Boris Vallejo and the pixel art of the demoscene
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Boris Vallejo and the pixel art of the demoscene
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#2Fair warning that some of the art is NSFW.
Re: Boris Vallejo and the pixel art of the demoscene
#3Fair warning that some of the art is NSFW.
I was about to say that it felt very Gorean, but then I realized _duh_ there's a reason why.
Re: Boris Vallejo and the pixel art of the demoscene
#4Fair warning that some of the art is NSFW.
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#5There's something touchingly innocent about Boris Vallejo's work. It is as if he is channeling the fantasies of a 13-year-old boy without shame, guilt or even self-consciousness. It is that rare artwork that is only about itself. It is like a picture that is run through iterative image generation using only the words "hotter" and "heroic" and "mysterious" over and over until an asymptote is reached. It seems pure and innocence in its singular interest, its lack of subtext, if not in its sexual content.
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#6I don't think Vallejo's art was necessarily limited to the demoscene; in the late 70s/80s that style was very common on video game cover art.
Related amusing article: https://www.globalnerdy.com/2007/09/14/reimagining-programmi...
Re: Boris Vallejo and the pixel art of the demoscene
#7I don't think Vallejo's art was necessarily limited to the demoscene; in the late 70s/80s that style was very common on video game cover art. Related amusing article: https://www.globalnerdy.com/2007/09/14/reimagining-programmi...
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#8"I had learned to appreciate the color limitations during the old-school graphics competition at Evoke, where we could only use a predefined color palette. The first time I submitted an entry in 2022, I hated it. The second time, in 2023, I came to accept the limited color palette as a problem to solve. And by 2024, I actually started to enjoy the challenge."
I've found that limitation in artistic mediums can serve as motivation and even inspiration in art. I primarily work with glitch art; the definition is finicky, and creating it without bleeding into the more generic genre of New Aesthetic can be difficult because of how volatile and uncooperative glitches are. A hard limitation on a number of colors in a palette seems simultaneously incredibly frustrating and liberatingly-simple. While it doesn't inherently affect the medium of the work (pixel art), it poses limitations that challenge it (fidelity in detail being most notable). These limitations also pose some ceiling on the work that can be done - a limited color depth makes an artists focus much more on effective detail than perfect detail, which I think adds character to an art piece.
Very interesting article.
Re: Boris Vallejo and the pixel art of the demoscene
#9I met him, back in the 1980s, when I was still doing paintings, myself[0]. I was surprised at how short he was.
BTW: He was a bodybuilder, and was the model for many of his paintings. His wife also featured in many.
Re: Boris Vallejo and the pixel art of the demoscene
#10I don't think Vallejo's art was necessarily limited to the demoscene; in the late 70s/80s that style was very common on video game cover art. Related amusing article: https://www.globalnerdy.com/2007/09/14/reimagining-programmi...
That's not really a claim of the article, right about from the first sentence.