ORIGINAL PIXEL ART · DRAWN & ANIMATED BY THEO MANIATIS
A universe of animated 8-bit characters. 54 characters and counting, each one built frame by frame using Aseprite.
THE ORIGIN
Escaping their 8-bit dimension straight into the metaverse.
PXL-DRGNS is a love letter to the arcade games I grew up on, Bubble Bobble and Rainbow Islands, mashed together with a lifelong obsession with comics. Paying homage to great characters and their unique traits.
Every character had to be thought out. Sometimes it was just adding a tail and animating, other times I had to figure out how to fill half the stage with rainbow puke :)
CHARACTER SELECT
54 CHARACTERS▶ HOVER / TAP TO ANIMATE
“It's based on the classic Bubble Bobble and Rainbow Islands 8-bit arcade games and my love of them — mixed with my love of comics.”
— THEO MANIATIS, PXL-DRGNS INTERVIEW WITH PUBLISH0X
