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Mob Karts

Minecraft Marketplace Map – Foxel Games
Map Theme/Gameplay: A Mario Kart like kart racer where the players can choose from a range of Minecraft mob-inspired karts, use power-ups, and race against NPCs (based on the studio’s team) through 8 unique tracks!

Art: The art style was intended to be a fusion of Foxel Game’s simplistic stylized appearance and Minecraft’s base vanilla textures for the referenced mobs. VFX and animations were a large part of giving each kart a unique appeal.

What I Did: All Models, Animations, Textures, VFX, and Concepts for Mob Karts.

Alien Raft Survival

Minecraft Marketplace Map – Foxel Games
Map Theme/Gameplay: An Adventure/Survival map where the player is crash landed on an alien planet with otherworldly lifeforms, many of which appear to be innocent Earth-creatures except that they can transform into alien monsters when angered. Being the only spacefarer to awaken the player must collect materials to repair the damaged cryopods, awaken the remaining crew, and fly home.

Art: One of the largest aspects of ARS’s art was creating the zone-bosses (seen in the GIFs) and making them properly threatening. The Void Whale and Seahorror specifically needed to have deceptive idle states that could give way to the fearsome attack forms.

What I Did: All Models, Animations, Textures, VFX, and Concepts for ARS.

Magic Academy

Minecraft Marketplace Map – Foxel Games
Map Theme/Gameplay: This map was a genre fusion of both puzzle and “collectathon” where players learn spells in classes and then venture into a series of dungeons where they utilize their new spells to solve puzzles and find the lost artifacts held within.

Art: I had more time to invest in environmental art than our typical map so I got to create several animated objects like the fountain, book/scroll wheels, broom racks, etc. Also, MA used the NPC Kitbash Repository we created which allowed for dozens of unique student NPCs.

What I Did: All Models, Animations, Textures, VFX, and Spell Casting GUI/UX for MA.

Hacker Pets

Minecraft Marketplace Map – Foxel Games
Map Theme/Gameplay: A sci-fi creature collector where players found creatures that helped with common gameplay tasks such as mining, storage, fighting, and traveling and have 1-3 evolution stages each. Creatures are found in a alternate cyber-dimension accessed an in-game computer, in said dimension pets, enemies, and dungeons could be found for more gameplay.

Art: Due to the scope and time limitations the textures were scaled back but we were able to include a larger amount of environmentals, set pieces, and NPCs. The GIFs included are a small sample of the content.

What I Did: All Models, Textures, VFX, and Animations for the pets, environmentals, and NPC characters.

More Mounts

Minecraft Marketplace Map – Foxel Games
Map Theme/Gameplay: A “Survival Starter” map which gives players a small house and 6 large mounts to collect from varying biomes. Mounts include Giant Crab, Puffin, Rhino, Axolotl, Pangolin, and Narwhal all with 2-3 texture variations! Mounts had varying storage capacity, speed, attack, health, ect.

Art: This map had simplistic gameplay and environment design so all time went into the individual mounts feeling unique and fun.

What I Did: Models, Textures, and Animation for the mounts as well as 8 player skins.
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Da Vinci’s Workshop

– 1st Place Winner –
Official Blockbench Splash Art Contest v4.3
Description: This piece won 1st place in the Blockbench Splash Art contest in July 2022, it’s a scene depicting a fictionalized version of Leonardo da Vinci’s workshop with his famous “Flying Machine” concept as the center piece. The theme of this contest was “Aviation”.

Blockbench Splash Art Contest: Every notable update for the modeling software Blockbench the developer holds a large contest where dozens of artists contribute their pieces based about the core theme. The winner (decided via community voting) has their art prominently displayed on the splash screen for the remainder of that update.

What I Did: I handled modeling, texturing, and scene composition while another artist (MisterGriimm) handled the rendering and lighting.

Santa’s Sleigh

– 1st Place Winner –
Official Blockbench Splash Art Contest v4.3
Description: This piece won 1st place in the Blockbench Splash Art contest in Dec 2021, it’s a scene depicting a snow globe with a sleigh, reindeer, and a snow covered home. The theme of this contest was “Santa’s Sleigh”.

Blockbench Splash Art Contest: Every notable update for the modeling software Blockbench the developer holds a large contest where dozens of artists contribute their pieces based about the core theme. The winner (decided via community voting) has their art prominently displayed on the splash screen for the remainder of that update.

What I Did: I handled modeling, texturing, and scene composition while another artist (MisterGriimm) handled the rendering and lighting.

Cyberpunk Corner

Personal Project
Description: A small corner shop set below 2 apartments in a futuristic, hyper-consumerist city. Seen on all sides of the building are various digital signs, advertisements, market ticker along the roof, and ambient lighting strips. This was a quick scene I did back in January (2024) but I plan on revisiting the concept later and doing a larger piece.

Process: Modeling and textures done in Blockbench, rendering/scene composition with Blender (Eevee), light touch-ups in Affinity Photo.

Inspiration: Largely inspired by CD Projekt RED’s Cyberpunk 2077 and its worldbuilding/visual aesthetic.

Cozy Cabin

Personal Project
Description: A small piece I worked on mainly for playing around with Blockbench’s LowPoly/Mesh modeling capabilities. Modeled and textured in Blockbench, rendered in Blender (Eevee).

Process: Modeling and textures done in Blockbench, rendering/scene composition with Blender (Eevee), light touch-ups in Affinity Photo.

Inspiration: Games in the “Cozy” genre primarily.

MidnitePixel’s Ferrets

Minecraft: Bedrock – Add-on
MidnitePixel’s Ferrets is a free add-on for Minecraft: Bedrock which adds pet ferrets with dynamic abilities into the game! The ferrets have a toggle-able Aggressive and Passive mode, prey targeting, cute animations, several texture variations, and more!

It can be found on MCPEDL: MidnitePixel’s Ferrets

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Email: Midnitepixelated [at] gmail.com

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Legal Notice:
The trademarked logos and names of “Everbloom” (Everbloom Studios, Inc), “Foxel Games” (Everbloom Studios, Inc), “Shapescape” (Shapescape BVBA), and “Pixels & Blocks” (Pixels & Blocks, LLC) exclusively belong to their respective owners. I hold no affiliation with these brands/companies other than employment at and/or working with them via contract to create artwork showcased in this portfolio. Select artworks, graphics, and creative projects seen in this portfolio (midnitepixel.art or otherwise), though created by myself (Liam LaFianza) in part or fully, still include elements of copyright held by the commissioning party or collaborator.

Notice Summery:
These logos and company/corporation names are not my own nor did I create them. Also, I worked at these companies and/or worked via freelance contract for them when creating some of the artwork displayed here and so I may or may not be the sole copyright holder of creative works seen here. Refer to the above notice for legal purposes, this is a simplified summery.

Acknowledgements:
Credit for much of the website’s color scheme goes to the fantastic community color palette project called “Catppuccin” which can be found on GitHub.

How To Credit Me:
Something like: “Artwork Created By MidnitePixel” and then you can include my Instagram (@midnitepixel_) or this website (midnitepixel.art) works great. Thanks for helping artists!