Dan Mafra

Thanks. I am already checking it out. And looking for a code... :)

How much good is to be on VGEN?
What's positive on it?

No fake exclusivity.
No magical thinking.

Quality and realism beat hype. Every time.

👾

The real issue is planning and honesty.
Know what you can build.
With the team you actually have.

🧵

This isn’t a Brazil-only problem.
This isn’t a LatAm-only problem.
Indies do this everywhere.

The younger the studio and/or devs,
the more often you’ll see it happen.

🧵

Thought of the day // Game dev note

Never promise exclusivity if it isn’t real.
Focus on quality. Always.

When money comes before the product, something is already wrong.
The result will show it.
If the client doesn’t see it, the player will.

🧵
#gamedev #indiegame #indiegamedev #indie #gamedesign

Even as a professional pixel artist,
I constantly work across other disciplines.

The creative mind doesn’t stop.

Today I’m in Figma,
working and always studying UI design.

#pixelart #pixelartist #UIart #UIdesign #figma #UIUX

🧩🎮

End-of-day question:

We talk about game genres as if they were obvious.
But are they?

When does something stop being a game,
and when are we just afraid to admit it isn’t one anymore?
Who gets to draw that line?

And how would you define a game genre?

Your move. Let’s talk.

🎲♟

#videogames

This morning I was working on a 1-bit pixel art commission for a Playdate game.

I’ve been refining a technique I developed for precise dithering using Photoshop.

Simple manual workflows still do what plugins can’t. :)

I’ll upload the outcome soon.

#pixelart #pixelartist #playdate #1bit #techart

If you're prompting do to pixelizated images and calling yourself a pixel artist and that pixel art,

Sorry,
you're cheating and that's no pixel art.

Art is what you should be doing by your hands instead of typing commands on a interface.

#Aiart️ #pixelart #pixelartist #fakepixels #digitalart

It isn’t about hiring or stores.
It’s about process and craft.

Pixel art isn’t just a visual outcome.
It’s a method.

Grid control, consistency, and pixel placement matter, regardless of platform or rating.

This distinction is important for clients, professionals and the industry.

#pixelart

AI?

#pixelart #pixelartist

The Cyborg Without Metal A short essay and reflection on humanity at the beginning of the AI era

I just published The Cyborg Without Metal

danmafrawords.medium.com/the-cyborg-w...

An article about AI.

Comment below!

#AIイラスト︎ #AIart #AI美女 #AI #creativity #article

I can count the problems on the fingers of one hand.
And in just one of them, the solution.

But you’re free to form your own opinion — just read it and fire up your own synapses:

www.in.gov.br/web/dou/-/le...

(Use your browser or another app to translate.)

#brazil #brazilianthing #multimedia

Brazil is funny.

I read Law No. 15,325, from January 6, 2026, sanctioned by the current president.

It regulates the practice of the multimedia profession.

I read it.
I thought about it.
…
I thought about it some more.

#laws #digitalart #youtuber #politics #brazilisfunny

He-Man and the Masters of the Universe™: Dragon Pearl of Destruction on Steam Eternia’s favorite heroes including He-Man, Teela, Man-At-Arms and more in a two-player, retro-inspired 2D magic-brawler, drawn in beautiful pixel-art and featuring huge, highly-detailed sprites, desi...

Remember He-Man?
And the Masters of the Universe?

A promising game inspired like Golden Axe is coming.

By Bitmap Bureau, the studio behind Xeno Crisis.

No release date yet.
But definitely one to keep an eye on.

bit.ly/4aOiwGJ

#pixelart #gamedev #steam #heman #mastersoftheuniverse #goldenaxe

This week has been an important one.
Pixel art and UI projects moving forward.

An artist’s life, when professional, always brings a new challenge.

Ten minutes ago, I was debating whether a game mechanic should have many A and one B, or many B and one A.

That’s a Tostines kind of problem.

I’ll leave this as an observation and a point for analysis and discussion.

- Dan Mafra

#AIart #gamedev #digitalart #EthicalAI #AIイラスト

The same logic applies to any concrete object: a cartoon-style leaf, a Maltese dog’s snout, or even a door lock. Reality itself imposes natural limits on variation.

In many cases, this cannot be proven, even if one knew that a given work was present somewhere in the training data.

For this reason, visual similarity alone is not a sufficient criterion to prove direct copying from another artist.

This means that different artists, working independently and without AI, can often arrive at very similar visual results.

Concrete visual forms, like a human eye, have a limited number of plausible variations within certain parameters (angle, proportion, color, lighting, anatomy).

There’s an important factor that often gets overlooked: structural coincidence.

Because of this, it is practically impossible to identify which specific work or fragment would have been “used”, since the final result is structurally different from any individual source.

AI models are trained by analyzing millions of images and videos, producing visual results that emerge from this process. These outputs are transformed, synthesized, and reorganized by the system.

At the same time, agencies and companies are already offering these services to clients, replacing traditional practices such as live-action video production and 2D/3D animation.

We’re seeing a rapid growth in the use of AI for creative content. This includes not only generation, but also editing, organization, and direct publication, sometimes with automated agents, sometimes without.

I want to present a simple ethical dilemma from the field I work in: artistic production for games and the audiovisual industry.

Good AI is one that that expands human potential.
Not one that replaces it.

#AI美女 #AIイラスト #AI #CreativeFreedom #Humanity #digitalart #FutureOfAI