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Let's not forget that most of these pictures were made by teenagers, doing the best they could (and hoping others didn't know about Boris Vallejo). The demoscene was very young back then. Copying is generally considered pretty lame in the demoscene these days.
You will still see plenty of e.g. SID covers of existing pop music, without anyone really batting an eyelid.
As it happens I'm just on a train to Airbnb with large group of demoscene and fractal art friends, full week ahead of the Revision[0] demoparty! Hells yeah My top pick for pixel art would be anything by Made of demogroup Bomb, don't have a good link to hand sorry and need to change trains etc. Also check this amazing pixel art book: https://www.themastersofpixelart.com/ [0] https://2026.revision-party.net/
In the Lazur's 256 colour rendition, it is curious that they got the details in the front very well but messed up the third guys face completely.
> Farting around with Amigas in 2026 means actively choosing to make things harder for the sake of making things harder. Making that choice and still outsourcing the bulk of the craft and creative process is like claiming to be a passionate hobby cook while serving professionally catered dinners and pretending they're your own concoctions. People wanting to explore the use of generative AI for vintage computers is ha…
Let's not forget that most of these pictures were made by teenagers, doing the best they could (and hoping others didn't know about Boris Vallejo). The demoscene was very young back then. Copying is generally considered pretty lame in the demoscene these days.
> Copying is generally considered pretty lame in the demoscene these days. You will still see plenty of e.g. SID covers of existing pop music, without anyone really batting an eyelid.
e.g. I zoomed in to view the matchbox texture described in the article, and found it a blur. (Clicking loads the uncompressed PNG.)
Personally, I think for this page, loading full res images inline is warranted. The resulting 3MB page size would be more than justified :)
In the Lazur's 256 colour rendition, it is curious that they got the details in the front very well but messed up the third guys face completely.
To me all the faces look messed but I believe it is mostly because the image seems to be distorted, it is stretched in the vertical direction. I suspect it was created on hardware with non-square pixels and is just displayed wrongly.
On my device, low res versions of the images are displayed, I had to click them to open the full res versions — which I very highly recommend! e.g. I zoomed in to view the matchbox texture described in the article, and found it a blur. (Clicking loads the uncompressed PNG.) Personally, I think for this page, loading full res images inline is warranted. The resulting 3MB page size would be more than justified :)