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God fucking damn it that is awesome! I seriously love seeing pixel artwork like this, great stuff man! One day I may force myself to get into it, one can only dream.
sign me up i want one, anyway we can get one with a Delorian time machine in it tho??? :D :D :D
Amazing work!
Amazing work!
This reminds me of the amazing art books with hidden items to find. It's like a Where's Waldo of everything awesomely geek, and I love it.
This is fantastic!
This is fantastic!
Thanks guys! If any of you missed the timelapse, here's the direct link on youtube:
http://youtu.be/2KaI_5nLB6Y
http://youtu.be/2KaI_5nLB6Y
This deserves nothing less than front page. Hell, it should have its own website! Truly mesmerizing, and brilliantly executed. You should be ten shades of proud!
Monkey from Dexter's Laboratory! Oh, god, the references are too much for me! I would have passed out had Quackor been present right by Monkey, haha. Dude, this is immensely awesome, man!
Wow, that is brilliant. I love the Spectrum bit, it looks totally authentic.
I'm off for another look!
I'm off for another look!
I keep going back to it and finding new things that I didn't see before. The amount of creativity per square inch. It's amazing.
@Holmes: Well, thanks for talking to women about videogames! :)
And thanks to everyone for the loveliest comments ... I'm stunned. You're all too nice.
There's free shipping on Society6 until tomorrow, so if you want to grab a poster, now would be the time. I also added laptop/iphone skins and a t-shirt design - because I wanted to order one for myself (I just did actually :)). Don't mind if you get one yourselves as well.
All available here:
http://society6.com/retronator/Tribute-pTJ_Print
And thanks to everyone for the loveliest comments ... I'm stunned. You're all too nice.
There's free shipping on Society6 until tomorrow, so if you want to grab a poster, now would be the time. I also added laptop/iphone skins and a t-shirt design - because I wanted to order one for myself (I just did actually :)). Don't mind if you get one yourselves as well.
All available here:
http://society6.com/retronator/Tribute-pTJ_Print
Just...AWESOME!!
From Cloud, Cait and Barrett to Chell. From Spidey and Supes to Jack Sparrow. SO MANY wonderful memories come to life for me in this print!
Def gotta get me one for the new place, maybe two! I could see covering a whole room with more of your wonderful work!
TOOBIN!!!!
From Cloud, Cait and Barrett to Chell. From Spidey and Supes to Jack Sparrow. SO MANY wonderful memories come to life for me in this print!
Def gotta get me one for the new place, maybe two! I could see covering a whole room with more of your wonderful work!
TOOBIN!!!!
Nice peice, but I'm slightly curious about if its legal to sell an art print with (what I assume to be) an officially licensed image in it that probably isn't properly licensed?
I'm talking about the Darth Vader image towards the bottom that was obviously taken right from a screenshot of Revenge of the Sith, though I'm also seeing a few other things that could be construed in a similar way, like the graffiti next to the guy's half finished bunny -can't remember exactly where its from, its on the tip of my brain.
Not trying to be a downer, but I'd rather not see anyone get a cease and desist (or worse, sued).
I'm talking about the Darth Vader image towards the bottom that was obviously taken right from a screenshot of Revenge of the Sith, though I'm also seeing a few other things that could be construed in a similar way, like the graffiti next to the guy's half finished bunny -can't remember exactly where its from, its on the tip of my brain.
Not trying to be a downer, but I'd rather not see anyone get a cease and desist (or worse, sued).
Thanks everyone, I'm glad my "copyright infringingest" thing is warming up so many nostalgic hearts. That is its purpose, to look at it and remember wonderful memories of when we were growing up.
Now for some TL;DR
As to BoomingEchoes comment, he is right. This is what's called fan art - as is anything that references popular culture works that you didn't create yourself. And it's not legal. It's not completely illegal either or if I quote Wikipedia: "The legal status of fan made art in America may be tricky due to the vagaries of the United States Copyright Act. ... Display and distribution of fan art that would be considered a derivative work would be unlawful. However, American copyright law allows for the production, display and distribution of derivative works if they fall under a fair use exemption ..."
I'm not claiming this indeed falls under fair use. There are some ripped sprites in there (and indeed a transformed still of Star Wars 3). Even if they are placed there with my best intention of paying a tribute to their work, fair use is tricky and up to the court to decide on a couple of factors.
Personally I don't feel I'm doing something ethically wrong (or I wouldn't be doing this). I made it with my best intentions and only later some friends raised the same copyright questions and made me think about the legal side of this. After reading a lot about this being a gray area and seeing many fan-art posters on Society6 I decided to put it out there for others to enjoy. The occurrence of fans being sued is very rare (although it indeed has its cases) and if any of the copyright holders (or people whose likeness I've stolen) think I'm doing them an economic or moral injustice with this work, I'll just have to honor their cease and desist.
Signed with respect to all.
- Retro
Now for some TL;DR
As to BoomingEchoes comment, he is right. This is what's called fan art - as is anything that references popular culture works that you didn't create yourself. And it's not legal. It's not completely illegal either or if I quote Wikipedia: "The legal status of fan made art in America may be tricky due to the vagaries of the United States Copyright Act. ... Display and distribution of fan art that would be considered a derivative work would be unlawful. However, American copyright law allows for the production, display and distribution of derivative works if they fall under a fair use exemption ..."
I'm not claiming this indeed falls under fair use. There are some ripped sprites in there (and indeed a transformed still of Star Wars 3). Even if they are placed there with my best intention of paying a tribute to their work, fair use is tricky and up to the court to decide on a couple of factors.
Personally I don't feel I'm doing something ethically wrong (or I wouldn't be doing this). I made it with my best intentions and only later some friends raised the same copyright questions and made me think about the legal side of this. After reading a lot about this being a gray area and seeing many fan-art posters on Society6 I decided to put it out there for others to enjoy. The occurrence of fans being sued is very rare (although it indeed has its cases) and if any of the copyright holders (or people whose likeness I've stolen) think I'm doing them an economic or moral injustice with this work, I'll just have to honor their cease and desist.
Signed with respect to all.
- Retro
I'm talking about the Darth Vader image towards the bottom that was obviously taken right from a screenshot of Revenge of the Sith, though I'm also seeing a few other things that could be construed in a similar way, like the graffiti next to the guy's half finished bunny -can't remember exactly where its from, its on the tip of my brain. iphone blackberry games
The most amazing piece of pixel art I have ever seen. Will definitely consider purchasing a large print :)
Have you heard of Gallery1988? They have art shows all the time and they have had multiple shows dedicated to video games. They welcome submissions from artists (including new/unknown) and if your work (or style) looks good, they can commission your work for a show. It's pretty awesome. I love their shows.
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