Tag: blocktronics

  • New ANSImation: Star Trek: The Trouble With The Rangifer Tarandus

    New 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 version of the ANSImation: But (as always), the best way to view this is to use SyncTerm to connect to my BBS, Guardian…

  • New ANSImation: Star Wars opening crawl

    New 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 crawl was George Lucas’ homage to the old Flash Gordon serials of the 1930s (which inspired many other parts of…

  • New parallax ANSImation: Millennium Falcon dodging asteroids

    New 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. When I work on ANSI projects now, I try to think about ways to do things in ANSI that weren’t possible in the 1990s…

  • Detention Block AA-23

    Detention 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 few pieces! The first is a new parallax ANSImation of the Millennium Falcon dodging asteroids, inspired by the scene from “The Empire Strikes…