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Response to: Wanted! Pixel Art Collab RE-OPENED Posted January 18th, 2026 in Collaboration

At 1/18/26 03:06 PM, OreoScarFire wrote:Yo
will this collab be just the last one but adding new characters or there will only be characters that are added for only THIS time? I checked the doc and I see the old submissions. Do we gotta resubmit if we joined last time or...?


The characters from last time will still be in the game, you don't need to resubmit them (unless you want to update their sprite)

Response to: Wanted! Pixel Art Collab RE-OPENED Posted January 16th, 2026 in Collaboration

At 1/16/26 10:39 AM, Rng2940 wrote:rob of roust out and Dr fetus


Someone has already drawn Dr. Fetus so I can't use that submission, please check the Google doc to see if anyone has drawn your character first.


Rob Of Roust is good to go though :)

Response to: Wanted! Pixel Art Collab RE-OPENED Posted January 16th, 2026 in Collaboration

At 1/16/26 09:54 AM, topojinn wrote:

interesting.


Please read the collab rules before you submit, I can't use this sprite :(

Response to: Wanted! Pixel Art Collab RE-OPENED Posted January 14th, 2026 in Collaboration

At 1/14/26 05:27 PM, eN-V3 wrote:
At 1/11/26 06:09 PM, eN-V3 wrote:oh hey, i can actually participate this time, lol

here are my submissions! these characters are from my webcomic, which is currently running on my ng page:
Aiyo
Olive
Perrins

i also put them on a drive folder if they're compressed here: https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1N_LxjDQfZG9XViihz7cwqkkyIu7HiQT4?usp=sharing

hope these are fine! im not super keen with pixel art, but im happy with how these turned out :D

just checking in to ask if everything was fine with these submissions! i remember putting them down in the doc as well, if that could be a problem


Your sprites are in!

I typically try to leave a reaction if submissions are good to go, but I forgot to with your message, sorry :(


iu_1524920_8490282.pngiu_1524919_8490282.png


Here they are in the gallery. Not sure why Olive didn't show up when I searched your name, need to look into that

Response to: Wanted! Pixel Art Collab RE-OPENED Posted January 13th, 2026 in Collaboration

At 1/12/26 05:37 PM, Creachanoid wrote:Also, I wanted to ask this after completing my 3 heads, but can I do a redesign of a previous head? The Nukli one, I didn't know if a redesign would count as one of the 3 heads just wanted to clarify!


Almost missed this. Feel free to send in redesigns for anything you submitted last year, that won't count towards your 3 head total :)

Response to: Wanted! Pixel Art Collab RE-OPENED Posted January 13th, 2026 in Collaboration

At 1/13/26 03:01 PM, Tokirily wrote:*sigh* like this (you see there at 32x32)


Yep, like that 👍

Response to: Wanted! Pixel Art Collab RE-OPENED Posted January 13th, 2026 in Collaboration

At 1/13/26 02:52 PM, Tokirily wrote:i send thier Name in GoogleDoc

now pls send me The link to Canva


I assume you mean a blank 32x32 canvas? There is no Canva project

https://www.newgrounds.com/dump/item/ed4b2b83f16d51e0092618f9e81705f1

Response to: Wanted! Pixel Art Collab RE-OPENED Posted January 13th, 2026 in Collaboration

At 1/13/26 10:20 AM, Tokirily wrote:i just learn my sprit was big so i try it again


so... it's work


Still too big I'm afraid :( your sprites need to be on 32x32 canvases.


Also there is a limit of 3 drawings per person, so one of your characters will need to go when you redraw them. And please add their names to the Google doc

Response to: Wanted! Pixel Art Collab RE-OPENED Posted January 13th, 2026 in Collaboration

At 1/12/26 08:34 PM, BlueKnightSkeleton wrote:Okey, looking at the list... Yeah, i'll just go with my bois, dw i already wrote them in the Document lol


Thanks for writing their names in the document :)

Need a couple changes on these two though. May's sprite should only be her head, you've got some neck and shoulders on there that need to go. Also Mumble's sprite is too small, the drawing needs to extend across the whole canvas (either left to right, top to bottom, or all 4 sides).

