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#32This is great -- I just used it to draw a (cartoon) objective landscape for a stochastic objective, for my Optimisation class.
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#33That's one of these ideas I wish I had come up with. It sounds fun to program, fun to use and even potentially useful to make cutesy gifs. I wasn't familiar with PICO8, it seems to effectively be a faux-retro console emulator that you can use as a sandbox to build programs (that can then be exported to a web player, which is quite nifty): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pico-8 Unfortunately it's a proprietary platform.
Its worth the money, I wouldn't expect this sort of thing to be free.
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#34I think this is drawing on the vibe from animation styles where the artist draws several of the same frame, and minor imperfections are seen across each. (Dr. Katz etc seem to similarly be trying to mimic this.) A good example: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=53s5uln_bw4 The question though is why does this look so appealing? I guess it's probably because in general we see motion as a proxy for if something is alive,…
> (Dr. Katz etc seem to similarly be trying to mimic this.)
Fun fact: Tom Snyder (of Dr. Katz fame) invented and patented the technique, called "Squigglevision".
"Squigglevision is a patented method of computer animation in which the outlines of shapes are made to wiggle and undulate, emulating the effect of sketchily hand-drawn animation. Tom Snyder of Tom Snyder Productions invented the technique, which his animation studio Soup2Nuts subsequently used in Dr. Katz, Professional Therapist, Dick and Paula Celebrity Special, Home Movies, O'Grady, and Science Court." - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Squigglevision
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#35This is genius. It's one of those things that is sooooo simple but soooo good. The wobble makes even the crappiest little sketch come to life. I think that's what's so awesome about it.
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#36In traditional 2D animation I think this effect is not called "wobbling" but "boiling"
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#37I think this is drawing on the vibe from animation styles where the artist draws several of the same frame, and minor imperfections are seen across each. (Dr. Katz etc seem to similarly be trying to mimic this.) A good example: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=53s5uln_bw4 The question though is why does this look so appealing? I guess it's probably because in general we see motion as a proxy for if something is alive,…
Now I understand the "baba is you" aesthetic!
It makes me feel that the things on the screen are not only alive, but also a little bit restless.
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#38Just a heads up, the viewport scrolls in Firefox on Android while you're painting. Everything still works otherwise, but it makes it hard to draw because the canvas is moving with your finger. I'm guessing it has something to do with the URL bar changing the viewport height because the extra space seems to be roughly the same vertical height.
Awesome work by the way, it's a lot of fun to play with.
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#39how does it work? are you drawing to a canvas but then it's cycling through displaying 2-4 slightly different transformations of the canvas?
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#40That's one of these ideas I wish I had come up with. It sounds fun to program, fun to use and even potentially useful to make cutesy gifs. I wasn't familiar with PICO8, it seems to effectively be a faux-retro console emulator that you can use as a sandbox to build programs (that can then be exported to a web player, which is quite nifty): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pico-8 Unfortunately it's a proprietary platform.
Its worth the money, I wouldn't expect this sort of thing to be free.
Yep, slightly under the cost of two decent brews for hours of fun. Lua is easy to learn, there is a ton of Pico-8 info. Give a search for the Pico-8zine, a ton of tips and great ideas. Pico-8 has been talked about here and Hackaday.