The trend of 8BIT, since the red and white machine and GAMEBOY when I was a child, has not planned to fade out of people's sight.
It refers to the number of binary bits that a computer can calculate in a single operation, and can only parse 256 (2 to the 8th power) of colors. And these game designers must try their best to make these color blocks like Lego bricks, and restore the world in their hearts to be true and exquisite.
With the continuous advancement of technology, these distorted color blocks have naturally been left behind the times, but these children who grew up with 8BIT games have remembered 8 bits in another form in this era.
Pixelate day-to-day life scenes
Lü Xiaozheng, pen name 50 francs, is an artist. He likes to draw things that are at your fingertips, such as blue hangers, green lighters, welcome carpets, or handkerchief paper packaging called the "Otaku Series". The geometric, regular composition and clean and bright color scheme secretly exude a sense of fresh air.
In 2016, 50 francs began using an app called "Dottable" on his mobile phone, spending 25-40 minutes a day on a pile of gray-white plaids that can easily cause dense fear, smearing the things he sees and thinks in life with his fingers, and he named the series "Everyday Pixels".
When a bottle of old mother, a grain of ice or a broken mobile phone tempered film are dimly presented in the form of dots, we can feel the humorous humor of 50 francs and his unique observation perspective.
"The creation of pixel painting is another way of recording my daily life. Most of the works are a narrative of objects that appear in everyday life, trying to replace the state of 'muttering' with this act of painting recording, and to "poeticize" subtle and trivial everyday objects. ”
There's an artist on Instagram called 8bitstories who tells one nostalgic and sad little story after another in the style of 8bit drawing. The seashore, sunset and outer space are the most commonly used elements in the work, and the author wants to use these seemingly retro works to depict the future. According to his own expression, he is also a boring, shy and somewhat dark person in real life.
When asked what kind of impact they want their work to have on the world, 8bitstories joked, "I want people to all remember their shattered past and feel sad about a fragile future (laughs)." ”
What a sweet and mournful romance.
"I like to do this with photography, painting and handwritten fonts, but I can't help but really draw badly. 8bit totally appealed to me, it was simple but meaningful. ”
Japanese daily scenes and 8bit always seem to be a special match, and illustrator Toyoi, who likes beautiful girl game scenes, @1041uuu, has previously won a lot of attention with a set of GIFs of Japanese life clips.
"A pixel painting is a kind of painting with a low resolution that is not clear to see. In order to make up for this shortcoming of not being able to see clearly, it is necessary to draw it simply and understandably. ”
Pixelate the plot of popular movies and TV series
Who doesn't have two favorite movies or TV series? To express his love for these fond memories, Gustavo Viselner pixelates these characters and lines that you and I know, presenting the classic pop culture framework of this era through the "My Pixel Friends" series.
Westworld Westworld
Ice Storm Fargo
The Handmaid's Tale
Seinfeld is on Theinfeld
Rick and Morty Rick and Morty
Stranger Things
Friends Friends
"Even without video game support, pixel art can still stand out."
Coincidentally, San Francisco-based artist David Dutton hid behind the YouTube channel "8-Bit Cinema" to present these evocative film and television works in the form of old-school video games.
For example, this "Spirited Away", starting from the sound of the car motor at the beginning of the film, brings the audience back to the summer vacation time of the rusty fan in the 1990s, and a red and white handle "up and down, left and right ABBA". I can't get tired of watching it!
"It was an amazing twist for me because I'm a big fan of Nintendo, and now I'm going to dive into two worlds I love: movies and games."
Pixelate the world's famous paintings in the museum's collection
In the eyes of most people, the classic paintings in the history of art are full of nostalgia, and they objectively reflect the clothing and lifestyle of people in that era. But for his part, Adam Lister likes to get a glimpse of new ideas by playing with old things, so he tries to make portraits or landscapes using only right-angle shapes, even though the final work still looks old.
8-bit-inspired watercolors deconstruct the visual landscape we take for granted, while the idyllic and soft watercolor contrasts with the rigid and solid composition.
"I grew up with video games at Atari and Nintendo, always exposed to the dynamics depicted in the game through tiny, chunky, original graphics. For me, they define a visual world from which to escape, a more basic existence. ”
Pixelate difficult and obscure philosophical questions
How to present the unfathomable philosophical content in a simple and understandable way? 8BIT might be a good idea. The Youtube account "8-BIT Philosophy" attempts to use this kind of stuttering childhood memories to illustrate the deep thinking that is closely related to you and me.
What is true? They annotate Plato's cave theory supplemented by the game interface of The Legend of Zelda. Why don't we commit suicide? The team invited Camus to enter the virtual world of Donkey Kong with his view of the absurd.
Today's sharing of this article " Can We Trust the Media? " may help you clear some of your thoughts in the recent news chaos.
Subtitle source: Deng Lijie
Can music be pixelated? My legs are no longer my legs
I believe you have also noticed the very rough analog sound effects with LO-FI in the above video, and the 8BIT music we are talking about today is one of the branches of CHIPTUNE. Music chips that were made from old-fashioned computers, game consoles, or arcade machines in the early days are now simulated using software — it always sounds like there's a desire to crush Tetris and eat them.
This musical style, limited by the technical conditions at that time, the musician used square waves, jagged waves, triangle waves and other basic percussion instruments as the base, through the coding form, the use of different waveforms to simulate the timbre of the instrument, so that the music in a three-dimensional and layered posture in front of the player.
Such a blunt and stubborn 8BIT has now become synonymous with fashion and retro. In the past, There was Kraftwerk in Germany and YMO in Japan (Yellow Magic Orchestra) that combined 8BIT with electronic music, and then there were music producers such as YMCK, a Japanese band that combined pan-jazz and POP styles, Crystal Castles in Canada, and Sulumi in China, repackaged and carried it to the end.
Or maybe it's like the "Words of the Planner" of the 6th Tomorrow Music Festival-
"The machine is playing / The robot is watching / Every time you think about this, you get angry / Watch the show harder"
Whether it is electronic music or rock music, there is no need for music to be labeled and limited in style. Retro doesn't have to be obsolete, and we can find traces of the past, and all the possibilities, all the surprises of the collision, you can find it on the spot.
It's time.
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