Pixel art — Khokakhola, Artkaaj & Paint Dialogues
Khokakhola · Artkaaj · Paint Dialogues · 2024–2025
- Client
- Khokakhola · Artkaaj · Paint Dialogues
- Year
- 2024–2025
- Role
- Pixel art · social motion · character illustration
- Category
- pixel · motion
- Tags
- pixel art, animation, motion graphics, social, character design, branding
The brief
An ongoing run of pixel commissions for three studios — Khokakhola, the Artkaaj workshop, and the Paint Dialogues programme. The work moves between looping animations for social and static character pieces for campaigns, but the constraint is the same across all of it: characters that read at sixty-four pixels across and hold attention through compression, reposts, and thumbnail size.
Process
Each character is designed first as a static at full size — colour palette locked in before any frame is drawn. Animation work is done in Aseprite, six to twelve frames per loop, hand-shaded with one light and one shadow tone, timing tested at native pixel size before any upscale. Static pieces, like the Paint Dialogues registration art, are drawn at native resolution and built around a quiet two-shot — palette pulled from the programme's existing graphics so the piece can sit beside the rest of the visual identity.
Outcome
A growing set of loops and stills in active rotation across the studios' social and registration pushes — frame-by-frame work that has held up across reposts, screenshots, and the unflattering compression of mobile feed.
Commission similar work
Open for commissions in pixel · motion and adjacent work. Email Nyanyachanx@gmail.com with a short brief.