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Matej 'Retro' Jan
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I am a game developer, designing, drawing and coding an adventure game called Pixel Art Academy.
pixelart.academy

Pixel art
Tumblr: www.retronator.com
Facebook: www.facebook.com/retronator
Twitter: www.twitter.com/retronator
Medium: medium.com/retronator-magazine

Non-pixel art
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Favourite Visual Artist
Pascal Campion, Zac Duff, Feng Zhu, Caleb Thomas, Nidhi Chanani, Joe Latham, Rad Sechrist, Yuriy Gusev, Scott Gamble, Marta Nael, Jorge Monreal
Favourite Movies
Tarantino's and Linklater's stuff
Favourite TV Shows
Californication, Skins
Favourite Bands / Musical Artists
He Is Legend, The Fall of Troy, Lana Del Rey, Disasterpeace, Leemajik, Alexi Murdoch
Favourite Books
Crush It!
Favourite Games
The Sims, SimCity, Dwarf Fortress, Minecraft
Favourite Gaming Platform
PC, iPad, Xbox 360
Tools of the Trade
ArtRage, Gimp, Inkscape, Blender, iMovie
Time for a new feature of my favorite works that came across my Watch list. These days I go over the artworks while I'm waiting for my game (Pixel Art Academy) to compile and it's a really nice way to fill my day with looking at your drawings and paintings. I follow a wide variety of artists (many beyond pixel art), but for my feature time selection I focus on presenting big pixel art illustrations, mostly landscapes or cityscapes of some sort. I really enjoy the feeling of being able to immerse myself into whatever world is being depicted. I've only picked one work per artists to maximize exposure for everyone (the new DeviantArt theme limits a gallery feature to 24 images), but there are many more artworks that deserve to be here. Make sure to add the artists you like to your watch and check out their previous works as well. Cheers! —Retro INSTRUCTIONS: For easy navigation across the artworks, go to this collection, click on the first image, and use arrow keys to go through the
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Feature time #9

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Whew, it's been a year! The tricky part about choosing favorites from such a long period is that some artists just create soooo maaaany gooood wooorks. Alas, to feature as many different artists, one per person had to be selected, purely based on my subjective taste (which skews heavily towards big environments).Meanwhile in my life, I've been working on the graphics engine for Pixel Art Academy , which consumed exactly the year of my life when I haven't posted a journal here. You can see a demo of what's up on YouTube .I wanted to do this update with the new Eclipse editor, but the gallery feature there really doesn't work for navigatin...
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Oh hello, half a year no see!Soon after the New Year when I posted  Feature time! #7  I decided to focus 100% on making Pixel Art Academy, so no new content for Retronator Magazine, no new Pixel Art News videos on YouTube. It's been a very productive year so far and if you'd like to see what I've been up to, I've started a new YouTube show  Pixel Art Academy 101 that goes into it.A new tutorial about art mediums is also coming out as part of Pixel Art Academy this week and I'll post about it with an artwork upload, so be on the lookout for that in my gallery.That said, I favorited a lot of great art in the past 7 months so here's just the...
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Love your portrait art!

Haha, I'm a bit older by now already. :) Thank you!

Thanks for the faves  Oasis Cave | Puzzle Realms | Mobile by stuarts-pixel-games   Famished - Sunset Concept by stuarts-pixel-games  and the watch!
My pleasure, awesome work, love the colors!
Thanks so much! I am obsessed with colours XD
Thanks for the watch! Really like your pixel art pieces!
Likewise, those weapons and shields are awesome!