Response to: Wanted! Pixel Art Collab RE-OPENED Posted January 12th, 2026 in Collaboration

At 1/11/26 06:28 PM, Porter wrote:Alright cool, got two new ones to add for this year!

https://www.newgrounds.com/dump/item/9bed3e4ad2c63d279d2993160884477e

Also, if you don't mind, for Gracie, could you credit @pepinoe in the game? We both share this character together but I want her to be credited anyway if that's alright. Thanks a lot!


You already submitted Claire last year, you want me to update the old one?

iu_1523282_8490282.png


Also I can credit pepinoe for Gracie no problem, but I will need you to lighten up their hair colour a bit first. Any solid black will blend into the game background and make them very difficult to spot.

Response to: Wanted! Pixel Art Collab RE-OPENED Posted January 11th, 2026 in Collaboration

At 1/11/26 02:30 PM, GxalaxyJames1 wrote:Pixelated ena


Please read all the rules before you submit anything, I can't use this

Response to: Wanted! Pixel Art Collab RE-OPENED Posted January 10th, 2026 in Collaboration

At 1/10/26 10:06 PM, RLH13 wrote:that way?


Yep, just scale it back down to 32x32 then you're good :D

Response to: Wanted! Pixel Art Collab RE-OPENED Posted January 10th, 2026 in Collaboration

At 1/10/26 12:52 PM, RLH13 wrote:Here my submission, Reg'Son from Kingdom Rush Origins link in catbox:


This will need a black outline around the sprite before I can use it, sorry!

Response to: Wanted! Pixel Art Collab RE-OPENED Posted January 10th, 2026 in Collaboration

At 1/10/26 12:21 AM, 2Guy4Cool wrote:P.S: Can I also upload these to the portal before the batch 2 icons have been added or nah?


Yes :)

Response to: Wanted! Pixel Art Collab RE-OPENED Posted January 10th, 2026 in Collaboration

At 1/10/26 02:06 AM, ArthurZico wrote:Pixel:Zico and Sdreol

Made in Turbowarp


I won't be able to accept these submissions. Please read all the rules from the original post before you submit!

Response to: Wanted! Pixel Art Collab RE-OPENED Posted January 10th, 2026 in Collaboration

At 1/9/26 09:04 PM, ElRandomGMD wrote:I can draw my OC, Random?
3


Yes, just add their name to the Google doc

Response to: Wanted! Pixel Art Collab RE-OPENED Posted January 9th, 2026 in Collaboration

At 1/9/26 07:57 PM, mysteriousOne3 wrote:
At 1/9/26 07:49 PM, sebulant wrote:
At 1/9/26 05:20 PM, mysteriousOne3 wrote:
At 1/3/26 12:38 PM, sebulant wrote:Hello everyone, I'm bringing back a cool art collab for you all:

the

collab

For Pixel Day I'm planning on doing a content update for the game, which means I am accepting NEW submissions for the game!

If you don't what Wanted! is, it is an interactive character spotting game that slowly gets harder and harder as you keep playing. It is heavily ripped of- I mean inspired by the Super Mario Bros minigame with the same name. Give the game a try if you haven't already:
https://www.newgrounds.com/portal/view/965687
Your submissions will be the little character sprites that run around the bottom half of the screen during gameplay.

This update for the game will feature all your new submissions, harder round types, new medals and more "secret" game modes.

The rules are largely the same as last time, but I have rewritten some of them for better clarity. Please read even if you've already submitted before.

Rules
In order for the game to be fun and balanced, you must draw your sprite under some very specific rules. The rules have been written in full with images on the discord server, but here's a slightly watered down version for this thread:
Sorry there's so many rules, but it's all for the better of the actual game! If your sprite breaks too many of these rules I will ask you to adjust/redraw it. If you have any questions regarding these rules, please don't hesitate to ask!

Here's some example sprites featuring some Psychonauts characters:

You could also play the game to see more examples too.

Submitting:

I will be doing playtests for the new update in the discord server, so if that is something that interests you then please come and join :D

Hey lightworker @Sebulant, is there any more characters, ‘cause according to the doc, all of em seem to be filled. Also, whatcha grateful for today?

Any character you don't see on the doc is free to draw. Once you've chosen someone, write their name down on the doc alongside your username. If you need suggestions for Newgrounds adjacent characters, we're missing characters from Hellbenders, Starbarians and Smiling Friends.

