MidnitePixel Art Portfolio

MidnitePixel / Liam LaFianza

I’m a 3D Artist who specializes in Low-Res Art (low-poly, pixel art, voxel, cubic, etc.) with creative direction and leadership experience. My professional expertise mainly lies in creating Minecraft Marketplace DLC but my drive to create games extends beyond that with intentions to join or start indie studios in the future.

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Why Hire Me?

Years of Experience

I’ve Been Working Full-Time on Marketplace Content Since 2018 and Have Co-Created 40+ Unique DLC, for 22 of them I was the Lead Artist.

A Love for the Style

Cubic, Low-Poly, and Pixel Art Isn’t Just a Niche I’ve Found for Myself, It’s a Medium I’m Passionate About Both Continuing and Advancing.

Broad Skill Set

I’ve Gained Professional Experience in the Entire Bedrock Art Pipeline Including Modeling, Texturing, Animation, VFX, and More!

GameDev as a Career

I Already Have a Good Understanding Of Non-Minecraft Practices/Programs such as: PBR Materials, General Modeling, Rendering, and Engines.

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What’s your art style?

I would call my art style low-res or “medium-res” if I’m being hyper-specific. In general I love blending the simplicity of pixel art with modern techniques like PBR and shaders, it can have some fantastic results when done well. Minecraft certainly has it’s limitations but I enjoy finding ways to innovate what’s possible (whether it be with particles, materials, or animations) to create visually engaging gameplay.

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Work History

Foxel Games — Lead Artist

[ June 2021 – January 2024 ]

Overview:

I was brought into Foxel Game’s as their Lead Artist, Foxel being a sub-studio created by Everbloom Games. My responsibilities were developing an art style, creating concept documents, art production/direction, modeling, animation, VFX, and textures for over 20 Official Minecraft Marketplace maps. I greatly enjoyed my time getting to work on so many aspects of our maps and look forward to opportunities to creatively direct more projects in the future!

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Projects:

[ Map ] Mob Karts
Mob Karts is one of my favorite projects we produced at Foxel, it has innovative kart racing gameplay and fun visuals that made it an especially enjoyable map!

[ Map ] Magic Academy
Magic Academy is a lite-RPG/Collect-a-thon map that allows the player to go on quests to unlock increasingly powerful spells and artifacts. I’m proud of MA, it has highly polished animations, spell VFX, NPCs, and props that create a magical and engaging environment.

[ Development Tool ] NPC Kitbash System
Co-created and maintained an automatic NPC kitbash database that in real-time pulled from various NPC clothing, skin, hair, and accessory textures to compile either random or weighted-random NPC skins. This was specifically for use in Foxel Game’s maps to increase player engagement and replayability.

Everbloom Games — Foxel’s Lead Artist

[ June 2021 – January 2024 ]

Overview:

I was brought into Foxel Game’s as their Lead Artist, Foxel being a sub-studio created by Everbloom Games. More info in the entry above about Foxel Games. However I occasionally subed for artists or was brought into the team when larger projects required. I got to actively work on some fun creations of theirs like Dungeons & Dragons, give feedback on many of their maps, and engage with them during their creative process!

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Pixels & Blocks — Texture Artist

[ October 2020 – June 2021 ]

Overview:

I focused on developing their proprietary resourcepack and style while also assisting in creating player skins, cosmetics, and environmental textures for their maps.

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Projects:

[ Map ] Creative+
Creative+ was made at a time where Minecraft: Bedrock had almost no available building tools or mods like Java’s WorldEdit. The map featured a few dozen building “wands” (tools), structures you can paste into your environment, and a bunch more for players to customize their worlds and bring their visions to life a bit easier!

[ Environmental Asset Pack ] Pixels & Block’s Resourcepack
P&B needed an iconic and visually appealing resourcepack to bring consistency to their maps, I conceptualized and created a simplistic and colorful pack for them to use on a variety of projects and to adapt as needed.

[ Map ] Super! Laser Tag
Super! Laser Tag is a mini-game map where players explore around a 90s themed arcade environment and play laser tag, with NPCs or friends, and compete in several unique game modes!

