# The Bizarre Pixel Studio *BIZARRE Pixel Art, Powered By Data* By [BizarreBeasts ($BB)](https://paragraph.com/@bizarrebeasts) ยท 2026-07-11 bizarrebeasts, bb, artwork, coding, pixelart, artstudio --- Recently, I hopped on the th **ZABAL Gamez** live stream with [@bettercallzaal](https://x.com/bettercallzaal) to launch the [**Bizarre Pixel Studio**](https://pixel.bizarrebeasts.io/).๐Ÿ‘พ Bizarre Pixel Studio is a fully featured pixel art and animation editor that runs on desktop, mobile (PWA), the Base App, on Farcaster as a miniapp, and has a dedicated edition on the [BizarreBeasts Kids site](https://kids.bizarrebeasts.io/pixel). This is the story of what I built, why I built it, and the technology powering the canvas. [![](https://paragraph.com/editor/youtube/play.png)](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WYHKmA-Aqio) * * * Why a Pixel Editor? ------------------- BizarreBeasts started as raw illustrations in my physical sketchbook, grew into an arcade of 12 games, and is now becoming an animated series on DCP+, set in Bizarre City. The thread through all of it is simple: I want BizarreBeasts to be something that people can interact with and create with. Pixel art is the friendliest possible gateway into making things. A 16x16 grid is not intimidating. Anyone can place a square. Under the hood, I designed a system that turns this simple grid into a powerful, highly flexible creative canvas. ![](https://storage.googleapis.com/papyrus_images/499faefd8660bb0269f38572dfcba9ef85070b8220db7242567813f183053519.png) * * * The Big Idea: Every Pixel On The Canvas is a Letter --------------------------------------------------- Under the hood, a drawing in Bizarre Pixel Studio is actually a grid of characters. The color palette maps each letter to a specific color. For example: the letter `g` might be Wasabi green, `k` is the outline ink, and a period `.` represents a transparent pixel. Your drawing is literally a block of readable, plain text. ![](https://storage.googleapis.com/papyrus_images/18f0e50756958081b98d9361008e312fce9f2e67496efe0c1e8f30edb9ba77aa.png) Because of this, I made the editor fully two-way: * **Paint on the canvas,** and the text code writes itself in real-time. * **Edit the text code,** and the canvas instantly repaints. If you want to recolor an entire image or color, you do not have to click every pixel: you can just swap a single character or hex value in the code tab. It is a drawing tool and a text format that happen to be the exact same thing. ![](https://storage.googleapis.com/papyrus_images/78f7f4f50afcbe0115ba1d0c2d00329d7819eb10b6f3564450ff3275e964826a.gif) This architecture makes your art portable and remixable in a way that traditional image files (like PNGs or JPEGs) can never be. A whole animated project saves as a tiny, readable file (`.newt` format) that you can copy, paste, share, and reopen with everything intact: your palette, layers, frames, and animation timing. * * * Launched Live at ZABAL Gamez ---------------------------- I first revealed the inner workings of the studio during a live workshop for **ZABAL Gamez** (hosted by [@bettercallzaal](https://x.com/bettercallzaal)). If you want to watch the live stream or read the full session breakdown, you can check out the video and complete transcript here: ๐Ÿ‘‰ [Watch ZABAL Gamez Workshop #23: Building Bizarre Pixel Studio](https://zabalgamez.com/recordings/23) [![](https://paragraph.com/editor/youtube/play.png)](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i_OX-nSnwkA) * * * Bizarre Pixel Studio on BizarreBeasts Kids ------------------------------------------ ![](https://storage.googleapis.com/papyrus_images/1786822ba17a58a9433c605b6a7b85396df416bf97bc31c802713e7cd5de1f2e.png) The BizarreBeasts Kids page has its own kid-friendly version of the pixel studio, and I added a guided tour hosted by pixel Wasabi himself! He walks kids through picking colors, painting, animating, and saving. ![](https://storage.googleapis.com/papyrus_images/df2ff3ec7a36ee1e9676bfd894e38b782c73e4dbd4bfbfa38aa78fbd2dc5b553.png) The tour ends by opening the Code tab to show kids their drawing represented as letters, with an interactive decoder connecting a glowing pixel to its matching character, demonstrating one of the biggest ideas in computing: everything on a screen is flexible data you can change. * * * The BIZARRE Details ------------------- ![](https://storage.googleapis.com/papyrus_images/577ddc7ff82820e20b32bd8897e3472df66031891813cdb210002dd2317eac32.png) I spent time making sure this tool is incredibly fun and useful: * **BizarreBeasts Templates:** The built-in examples are real, official BizarreBeasts art assets, including Wasabi, BizBe (and his signature booty shake), Plantz, Ringo, Seymour the Sun, Monty the Moon, the $BB coin, and Bizarre City itself. You can load these