The Lost Places (2025)

  • Pixel Art, 2025

    The Isolation

  • Pixel Art, 2025

    The Foretelling

  • Pixel Art, 2025

    The Escape

Animations (2017-2024)

  • Who Owns the City? (2021, an animated pixel artwork by Stefanie Grunwald) depicting Hamburg's Köhlbrandbrücke at night with glowing street lights and cars speeding along the bridge. A crow flies across the street.

    Who Owns the City? • (2021)

  • 2:00 AM (2020, an animated pixel artwork by Stefanie Grunwald) depicting Hamburg's Sternbrücke at night from the viewpoint of the crossroads next to it. The street is wet and traffic lights slowly change from green to red to green again.

    2:00 AM • (2020)

  • Long Haul • (2020)

  • Detour • (2021)

  • Drive by Night • (2020)

  • The Light and the Half-Light • (2021)

  • Pockets Full of Stones • (2024)

  • Drive (2022, an animated pixel artwork by Stefanie Grunwald) depicting a rearview-mirror view of cars with glowing headlights driving down a highway at night in front of a dark cityscape while passing illuminated street lights.

    Drive • (2022)

  • Stationary • (2021)

  • Road Trip • (2020)

  • City scapes inspired by German roads and street lights.

    Sometimes real, sometimes imaginary. Always homesick for places we might have never been.

Nature

  • Northern Lights Over Tromsø • (2018)

  • Autumn Sun • (2019)

  • Milky Way • (2019)

  • Night in the Woods • (2020)

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Night in the Woods

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Who Owns the City

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Detour

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Drive by Night

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Long Haul

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Road Trip

100% Hand Drawn • No AI

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Music Videos

  • Still from the pixel art music video "Get Better" by Alt-J, showing a cat sitting next to a dark wet street illuminated by dim street lights. Directed and animated by pixel artist Stefanie Grunwald.
     

    Alt-J / "Get Better"

    Director & Animator
    Released on 3rd November 2021

    A dark pixel art music video for Alt-J's "Get Better", a contemporary story about loss and hope.

    View on YouTube
  • Still from the noir pixel art music video "Isolation" by Turin Brakes, showing two men sitting at a dimly lit table of an American gas station. Directed and animated by pixel artist Stefanie Grunwald.
     

    Turin Brakes / "Isolation"

    Co-Director & Animator
    Released on 16th September 2022

    A choose-your-own-adventure style video for Turin Brakes' "Isolation", a dystopian noir story in rural America.

    View on YouTube

Android Themes

  • Preview image of the Retro Mode icon pack showing a selection of 30 vibrant neon icons alongside a screenshot of a homescreen with a dark monochrome wallpaper applied and colourful widgets on top.
     

    Retro Mode - Neon

    Over 4000 hand-crafted pixel art icons designed with a palette of 8 vibrant colours. The pack contains 10 noir monochrome wallpapers with >50% black pixels.

    Get the wallpapers or:

    Get it on Google Play
  • Preview image of the Retro Mode icon pack showing a selection of 30 minimalistic plain white icons alongside a screenshot of a homescreen with an afternoon sunset wallpaper applied and widgets on top.
     

    Retro Mode - Light

    Over 4000 minimalistic pixel art icons in plain white, 12 colourful atmospheric wallpapers and 7 highly customisable widgets (digital clock, calendar & more).

    Get the wallpapers or:

    Get it on Google Play