Shapescape — Texture Artist

[ August 2019 – July 2020 ]

Overview:

I primarily worked on the Minecraft Marketplace Resourcepack “Peaceful” which I had conceptualized before my time with Shapescape but was improved, produced, and published while working with them. I also created environmental textures as needed for their other projects.

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Projects:

[ Environmental Asset Pack DLC ] Peaceful – 16×16 Minecraft Resourcepack
An early project of my own which was produced with the help of Shapescape. Peaceful was a resourcepack created to fill a niche for soft, aesthetic resourcepacks on the Minecraft Marketplace around 2019.

[ Map ] Sherlock Holmes
I created some key item, UI, and environmental textures for Shapescape’s Sherlock Holmes map.

MidnitePixel (Self) — Self-Employed Artist

MidnitePixel (Self) — Freelance/Self-Employed Artist

[ 2017 – Current ]

Overview:

I’ve worked on numerous short-term projects such as pixel art tilesets, and low-poly/voxel modeling, as well as Minecraft Marketplace projects consisting of skinpacks, resourcepacks, modeling, VFX, textures, and marketing material/rendering.

Note: I began to take my art hobby professionally in early 2019, however I was taking on occasional art commissions starting in 2017.

Projects:

[ BLOCKLAB Studios ] Minecraft Marketplace Skinpacks
Between March 2019 and June 2021 I released around 15 skinpacks (player cosmetic DLC) to the Minecraft Marketplace, several performing very well such Biome Skins and Astrodogs.

[ 57Digital ] Minecraft Marketplace Skinpacks/Environmental Assets
Between July 2019 and early 2020 I was commissioned by 57Digital (BLOCKLAB’s owning company) to create skinspacks, environmental assets, and misc. textures.

[ Unnamed Indie Adventure-RPG ] Character and Environmental Design
Around 2019 I was working on commissions for an (unfortunately since suspended) Adventure-RPG project, I worked on character and equipment design as well as early conceptualization. The game was set in a high-fantasy world inspired by Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild and some similar RPGs with magic systems and open-world combat.

MidnitePixel (Self) — Personal Projects

MidnitePixel (Self) — Unpaid/Personal Projects

[ 2015 – Current ]

Overview:

I started creating video-game focused artwork around 2015, the first medium I worked with was voxel after stumbling upon the program MagicaVoxel which sparked my fascination with restricted art forms such as low-poly, pixel art, etc. My longstanding love of Minecraft and interest in voxel lead me down the path of Minecraft content creation and where I am today!

Fun Fact: I mainly started voxel art for the purpose of creating album/song covers for my LoFi music back in 2015!

Projects:

[ Ludum Dare 51 ] Lost Depths
I, and a team of 5 others, created a game for the Ludum Dare Game Jam where we had just 48 hours to complete a game that incorporated the prompt: “Every 10 Seconds”. We went with a submarine game in which your visuals were all but useless however, every 10 seconds your radar would ping surrounding objects. Your objective was to explore an underwater cavern while avoiding detection from a gigantic, deep-sea eel. I was the Vehicle, Character, and UI designer for our team. Lost Depths placed top 39% Overall.

[ Web Design/Dev ] Midnitepixel.art
In early 2024 I wasn’t content with the features and allowed file types/sizes found on most available sites for art portfolios. I decided to use some past experience in web design, knowledge of game UI, and WordPress and make a portfolio site myself. It’s been a learning expirence, and is still an active project with planned features, but I think it’s coming along quite well!

[ Minecraft Bedrock Add-On ] MidnitePixel’s Ferrets
A free add-on/mod I created for Bedrock that adds pet ferrets with player selected attack modes and dynamic behaviors such as hunting prey and collecting drops. Planned features include tracking entities over distance, tricks/play, idle activities, and potentially cosmetics.

[ Minecraft Resourcepack ] Soft N’ Simple
SnS is a resourcepack for Minecraft Bedrock created as both a tech-test to push the boundaries with Bedrock environmental design and a free projects with no deadlines so I could work on it slowly and appeal directly to player’s requests without needing to consider marketability. It features randomized entity and block textures, early attempts at block remodeling, and various QoL fixes to Minecraft’s UI readability.

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Email: Midnitepixelated [at] gmail.com

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MidnitePixel (Self) — Self-Employed Artist

MidnitePixel (Self) — Personal Projects

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