To go now in the complete opposite road of my previous post about vector graphics portraits of celebrities, I present to you the world of 8 bit pixel art. To many, this may be better known as “Nintendo” or “Gameboy” art. If you were born in 1982 and after, you surely experienced this type of graphic at full-blast. Tiny little colored blocks combine to form crude shapes and outlines that roughly define a person. After some time perusing the internet for digital artwork, I came across these pixelated representations of the cast from the movie “The Big Lebowski”.
Despite John Goodman being real flesh and bones and his 8bit version being a series of dots; it is pretty impressive how much of his relative personality is captured in such a simplified form. It goes to show that what pixels you chose to represent a feature can say so much or so little in an image. The amount of detail representation that can be shown in such a small space and limited pixels is entirely up to the skill of the artist. A good artist might have you asking if what you see is what they are actually trying to convey. It brings up the question of realism: Does the artist want to share what you see or feel like what it is like to be in that space.
Effectively, the 8bit space is a nostalgic play on the senses. The realism in it is entirely fictional, but the association of the 8 bit world from the 80s enables you to bridge the connection of what “The Dude” would really seem like if he was bowling on your Gameboy screen.
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