Also I'm grateful for my family today! Had a lovely night watching TV and playing games together.

Could I do my Newgrounds oc, Professor Nega Drake, if not, I’d like to do Pim and Charlie if there not already taken.

Also nice to hear your grateful for your family.


All of those are free, though you can only do a max of 3 entries. Whoever you choose, make their names known in the Google doc :)

Response to: Wanted! Pixel Art Collab RE-OPENED Posted January 9th, 2026 in Collaboration

At 1/9/26 05:20 PM, mysteriousOne3 wrote:
At 1/3/26 12:38 PM, sebulant wrote:Hello everyone, I'm bringing back a cool art collab for you all:

the

collab

For Pixel Day I'm planning on doing a content update for the game, which means I am accepting NEW submissions for the game!

If you don't what Wanted! is, it is an interactive character spotting game that slowly gets harder and harder as you keep playing. It is heavily ripped of- I mean inspired by the Super Mario Bros minigame with the same name. Give the game a try if you haven't already:
https://www.newgrounds.com/portal/view/965687
Your submissions will be the little character sprites that run around the bottom half of the screen during gameplay.

This update for the game will feature all your new submissions, harder round types, new medals and more "secret" game modes.

The rules are largely the same as last time, but I have rewritten some of them for better clarity. Please read even if you've already submitted before.

Rules
In order for the game to be fun and balanced, you must draw your sprite under some very specific rules. The rules have been written in full with images on the discord server, but here's a slightly watered down version for this thread:
Sorry there's so many rules, but it's all for the better of the actual game! If your sprite breaks too many of these rules I will ask you to adjust/redraw it. If you have any questions regarding these rules, please don't hesitate to ask!

Here's some example sprites featuring some Psychonauts characters:

You could also play the game to see more examples too.

Submitting:

I will be doing playtests for the new update in the discord server, so if that is something that interests you then please come and join :D

Hey lightworker @Sebulant, is there any more characters, ‘cause according to the doc, all of em seem to be filled. Also, whatcha grateful for today?


Any character you don't see on the doc is free to draw. Once you've chosen someone, write their name down on the doc alongside your username. If you need suggestions for Newgrounds adjacent characters, we're missing characters from Hellbenders, Starbarians and Smiling Friends.


Also I'm grateful for my family today! Had a lovely night watching TV and playing games together.

Response to: Wanted! Pixel Art Collab RE-OPENED Posted January 9th, 2026 in Collaboration

At 1/9/26 01:35 PM, SkilledFanBoy wrote:I don't know if the head is small but here you go.
Skilled Fella - (SkilledFanBoy)

link sauce:
https://imgbox.com/kBEQJbrm


Looks really good, but I won't be able to use it until you tweak a few things for me.


  • The drawing needs to extend across the whole canvas. It should be touching either the top & bottom, left & right or all 4 sides.
  • It needs a solid black outline around it.
  • Also I'm not sure if that's the characters neck at the bottom of the sprite? The drawing should be the head only, so nothing from the neck and below should be visible.


Be sure to check your sprite fits all the rules in the original post when you resubmit!

Response to: Wanted! Pixel Art Collab RE-OPENED Posted January 9th, 2026 in Collaboration

At 1/9/26 12:48 PM, SkilledFanBoy wrote:May I perhaps draw my own OC for this?


You can! Be sure to write their name down in the Google doc to claim them (and so I can keep track of submissions easier)

Response to: Wanted! Pixel Art Collab RE-OPENED Posted January 7th, 2026 in Collaboration

At 1/6/26 05:44 PM, MRat wrote:kingcrab (oc) jesse (oc) and gidgat (oc)


Looking good so far! Will need you to add a solid black outline around these sprites before I can use them though. Also Gidgat is too small, their sprite needs to extend across the entire canvas (either left to right, top to bottom, or all 4 sides)

Response to: Wanted! Pixel Art Collab RE-OPENED Posted January 7th, 2026 in Collaboration

At 1/6/26 10:50 PM, 2Guy4Cool wrote:I know a similar question was asked about non-newgrounds stuff, but I still think its worth mentioning. Is any 2000's to early 2010's stuff that relates closely to flash and or just the niche geek internet acceptable? I would mention my specific characters, but I don't want anyone stealing my ideas. >:(


Like I said before, anything goes, but the closer it relates to Newgrounds the better. I'm sure whatever character you're thinking of will fit in fine with the already existing large cast of characters :)

Response to: Wanted! Pixel Art Collab RE-OPENED Posted January 6th, 2026 in Collaboration

At 1/5/26 06:38 PM, Creeperforce24 wrote:are these ok? I feel they may be too small… I’ll see if I can get a dump file on here for higher quality


Yep, they're perfect!