up to study exactly how a two-frame walk cycle or spinning animation works, and then make your own * **Social Sharing:** When using the Bizarre Pixel Studio, hitting the sharing button attaches your actual artwork. * **Game-Ready Exports:** You can export your creations as PNGs, SVGs, animated GIFs, sprite sheets for game engines, or raw CSS and React components for web design. ![](https://storage.googleapis.com/papyrus_images/364625dc9a79a7ddce5fbd954e473e783ca100b34aaf06efafa3a9e178837642.gif) A walking Wasabi, exported straight from the studio timeline * * * What Is Next? ------------- Bizarre Pixel Studio is live and completely free to use, so have some FUN going BIZARRE! To officially kick off a series of community contests for **BIZARRE Summer 2026**, there is a brand-new contest live on the BizarreBeasts miniapp right now. Your challenge is to paint your own pixel BizarreBeast using the studio. Community voting decides the winner, and the first-place prize is **$20 USDC**! [ Paint a Pixel BizarreBeast -------------------------- Make your own BizarreBeast in Bizarre Pixel Studio. Community votes. Winner takes $20 USDC. NOTE: You MUST use BIZARRE Pixel Studio to qualify for the contest! https://www.bizarrebeasts.io ![Paint a Pixel BizarreBeast](https://storage.googleapis.com/papyrus_images/f0cc7ffbd2ef6ee86d331bdbe75ba470c0e525231a7aaac8048486e55c637ada.png) ](https://www.bizarrebeasts.io/contests/c3ccea6f-54d3-42cf-a7c0-c93c19b9f0c4) If you find a bug or have a feature idea, use the "Report a bug" button directly in the app. I read every single submission. * **Make Art on the Web/Farcaster:** [pixel.bizarrebeasts.io](https://pixel.bizarrebeasts.io) * **Pixel Paint in the Kids Studio:** [kids.bizarrebeasts.io/pixel](https://kids.bizarrebeasts.io/pixel) * * * **About The Artist** -------------------- ![](https://storage.googleapis.com/papyrus_images/eca2ee9b3cacc8009807a1f0436d064d0fd4fa428ddff417fab0f5ee624b0834.jpg) I'm the artist, animator, and builder behind BizarreBeasts ($BB), creating a universe where art and web3 technology converge. This is where everything I am intersects: a lifelong artist captivated by darkly humorous outsider art, a creative entrepreneur, a self-taught builder who coded 12 original games and a fully onchain miniapp from scratch, a musician performing original soundtracks, and a true BIZARRE believer in decentralized creativity. This project was born from a vision of what's possible when an artist fully owns their creative universe, exploring the opportunities and economies that web3 enables to build a legacy of creativity and freedom for myself and the BizarreBeasts community. In early 2026, I walked away from a six-figure corporate position to build BizarreBeasts full-time. BizarreBeasts is an Arts3 Foundation A3 Startup Award recipient, earning $100K in funding for an original animated series currently in production for release on DCP+, the streaming platform empowering independent creators from Decentralized Pictures. For more on my transition to building BizarreBeasts full-time, see my previous update: [Going Bizarre Full-Time](https://paragraph.com/@bizarrebeasts/going-bizarre-full-time)! [**Learn more about me**](https://bbapp.bizarrebeasts.io/about). * * * **About BizarreBeasts** ----------------------- BizarreBeasts is an original, art-powered ecosystem featuring hand-illustrated characters, animations, NFTs, and web3 games. With 12 games played over 183,000 times, hitting #1 trending on both Remix and The Base App, I've built a notorious community of 6,800+ token holders going BIZARRE. Token info: * Ticker: $BB * CA: 0x0520bf1d3cEE163407aDA79109333aB1599b4004 ![](https://storage.googleapis.com/papyrus_images/9d0561640d23335928dbd111c83a7c84c6b3cbb2568f34225f4ff01d7c1b573e.jpg) * * * **Watch the FIRST BizarreBeasts Teaser on YouTube!** ---------------------------------------------------- [![](https://paragraph.com/editor/youtube/play.png)](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yWTB_HZI23c) BizarreBeasts Animated Series Coming Soon, Exclusively to DCP+! * * * **Check out the BizarreBeasts ($BB) Miniapp** --------------------------------------------- Click here to visit the [**BizarreBeasts Miniapp**](https://bbapp.bizarrebeasts.io/)! ![](https://storage.googleapis.com/papyrus_images/158221cb2f6312d77bd4269d57ecad869f6d33edd0c614a8d83e499206c99ded.png) Explore, add the Miniapp to your Farcaster account, and share the BIZARRE! * * * **Links** --------- Follow: [**Farcaster**](https://farcaster.xyz/bizarrebeast) & [**X**](https://x.com/bizarrebeasts_). 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It is not financial advice. Always do your own research before making any investment decisions._ --- *Originally published on [BizarreBeasts ($BB)](https://paragraph.com/@bizarrebeasts/the-bizarre-pixel-studio)*