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Boris Vallejo and the pixel art of the demoscene
Drawing a line art imitation of one of demoscene favorite Boris Vallejo's fantasy paintings using only four colors.
Vallejo's visual aesthetic was one that many demoscene groups sought to replicate or pay homage to on the new 16-bit platforms like the Commodore Amiga, the Atari ST, and the PC with its wonderful VGA graphics. If my suspicion is true, I personally believe it takes a lot of craft to reproduce a painting as pixel art with the comparatively low resolution and limited color palette of a Commodore Amiga or a PC with VGA graphics. My journey through Vallejo's influence on the demoscene brought me to the essay An Original Picture written in 2007 by Lars Ghandy Sobiraj, the main editor of the longest running Amiga diskmag Jurassic Pack.
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