Comments on: Quick Play: Awesome Pixel Art Brings Classic Video Game Characters To Life

By: Jenova (Mandy)

Jenova (Mandy) — Sun, 26 Oct 2008 21:34:28 +0000

I have done this before, but on a much larger scale. As seen here: http://jenovatra.deviantart.com/art/Siren-84126740

By: Derek

Derek — Wed, 28 May 2008 01:37:06 +0000

Holy crap, I didn’t know people still made those bead things. I used to make those all the time as a kid, and I dug out a few I still had the other day. It’s nice to see them again, especially in such a creative display. Props.

By: Angie

Angie — Tue, 04 Dec 2007 02:22:51 +0000

These are actually quite difficult to create — Even though you just arrange the beads, and iron, there are so many things that could potentially go wrong, choosing the correct color s would be the most difficult [even with a perfect match sometimes another color will work best, gotto have an eye for these things] next would be the ironing — you don’t get that right, you’re screwed! - especially with the larger pieces. In my opinion, this guy’s stuff is great

By: foglera

foglera — Tue, 27 Nov 2007 18:07:01 +0000

Pardon me a moment, I have to nip down to JOANN Fabrics to pick up 1.92 million beads, that I might cobble together an eighteen-foot by twenty-five-foot recreation of THIS VERY WEB PAGE. Your laughter is falling on deaf ears, my friends, for it will be I who has the last laugh when I have earned accolades and kudos from vaunted Internauts First Class “mchi” and “Old Fart”!!

Oh yes.

By: Old Fart

Old Fart — Mon, 26 Nov 2007 16:53:43 +0000

Interesting but amazing?? Give a 10 year old some colored beads and one of those low res 32×64 pixellated characters from “The Good Old Days” and they can do the same thing.

I agree with mchi, make a 1600×1200 bead picture and I will say amazing…

By: mumucachu366

mumucachu366 — Mon, 26 Nov 2007 15:43:12 +0000

I used to make those things all the time, but never had the creative genius to make classic NES characters out of them, thanks, now I’ve gotta get to the store as soon as possible and buy some beads and waste away more of my life! Haha

By: Sewerraccoon

Sewerraccoon — Mon, 26 Nov 2007 03:16:54 +0000

No way I’ve done this before! My little sister has some of these and I made the Mario sprite from SMB 1. These are even cooler and bigger though. Awesomzorz

By: mchi

mchi — Mon, 26 Nov 2007 02:51:07 +0000

hmm…
pixel graphics used to represent illustrated art on limited display systems now brought back to life using colored beads on a table… brilliant or boring? want to impress me, draw me a 1600×1200 display with your colored beads of this very web page. then my hat will be off to you.

By: pimpybra

pimpybra — Mon, 26 Nov 2007 01:22:41 +0000

You can buy the tools/beads needed to make these at a local craft store, you put them on a small plate w/ of points, then use an iron to melt them together. Since all the NES based art is pixel based, it is easy to re-create.

That being said, this guy still made some awesome stuff, and it still takes patience and ability - I’m not knocking what he did, it’s AWESOME.

By: Adam

Adam — Mon, 26 Nov 2007 01:20:57 +0000

Nice! The round beads give the sprites an added bit of dimension. Real cool, especially Koopa Troopa from Mario Kart.

By: mr. bones

mr. bones — Sun, 25 Nov 2007 20:58:46 +0000

wow. these are amazing. i want megaman vs. metal man. is he selling these?