Pixel, passion, prizes, pictures.

Patrick Jean’s short film Pixel (featured below) isn’t new – it’s been around a few months, but it is amazing. It was viewed more than 1 million times within it’s first 24 hours of its release.

It was a passion project by Patrick. He did it because he was inspired by the 8-bit video games he grew up on. He won lots of prizes, and then got many offers from major Hollywood studios (Sony, Warner, Dreamworks) to make pictures.

The lessons we can take from the film are many for entrepreneurs:

- It’s one of the best mashups of technology / genres I’ve ever seen.

- It leverages nostalgia – one of the most powerful emotional tools.

- It was released to the market free to just ‘see what happens’. And some very cool stuff happened.

- It reminds us that sampling isn’t limited to tiny bottles of shampoo.

- Patrick didn’t invent the technology to make it, he re-imagined the use of it.

Very soon, Patrick will be making movies that we’ll all be watching in cinemas. Startup blog says: think like Patrick.