Shawn Smith brings 8-bit art into three dimensions, one tiny block of wood at a time

Austin, Texas-based artist Shawn Smith creates sculptures of things like vultures, sharks and hats on fire, and they're seriously awesome, 8-bit style extravaganzas. The pieces are largely created out of small blocks of wood, and then painted. Hit the source (the artist's website) to see many, many examples of his stunning and beautiful work.

[Joe Cool Posted Jun 30th 2010 3:34PM]

liar liar hat on fire?

[coolkams03 Posted Jun 30th 2010 3:34PM]

... and art it is

[Heckle0 Posted Jun 30th 2010 3:38PM]

Very cool stuff. Would love to decorate my place with it.

[Jukah Posted Jun 30th 2010 3:41PM]

looks more like 16 bit if you ask me.

[Maxpower57 Posted Jun 30th 2010 3:46PM]

Isn't this just a more tedious version of Lego art?

[sabretoooth Posted Jun 30th 2010 5:38PM]

@Maxpower57
no that would be minecraft

[MichaelJJackson Posted Jun 30th 2010 3:46PM]

My hats on fire, now how am I going to perform billie jean :{

[Joe Cool Posted Jun 30th 2010 3:51PM]

@MichaelJJackson

lol :)
RIP MJ!

[bludev3 Posted Jun 30th 2010 3:50PM]

low-res never looked so good

[GSGeek Posted Jun 30th 2010 3:53PM]

Vultures are cool. I wonder why they didn't gut out an old, 8-bit computer instead? I could imagine one of the birds flying away with a 6502 processor chip.

[untrueparadox Posted Jun 30th 2010 4:16PM]

at first i thought it was terrible jpeg compression

[PolarBearTC Posted Jun 30th 2010 4:33PM]

@untrueparadox -- it does sort of mess with the eyes..

[slickpaki Posted Jun 30th 2010 4:32PM]

man its like a freaking illusion. I still cant make out how he could have made that vulture look so computer-like in a real-work environment. what great minds we have in this world.

truly amazing, but not as beautiful!

[MVMNT Posted Jun 30th 2010 5:55PM]

Its like hes never seen lego in his life

[neo122112 Posted Jun 30th 2010 5:56PM]

Genius

[josah Posted Jun 30th 2010 6:14PM]

Hopefully he isn't cheating and is sticking to a limited color palette.

[SpeedyJDK Posted Jul 1st 2010 8:10AM]

Looks like lego :)