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Hi; I can see that there any many people around here ho knows about ASCII art.
I'm looking for some advice to make such kind of things.
This is my crap atempt to make a CHIMUSIC related video.
So here is my question:
How do you make your chip music video visuals?
As usual thanks in advance.
hi!
so the first people that come to mind when ascii art comes up are guys like goto80 and acid terrorist- they seem to use c64 for pretty much everything. i'm not a c64 expert and so i hope someone who is knowledgeable about that kind of thing sees this and is able to respond. if you don't have a c64 tho i have heard of some of my friends using this program on their pcs: http://www.radsoft.pl/en/software/
whether it is any good or not.. not too sure. i just know people use it 
it seems capable of doing the things you want.
hope this helps some! liked your vid, btw.
aviel
Last edited by defPREMIUM (Jan 27, 2013 12:00 am)
Thanks aviel, I will check the link as I dont own a c64. I like the goto80 style.
It depends on your preferred approach and patience.
Acid terrorist animates visuals frame by frame (from the stuff i've seen) in PETSCII (c64 native text mode with severe restrictions), which is utterly tedious, yet beautiful.
Another approach is to render your material to PETSCII/ASCII/ANSI automatically. You could check 'text mode demo compo' for more examples like this http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TO4IyHZ0ci4.
Ofcourse there's a lot of inbetween solutions. If you don't care for it to run on a real C64 you have much more freedom. I'd personally go for 'ASCII-inspired' which could lead to new aesthetics, instead of following the path of e.g. Acid Terrorist.
I've done a couple of videos based on the C64, one inspired on the c64 palette and aesthetics, but neglecting the restrictions. (http://www.sanderfocus.nl/portfolio/comtron-money) Where i did static visuals in photoshop and animated these in 3d, After Effects or Flash.
The possibilites are endless, but i'd advice have a consistent approach, instead of merging all possible angles together.
@aviel
I've checking C64 ASCII Art Editor as you sugested, I see that is quite easy to use and also can generate frame by frame work in a nice way. But the main problem I found that is not ASCII, as you know the C64 uses PETSCII so some of of the ASCII things I have dont work.
Anyway I'll try to make something with ASCII seriously when I take some time.