A Pixelated Recreation of Donald Glover Dancing in ‘This Is America’ Video Made With a 1990 Mac SE

New York City filmmaker, artist and animator Wahyu Ichwandardi aka Pinot, is working on an absolutely incredible recreation of the highly expressive dance that Donald Glover performed in the Childish Gambino music video “This Is America” using a 1990 Macintosh SE computer with MacPaint and MacroMind software. Pinot is keeping people up to date on this project through his Twitter feed and as of July 5, he had 375 frames finished.

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

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

— Wahyu Ichwandardi (@pinot) June 9, 2018

Close enough ? pic.twitter.com/pJrj5uD8FP

— Wahyu Ichwandardi (@pinot) June 12, 2018

Synchronizing the first 15 seconds. pic.twitter.com/fhofEeSWzy

— Wahyu Ichwandardi (@pinot) June 18, 2018

So far so good. I think. ? pic.twitter.com/EJvvIpjYqZ

— Wahyu Ichwandardi (@pinot) July 6, 2018

GIF workflow:
– MacroMind Director 1.0 – export as PICT sequence
– Copy to SD card via BMOW’s Floppy Emu
– Open the PICT sequence in MacOS X with Graphic Converter software
– Batch resize & export as GIF animation

— Wahyu Ichwandardi (@pinot) July 9, 2018