It's been a while since I last made a post, thought I would make an update about my first Pixel Hobby Piece:
In the fall of 2013, I decided to move away from 'melty' perler beads and begin using Pixel Hobby plastic beads/pixels. I am a big fan of Day of the Tentacle, it was the first 'talkie' talking video game I had played, on a cd rom with a 486 dx2/66mhz PC way back in 1993. And the game was awesome!
I had played many Lucasarts games before 'DOTT' came out in '93, 'Monkey Island' 1 & 2, 'Loom', 'Zak McKracken and the Alien Mindbenders', and of course 'Maniac Mansion'.
Using pixel hobby beads as an art form/medium, is a long process, from planning to assembly, but it is very rewarding, and the end result is a one of a kind pixel creation.
This project, off and on took about 6 months to complete, depending on the number of different colors required on a certain baseplate, average time to finish one plate was typically 5-7 hours.
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| here is a pic of the piece before attaching all the boards/baseplates together |
As you can see above, it has a mosaic look about it, I decided to go with the giant nerd 'Bernard Bernoulli' as seen in the intro to DOTT, as he is looking out of the window of his dorm room and making the decision to "go back to the Mansion".
I loaded DOTT the game up in scummVM and took a screen cap of the frame of the intro I wanted to use, resized the image in paintshop and imported into the PixelHobby designer software.
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| from a different angle, all put together |
From there, all you need is time, and patience, it was not always easy to find motivation to finish the project, and the first few boards were really tough to complete and turn out one after the other, until you put your handful of pieces together, and you slowly start to realize that it is all coming together.
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| close-up of Bernard's colorful 'pocket protector' |
The piece is now framed, found a great deal on a slightly damaged frame at a local Hobby Lobby store, to keep the dust out. If I had to do it over again, there are some things I would change, I was new to the medium, and have learned a lot over the past couple of years, I am currently busy with Pixel Hobby piece #3. Which I will post some WIP pix soon...
