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MY DESK IS 8-BIT

sunday, may 23rd, 2010





After a week of [sorta] hard work, I've finally completed MY DESK IS 8-BIT, the first piece of animation I've actually put online that wasn't for a client.



As the description on the project page says, the idea for the piece came to me when I tried envisioning a full-fledged video game in the form of stop motion animation, perhaps made with colored blocks like Legos or something. In the process of answering that question, I created a video game from scratch, wrote a good minute or two worth of retro-style chiptune music, designed a handful of sufficiently bleepy-bloopy sound effects and then dumped it all into a blender.

Whether the results are of any worth isn't for me to say, but it's pretty much exactly what I envisioned when the idea first hit me. I'm toying with some plans to continue exploring this technique on a larger scale, but we'll see how that pans out. I have plenty of print work to keep me occupied for a while.

categories: design, motion, retro, video games






3 Comments



carlos was all like:
wow... i mean wow
sunday, may 23rd, 2010 at 7:59pm

Glossy was all like:
I concur with the first commenter. Wow.

In the credits at the end you mentioned code. Does that mean that you wrote a real video game on a computer and then used screen grabs from that game to get the coordinates for each physical block? Perhaps I'm not getting something here - this seems like an unbelievable amount of work. How could anyone do ALL THAT in a week? This calls for a "making of" post or something.
sunday, june 20th, 2010 at 8:48pm

pcbyers was all like:
Very nice work. Did you do this as 3D or stop-motion? What 3D software do you use?
tuesday, june 29th, 2010 at 2:46pm

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