Pixelians is a continuing pixel art project originally begun in 2003, featuing a collection of various characters drawn in an unique pixelated style. The name comes from a combination of "pixel" and "-ians", which means pixel people.

The references of Pixelians come from everywhere, like movies, animations, comics, games, brands, and even real world personages.

	Alpha discontinued	Beta relaunched!

In 2007, after four years of its establishment, the original project was discontinued and relaunched as the Beta version, introducing a more detailed and expressive new style.

Pixelians is created by Purlin Beam, a Hong Kong graphic designer / visual producer / special effects worker / inanimate animator / slow learner / money burner / trouble maker / maybe later / okay whatever...

Pixel art is a form of digital art created pixel by pixel. A pixel is the smallest unit of digital graphics. Loosely speaking, it is a tiny square dot containning information of a single color. A bitmap image is made up of nurmerous pixels. The more pixels an image contains, the better the resolution it can offer.

Differ from ordinary digital graphics which are also composed of pixels, genuine pixel art must be created and edited on pixel-level, without using any kind of automatic filters (e.g. anti-aliasing). So it always provides very sharp and neat-looking results.

Since pixel art is friendly to low resolution display, it was often used in older video games, which inspire the creation of Pixelians.