and movement between frames. ▫ ▫ ▫

#01 Today’s Pixel Thought ▫ Pixel: The smallest visual unit of a raster image. Each pixel occupies a fixed position and contains a specific color value. ▫ ▫ ▫

🎮 🎨 What’s your favorite visual style in games? • Pixel art • 3D graphics • Painted 2D • Vector art Drop a comment below!

My **Soccer World Cup 2026** pixel art project is now complete! ⚽ A full panel featuring every national team in the tournament, with one player representing each country, created to celebrate the World Cup, football, and, of course, pixel art. ... #pixelart #worldcup2026 #fifa #soccer #football

Me, the night, and budgets. Every calculation matters in pixel art. Every pixel matters, too. The night is long ...and full of numbers. 🌔 #pixelart #pixelartist #digitalart #digitalartist #artistlife #indiedev #pixels

I’ve recently been working on a new series of pixel art projects, and I’ll be organizing and sharing more of them here soon. For now, here’s a planet/moon illustration I created for Nothing More Than A Ship, a spaceship game with CRPG elements and 16-bit art. www.behance.net/gallery/1169...

🍕 Pizza Patrol is out now on the Playdate Catalog! DMPAC and I created the logo and promotional pixel art for this project by Trapp Interactive. Game: play.date/games/pizza-... #danmafra #pixelart #pixelartist #pizzapatrol #playdate #1bit #promoart #illustration #digitalart #dmpac

Pizza Patrol for Playdate

You are a PIZZA RUNNER, a wasteland delivery driver navigating a gauntlet of bandits and hazards in an auto-scrolling, cannon-mounted van.

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Argentina lo dio vuelta! ⚽🇦🇷 Y tenía que ser Messi. Egipto había pegado primero, pero la Albiceleste nunca se baja del partido. Hice esta serie de pixel art para celebrar la FIFA World Cup 26 con una estética game art. #worldcup2026 #argentina #vamosargentina #messi #futbol #pixelart #pixelartist

New project now live on my @Behance profile: Soccer World Cup 2026! ⚽🏆 A pixel art tribute to the biggest tournament in the world. Each national team represented by one iconic player on the board. The World Cup is still going, and I’m updating the board daily! be.net/gallery/2523... ㅤㅤ

Essa sexta é mais um dia de trabalho na DMPAC . Pixel arts, animations, video. (...)

Dan Mafra - Pixel Art Specialist / Senior Pixel Artist in Niterói, Brazil

Hello. I am Dan Mafra, Pixel Art Specialist. The services i can provide to you are: 1 - Pixel Art Characters, Scenery & Objects, User Interfaces, FXs, Portraits, Logos and Maps. In many different styl...

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Good morning, pixel artists. May your pixels be sharp, your palettes deliberate, and your clusters not look like a noisy mess. :) #pixelart #pixelartist #dotart #pixels #gamedev #indiegamedev #pixelarts #gamedev #goodmorning

Late night. Still working on pixels. That's the experience of an artist. Sometimes, a digital artist has to face solitude. Deep in thoughts, every pixel is a crusade and an opportunity. Let’s see what the day will bring. #pixelart #pixelartist #danmafra #digitalart #2dart #thought #artistlife

First official DMPAC Pixel Art Studio intro! Watch here: youtube.com/watch?v=48Ch... A short 16-bit pixel art animation with humor, timing, sound design on traditional pixel art by me, Dan Mafra. 🐵 #pixelart #pixelartist #dmpac #danmafra #animation #cartoon #youtubeanimation #youtube #digitalart

Official Pixel Art Intro - by - Dan Mafra - #1

YouTube video by Dan Mafra Pixel Arts Company

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Hi. New pixel art works on the portfolio: www.behance.net/gallery/2485... 1-Bit Pixel Art, for Panic's Playdate. Noir and Poker matches pixel art and gaming culture.

1-Bit - Poker Den Online - for Playdate - Dan Mafra

Pixel Art for Poker Den Online, suspended game for Playdate by Christopher Zurowski.2025.All Rights Reserved.

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Pixel Art exporting is part of the craft. The way you set up and prepare your files can define how much time you spend in production and how efficiently you move through it. Workflow matters. #pixelart #pixelartist #gamedev #indiegamedev #gameart #workflow #pipeline

The pleasure of working with art direction instead of pure pixel art. In about 2 hours, it all changes again. Another piece, another project, another style. Same commitment. #pixelart #pixelartist #digitalart #danmafra

First, social networks trained us to prioritize narrative over fact. Before them, the media was already doing the same through framing. 🧶

Long is the night of the pixel artist, and vast the pile of artwork and video tasks yet to be completed. No Brazilian coffee is enough. Only yerba mate. #pixelart #pixelartist #digitalart #indiegames #indiegamedev #gamedev #hardwork #CoffeeLovers

My thoughts today about AI AI does not seem to be collapsing. It seems to be entering a new phase. 🧵 #AI #AIart #ArtificialIntelligence #Tech #Innovation #Business #Markets

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

Thought of the day // Game dev note Never promise exclusivity if it isn’t real. Focus on quality. Always. When money comes before the product, something is already wrong. The result will show it. If the client doesn’t see it, the player will. 🧵 #gamedev #indiegame #indiegamedev #indie #gamedesign

Even as a professional pixel artist, I constantly work across other disciplines. The creative mind doesn’t stop. Today I’m in Figma, working and always studying UI design. #pixelart #pixelartist #UIart #UIdesign #figma #UIUX

🧩🎮 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 isn’t one anymore? Who gets to draw that line? And how would you define a game genre? Your move. Let’s talk. 🎲♟ #videogames

This morning I was working on a 1-bit pixel art commission for a Playdate game. I’ve been refining a technique I developed for precise dithering using Photoshop. Simple manual workflows still do what plugins can’t. :) I’ll 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. #Aiart️ #pixelart #pixelartist #fakepixels #digitalart

I just published The Cyborg Without Metal danmafrawords.medium.com/the-cyborg-w... An article about AI. Comment below! #AIイラスト︎ #AIart #AI美女 #AI #creativity #article

The Cyborg Without Metal

A short essay and reflection on humanity at the beginning of the AI era

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