SHAUN TIERNEY

FOUNDATION ART & DESIGN

ABOUT SHAUN

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’.