Celebrity Pixel Art?

April 3, 2008 5:02 PM

Who created those 8-bit pixel art graphics of many famous characters?

This was a big blogosphere thing maybe 2 or 3 years ago? An artist created this huge number of blocky front-view representations of all sorts of famous people and it was almost a game to see if you could figure out who it was. And the fun part was that you COULD tell who they were, even though they were really minimal. I remember some of them were individual characters (I'm figuring Star Wars characters) and some were groups (I remember Kiss and Guns 'n Roses).

I looked here and boingboing under any variation of 8-bit, pixel-art, icon, celebrity, etc. and I can't find it.

I think this even ended up in the mainstream media at one point. I'm sure this is an easy one but my mind is totally blank and my Google-mojo seems to have left me.

posted by stevil to computers & internet (3 comments total)

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posted by moonmilk at 5:03 PM on April 3 [3 favorites]

And was it all in an excel spreadsheet? Linked in blog post here.
posted by avocet at 7:18 PM on April 3

Chris Diclerico also made some celebrity pixel characters, but I don't think that's the one you are looking for.
posted by Zarya at 8:34 PM on April 3