Examples of pixel artists whose work we have looked at include:
Kai Vermehr, Steffen Sauerteig and Svend Smital are a group of pixel artists that make up eBoy. They have established their own unique style and have been successful in adapting their detailed illustrations into posters, t shirt designs and souvenirs etc. Like most pixel graphics, their works are usually involving a palette of bright colours.
Invader uses Rubikcubism to express his artwork in a pixel like way. By using Rubiks cubes, he creates images by rearranging the squares by colour, like you would digitally; This way, he creates 2D images on the surface of the 3D blocks when they are all put together. Invader also does the same thing with mosaics, they both imitate pixels by the way they are shaped in a square.
Collectively, the four artists, Gideon Baws, Chris Harding, Richard Kenworthy and Jason Groves are the group called Shynola. They have collaborated with music artists to create music videos which feature pixel art. For example Junior Senior - Move Your Feet is animated entirely with pixel art. It's simplistic, involves mainly primary and secondary colours and the characters are very animated and fun (facial features on inanimate objects for example).
Michel Gondry directed many music videos, one of them being The White Stripes - Fell In Love With A Girl. Similar to Invader, Gondry and also used a 3D material to imitate the factors of pixel art. In the MV, each frame is animated and the lego blocks are moved frame by frame to make it look like as if it's a moving animation when put together. However, unlike regular pixel art which is flat with no dimension, the lego blocks are created in a way that it is raised and three dimensional. Again, the animation has a simple theme of monotone and primary colours.
