In March 2024, a reimagined Street Fighter Squatties scene was selected for inclusion in SELECT START, an immersive gaming-themed digital art event hosted by legendary digital artist Beeple Studios in Charleston, South Carolina.
The event featured over 140 video game-inspired artworks from digital artists around the world, displayed across giant collaborative canvases and large-scale digital screens throughout the venue.
The email confirming the Street Fighter scene had been selected for the exhibition.Rebuilding The Street Fighter Scene
For the exhibition, I revisited and reconstructed the original Street Fighter installation from 2014 — reimagining the giant Squatties convention display as a fully rendered digital scene designed specifically for the SELECT START showcase.
The piece blended the geometric papercraft-inspired style of the original characters with dramatic digital lighting, presentation rendering, and a more cinematic environment.
The recreated Street Fighter Squatties scene created for SELECT STARTIncluded Among 140 Artists
The artwork was personally selected by Beeple and his team as part of the curated event lineup and displayed amongst a huge collection of gaming-inspired digital art from creators across the industry.
The final installation transformed the Beeple Studios space into an enormous celebration of video game culture, digital creativity, and internet-era art communities.
Wide view of the giant collaborative SELECT START exhibition canvas.
The Street Fighter Squatties piece displayed amongst the other selected artists.SELECT START
Hosted at Beeple Studios, SELECT START brought together artists working across games, internet culture, digital sculpture, motion design, illustration, and experimental media into a single immersive exhibition space.
Although I sadly didn't make it out to Charleston for the event itself, having the work selected and displayed as part of the exhibition was a huge honour — especially as someone heavily influenced by video game culture throughout the Squatties project.
