Juan Vidal
Senior Pixel Artist Animator
Greater Jerez de la Frontera Metropolitan Area Spain
Summary
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Top SchoolJuan Vidal is a Senior Pixel Artist and Animator with 11 years in indie game development, co-founding and leading Mad Gear Games while currently contributing pixel work at The Game Kitchen. Trained in clinical psychology and application development, he combines a deep understanding of human perception with self-taught drawing and animation skills to craft authentic 8-bit and 16-bit aesthetics. As CEO and hands-on "factotum" of his studio, he oversees art, production and business operations, consistently shipping retro-styled titles. Outside of games he teaches Taichi and Chikung and studied Choy Lee Fut Kung Fu, a background that informs his discipline and movement choreography in character animation.
12 years of coding experience
Licenciatura, PSYCHOLOGY, Licenciatura, PSYCHOLOGY at Universidad Nacional de Educación a Distancia - U.N.E.D.
Github Skills (104)
pixel-editor10
python10
windows10
to-do10
image-generation10
3d10
cpp10
game-development10
backend10
godot10
game-engine10
animation10
linux10
drawing10
aseprite10
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
jjhaggar/Aseprite-Add-on-Collections
Jul 2019 - Feb 2020
Contributions:11 commits, 4 pushes, 1 branch in 7 months
jjhaggar/PaletteSwapper
Aug 2024 - Nov 2025
Contributions:1 release, 5 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 3 months
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