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Game Art: Nicolas Boillot's "Lambeaux" (2012-ongoing)

Matteo

25 Apr 2013 — 1 min read

Shown on the DVD dead drop by Aram Barthollvol.5 : BEST OF curated by Fach & Asendorf Gallery(February 8 – March 14, 2013) Museum of the Moving Image, New York, USA

French artistic Nicolas Boillot (b., 1979 in Pontarlier) creates intense loop animation using videogames such as Geometry Wars and Marvel vs. Capcom as his source material. He deconstructs the gamer gaze by extracting and accumulating "only the moving parts, on a loop of 25 images/frame," as he explained to Triangulation Blog. Impressive.

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Nicolas Boillot
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