Project Pixelated Combat

Project Pixelated Combat achieves its name from the way the image is drawn on the wall with marker pen, the smooth lines are replaced with harsh jagged edges, as if the image has become pixelated due to it being too large and therefore distorting the image.

This gave a sense of virtualness to the image as if the image was not real. The image itself consisted of two characters battling in a futuristic war-type scenario. The notion given that the pixels relate to a virtual game world again ties the two worlds of war and play, a combination found interesting by both myself and Joe, and also one we want to pursue in later works.

The image itself was created by myself and Joe in a PC game, as we were after an image which would start small and eventually look distorted and pixelated by the time it was enlarged to such a scale.

This image was created in the PC game. Warhammer 40K: Dark Crusade. A popular game for fans of the Warhammer genre, and it was one step away from what we were doing with the small models previously.

We both liked this image a lot, and it was again re-used in a similar Pixelated Combat body of work. Also, we had talked about maybe trying to create this ‘scene’ in 3D form, using the Warhammer 40K models.