Artist is animating "This is America" with vintage Mac software

Rusty Blazenhoff 4:00 am Mon Jul 9, 2018

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In progress: Capturing Donald Glover dance in This Is America video. Using Macintosh SE computer, MacPaint software & MacroMind software. Currently: 375 frames.

A post shared by Pinot (@pinot) on Jul 4, 2018 at 4:18pm PDT

New York City animator and illustrator Wahyu Ichwandardi (aka @pinot) is currently animating Childish Gambino's "This is America" music video in MacPaint (software from 1984) and MacroMind VideoWorks (1985) on a Macintosh SE. On Thursday, he was 375 frames in. He's been sharing his progress on Twitter since June 9:

Trying to capture Donald Glover's motion in MacPaint. pic.twitter.com/gL7JErrJpN

— Wahyu Ichwandardi (@pinot) June 9, 2018

Synchronizing. pic.twitter.com/7GgGFn4Htz

— Wahyu Ichwandardi (@pinot) June 18, 2018

MacPaint doesn't have layers for onion skin drawing. But at least it has copy paste o/ pic.twitter.com/97fKtf0FFX

— Wahyu Ichwandardi (@pinot) June 10, 2018

https://twitter.com/pinot/status/10099711558040084498

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