I'm Michelle aka PanpukinArt, an illustrator, animator and pixel artist from Germany.
This here is my pixel art portfolio, featuring my indie projects and plenty of personal spritework.
While I personally see my strength in character-focused sprites and animation, I have plenty of experience with tileset work, UI and VFX.If you'd like to check out my high-res digital art, please visit my painting portfolio.
Here are various illustrations and short animations I've created over the years. Some were made for indie game projects, others for personal use or practice.
Here I turned myself into a Streetfighter character, specifically "Street Fighter 3 - Third Strike".
The death screen for my indie project Uncured.
A more or less mindlessly pixeled piece, depicting something reminiscent of a Draugr. I have a speedpaint of his full process linked further down!
A dragon shopkeep originally intended for a game that never got very far in its development.
One of my very first larger pixel art pieces. I imagined a charming little bug world, and me being me, had to go with a pumpkin for a tavern.
This is the animation I created for my Youtube intro! It's also the first instance I properly sat down and designed pixel mini-me. You can find the CRT version alongside the wonderful intro jingle I commissioned from Flowerhead on my Youtube channel.
This is a "Pixmas" gift I created for Hiraya on the Pixel Art Discord a while back. Their character is amazing, and I ended up creating one of my favorite pixel art pieces by doing this for them!
A bigger piece I wanted to do mainly because of the satisfying color combination of this greenish cyan and stark red-to-purple. Quite happy with how the mouth area came out!
An older test for doing a pixel art comic with traditional paneling. Not much more to it than that!
A very early explorative artwork for a project I didn't end up sticking around for. I created my own palette, "Triad", for this one!
Another animation for my Youtube and Twitch channels. I wanted a custom, cozy, looping "Outro" and "Breaktime" animation and ended up with this!
The environment / background for the entrance of one of the levels of Uncured. The jail has been overrun by zombified convicts, all led by their new boss, "Jailbird". Grafitti of has been spread all around the facility.
A "Plants VS Zombies-like" backdrop for the same project as the dragon barkeeper. Again, the project didn't end up going anywhere, but basically the dragons would take up the role of the "plants", and angry knights and townfolk were the "zombies".
I also upload to Youtube sometimes (rarely)!
If you enjoy seeing my process, consider leaving a comment to let me know people are interested to see more.
Uncured is a 2D Rogue-Lite RPG title developed by EndRealm. As its solo artist for multiple years, I have shaped its visual landscape with my animations, character designs, tiles and graphic design.It is by far my most ambitious project - much of my game development experience stems directly from Uncured.
Wickborne is Jame Gam 36 entry, ranking #1 in the final voting.The light of the Worldcandle has been extinguished.The people of Waxworld are at a loss - without the power of the mighty candle, they won't last long. Darkness is taking over, the citizens are being corrupted by shadow.
Package Panik is a Ludum Dare 53 entry, ranking in the overall top 5% of ratings.Package Panik simulates an infrastructure of mail trucks, delivery drones and package warehouses that the player needs to upkeep and grow.As a very UI and UX heavy title, it was a particularly challenging project for an at the time quite character-focused artist. It helped me to significantly improve my understanding of user interfaces.
