In December, I was commissioned to create a pixel art illustration for an ad campaign. It was a good fit for me, as I've long wanted to delve into the style. It fits in well with my love of 8- and 16-bit video games and chip music. It was inevitable that I would also bring my love of dinosaurs into the fold. I began experimenting with pixel saurians, trying different methods, various scales at which to draw my subjects, and with that, different levels of detail. I
wrote about the first few in a December post, and then announced
the series I'd whipped up. Fittingly, these posts sandwiched
my interview with the Saurian development team. Digital dinosaurs of retro and modern realms coexisting side by side.
The 13 Dinosprites have now all been shared, so I'd like to wrap them all up in this post. This was an experimental series in which I explored another way to distill saurian forms to bare essentials, but it's definitely stoked my interest in trying other ways to use pixel art dinosaurs in projects. They beg to be animated. And I can imagine some of the educational palaeontology websites I've been kicking around my head for years being brought to life with pixel art.
But wait, there's more! All of the Dinosprites are available on merchandise
in my on-line store, anything from mugs to pillows to tees and hoodies.
