8-bit costume

Kiel Johnson and Klai Brown recently built a fantastic 8-bit costume for a Toshiba commercial directed by Docter Twins. Johnson and Brown cut the "pixels" from large sheets of high density foam and glued them to an articulated cardboard suit structure. Kiel says, "I think I cut around 4000 pixels. Not all used for Gary... we are building two more characters for a video project." He's posted a posted a slew of terrific images from the build and commercial shoot.
"8-Bit Gary"

Kiel Johnson, cardboard sculptures of media machines

David Pescovitz is Boing Boing's co-editor/managing partner. He's also a research director at Institute for the Future. On Instagram, he's @pesco.

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Pixels in 3 dimensions are called voxels (volumetric pixels).
Anonymous

Real Gary is hot.
- David Pescovitz
  
  He kinda looks like Mark Frauenfelder!
  - jfrancis
    
    Since they are on green screen somebody needs to add them to a photo of Mark.
    
    Mark, please dress accordingly for your shoot.
    
    :D
  - Antinous / Moderator
    
    The one on the left does. The one on the right’s too skinny.
Grey Devil

Looks 16bit if you ask me.
- Anonymous
  
  Yep, clearly some Mode 7 going on with the tie…
Anonymous

Before I read the title and got my eyes to properly focus on the photo I thought “Cool, a Lego clone!”
mdh

Money for nothing, and your chicks for free.
Anonymous

Not 8-bit.
Anonymous

Technically they are voxels (volumetric pixels), which is the pixel concept extended to the third dimension. For a while, they used to be all the rage and they still are for niche applications such as in medicine with CT/MRI, regular 3D applications like games and such mostly use vector graphics, often based on polygons.
donnyk

They shouldn’t rotate the bricks if they wanted a pixel look…