Project Description

In Macgyver S04E09 a government mainframe gets infiltrated by a mysterious hacker who’s only calling card is a sinister grim reaper figure wagging its finger. They wanted the artwork to look like an old NES game so I looked up the classic NES color palette and used that for the animation. I also was careful to use the NES’ real screen resolution to lend a little extra authenticity

 

Here’s the final version with the animation. Note each frame of the hand wagging actually had to be custom made to as the resolution was too low to simply rotate the hand in photoshop.

Here’s an early version where it was a skull, which they later changed to a plague mask to make it more interesting and unique:

 

Here’s how it appeared in the episode. Spooky!

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graphics,illustrations,playback,