Converting movie clips to ANSImation
Recently I’ve been captivated by the idea of taking video clips and converting them into ANSImations, then making them playable on my BBS. There are other, better converters, but I wrote my own in...
View ArticleDetention Block AA-23
Is today the 40th anniversary of the original release of “Star Wars”? Blocktronics is all over it. The ANSI supergroup’s new artpack “Detention Block AA-23” landed today, and amazingly I contributed a...
View ArticleNew parallax ANSImation: Millennium Falcon dodging asteroids
I want to push boundaries. That’s what the original Star Wars films did. Industrial Light & Magic revolutionized special effects with novel new techniques for motion control and amazing model work....
View ArticleNew ANSImation: Star Wars opening crawl
When Star Wars debuted in 1977, the first sequence audiences took in was the iconic opening crawl: a wall of yellow text rolling up the screen, shrinking toward a vanish point in the distance. This...
View ArticleNew ANSImation: Star Trek: The Trouble With The Rangifer Tarandus
In December, I created a new ANSI animation for the holidays called “Star Trek: The Trouble With The Rangifer Tarandus”, which was released in Blocktronics’ “Darker Image #2” artpack. Here’s a video...
View ArticleParallax-scrolling effect … in ANSI
Every so often I’ve been experimenting with Synchronet BBS’s Javascript capabilities, as I try to figure out how to make a BBS door game with my daughter. So far we’ve learned how to create a new...
View ArticleANSI tile map
Earlier this year I described how we used Synchronet’s Javascript support plus its Frame and Sprite libraries to produce some pretty cool ANSI animation effects, including a sprite walking in front of...
View ArticleANSI mermaid swims in parallax
I made it into an artpack! It’s no exaggeration to say that as a kid I always admired the guys in the artscene. I saw their work from afar, and they inspired me to dabble in ANSI myself. I didn’t...
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