Jakub Sobka, known as Guandanarian, is a Polish computer scientist and pixel artist whose work combines handmade, frame-by-frame animated pixel art made in Aseprite with colourful 3D patterns and shapes generated in Blender, Pico-8 and Mandelbulb 3D. His style took shape around the time of his university graduation in 2021.
Across his work he builds a fictional universe called A-systems, a mysterious organization whose circuits and technological artifacts feature its flagship creation, a small assistant character named Bit. He often hides messages inside his pieces, sometimes down to a single pixel, and breaks the fourth wall for attentive viewers, an approach he sums up with the motto “Every pixel has a story”. He describes his own style as “digital horror vacui”, built either around a single large 3D shape sculpted in Blender or Mandelbulb 3D and post-processed in Aseprite, or around a shape surrounded by many small elements.
