"Sketching still comes first" to stay creative.

Something is enduring about pixel art that keeps drawing us back. A handful of coloured squares shouldn’t have much power, yet somehow they carry stories, emotions, whole worlds. Retro visuals were ...

As we see in our guide to video game art styles, pixel art is alive and well in 2025 despite its association with retro gaming. Now it turns out that pixel art doesn't even have to be made from pixels ...

In the world of mobile gaming, only a few names have a loyal audience and a distinct art style guiding their popularity. Good Pizza, Great Pizza and Good Coffee, Great Coffee feature charming visuals ...

Games would be nothing without the incredible art that goes into the worlds, characters and icons you see on your screens, and every year the Academy of Interactive Arts & Sciences (AIAS), iam8bit, ...

"Every year video games generate billions of dollars and some of the most dynamic and engaging artwork today. It's an ever-growing field that holds great professional opportunity, but you need the ...

Artist talent in Hollywood animation and game art departments face the possibility of studios training AI models on their work Such training signals a need for new protections in artist contracts ...

Morgan Pinder is a writer at GameRant and a graduate researcher at Deakin University in Australia. Their research interests are in video games, environmentalism and gothic media. Morgan’s most recent ...