Octobit 2017: A Month of Pixels

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I participated in Octobit 2017 this past month. I really enjoyed being part of Octobit 2016 and was happy to join the fun again this year.

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As with last year, I really enjoyed being part of a group of artists. Each of us had a different style and interpretation of the themes. I was especially proud to be in the mix with so many talentend people in Retronator's coverage of Octobit 2017.

#1 Clown

I started this one in Dotpict on my phone and finished it on my iPad in Pixaki. The palette is from trying to import a PICO-8 image into Dotpict, which must sample the colors differently from how I expected, because this didn't end up being in the PICO-8 palette.

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#2 Astronaut

Based this one on Chris Hadfield's video of his David Bowie cover in space.

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#3 Prey

A deer fawn.

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#4 Fresh / Rotten

Making cheese.

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#5 Too Many Legs

A bold jumper spider.

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#6 Crush

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#7 Tree House

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#8 Good Witch

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#9 Breakfast

I drew this one at 8x8 pixels because I knew I wanted to make a longer animation than I usually do.

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#10 Isolated

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#11 Theme Park

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#12 Dolls

A corn husk doll.

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#13 Cartoon

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#14 Sushi

This one is in two parts. For part one I finished a drawing I started in December 2014, but never shared before.

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For part two I drew a sushi stand from the Tsukiji outer fish market.

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#15 Road Trip

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#16 Teenagers

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#17 Flora

I did some programming to procedurally generate this one. Felt a little lazy, but took just as long as my normal drawings.

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#18 Tea Party

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#19 Butterfly

I extended my flora code with a butterfly animation I drew by hand on my iPad in Pixaki.

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#20 Rainbow

More code to generate this one. This time I drew a fish and had them swim around in a loop.

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#21 Basement

This doodle had a hardware component. The spider webs population measured by the spook-o-meter reflects the pressure on a sensor.

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#22 Puppy

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#23 Mushrooms

Some of my favorite enoki mushrooms in shabu-shabu broth.

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#24 Tiny House

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#25 Deep Sea

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#26 Ash Grey

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#27 Birthday Cake

An angel food cake for my grandfather who would have turned 100 that day.

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#28 Campfire

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#29 Nap

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#30 Old Friend

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#31 Happy Ending / Everybody Dies

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