I’ve been on a tear the past few days…
For those who don’t know, Lakitu is the S.O.B in the cloud from the later stages of Super Mario Brothers that would throw spiked turtles on you. Kind of a heel, he appeared at seemingly the worst times. It was always sweet when you could kill him with star power. Anyway, he was a formidable adversary so I decided to pay homage. I put another picture of my goofy mug in there to give an idea of scale.
I got the sprite image from here.
Like the Zelda Old Man, I wanted to show the process of changing from one mosaic (Desert) to a new one. In this case the new mosaic is Kirby from the original NES game. I’ll post some better pictures tomorrow (when the lighting is better)
Quacktastic!
After painting 3 batches of blue pixels, I finished my favorite mosaic yet. The pictures don’t really do justice to the size of this thing.
By popular demand, Samus Arun from Metroid. Thanks to shyguykindom for the sprite. Working on something very special tonight!
“It’s Dangerous to go alone. Take this.”
I thought it might be cool to do a “Stop Motion” video with a series of photos that document the transition from one mosaic to another in order to illustrate how easy it is. Unfortunatley, I couldn’t figure out how to automatically capture pictures at regular time intervals using my Powershot – so I had to make do with a five picture slide show. I’ll keep working on a real stop motion solution. Hypothetically, one could do some pretty cool animations with the tiles.
Thanks to “pimpmynintendo.com” for the Zelda sprites
8 Bit Living 