What is ‘TEXT MODE’ art? | Introduction and Timelapse

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Brandon James Greer

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Published on March 20, 2022 1:00:02 PM ● Video Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6iSNinCzKTw

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Text Mode is a tile-based display system used by older computers, and it turns out it makes for a pretty fun art project when you take those tiles and try to make pictures out of them! In this video, I take a step into this world by attempting to create my first piece of Text Mode art!

Polyducks Text Mode Webpage: http://polyducks.co.uk/what-is-textmode/
Polyducks on Twitter: https://twitter.com/Polyducks
lvllvl Text Mode editor: https://lvllvl.com/

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0:00 Introduction / What is Text Mode?
1:21 How do you make Text Mode art?
2:00 Laying a Pixel Art base for my Text Mode piece
3:39 Rendering with tile designs
5:56 Finishing details
6:49 FINAL ARTWORK
7:22 Export effects
7:48 CRT Time
8:23 VID OVER

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Software used: https://lvllvl.com/ (a web-based Text Mode editor)
Need help picking a pixel art program? Watch this: https://youtu.be/90BghUX7SD0
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Title sequence theme music by Failpositive:
http://www.failpositive.bandcamp.com/
https://www.twitter.com/failpositive