100% CGI versions of 80s tech and toys

Andrea James 5:02 am Wed Sep 28, 2016

Mike Campau recreated Generation Gap, a CGI series of some of the most iconic items from 1980s childhoods, each one lit with gorgeous multi-hued gradients.

Images of my childhood, when we…
had to get up to change the channel, collected enough stickers to fill a photo album (oh, and we had photo albums!), video games were for rainy days, used film to capture images, cranked up our boom boxes with homemade mixed tapes, ran around with toy guns that looked like the real thing, and had to "dial" a number.

Each piece in the series includes an overhead and a closeup.

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• Generation Gap (via Behance)

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