Up to you if you wanna put them on the file dump or not though, I can't imagine there would be too much compression on such a small image.

Response to: Wanted! Pixel Art Collab RE-OPENED Posted January 5th, 2026 in Collaboration

@DaxCamdaxian I can't take that one unfortunately. Sprites have to be the head of the character only. Is the full head version good to download, or did you still want to make those tweaks you mentioned on the Discord server?


@SkellART Your sprite is missing the black outline around it. The outline you've got currently needs to be solid black and also go around the white bit at the bottom. Once you've done that I can get the sprite in 👍


@PizzaPasta100 Can I get the names for each of your characters please? I don't know what sprite goes with what name you wrote in the Google doc.

Response to: Wanted! Pixel Art Collab RE-OPENED Posted January 4th, 2026 in Collaboration

At 1/3/26 10:20 PM, DaxCamdaxian wrote:
This is Marni from "The strips of Marni and Mitch"


i also did this version called "Marni's love"


Nice! I don't think I can use Marni's love though, since that appears to be the same character

Response to: Wanted! Pixel Art Collab RE-OPENED Posted January 3rd, 2026 in Collaboration

At 1/3/26 05:03 PM, Czyszy wrote:Sign me up too. I haven't done pixel art in a while so that might be cool!

BTW are you also looking for music composers?


Not looking for any composers right now, sorry. The game already has all the music it should need.

Response to: Wanted! Pixel Art Collab RE-OPENED Posted January 3rd, 2026 in Collaboration

At 1/3/26 04:38 PM, AYJAYKENS wrote:I want to do Tawna from Crash 4, and Carmelita from Sly Cooper. I’ve done my best to read the Google Doc before typing, yet there’s too much text for me to handle. Hopefully, those two characters are not taken. I’m also a returning artist too.

Maybe there are tools out there where we type a word, and see if that character is taken. I don’t know where that feature is on the mobile version of Google Docs though.


I don't see any claims on the list for them, so you're good to take them :)


Also I agree that a better system for claiming characters would be nice, but I don't know of anything that I can use for that though. And with over 500 character claims it's probably too late to move now anyway.

Response to: Wanted! Pixel Art Collab RE-OPENED Posted January 3rd, 2026 in Collaboration

At 1/3/26 03:41 PM, Gustavotono wrote:A question:
Can we draw characters not related to Newgrounds? Like from any video games or series.


Newgrounds/OCs are preferred. But you can draw anyone if you really want to.

Response to: Wanted! Pixel Art Collab RE-OPENED Posted January 3rd, 2026 in Collaboration

At 1/3/26 03:21 PM, Deadlyblockman wrote:
At 1/3/26 03:20 PM, sebulant wrote:
At 1/3/26 03:15 PM, Deadlyblockman wrote:Hey does this image look blurry to anybody else?


It's 32 x 32 but when up close it looks blurry.

Looks fine to me! I think most image viewing software will make the sprites look super blurry if you zoom in

So you zoomed in and it looks fine?! Like in a new tab?


If you zoom in to the image on a browser it's almost always going to look blurry. Browsers don't like pixel art unfortunately. When the sprite gets put in game it wont look blurry when it's scaled up.


The no blurriness rule is meant to avoid drawing a sprite that looks blurry when not zoomed in at all

Blurry sprite example:iu_1518072_8490282.png

Crispy sprite example: iu_1518071_8490282.png

Response to: Wanted! Pixel Art Collab RE-OPENED Posted January 3rd, 2026 in Collaboration

At 1/3/26 03:15 PM, Deadlyblockman wrote:Hey does this image look blurry to anybody else?


It's 32 x 32 but when up close it looks blurry.


Looks fine to me! I think most image viewing software will make the sprites look super blurry if you zoom in