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Here's some Halloweenspiration for you!
Laptop + #TIC80 + spooky code + projector + window projection film.
(Last year)
#halloween

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James Oct 27

It was a spooky themed #MondayNightBytes ByteJam this evening, so I put another effect in the bag for Halloween projection.

This very nearly got nowhere, but I managed to pull it through in the last 10 minutes.
The scratchy rendering actually worked really well disguising the simplicity of the mouth - it looked a bit like it was lipsynching to the music!
#livecoding #TIC80

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James Oct 28

Damn brain was racing last night thinking of ways to improve this, including:
- depth contours for the face (I think this could work well - the rough rendering seems good at hiding sins)
- face fade in and out / change number of pen strokes.
- gentle rotation (unsuccessful in the jam!)
- better eye movement.
- occasional angry mood eye shape.
- VHS deterioration effect.
I should also name this guy.
Scario... As in "It's a me- Scario!"
I'm getting Mario 64 intro vibes? Suggestions welcome 🙂

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James Oct 30

I'm calling a wrap on the JTRUK Halloween 2025 effect!
The contouring worked well and I tried a dot rendering style and liked it.

If you'd like to run it on #TIC80 you can download a TIC file here:
https://github.com/creativenucleus/tic-80-sketches/raw/refs/heads/main/scario2.tic
If you'd like to try it online, it's here:
https://tic80.com/play?cart=4439

You have my blessing to play it at your Halloween party, or scare some kids with it 😄

(This is a murky phone recording of a screen because I've had enough with tech for tonight)
#demoscene

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James Oct 31

How was the sausage made?
Like any sausage - meat covered with a skin.

Meat: a picture made from ellipses, roughly outlining some face contours. There's a bit of a hack here with 'sunken' eyes and mouth being in front of the face, but the rendering style hides it.

Skin: The image is randomly sampled with some pixels are turned into dots or strokes.

(Video from an earlier version)
#creativeCoding #computerArt #demoscene #TIC80 #halloween #showMeWhatYouGot