I’m interested in animation, illustration, and video games and developing work in relation to pixel art, which is something I grew up on while playing video games. In this work, I have attempted to develop pixel art as an approach, and to consider it in relation to the overarching theme Survival.
Video games such as Call of Duty, the Halo series and Grand Theft Auto are praised for their realistic style and graphics. However, I want to disrupt this approach by selecting a range of realistic characters, for example the characters ‘Master Chief’ and ‘Franklin’ from the Halo and Grand Theft Auto series respectfully, and real people, in which I used myself and political figures, converting them into small, 2D pixel art characters – otherwise known as ‘Sprites’.