Miguel Bolotas

I am a pixel artist, I work square by square. Perhaps you won’t like it But why would I care?

[miguelbolotas]

Olá! Welcome to the Miguel Bolotas...

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In this blog you will find all my original Pixel Art work that I am very proud of (made for university) as well as my best ROTTMNT fanart (made for fun).

I'm a 20 year old autistic individual that loves Pixel Art to its core. Also, my main language is portuguese, so apologies if I make any grammatical mistakes.

Pronouns in english: he/him or they/them pls :> Pronomes em tuga: ele/dele por favor c:

(posts organized from new to old in their individual categories)

My GAMES

TILES - Bits and Parts (Rottmnt) Pixels, Pixels in the Sky MegaBrights - The Home Map Hamster Revolution MegaBrights Experimental Scenarios

Also on itch.io

My VIDEOS

80 (Rottmnt) 8 (Rottmnt) Everything has an End

Also on youtube

My COMIC

MEGABRIGHTS - Comic Pilot Episode

My ANIMATIONS

Turtle on a Road The Awakening

Also on youtube

My other types of works

Azulejos de Girassóis Maquete for Pixels Pixels in the Sky Still Lifes

All of my musics and OSTs are on my youtube channel: Miguel Bolotas

My ROTTMNT Fanart and tiny Comics

Rice of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles ROTTMNT Space wallpapers in pixel art for pc AND phone pixel art meme? Rottmnt characters in Oekaki style Donnie holding Pride Flags Mikey found a weird Hamster - Tiny Comic Donnie suffers from the conspiracy of '87 - Tiny Comic Some nice ROTTMNT wallpapers in pixel art

My Unusual ROTTMNT Fanart

Interesting Accident 8 and 80 TILES - Bits and Parts

I only post something when I have something worth showing and I will spend a long time without showing something. I will probably not follow or reblog or give likes with this account but I will with this one here: Miguelito Bolotitas.

Other blogs:

MB - Sillies (Kinda dead but anyways) MB - Missing Bits (blog for de development of a ROTTMNT fangame that I will do) MB - Music Boxes (it would be cool having a blog just for music boxes) MB - Milk Box Squares (it would be cool to have a blog just for my collection of print tests from boxes and packages)

Have a good day! :D

(Also I noticed that the youtube links doesn't work on the phone but they work on the computer. I don't know why that happens ;-;)

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Rice of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles! :D

I don’t know if anyone did this joke before, but if not I’m happy to be the first C:

I know that this looks like a cereal box, but I don’t care. At least it looks cool.

Fun fact: the two recipe names on the back of the box are traditional Portuguese dishes. One is a dessert (Sweet rice) the other is a plate (Duck rice).

The squares on the bottom of the box are a representation of the printing tests that usually products have. The squares on top of the box are the color palette that I used for this.

Also, IMPORTANT ANNOUNCEMENT:

I created a new blog called “MB - The Fun Zone” where I will be going to post small and silly pixel art drawings that are not meant to be put on a portfolio.

I will put a lot of ROTTMNT stuff there and whatever I want or feel like it.

If you are interested, you can check it out. I haven’t posted almost anything yet but I will eventually :3

Have a good day :]

[miguelbolotas]

Literally eating up your pixel art it scratches my brain so much 💜👏 I was curious what art program you used if you're willing to share? 👉👈 Love your style so much! 💜✨️

OMG, I absolutely agree with you. Pixel art is sooo edible! That’s why I LOVE to do it! :D

I use Clip Studio Paint to do my pixel arts, but you can use other programs as well.

I have been using Clip Studio since 2018 or 2019 (I don’t remember exactly ;_;) but I only started making pixel art for real since early 2024.

I am so used to Clip Studio that I don’t really want to use any other program. Even if it has the possibility of being better in the long run.

Thanks for asking and thanks for the kind words :D

Have a nice day! :3

[miguelbolotas]

Rottmnt Pixel Art :D

But the turtles are all in space!

A while ago, I made Rottmnt pixel art backgrounds for us. And one of then was that one where Raph is in space and a lot of people seemed to like it more than the others that I did.

So I thought: "Why not put the rest of them on space? :3" And then I did this.

The Raph one that is here is not exactly the same as the old one, I made some improvements here and there c:

If you want, you can use this images as backgrounds for your computer. They have the standard resolution of 1920x1080px.

I also made these tall versions in case you want to put as backgrounds on your phone as well :>

Have a great day! :D

[miguelbolotas]

Both Valid - But they fight a lot :T

On your left you have a perfectly placed pixel Leo.

On your right you have an oekaki Leo. (what is oekaki? button)

Also, I want to make this a T-shirt.

Also also, I never made a statement so true in my entire life.

Have a good day :]

[miguelbolotas]

Rottmnt pixel art :D

But it’s Oekaki style

Oekaki is an art style similar to pixel art, but while in pixel art the pixels are carefully placed, in Oekaki their placement is unimportant.

Although Oekaki is not considered to be “true pixel art”, personally, I like to think that Oekaki is still pixel art. Just a different way of doing it.

My take is: if I see the squares (or dots) and they are confined to a grid, then it's pixel art.

Look at them. They are so cute S2 :3

see a meme button

Have a good day! :3

[miguelbolotas]

Turtle on a Road

A musical pixel art animation.

I think this is one of the coolest things I've done so far. And I will continue to do more cool things :)

This animation is also on youtube in case you want to see it there.

Have a great day! :D

[miguelbolotas]

Interesting accident

Some time ago, while I was Making the video 8, I accidentally created this corrupted video.

