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# Feel the amazing pain of creating 8-bit art
- URL: https://www.killscreen.com/feel-amazing-pain-8-bit-art/
- Published: 2015-03-12T16:00:00.000Z
- Updated: 2015-11-17T17:18:28.000Z
- Description: Beads: not just for bracelets.
- Author: David Rudin
- Tags: News, 8 bit, music, Music Videos, #wp, #wp-post, #Import 2024-07-26 09:39

If you enjoy something in popular culture, especially a film, it probably has an 8-bit version. The films of Wes Anderson? [Check](http://killscreendaily.com/articles/what-would-mario-have-done-wes-andersons-life-aquatic-steve-zissou/?ref=killscreen.com). *The Avengers*? [Check.](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P-5c5ct1FfM&ref=killscreen.com) Shakespeare? [Check](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1PMvV4DR5jU&ref=killscreen.com) and[ double-check](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kt5IOi355oI&ref=killscreen.com).

It’s hard for a work of art to serve multiple masters.

The 8-bit cinema genre has an uncomfortable relationship with its source material. 8-bit remakes are, without a doubt, tributes to the originals that inspired them. They are also odes to the good old days when 8-bit graphics were considered cutting edge. And therein lies the rub: it’s hard for a work of art to serve multiple masters. Transforming a complicated cinematographic composition to 8-bit form can feel reductive, as if to imply that 8-bit art is in some way simpler. Of course it isn’t, but that’s the risk inherent in reducing a video’s number of bits.

[The music video for The Very Best’s “Let Go”](http://www.vevo.com/watch/the-very-best/let-go/GBP251500003?ref=killscreen.com) is the corrective to this trend, and an ode to the excruciating pain that goes into making 8-bit art. Made by Swedish artist Pappas Parlor, the video shows the duo navigating two sidescroller-style levels. And while these characters are shown in 8-bit style, they’re not made of pixels. Instead, everything in “Let Go” is made out beads. *[Wired reports](http://www.wired.com/2015/03/the-very-best-8-bit-video/?ref=killscreen.com)* that all the beading and filming took over a month to complete. That’s a lot of beads.

The work that went into “Let Go” shows. The beading gives each individual pixel a physical presence. And this feeling extends to all 8-bit videos. A lot of work and thought goes into the 8-bit *Avengers* and Shakespeares of this world, even if the toil is not apparent to the naked eye. You might not want to see every 8-bit rendition in beaded form, but doing so does give you a greater appreciation of their artistry.

*[H/T Wired.](http://www.wired.com/2015/03/the-very-best-8-bit-video/?ref=killscreen.com)*