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(4 replies, posted in Commodore Computers)

Just wanted to share this fine data with you. Released on the X2012 (commodore 64 demoscene) party this weekend.
The demoscene is building on a 30 years old tradition, so it might not always appear very 'contemporary', it's still mostly a code-driven scene.

All releases are here: http://noname.c64.org/csdb/event/?id=1708 (get an emulator)
Quite a few entries are still missing from the top 10, but these are here to enjoy sofar.


Ended up first place. A great example of how hardcore coding meets creativity. They usually don't go together so well .



#2


#3


#6. A demo from Turkey, which breathes a different kind of design elements, quite different to the 'typical western' demos.



#7 A demo concerning new SID technologies can be downloaded here: http://noname.c64.org/csdb/release/?id=112365


Some graphics, which i previously forgot..

By Tommi Musturi (google him!) aka Electric/Extend.
http://noname.c64.org/csdb/release/?id=112368


By Archmage/Shape/Offence.
http://noname.c64.org/csdb/release/?id=112366


By PAL/Offence.
http://noname.c64.org/csdb/release/?id=112367

I will try to post more stuff once they are released/youtubed.

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(16 replies, posted in Graphics, Artwork & Design)

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(4 replies, posted in Graphics, Artwork & Design)

No, i consider a Wacom quite useless for drawing under the size of A4.
They're quite expensive. http://www.wacom.com/en/products/pen-ta … p;panel1-2

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(4 replies, posted in Graphics, Artwork & Design)

I'd go for illustrator and a Wacom (for photoshop).

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(14 replies, posted in Releases)

Awesome! Love this sound heart

Not sure, but if his nick on 8bc was brndn it could be this guy: http://www.facebook.com/brndn.b
(FB link from derpa.livejournal.com, which is listed on his 8bc profile page.) His email would be [email protected].
Drop him a mail and ask smile

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(1 replies, posted in Constructive Criticism)

I really like the visuals, absolutely beautiful work!

My personal thought is it could perhaps benefit from having hints of realism, e.g. having a (stylized) face/figure emerge from the abstract layers. Maybe adding some kind of parallaxing to it might work out well too, to exploit the 'layers' a bit more.
The black and white sometimes feels a bit limited, but i understand your software causes this. Perhaps it might be an idea to have a 'video-mixer' on top of that device to distort and play around with the RGB a bit.

[edit]
Here's a possible example of what i ment with 'stylized face/figure' (by Ben Kelley)

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(1,052 replies, posted in Graphics, Artwork & Design)

A series of ASCII portraits, all done in their native characters and colors. C64, Apple II and Unix.
Admitted, i smuggled some chars in the Unix image. C64 executable here.

Available at my shop smile

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(1,485 replies, posted in Trading Post)

Fantastic!

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(12 replies, posted in Trading Post)

Great stuff!

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(1,052 replies, posted in Graphics, Artwork & Design)

Wow smile Was that originally a pencil drawing, digitally retouched? Or what was your workflow?

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(1,052 replies, posted in Graphics, Artwork & Design)

Gorgeous!
I'm working on t-shirts/things with 'ascii stuff' too.. Competitive market wink Will post soon.

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(12 replies, posted in General Discussion)

Yeah, homemade printing is the best. Although the services e.g. spreadshirt offers in dealing with returns, payment and delivery really makes things easy.
If you really intend to sell lots of shirts a combination might be a good idea. Like run of the mill shirts from spreadshirt, and 'limited editions' with homemade silkscreen.
A homemade silkscreen printer is not that hard to make, just buy some screens, and do sth indy style like i did here:

Printing in multiple colors requires some tight carpenter skills, unlike my effort up here smile

And feel free to hack your spreadshirt shop with the stuff i did here. Some javascripts and css solutions to get rid of the unneccesary stuff.

Oh hmm Seems like i'm a hipster by accident.

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(12 replies, posted in General Discussion)

I've been using Spreadshirt for some projects. Decent alternatives (for what i understood) are Zazzle.com, society6.com and what Telerophone said (big cartel).

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(1,052 replies, posted in Graphics, Artwork & Design)

Minusbaby, very authentic and original work! i love it.

Ilkke, thanks smile and i guess the correct answer was 'no', but there was a lot of manual work involved smile