Hi sarahdwells, i haven't been heavily influenced recently but my early influences that sort of stuck with me over the decades are Ranma 1/2, Breath of Fire Series and Guilty Gear from early 2000s. Not sure how much people who are connoisseurs of anime will see those specific works it in my style but it definitely looks heavily influenced by anime. I'm a fan of thick, weighted lines.

I love love love love bright colours and heavy contrast, no particular reason just kind of happened.

Recently I've been leaning into brutalism/acid design :)

I go with handmade styles a lot. Like real world, handcrafted miniature art. It isn't outright unique but it is nonetheless rare, and that means it stands out. I have "miniature multiverse" in development and the initial concept was thinking about games of the Myst/Riven sort and wondering what it might be like if someone physically built entire fantasy worlds with a handcrafted attention to detail.

And so I kind of figured out how to capture 360 degree views inside some sprawling O scale miniature environments and created my own Unity workflow for building a 360 node based puzzle adventure game. Used a 4k action cam and took photos at 15 degree rotation increments for each node, stitched them into 360 Panos, layered animation in and swapped out the sky. Used basic spheres with a double-sided unlit shader. Made heavy use of playmaker.

Then there is a second miniature art project "miniature miniature golf" or "miniatureminigolf" it is a simple isometric mini-golf game but all the graphics, again, assembled in scale miniatures with that particular tactile charming and colorful look.

You can check my profile for more info, I also have game dev asset packs (pbr textures, 3d models) and an etsy shop offering printing services + papercraft kits and such.

My favorite is the art direction in pre-rendered games.

Even if a modern 3D game have better real time graphics, I will find the old static angle more charming to be looking at.

There is always an artistic component into the fact that the developer wanted you to see the screen at THAT specific angle, and I find this much more "beautiful" than any real time graphics where you see only what is in the overall direction you are looking.

It adds to the game another layer, now it is a game AND a book of illustrations from the director of the game.

This, of course, is more for the 3D pre-rendered games. As well as pixel art (8-bit, 16-bit, modern, the game boy advance style...) the pre-rendered style also have some sub categories of its own: 3D (like Final Fantasy 7, 8 and 9, Resident Evil 1, 2 and 3, Dino Crisis, etc.), isometric (Digimon world 3 and Diablo) and sidescroller (Megaman X4, 5 and 6).

I try to style my games after old crude amateur indie games and flash games, cause thats kinda what my games really are, crude indie games made for mine, my friends' and sometimes other peoples amusement (cause sadly i havent gotten much success yet, but maybe someday!)

For me atleast the trick to achieving the effect is first having played alot of those games, simple movements and animations, primarily flat colors with simple shading, exaggerated features and that kinda jazz

For me, pixel art all the way! I spent countless hours as a kid playing old NES and SNES games, and the influence extended even to my music composition, as the stuff I write is all chiptune! My art style isn't an exact 1-1 for the NES, but it is intentionally retro in style and the simple color palettes help to give it that old school look. 

I'll admit that much of my early designs were due to a lack of skill, but as I've gotten better at pixel art it's evolved into my own style that I've grown fond of.

i mostly do lowpoly 3d now i used to make pixelart also for my games i try to keep it simple but stylish

my inspiration is from everywhere

As a bad artist I experimented with a lot of "low skill" art styles: minimalism, simple vectorial art, neon, moebius/sable inspired style (cellshading+outlines) and more recently 3D pixel art.

I go all over the place as I like to experiment with styles, but a long time influence would be surealism( you know Salvador Dali times, old stuff). Not trying to copy a hundred year old art, but the share technical quality of some of those paintings plus all the weirdness involved gives me a lot of ideas. Like here is something I painted for my game a couple of months ago:

wooooooooah! every single shot is a mood! I am going to have to check out your game. its so unique 

I do a lot of pixel art, anime style, and surreal art in my games! 

Hey there!

I try to stick with a generally very cartoony, if not low poly art style with my 2D and 3D games.

An example of this is a game of which I drew out every asset and is now published on Itch.io: Castlecartopia!

Check it out and I think you find the unique art style interesting!

I go with pixel art mostly. The kind with slightly less saturation and contrast giving a "dry" feel to my pieces. Pixel art because it's a lot easier for me to work with it. The only downside is that I often have a hard time figuring out good color combinations and usually end up with mismatches. I always try to keep it simple and minimalistic with less shadows and textures and more plain surfaces. Also give sprites bold colored outlines, usually of a dark color close to black.

changing mine recently 

I think i'm gonna stick to more retro style stuff for now. I'm getting some rather nice results too.

I do pixel art.

Dark background with nice colors for foreground is probably my most common. I do a lot of stuff though.

For the game i`m working i`m trying (emphasis on trying) a style similar to the one on Signalis(I love the game and the style), Low- Poly with handmade textures