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Hi guys,

I'm just interested in having the before/after experience, so if you happen to have "work in progress" screenshots for release prods - please share...

i'm sorta writing a postmortem on my demo for displayhack, should include some.

A couple of old captures we used to communicate:

May 4th, 2011, first sketches (the guitar thing had various version en ended up very simple, without any mechanical part; the other instrument almost didn't change at all):




December 30th, working on text rendering, most shapes are still very rough, most instruments are still missing (the ribbon shape is a proof of concept for the then future train rail):


January 22nd, 2012, working on VSM for the close up frame, in progress music box:


March 25th, in progress badass instrument:



April 8th, release version, presented at Revision 2012:
http://pouet.net/prod.php?which=59106

Zavie, awesome!! Exactly what i meant!

O_O

sensenstahl, it's really impressive before/after, what things have you done to get there?

I think it's actually maytz's answer you're looking for. Also - it seems the before-after order is somewhat screwed ;)

Punqtured, you are right, this "name at the bottom" keeps getting me confused.

for metaball/frog scene of this wild demo presented at Revision 2012. never got around to finishing the inner cornea palette to be yellow/orange/black.

an intro I started last year but never finished...

rez: I think you're missing a few icons on the top dock there :)

I'm especially impressed by what Ferris brings to the table here.

gloom: yeah, it's perhaps a little bit too much ;)

rez wheres the intro...

As soon as I release my next 64k, there'll be tons of work in progress images ;) I was just about to spoil everything.

Here's a few stuff from the 20 years Atari STE Megademo organized by Paradox:

WIPs by Dan/Paradox:






Ukko/Live!:





My concept art for a logo:


And the reworked image by Excellence in Art:




(you can find even more here)

@TLM: what I did? ...I punished the coders :) I whipped them WITH the carrot!

@PunkTun: Theres is no order, only some prototype routines send my way. Usually comes with a lot of restrictions like, "you can't use more than 16 colors..." "you can't have glow..." "you can't actually have anything... but please make it look interesting" :)

before:

after:

sneak peak on my amiga graphic for a secret Assembly demo

totally looking forward to it!

Here the stages for the logo in ISO. The VCS has a resolution of 40 lores single colors pixels per line. In addition there are some sprite like objects which bring a total of 2x(8+1) "hires" pixel in two more colors. No DMA, everything done with CPU, timing, splits and limited movement of the objects. Took 6 weeks for everything to complete.

Stage 1: Paper



Stage 2: GrafX2 design of object splits and raster splits



Stage 3: GrafX2 layout for full screen



Stage 4: Tranferring every pixel into code for combination of pixels, object and splits



Stage 5: Final VCS result



Now you get an idea what "painting" means on VCS: 470 Lines of code :-)

The behaind the scene makes it so much more impressive!