Where do you get your ideas and inspiration for demos?
category: general [glöplog]
fauxringbone you say?
No really, it's a fine place to settle down for a while, reconsider life and let ideas come (and go).
Et puis: sur le trône, je suis le roi.
Et puis: sur le trône, je suis le roi.
tout le monde devrait avoir le droit d'être son propre roi pendant quelques temos, ou même beaucoup de temps si tu prends ton téléphone avec toi.
pardon jvoulais dire "temps" mais chu bourray
Life keeps me plenty busy so for 1kb intros, I want to push the category a little bit further which each compo entry.
Typically I look beyond 1kb intros; at 4kb, 64kb, demos, music videos, vfx, ... some thing, some glitches I see around me, and try to squeeze the essence of it and weave a short story using 1-2 primitives (triangles, characters, circles, lines, platonic polygons,...), and pushing 1+ aspect of the 1kb category a little further (camera work, audio, post processing, story, direction, ...)
At least that's my thought process.
Some times, a prod takes 2w to materialize. Some times it takes years.
Typically I look beyond 1kb intros; at 4kb, 64kb, demos, music videos, vfx, ... some thing, some glitches I see around me, and try to squeeze the essence of it and weave a short story using 1-2 primitives (triangles, characters, circles, lines, platonic polygons,...), and pushing 1+ aspect of the 1kb category a little further (camera work, audio, post processing, story, direction, ...)
At least that's my thought process.
Some times, a prod takes 2w to materialize. Some times it takes years.
p01 thanks for sharing! Interesting to see the perspective of a size coder.
breakup, sadness, expressing my adolescent rave years, aesthetic vibez, bugs (most of my 4ks are from my pihkal/tihkal of bugs), deadlines
There's some stuff eating me inside for a while which I need to pour out in art form. Not sure if it will be a demo or not. It's difficult to express.
One thing I don't want to get stuck to for the future is self indulgent and hedonistic expression.
There's some stuff eating me inside for a while which I need to pour out in art form. Not sure if it will be a demo or not. It's difficult to express.
One thing I don't want to get stuck to for the future is self indulgent and hedonistic expression.
Also, most of the art I consume is often purely vibes, no deeper "message". That includes my fav demos.
About inspiration and being good at art - it's in huge part related to honing your taste and very much enjoying and consuming it. Being in awe and keeping that feeling. You gotta truly love shit!
About inspiration and being good at art - it's in huge part related to honing your taste and very much enjoying and consuming it. Being in awe and keeping that feeling. You gotta truly love shit!
for my solo prods the inspiration is usually 50% something from some media i have seen recently ( wires.tic - inspired by watching an unhealthy amount of serial experiments lain ), like seeing something in the background of a shot or something and going "hm i wonder what it would take to create something similar for <platform> etc., and 50% whatever is going on in my brain after going stir-crazy from being unemployed, can't say most of my recent stuff have come from a particularly happy place (dumped memories for example).
i find for me oldskool hardware brings a certain inspiration, as it requires you to think creatively about what to do with the hardware you have been given (the soundtrack in triplet as a recent example).
yet to sink a few months into a Proper Demo:tm:, but i can say my inspo for chip music has come from a lot of 90's trance tracks and some recent hypertrance stuff too, currently a big musical influence for me
i find for me oldskool hardware brings a certain inspiration, as it requires you to think creatively about what to do with the hardware you have been given (the soundtrack in triplet as a recent example).
yet to sink a few months into a Proper Demo:tm:, but i can say my inspo for chip music has come from a lot of 90's trance tracks and some recent hypertrance stuff too, currently a big musical influence for me
Btw enfys I loved dem wires