Prawn Party - As Seen on TV made using Sega's Art Alive!
23This hypercolour prawn knows how to party. I was fascinated by how a few simple strokes could help build a character. Party Prawn is fun with a dash of Australian personality. When COVID-19 started ruining plans all throughout 2020, I wanted to create something special for friends and family at Christmas. Prawns are often served during Christmas in Australia so I made a series of magnets with these funky prawns having a party. It was a chance to acknowledge the parties and get
togethers we missed during 2020 and because the magnets were on a solid black background,
the magnets could be arranged any way you wanted. Together or alone.
I called this collection of images As Seen on TV because once you turn the console off, the original is lost forever. There’s no way to save the originals of these pieces. There’s no storage on the cartridge and there’s no export options in the software.
By using screencapture software I was able to save copies of the artwork and record how it was created. I also took photos of each piece once they were done to capture how they appeared in their original form on an old CRT television.
Sega's Art Alive! has a lot of limitations. 16 colours, a control pad for input and no way to save your work, but I wanted to create something beautiful. 'As Seen on TV' is a collection of art made using a Sega Mega Drive, a control pad and a copy of Art Alive!. I recorded the screen to capture the process knowing the original drawing would be lost as I turned the system off.
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