AE64

January 12, 2012Featured,Video Bits,Games,Motion,imagoKatana Blaster,Big Giant Circles,Mick Gordon,derez,lores,wild demo,Amiga,Atari,Commodore,C64,demoscene,C4D,64,8,indie,scene,demo,independent,8bit,8-bit,bit,Maxon,Adobe,After Effects,Cinema 4D

AE64 is a tribute to the demoscene and to the legacy of world's most popular microcomputer: Commodore 64.

While this video was created using the typical contemporary arsenal of tools (mainly After Effects and Cinema 4D), it conforms to most of the basic graphical limitations of the C64 such as a limited 16-color palette, low resolution, use of the overscan area etc. To maintain the spirit of the demo, I also created most of the effects using various scripts and code snippets, procedurally automating many of the tasks typically animated using keyframes.

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