Bear untitled - D.O. Edit

Winner of Youtube Play

Made in 8 bit by Christen Bach
Sound design by Henrik Sjørslev

I got obsessed with doing some good old fashioned 8 bit pixel animations that I haven't done since the good old Amiga days, so I downloaded a small freeware program called GraphicsGale originally designed to create animated icons, and started playing pixels around. I completely forgot how much fun 8 bit is!

Main part of the fun is the fact that the limited resolution leaves you with a way faster and more intuitive work flow. And limited animation has an old school feel to them - which further reduces your time schedule. Because of the primitive state of the program, I did miss some tools from time to time. But there is something quite charming in having to battle the tools a bit that strikes the old primitive 8 bit spirit.

Henrik that did the sound design got totally free hands, and completely blew me away with this version. Unpurposely the sound became a bit David O'reilley-esque. I decided to keep it though, because there is something amazing about emotional conversations acted out in ice-cold monotone voices.

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  Film & Animation

[vector116]

bestimmt ne menge arbeit reingesteckt... Aber die Zeit hättest echt sinnvoller nutzen können. Ist Dir öfter so langweilig??

[Christen Bach]

- Es hat mir 2 tage gedauert und ich habe es ursprunglich gemacht um die software zu testen. Und, nö, aber danke für fragen...

[THECRAZEBLAZE]

DOPE 8 bit animation - you are a genius!

[jon jam]

Reminds me of sword and sworcery :)

[diegovillanueva89]

WOW ... haha pretty awesome!

[phyriel pi]

Hey, ich habe deine Animation bei Pictoplasma in Berlin gesehen. und bin so abgebrochen vor lachen. :D

[tom1nom1nom]

all the guys who hate on this video is whats wrong with the art world today. Pretentious.

[chrissayshello123]

hahahaha wow

[Opalsay]

ตลกกกกกกกกกก

[skeebert]

Favorited.

[LoserBirdie]

'Fuck! 'indeed..

[pante94]

spätestens jetzt müsste dir bewusst werden, dass andere Leute Sinn für "Kultur" haben... sonst wäre er nicht vom Guggenheim-Museum ausgezeichnet worden.

[germangig18]

naja so sinnlos scheint es ja nicht gewesen zu sein wenn man von dem video auf JUMP hört und wohl in i.einem musem nun zu sehn ist...