See your favorite movies rendered into big, blocky shapes, with electronic meeps and beeps and computerized voices.
-- oatcake, May 16 2003

Junior Senior Game http://www.juniorsenior.dk/arcade.htm#
Play the game... [MikeOliver, Oct 05 2004]

Star Wars in Ascii http://www.asciimation.co.nz/
Is this getting close to your idea? [Aristotle, Oct 05 2004]

Toy Story http://www.genesisp...sis/T/ToyStory.html
[po, Oct 05 2004]

Abraham Lincoln http://abcnews.go.c...tscience990805.html
[Shz, Oct 05 2004]

love the new junior senior vid...
-- MikeOliver, May 16 2003


sorry [oat] what exactly are big blocky shapes?

I think I know what you mean and like the idea very much

may I suggest pulp fiction?
-- po, May 16 2003


It is rather vague, isn't it? Basically I imagined it as something akin to Atari 800 or DOS VGA graphics. Anyone remember Commander Keen?
-- oatcake, May 16 2003


Played Commander Keen to death.
I suppose for this idea to work you'd need a film with a lot of instantly recognisable shots. 2001 might be a good place to start.
-- my face your, May 16 2003


Oh, crap. I accidently deleted your comment, po. Blah.

//not the classic film rendered in cgi then? - po//

No, CGI is fun but overdone. I'm thinking more pixel-art style.
-- oatcake, May 16 2003


I can't offer block animation but I can offer Star Wars using Ascii animation (asciimation). This is an old art of using an Acii file, complete with cursor control characters, on a terminal emulator. The Star Wars film is probably the pinnacle of the art.

However who could forget "Bambi meets Godzilla", an older classic short Ascii movie?
-- Aristotle, May 16 2003


Yes, sort of like ASCII animation...I guess it's kind of baked. Maybe these movies could be watched on Gameboys, though I don't think Gameboys are capable of speech.
-- oatcake, May 16 2003


Ascii is indeed 8-bit, but without sound, excepting for bleeps.
-- Aristotle, May 16 2003


Ari, - whoever? - could forget...

you online? I promised to give you a stern look <g>
-- po, May 16 2003


Guilty as charged. I will demur.
-- Aristotle, May 16 2003


In many cases this would require multiplying by 4.

"CGI is fun but overdone" Huh? They're just getting warmed up. It's yet in it's infancy.
-- bristolz, May 16 2003



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