Hi! We're a small three-person team working on FORWARD, a TRPG with a steampunk setting. Battles take place on a 3D isometric board where the characters are 2D pixel art sprites.
It plays like a classic grid tactics game with some twist to it.
We're looking for a pixel artist to create our character sprites.
WHAT WE NEED
- About 9–10 characters.
- Animations per character: Idle, Walk, Attack, Hit, Death, Cast (skill). We may need a few extra ones for specific characters; we'll agree on those together, character by character.
A NOTE ON THE ORDER
We know the ideal order would be character design / concept art first, and sprites after. But the pixel art sprites are the heart of the game, so we want to start there and find the right solution for them first.
Later on we might also need character portraits (bust, for dialogues) and splash art, but that's not decided yet: this post is about the animated sprites.
TECHNICAL SPECS
- View: isometric three-quarter view (our camera sits at 45°).
- Only 2 directions drawn per character: three-quarter FRONT and three-quarter BACK. We get the other two by mirroring in the engine.
- Size: our placeholder assets use 128×128 px frames, with the character body about 52–70 px tall, and animations of up to 15 frames each. These are just placeholders: we'll choose the final size and frame count together with you. Right now we're leaning towards a body height of at least 64 px (we also like bigger characters, around 84 px), and we'd love your advice on what works best for your style. Whichever size we pick, we want one consistent size for the whole cast.
TERMS
- Paid work, one milestone per character.
- You'll be credited in the game, and you're free to show the art in your portfolio once the game is out.
- We'd like to be able to make small changes to the delivered art (for example color variants). We're open to talk about it.
- Hand-made pixel art only, no AI-generated art.
HOW TO APPLY
You can reply here, or contact us by DM or email (antoniosimonettiantonio@gmail.com). Please send your portfolio and a first cost estimate per character.
Thanks for reading!