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David H. Loves the Demoscene [2005] |
Released At :
Assembly 2005
Achievements :
C64 Graphics Competition at Assembly 2005 : #3
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Production Info
Submitted by Scout on 8 September 2006
From DiamonDie's DeviantArt site (http://www.deviantart.com/deviation/22947779/?qo=26&q=by%3Adiam..):
I'm heavily backlogged with my submissions and trying to reduce that, this is over a month old anyway. This was my entry to the oldskool graphics compo at the Assembly 05 demoparty. I won the third prize with it, an Asus WLAN router I'm desperately going to sell as I'm not really in need of wireless network. The high rank was at least partially caused by the choice of subject, as David Hasselhoff is a very popular figure in demoscene and when my picture was shown on the screen it evoked a lot of applause.
This is a picture for the Commodore 64 computer, which was very popular two decades ago. Many of you will remember playing games like Bubble Bobble and Giana Sisters on it. The C64 has many different graphics modes, but they are all very limited by resolution and the amount of colors. This one is in the multicolor mode, which is restricted to a resolution of merely 160x200 pixels and a fixed palette of 16 colors (displayed as 320x200 on the screen, which means pixels aren't square). The colors may not be used freely though, you can only have four of them in one 8x8 block and one of these must be the background color of the image, which may only be changed a few times.
I do own a C64 but there's currently no working power supply for it. This picture is hand pixeled on my PC and then converted to the C64 executable format. Some people would consider this cheating, but please note the fact that the exact same color mode restrictions still applied during the creation process. This is not converted from a digital painting or a photo or anything, it's made pixel by pixel (no layers or anything) and the PC version looks exactly the same as the C64 one. In fact many of the past winners of the oldskool graphics compo have used the same route. You can download the D64 file for your C64 or C64 emulator by clicking Download to Desktop
About the picture itself, I'm fairly happy with it since it does look like David Hasselhoff. It doesn't look at all like C64 art though, but it's my first attempt in the medium so I hope to be able to get better at that in the future. The C64 palette is rather problematic, it's nothing like the DOS 16-color palette for example, though the reds in it are fairly fitting as skintones. I would have tried to make the shading smoother by using multiple levels of dithering, but unfortunately I ran out of time. That's also why the picture doesn't have a better background, there simply was no time. Also, my background ideas didn't go very well with the limited palette.
And somewhere in the messages:
Thanks. I don't have any concrete figures, but it took me about two months, which translates to some 20 hours of work I think. Dithering by hand does take quite a bit of time.
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