Here is a super impressive piece of early pixel art - it’s ‘4 Byte Burger’, by Jack Haege. This image was printed in the September 1985 issue of Amiga World magazine. In order to reproduce the image in the magazine it had to be photographed from a computer monitor. The image was actually displayed sideways, and then the photograph was rotated for printing in the magazine; hence why the scan lines are vertical instead of horizontal.
In 1985, Commodore International hired several top-notch artists to create artwork using their new Amiga personal computer. Much of that artwork was printed in their magazine, Amiga World.
One of my favorite youtubers, Ahoy, made an excellent documentary about his efforts to reproduce this artwork exactingly, using correct hardware and software. It’s worth a watch.
Fantastic video. I referenced it in the sidebar as a inspiration for creating this community. I loved it so much that I made a wallpaper pair out of his recreation then made some adjustments to it to try to replicate the photo of the photo of the screen.
Amiga art. That takes me back. I used to hang out at an Amiga dealer’s in the 90s. There was a guy doing amazing (fairly short) animations at a Looney Tunes level in terms of quality. I wonder if those got preserved anywhere?
Oh man, that would be amazing to see. If you ever find them please share!
Well how about that, I found it based on a vague memory. The animation isn’t as good as I remember, just checking one of the videos out, but it’s still really good and he has a fun sense of humor.
https://www.randelshofer.ch/animations/anims/eric_w_schwartz/Superbfrog3.anim.html
That was pretty rad! Thanks for sharing. It kind of reminded me of that looney toons level in gex except pixel animation made on an Amiga. I checked out some of the gameplay. It seemed like it was a pretty fun play at the time on Amiga when a lot of games were quite slow paced.
I’m looking at some of the others. They’re a bit on the furry side of things, which is a bit uncomfortable, but he’s so talented. Check out the animation on this one, it’s really good: https://www.randelshofer.ch/animations/anims/eric_w_schwartz/Plight_of_The_Artist2.anim.html
I can’t even remember the guy’s name unfortunately. But I’ll see what I can do.