All I did was just cut a piece of the Rottmnt Movie and then when I exported the video it turn out to be this thing.

I have cut many pieces of the Rise movie and series for university works and this never happened.

I don´t even know how I manage to do this, but it looks so cool. I'm glad I didn't delete it because I don't know how to replicate this ;_;

This video is also on youtube in case you want to see it there. It probably has better quality there.

Have a good day :]

[miguelbolotas]

80 - de 8 ao 80

“De 8 ao 80” (from 8 to 80) is the Portuguese equivalent of “from 0 to 100”

This is 80, a complement to video 8.

If you watch both videos, you can understand better what I mean.

Another way to read this video is that it can also be interpreted as slowly going from anger to regret. Just like Leo in the rise movie.

I hope I don’t need to elaborate more on both these thought processes.

This video (80) is part 1-Dimensionalized and part pixelated bits from the ROTTMNT Movie.

If you are confused on what 1-Dimensionalized means, click here.

Have a nice day! :D

[miguelbolotas]

8 - do 8 ao 80

“De 8 ao 80” (from 8 to 80) is the Portuguese equivalent of “from 0 to 100”

This is the 8, a complement to video 80.

If you watch both videos, you can understand better what I mean.

This video (8) is part of the frames from the ROTTMNT Movie 1-Dimensionalized.

If you are confused on what 1-Dimensionalized means, click here.

This video is also on youtube if you want to see it there.

Have a nice day! :D

[miguelbolotas]

1 Dimensional Object

The concept of 1 Dimensionalize something

The first dimension is, in real life, impossible to see in its natural form.

It’s characterized as a direction that can be or length or height.

Imagine the 1st dimension as being an infinite line that only travels in one direction and is so thin, but so thin that it can only be seen through digital means.

Barcodes, for example, are considered 1D objects because the image only varies in one direction, in this case horizontally, and it can only be seen because the line that contains this variation has been stretched. That’s why it’s a 1D object even though it looks like a 2D image.

So, to create a 1D image you will need to digitally cut the image until it’s only 1 pixel in width or 1 pixel in height. Then you need to stretch it until it’s visible to the human eye.

It would look something like this:

Now, you are probably thinking: why are you targeting the Rottmnt fans to this matter?

Well that’s because I’m thinking in 1 Dimensionalize the entire Rottmnt movie.

Yes, you heard me right. The entire movie.

And if it succeeds, I will 1 Dimensionalize the Rottmnt Series.

1 Dimensionalize the movie is a thing that I will definitely do. The series, however, is a maybe. Perhaps I will just do the best episodes.

To 1 Dimensionalize an image is easy, but to 1 dimensionalize a video it’s a lot different.

You would have to extract all the frames, 1 dimensionalize them one by one, and then put them all back together.

Considering that the movie has more than a 122 400 frames, doing them one by one is not happening.

I will have to find an efficient way to do it, but I think I already have a plan.

Now I just need time to do it.

Have a nice day :)

[miguelbolotas]

Everything has an End

A Pixelated Video

A video I made for a university course.

Then pixelated recently because I discovered that I can pixelate anything :)

You can also see the same video on youtube, but without the music because it sounded interesting.

Have a nice day! c:

[miguelbolotas]

TILES - Bits and Parts

My Fifth Game (inspired in Rottmnt)

This game was inspired on the works of Athos Bulcão, a Brazilian tile artist from the XX century, and the designs of the main characters from “Rise of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles”.

I found the way that Bulcão creates is art with tiles very interesting. Usually, tiles have a correct place and rotation to stay, but in his panels, this is not important.

Bulcão's tiles are placed in random places and positions, but since the tiles were thought, planned and designed for it, they end up fitting together perfectly regardless of their directions and end up forming random patterns with a very characteristic rhythm.

For this game I wanted to take that concept and combine it with pixel art and the most iconic details from the designs of each of the 4 Turtles from ROTTMNT.

You can play this game by download it here.

Have a great day! :D

[miguelbolotas]

Girassóis de Azulejos

Tiled Sunflowers.

A pixel art tile panel about my favorite flower: sunflowers.

It took me about 5 days to make this. I did it for a university class project.

This is the comparison with the digital version:

Have a good day! :D

[miguelbolotas]

Pixels, Pixels in the Sky - Maquete Installation Model

The game "Pixels, Pixels in the Sky" and this 2D model were made for a university course project in which we had to create an installation. In my case, I wanted to create a fictional installation.

You can see more about the game here.

Have a good day!

[miguelbolotas]

Pixels, Pixels in the Sky

My Fourth Game

“Pixels, Pixels in the Sky” is a game based on a poem I wrote with the same name, which was based on an old English poem “The Star” published in 1806 and sung to the French melody “Ah! vous dirai-je, maman” from 1761.

Nowadays “The Star” is known as the lullaby “Twinkle Twinkle Little Star”.

The poem “Pixels, Pixels in the Sky” can be about many things, but I won’t tell you. You will have to find out yourself.

This game is really short and easy to play, but to reach the end you will have to not get lost. This infinite hall of words and images can get confusing. Just remember: theres a line that he says that you have to break. 

You can play it if you want by download it here.

Have a good day.

[miguelbolotas]

MEGABRIGHTS - The Home Map

My Third Game

This game is the improvement version of the "Home" map from my first game “MegaBrights Experimental Scenarios”.

The objective of this project was to improve visually the sprites, musics and sounds from that part of game and in general.

Just like the first game, this one doesn’t have an objective or a gameplay loop. It’s just a map where you can walk around with the addition that now you can talk to people.

You can play it if you want by download it here.

Have a nice day! :3