MIKA DELMAR
ILLUSTRATOR AND GAME ARTIST IN LISBON
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Hi, I’m Mika.
I make pixel art and animation for games, brands and picture books. Most of it starts as a sketch 16 pixels wide.
Lisbon, Portugal
40+ studios and brands
Booking from March
TWILIGHT ZONE
200 M
Selected work
Six recent finds. Hover one to ping it.
TWILIGHT ZONE
600 M
What I make
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Key art, sprites and tilesets made to read at 1x.
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Covers, spreads and packaging on a strict pixel grid.
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Idle cycles, loops and UI motion as sheets or video.
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App and brand icon sets from 16 to 64 pixels.
MIDNIGHT ZONE
1,000 M
Playground
Small things I make after hours. Bring your own light.
Ramen loop
2026
12 frames, steam on a loop
Desk cat
2026
A sleeping cycle, 4 frames
Night cactus
2025
64 by 64, 16 colours
Lift-off
2025
Smoke tests for a launch screen
Tea time
2024
Eight arms, one teacup
Last credit
2024
A cabinet that hums
THE ABYSS
4,000 M
Experience
4,000 M
2023 - Now
Freelance pixel artist
Self-employed
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▸ Game art for six studios and two publishers ▸ Brand pixel art for cafés, apps and festivals ▸ Teaching a pixel art evening class
4,600 M
2020 - 2023
Lead artist
Tidepool Games
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▸ Led a team of four artists on Lantern Isle ▸ Built the sprite pipeline and palette rules ▸ Shipped on Steam and Switch
5,200 M
2017 - 2020
Illustrator
Ferro Studio
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▸ Book covers, editorial and packaging ▸ Animated idle loops for client apps
5,800 M
2014 - 2017
Junior artist
Lumen Mobile
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▸ Icons, UI sprites and store art for mobile games ▸ First 1,000 sprites drawn here
HADAL ZONE
6,000 M
Kind words
Mika turned our rough brief into a world players still screenshot.
Ana Rocha
Tidepool Games
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Fast, funny and every frame arrived on time. Our app icons have never looked better.
Jon Park
Brightside
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The cover sold the book before anyone read a page.
Lea Weiss
Halden Books
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THE TRENCH
10,900 M
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Got a project? I answer every email within two days.