Showing posts with label 2007. Show all posts
Showing posts with label 2007. Show all posts

Tuesday, October 04, 2011

GAME: Jason Rohrer - [2007] Passage [2D 8-Bit Short Art Game]


Rohrer excells in selecting massive concepts and distilling them down into a simple idea; his art game Passage is no different. Using a minimal 100x12 pixel playing area, Rohrer's "memento mori" piece is able to encapsulate life, love, age, and death all within a 5 minute time window.

Thursday, September 01, 2011

TV: Augenblick Studios - [2007-Present] Superjail! [2D Animated Series]


Superjail!, a US television series first created and initially produced by Augenblick Studios, is one of those rare shows that not only harks back to traditional animation but continues to push the envelope of the classic techniques. Extremely fluid motion, frantic artistic styles, bright psychedelic color schemes, stream-of-consciousness plot/setting shifts, and layers upon layers of (often times outlandish and gratuitous) cartoon violence fill each shot to ADHD-inducing amount places less stress on the dialog and more emphasis on the animation.