I took a shot at datamoshing for the latest Greyscale Gorilla’s 5 Second challenge themed, “Old Video Games“. Datamoshing is basically a compression technique that artifacts your video and creates digital glitches. There were two videos that brought this technique to the main stream, Kanye West’s video for Welcome to Heartbreak and Chairlift’s Evident Utensil. For my datamosh experiment I took screen captures of eleven different Nintendo games and edited them together. I then ran them trough FFMPEG and AVIDEMUX. Mostly I was following along with a great tutorial by Rosa Menkman. The end result was something very interesting and unique. If you’re looking for more information about the process, check out Motionographer they have a great article that’s worth reading if you have a few moments.