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# 8-bit artist makes new autobiographical GIF every day
- URL: https://www.killscreen.com/8-bit-artist-makes-new-autobiographical-gif-every-day/
- Published: 2016-03-17T13:00:58.000Z
- Updated: 2016-03-17T09:26:20.000Z
- Description: This article contains flashing images. /// Speaking to Vice’s The Creator’s Project, Italy-born, Shanghai-based illustrator Ailadi says “I like the combination of PETSCII 8-bit game aesthetic with subjects of common daily life.” She’s referring to her PETSCII series, an art project based around prod
- Author: Michelle Ehrhardt
- Tags: News, 8 bit, ailadi, Art, China, gif, instagram, retro, #wp, #wp-post, #Import 2024-07-26 09:39

*This article contains flashing images.*

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Speaking to *Vice*’s [*The Creator’s Projec*t](http://thecreatorsproject.vice.com/en%5Fuk/blog/ailadi-8-bit-gifs?ref=killscreen.com), Italy-born, Shanghai-based illustrator Ailadi says “I like the combination of PETSCII 8-bit game aesthetic with subjects of common daily life.” She’s referring to her *PETSCII* series, an art project based around producing one new 8-bit gif per day, fittingly named after the character set from the line of 8-bit home computers Commodore produced in the ‘70s. “I mostly draw at night, just before going to sleep,” she tells *Vice*. “And the subject of it represents something about the day that just passed: something I did, I saw, that happened around me or in the news.”

“I mostly draw at night, just before going to sleep”

This basis in reality doesn’t stop the gifs from having a slight surreal touch, however. “Perhaps it’s the 8-bit medium stirring nostalgia, but Ailadi’s often whimsical GIFs seem to take place in a slightly different world,” notes *Vice*’s Gabrielle Bruney. “A gentler, more amusing one, where a girl can pet an alligator seemingly without fear.” According to the interview, the project is being made in collaboration with 8-bit enthusiast [Jamonbill](https://twitter.com/jambonbill?ref=killscreen.com), who Ailadi explains is behind the program she uses to draw and animate her gifs. As the program improves, she’s excited “to keep evolving and imagining new way \[sic\] of ‘petsciing’.”

Check out some of Ailadi’s gifs below. Damn if that alligator isn’t cute.

![ailadi1](https://storage.ghost.io/c/25/84/2584b75d-4bd6-4cce-8259-f1d1c65abbb5/content/images/previously/wp-content/uploads/2016/03/ailadi1.gif)

![ailadi2](https://storage.ghost.io/c/25/84/2584b75d-4bd6-4cce-8259-f1d1c65abbb5/content/images/previously/wp-content/uploads/2016/03/ailadi2.gif)

![ailadi3](https://storage.ghost.io/c/25/84/2584b75d-4bd6-4cce-8259-f1d1c65abbb5/content/images/previously/wp-content/uploads/2016/03/ailadi3.gif)

![ailadi4](https://storage.ghost.io/c/25/84/2584b75d-4bd6-4cce-8259-f1d1c65abbb5/content/images/previously/wp-content/uploads/2016/03/ailadi4.gif)

*For more, you can follow Ailadi on [Instagram](https://www.instagram.com/ailadi/?ref=killscreen.com), and read the full interview over on [The Creator’s Project](http://thecreatorsproject.vice.com/en%5Fuk/blog/ailadi-8-bit-gifs?ref=killscreen.com).*