Some of you may have seen one of these videos before, as they’ve been watched a total of like 10 million times, but most people have not see all four of them. The choreography and coordination to create these videos are both incredibly creative and extremely well executed. A little about the project:
GAME OVER is one of the art projects developed by the Swiss artist Guillaume REYMOND (NOTsoNOISY creative agency). It consists of a series of collaborative animation movies which revive some of the very first video games. The pixels are replaced by a group of real human-beings that are moving from seat to seat in a theatre during about 4 to 6 hours. Each “pixel” has its own rules and decides what s/he wants to do for each picture. Once all these pictures are turned into a short animation movie, a giant human-scale video game unfolds “live”.
Human Space Invaders
SPACE INVADERS is the 2nd video performance of the GAME OVER Project, directed by the Swiss artist Guillaume REYMOND (NOTsoNOISY creative agency). This stop-motion video was shot and played during and for the “Belluard Bollwerk International” festival (Fribourg, Switzerland | www.belluard.ch) on June 24th 2006.
Human Tetris
TETRIS is the 4th video performance of the GAME OVER Project, directed by the Swiss artist Guillaume REYMOND (NOTsoNOISY creative agency). This stop-motion video was shot and played for “LES URBAINES” festival http://www.urbaines.ch at the Palais de Rumine (Lausanne, Switzerland) on November 24th 2007.
Human Pole Position
POLE POSITION is the 3rd video performance of the GAME OVER Project, directed by the Swiss artist Guillaume REYMOND (NOTsoNOISY creative agency). This stop-motion video was shot and played during and for “The game is up!” festival at the Vooruit (Ghent, Belgium | www.vooruit.be) on February 11th 2007.
Pong
PONG is the first video performance of the GAME OVER Project, directed by the Swiss artist Guillaume REYMOND (NOTsoNOISY creative agency). This stop-motion video was a test-case aimed at developing the series.
The project homepage for Not So Noisy / Game Over can be found here.
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Haha so this was basically a post on the Game Over project. Pretty cool to watch, but considering how much time this must have taken, some people have too much time on their hands.
i remember space invaders from the 80s. i used to play it on my atari 2600 console (the best you can get during the time). it actually ranked as one of the most influential games of all time.
this videos are really a great tribute to to such classics.
human chess taken to the next level. digital humans, quite a concept. And very cool.
I am not that impressed about the videos, but I love the sounds…
happy easter
Rhoody
Awes om concept, funny sounds and man it would have taken a lot of effort making these animations and then turning them into the classic games, still they did it quite well. 9/10 xD