Festival of pixel art "Shibuya Pixel Art 2019" is being held in the city of Shibuya!

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The festival "Shibuya Pixel Art 2019 (Shibuya pixel art)" of pixel art is about 100 places of town media "ROADCAST" (building wall etc.) around Shibuya Station until June 1 to 30, 2019, SHIBUYA CAST-Works are being exhibited at various places in the city of Shibuya, such as Cafe Are and adidas Originals Flagship Store Tokyo.

"PIXEL (Pixel)" is the smallest unit when displaying an image on a computer, so-called "dot (small square point)". The picture or work drawn by the dot is called "pixel art". Shibuya, where IT ventures are concentrated, was called "Bit Valley" in opposition to "Silicon Valley", but from such a historical background Shibuya could be said to be a city with a high affinity for pixel art. The event, which started in 2017 with the idea of "bit art and pixel art in Bit Valley," will mark its third year this year.

Prior to the event, the public recruited works from February 1st to March 31st, 2019 as "Shibuya Pixel Art Contest 2019 (Shibuya Pixel Art Contest)". We have you create pixel art such as illustration, animation, image, sculpture, embroidery, photography on the theme of "Shibuya" "age" "human" "yokai" "festival", and put a hashtag "# shibuyapixelart2019" on Twitter , I recruited works in the form of posting to Instagram.

The total number of applications is 895 points, tripled last year. As a result of the final review by the jury members from the viewpoints of uniqueness, sociality, and organization power, one final excellent award, 10 excellent awards, "adidas Originals Flagship Store Tokyo" special award, and Limited Pixel Art award 4 points , Analog Pixel Art Award 1 point, Beyond Pixel Art Award 1 point Total 16 works 18 awards were selected. For the final award, the "born town" created by @ m7kenji was chosen.

"Don't rely on the landmarks of Shibuya such as 109. Recreate the scenery that is everywhere in Shibuya to represent the city. Change the contrast of high-density dot pictures that tend to be uniform in appearance with contrast, with arrows, etc. The height of the technology can be seen, such as the point at which the eye gaze is drawn, "the judges gave high marks.

The award winning works are up to 30 days, SHIBUYA CAST In addition to being displayed at "Cafe Are (Aure)" inside, excellent works are also featured in about 100 town media "ROADCAST" that use the building wall around Shibuya Station. In addition, the special awards "SHIBUYA BOYS" and "SHIBUYA GIRLS" will be exhibited at the adidas Originals Flagship Store Tokyo B1 until the 21st.

展示 Exhibited works in about 100 places in the city of Shibuya. It is fun to look for while taking a walk.

★ Pixel art winning exhibition place
○ Date: June 1 (Sat)-June 30 (Sun)
○ Venue & Media
・ Adidas Originals Flagship Store Tokyo B1 (June 1st-June 21st * Special prize display)
・ The huge vision of QFRONT (June 15-June 30 ※ highest award listed)
・ About 100 places "ROADCAST" around Shibuya Station (June 17-June 30 ※ Excellent works displayed)
・ SHIBUYA CAST/ Cafe Are (June 20-June 30 * All award winning works displayed)
Yes Fee: Free
〇 Official:https://pixel-art.jp/

★ Shibuya radio左 From the left: Shibuya Keizai Shimbun · Nishiki editor in chief, Shibuya Pixel Art Executive Committee · Motokuni Sakaguchi
In conjunction with the site "Shibuya Culture Project", which sends information on Shibuya's culture, we broadcast live on Shibuya radio every other Wednesday. As a radio guest on June 19th, Mr. Motokuni Sakaguchi (especially Sakaguchi) appeared from the Shibuya Pixel Art Executive Committee. As we hear story in detail about event contents of this year, please check on air by all means.

★ The broadcast on June 19This direction