Shun Kazakami is a veteran pixel artist (who worked in 90`s for consoles and Arcade) and Illustrator, with a lot of years of experience in creating art for videogames, Illustrations, and character design, and currently he is working as a mangaka artist.
Q: What was your first encounter with pixel art?
Kazakami-San: I think my first encounter was Taito's Space Invaders. Next was Namco's Galaxian, which went a step further by giving characters multiple colors.
”Space Invaders 1978 & Galaxian 1982”
This week we are making a melting chocolate animation. It can be a chocolate bar or a chocolate santa or even a chocolate house.
You have to use the Chocolate Ichor palette by Qirlfriend
The challenge thread will have all the challenge updates. The thread is also a great place to post your WIPs.
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The Nerd, after his adventures with Pizzeria and Sushi-ya is trying his luck in the confectionery industry.
Design a pixel art logo for the Nerd Chocolate Factory.
The challenge thread will have all the challenge updates. The thread is also a great place to post your WIPs.
The following pixel artists produced Pixel Joint's top rated pixel art for October 2025.
Many thanks go out to this month's top pixel artists, and all the members who took time to rate!
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After much deliberation, the judges have finally come to a shocking conclusion... there are Pixelween winners this year too! And what perilously paranormal panoramas they have presented us.
This year the entries were judges by a team of a team of moderators, amazing pixel artists, and veteran community members: Cyangmou, Fool, Irenaart, jok, Luca, Mirre, Reo, QueenKami, Theoden, Trigonomicon, vrine and Weerdmeester.
Without much further ado. Here are the winners of Pixelween 2025:
kumori
4th: hby
5th: SeDiceBisonte
6th: Tipleloop
7th: Space-AgeWrangler
8th: kumori (again!)
9th: bluexel
10th: WolfGD
11th: amberMechanic
The prizes this year are:
1st place: a printed Masters of Pixel art book volume of their choice, a €30 Steam gift card, and a software key.
2nd place: a €15 Steam gift card, a Masters of Pixel art e-book, and a software key.
3rd place: a €10 Steam gift card, a Masters of Pixel art e-book, and a software key.
4th and 5th place: a Masters of Pixel art e-book, and a software key.
6th - 9th (and possibly more): a software key, see info below.
From these, the highest placing winners get to choose first, and if a winner does not need a prize it will be moved on to the 10th place, and so on.
This year RankOne Global is sponsoring PixelJoint with Steam gift cards for the winners. RankOne is a community platform for gamers, streamers and enthusiasts. It lets you build a personal gaming profile where you track, rate and review all games you've played, discover new favorites and connect with other gamers. Here is Mirre's profile for example.
Please give a round of applause to everyone involved this year. We wouldn't have had these wonderful pieces of art without the creative participants, the moderators organising it all, the judges looking it all over, and everyone else cheering us on, leaving comments, and just admiring the art! Thank you all for making this event wonderful, this year as well. We're already looking forward to Pixelween 2026!
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Traditions, traditions, traditions.
3rd world most favourite food after pizza and sushi is chocolate (source "trust me bro").
This week you have to pixel a box of fancy 16px chocolates. Your box frame may be wide and ornamental or thin and simple, but each individual chocolate have to be separated and no larger than 16x16px (they don't have to be squares but sit on a square base). You cannot have two exactly the same chocolates. Each have to be different. And the minimal number of them is 9.
The challenge thread will have all the challenge updates. The thread is also a great place to post your WIPs.
