asciimation diary: Sat Nov 02 | No news is good news? | Entrance

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Saturday November 02, 2002

No news is good news?

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Chickenman has kind of been on the back burner for a while. The kind of obsession with ascii animation that is required to spend the extra evening hours sitting in front of the computer is difficult to keep up.

I'm going to post the 'Work in Progress' versions of later episodes. If anyone cares to edit these (download JavE and the movie files), I'd be delighted.

(Oh, the community pages idea is also on hold. There are too many ideas to fit into the time available, but I may eventually go back and look at this).

Entrance

I've started an Ascii art comic called Entrance, which I will be posting in some corner of this website. It features a bronze talking head. [UPDATE: I've posted the comic].

Ascii art magazine

The latest project that I would like to start is an ascii art magazine. With a non particularly inspiring working title of Text Art, it would be a web magazine dedicated to the text arts, especially Ascii art, but also to ANSI, Macros (proportional text art), Kanji, animation, text games, picture poems etc.

The current idea is for the magazine to be published quarterly in HTML and PDF formats. The first issue would be published End Jan 2003.

I'm creating a homepage for the project at http://osfameron.perlmonk.org/textart/ This will include information about the project, and how to get involved. [UPDATE: have created this page and posted a note to alt.ascii-art].

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