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

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:   / 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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Check out my art here:
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  / bjgpixel  

Shop:
https://rdbl.co/bjgpixel

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Software used: https://lvllvl.com/ (a web-based Text Mode editor)
Need help picking a pixel art program? Watch this:    • What Program to use for Pixel Art? (P...  
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Title sequence theme music by Failpositive:
http://www.failpositive.bandcamp.com/
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