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1. SOMETHING ABOUT ME
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Hello Inercia 2025! I am PacorexTheTrex. I am a 17-year old GFX artist & chiptune musician from Spain.
This year I decided to submit an entry to this demoparty because ever since I was a teen, I've always wanted to participate on the demoscene. And well, here I am !!
My first experience in the demoscene was joining MoonShine on September 2024 as GFX artist. However, the group kind of died out, but some of our members still talk to eachother
(and are active in the demoscene too!). Then I joined Newline and TEAM VyRaL this year since the founders (D/V and freek) also needed graphicians.
I wasn't brave enough to submit something, but seeing my VyRaL logo on one of freek's entries for Demosplash 2025 and a good pal (AArt1256) who motivated me, made me change my mind about it.
As a result, here I am.
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2. TECHNIQUES USED
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This is my first solo entry, it was made for the Commodore 64 in Multicolor Mode, and I wanted to make something christmasy and something that resembled like a cartoon.
To begin, I used Autodesk Sketchbook for the outlines (in a 320px x 256px canvas), then once I exported the outlined drawing, I resized it with imageresizer.com to a 160px x 200px canvas to fit the C64 screen resolution.
I imported the image to Grafx2 to reduce the colors to only black and white, then I imported the image to Multipaint.
The reason I did this was because the anti-alias of the outline drawing would mess the drawing when importing it to Multipaint.
After that, I colored the image, I shaded it, and done everything in Multipaint. It was an arduous process, but it was definetly worth it !!
I inspired myself on The Sarge / BZ ^ FLT and Exocet / UP ^ Just For Fun ^ SPB ^ YMR ^ DZ ^ DEN ^ 2xl ^ smfx
since I feel they both make really great cartoony GFX. I tried using color theory for the shading but I think
I need to improve on that part.
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3. GREETS
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I wanna send hello to my scener friends who have helped me along the way:
AArt1256, for motivating me to participate and being a cool programmer
Alex Winston, for being a great friend
Brittle, great GFX artist and cute characters
DeMOSic, one of the founders of MoonShine
D/V, founder of Newline and a great friend
FΛDE, for also making cool music
Filippp, for making cool music
freek, founder of TEAM VyRaL and a great friend
Heemin, for being a great friend
jvsTSX, for being a cool programmer
LeSoggyBoi, for being my best friend in the chiptune community
Mickaleus, for making cool music
MikroMacaroni, one of the founders of MoonShine and a great friend
TheDuccinator, cool person and cool music
Hello to the following groups:
MoonShine, Newline, Team VyRaL, Alembic, Otomata Labs, Hokuto Force, Onslaught, .dot, Damage
I also say hello to my non-scener friends and the whole chiptune community !!
Especially the following: Buttersoap, Swirly, Akerae, Autist Coringa, Epic, rednoobmusic, kninmic, SweatyNoodle and tildearrow !!
I say hello to the people in the Furnace Tracker Discord Server and The Chiptune Cafe !!
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4. NOTES FOR THE ORGANIZERS
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The .zip file has a carpet containing 4 WIPs of the GFX, and then theres the .png and a .prg of the final result (which you can open on a C64 emulator, for example, VICE).
When you load the .prg file, type "RUN" when the .prg is fully loaded and the image should show.
I hope you enjoyed my entry, and see you in the next demoparty :D
- Pacorex of MoonShine ^ Newline ^ TEAM VyRaL