Navy Open House Ad – Impressive Pixel Art

Recently a poster on a neighbourhood noticeboard caught my attention. It’s an advertisement for the Navy Open House (which has since come to pass). I didn’t exactly care for this event, but for the next few minutes I found myself being mesmorised by the ad. The artwork in the ad was so impressively done that I ran home and did an extensive google search for the artists behind it. It’s entirely done in pixel art, a highly challenging and tedious form of digital illustration where the artist has to literally draw out the image pixel by pixel. This is the pixel art done for the Navy Open House event. The team of pixel artists behind it are Ari, Thalia and Sokkuan. Can you imagine the amount of work and level of detail that goes into this? Be sure to enlarge the image and scrutinise every little detail! Click to enlarge I contacted Ari for an interview regarding his work. It’s a rare opportunity because I have never come across a pixel artist based in Singapore! What an honour that he kindly obliged to my interview! Veron: Can you tell us a little more about pixel art? Ari: Pixel art was [...]