#Beeple yoink software

#Beeple yoink software

Although his art has evolved greatly since he began experimenting as a teenager using limited DOS software (flashing squares of colour, odd sounds), what he’s become famous for in the past year is making complex digital renderings – talking skulls, sci-fi-inspired interiors and buildings, zombie armies, desolate landscapes – set in a surrealist, dystopian future. He calls this project his “Everydays”.īeeple’s art is, like all “digital art”, made using computer programs, most recently, in his case, a program called Cinema 4D. Since he began, he tells me, he “has never missed a deadline”.

Since May 2007, Winkelmann has made one new digital artwork every 24 hours, posting the artwork online, somewhere out in the dark, inky, digital ether, without fail, before midnight. No matter what you know about Winkelmann already, know this: he’s a highly entertaining raconteur. Beeple, really, is a 40-year-old man called Mike Winkelmann based in South Carolina, a man who is currently talking to me via Zoom from his brand-new football pitch-sized art factory, located a short distance from his house and main studio. Mike Winkelmann, in his new studio space, creates a digital artwork for the GQ Men Of The Year Awards Will Crooksīeeple, of course, is a tag, a pseudonym, a nom de plume.