An open source program to create animated sprites and pixel art. It features animated sprites, tilemaps and can export spritesheets.

*Untested by PJ, please post review is used.

Dynamic stick figures based on motion captures. Helpful for understanding movements in human walk or jog cycles.  BMLWalker is probably the most interesting as it lets you see the influence of parameters like gender, weight, stiffness, happiness. BMLRunner is a jog cycle adjusted by gender. BMLScramble is interesting for its motion capture nodes of a cat... and pigeon.

A beautiful program for icon making, editing, changing, extracting, searching, and exploring. It is fast, small, and easy to use.

• It allows you to edit transparent or opaque icons.
• The palette can be Monochrome(1 bit), 16 colors(4 bits), 256 colors(8 bits), true colors(24 bits), or true colors + alpha channel(32 bits).
• Supports any size of icon.
• Includes four enhanced icon tools, namely Icon Changer , Icon Searcher , Icon Extractor , and Icon Explorer .
• Import from or Export to graphic files BMP, JPG, and GIF.
• Beautiful and intuitive user interface.
• Windows 95, 98, Millennium, 2000, XP, and NT are supported.
• 1.56 megabyte file size. It will fit compressed on a 3½ inch floppy disk.
• Includes nifty effects, including sharpening, softening, embossing, and inverting.
• Includes enhanced icon tools:
  • Icon Explorer — Explore any icons available on your computer like a file explorer.
  • Icon Changer — Change icons of EXE, OCX, DLL, SCR, ...
  • Icon Searcher — Search icons from ICO, EXE, OCX, DLL, SCR, ...
  • Icon Extractor — Extract icons from ICO, EXE, OCX, DLL, SCR, ...

I personally highly recommend this program. I have used it mostly to alter existing icons and make folder icons, and it has served me very well. A 15-day trial version can be downloaded for free, and the full version is just $29.95! Well worth the money.

A great tutorial for all things isomectric, People, shading, furniture, landscape you name it!

There is a big vidéogame history exibition in the prestigious grand palais of Paris.

And the avertising campain was developed around a big sized pixel art poster all over the parisian subway wall... Even if i could have some grievance about the artistic result, it's still a pleasure to see our specific art is becomming more visible & popular...

This little website was a great help to me when I first began creating pixel art. It describes particular details and styles of shading when an object is facing a light source. Enjoy!

While designing we need to find good color scheme - set of colors producing the best impression. Experienced designers choose colors intuitively, many people can smell which colors go together well and which don't. However, finding the good combination of colors may be sometimes long and gruelling work. This tool will find set of colors you can start with, and it may facilitate your looking for the optimal color palette.

This application generates color schemes of several types. Every scheme is based on one (base) color, which is supplemented with additional colors making together the best optical imperssion - using one of the authentic algorithms.

 A pixel art news feed and blog.

Real life voxel art HERE

(I especially enjoy the RGB ones ...)

Explore, create and share with Discover Adobe® Kuler® — the web-hosted application for generating color themes that can inspire any project. No matter what you're creating, with Kuler you can experiment quickly with color variations and browse thousands of themes from the Kuler community.

A site with full maps of various platform game levels, including numerous screenshots / backgrounds of entire levels.

Galleries of private collectors artwork (as well as art for sale). The art is generally comic related although non-comic artists works appears (book covers / commercial art / etc). Lots of convenetion sketches, private commissions, uncoloured original pages, alternate covers and unpublished pages. 

The search function is very handy for both (by topic and artist is best) and is potentially a very handy resource for pixel projects.

“Cyporn”, a set of 5 animated pixel porn scenes running on a Game Boy. Very soft!

From the design blog Lookslikegooddesign.

Classical, old-school isometric scenes by illustrator Denise Wilton, including some hybrid pieces.

A few more here.

The world's most dedicated provider of brand new, commercially produced video games for classic game systems, Super Fighter Team's website perfectly reflects their cause with a pixel-perfect design filled with many fine examples of the company's work.

Dutch oekaki community. Also has an unique online pixel animation program and the possibility to collaborate with others.  

Painter and illustrator Kent Williams' website, including links to his sketchbook.

 PETSCII Paint is a little tool I wrote for the C64 (or a C64 emulator). It can be used to create PETSCII Art (similar to ASCII Art but using the C64 characters instead).

Free online utiity gif compiler with several options.

This link is suggested by regnw

In honor of Freddie Mercury's 65th birthday, Google decided to make a little animation, featuring a good dose of delicious pixels.

Want to take part in the hip corporate world pixel wars? Design your art on this online editor before covering your office windows with little pieces of sticky colored paper and shaming away competitors from neighboring buildings. The software will tell you exactly how many post'its you need in each color!

Pixel art made by Hapiel, make sure to check the blog too!

 Game sprites from vidseogame on NES, SNES, PSX/1 and PC.

Final fantasy IV, V, VI, The legend of zelda and many other.

Animated by one of the greatest active crew on ATARI ST & FALCON : demo, music & pixel art !
Must be the most updated website for ATARI demoscene.

I don't know why I didn't share this before. This web flash-comic series features pixel art for the enviroment and characters, and really caught my eye.

The series turn around the worst case appocalypse scenario, where not only zombies are threatening the survivors, but also vampires, machines, plants and other kinds of monsters!

I've been following these from the first scene, and I don't (nor you will) regret watching these!