What Do You Think Of This??

M-Vegeta · Post by **M-Vegeta** » Mon Feb 20, 2006 7:26 am

It's ASCII art, but I was pretty impressed. Although, I don't know how difficult it is to do.

Have you ever seen anything like it, as far as Dragonball?

Check it out. Just scroll down to see it all:
http://www.geocities.jp/wj_log/AA/DB.html

Leotaku · Post by **Leotaku** » Mon Feb 20, 2006 9:55 am

I'm not sure what I'm looking at.

Is the font supposed to be Japanese there? 'Cause if it is, I don't have that font, so maybe I can't see it properly.

Pedro The Hutt · Post by **Pedro The Hutt** » Mon Feb 20, 2006 4:51 pm

Some people clearly have too much time on their hands if they can make ASCII characters out of DB characters without resorting to an image to ASCII convertor. XD But some of those have some severe spacing issues. o.o;;

And yes, yes, you would need japanese language support. Which isn't a mere font. ^^;;

Chuquita · Post by **Chuquita** » Mon Feb 20, 2006 7:00 pm

WHOA, some of those look as though they must've taken weeks to complete. I'm impressed.

M-Vegeta · Post by **M-Vegeta** » Mon Feb 20, 2006 7:55 pm

Pedro The Hutt wrote:Some people clearly have too much time on their hands if they can make ASCII characters out of DB characters without resorting to an image to ASCII convertor. XD But some of those have some severe spacing issues. o.o;;

That's like saying someone had too much time on their hands doing a drawing or painting a picture. It's still art, even if it's ASCII characters. And I don't think it's your place to decide if they have too much time on their hands or not ... based on the fact that it's their time ... and you don't know their schedule.

El_Diablo · Post by **El_Diablo** » Mon Feb 20, 2006 8:14 pm

Some of them are really impressive

unstable_person99 · Post by **unstable_person99** » Mon Feb 20, 2006 9:39 pm

A lot of those look really nice.

Tenka-Ichi · Post by **Tenka-Ichi** » Tue Feb 21, 2006 12:39 am

I've noticed that (for me anyway) most of those looked really screwd up in Firefox, but they looked fine in Internet Explorer. And a good portion of those are really good. There was one or two where I had absolutely no idea what I was looking at, and a few others that seemed a little basic and simple.

Dayspring · Post by **Dayspring** » Tue Feb 21, 2006 12:19 pm

Some are really good, while others are impossible to see. ASCII Magic-eye?

Zackarotto · Post by **Zackarotto** » Tue Feb 21, 2006 3:05 pm

Are these submissions, or something? Or all from one guy?

Yeah, I'd just use an ASCII image converter. It's neat, but it's time consuming, and when there are programs that exist only to make these for you, it really is a waste of time.

...Unless you're making something like ASCII Wars. That's just awesome.

The Mole · Post by **The Mole** » Tue Feb 21, 2006 7:36 pm

I made one of the Kame sign when I was in school. It was so awesome, but my teacher deleted it. [cry]wwaaaaahhhhhhhhhhh[/cry]

unstable_person99 · Post by **unstable_person99** » Tue Feb 21, 2006 10:08 pm

The Mole wrote:I made one of the Kame sign when I was in school. It was so awesome, but my teacher deleted it. [cry]wwaaaaahhhhhhhhhhh[/cry]

*pats on The Mole's back* It's okay, you could always make another one.

HP · Post by HP » Tue Feb 21, 2006 10:26 pm

Impressive.
I've seen a motion clip of the bullet scene from Matrix and also a whole music video on the TV like that!!

Conan the SSJ · Post by **Conan the SSJ** » Tue Feb 21, 2006 10:38 pm

If you guys think the special effects from the Matrix are something, you haven't seen some of the awesome stuff from Smallville. That show is awesome in special effects, IMO it shows a live-action DBZ movie could probably be done, especially considering it's just a television show with a budget. But seriously, who couldn't enjoy a show about a growing boy who was sent to Earth from his dying planet to fulfill a great destiny he knows very little about.

Post by **desirecampbell** » Wed Feb 22, 2006 12:16 am

Conan the SSJ wrote:If you guys think the special effects from the Matrix are something, you haven't seen some of the awesome stuff from Smallville. That show is awesome in special effects, IMO it shows a live-action DBZ movie could probably be done, especially considering it's just a television show with a budget. But seriously, who couldn't enjoy a show about a growing boy who was sent to Earth from his dying planet to fulfill a great destiny he knows very little about.

<rant>

I hate Smallville just as much, and for the same reasons, I hate the Spiderman movie - changing the story unnecessarily.

Cause: Main character's major love intrest doesn't appear until late in the character's development.

Effect: Now they do.

Lame

</rant>

Anyway... Smallville's visual effects are really good.

Zackarotto · Post by **Zackarotto** » Wed Feb 22, 2006 12:19 am

Conan the SSJ wrote:If you guys think the special effects from the Matrix are something, you haven't seen some of the awesome stuff from Smallville. That show is awesome in special effects, IMO it shows a live-action DBZ movie could probably be done, especially considering it's just a television show with a budget. But seriously, who couldn't enjoy a show about a growing boy who was sent to Earth from his dying planet to fulfill a great destiny he knows very little about.

...Cool, but what does that have to do with anything?

I've seen that ASCII Matrix clip, too. It was really cool, but I think that was just done by taking each frame of an animated GIF into one of those converters.

M-Vegeta · Post by **M-Vegeta** » Wed Feb 22, 2006 12:29 am

Zackarotto wrote:Are these submissions, or something? Or all from one guy?

Yeah, I'd just use an ASCII image converter. It's neat, but it's time consuming, and when there are programs that exist only to make these for you, it really is a waste of time.

...Unless you're making something like ASCII Wars. That's just awesome.

Submissions.

I'm not sure it they're using a converter, probably. I didn't even know one was out there. My Japanese buddy sent me a link, I thought it was impressive, so I posted it.

And I see them all just fine. I changed the regional & language options to Chinese (PRC) and Japanese in advaced. But it wasn't to look at ASCII art, but to play Japanese Maple Story, an on-line RPG.

SpaceKappa · Post by **SpaceKappa** » Wed Feb 22, 2006 7:39 pm

So wait, how can one go about making it so their computer can recognize Japanese text?

El_Diablo · Post by **El_Diablo** » Wed Feb 22, 2006 7:44 pm

Control Panel > Date, Time, Language Options > Regional and Language Options > Languages > Install Files for East Asian Languages

That's for Windows XP anyway. No doubt something similar with other versions.

You'll probably need your Windows disc.

Conan the SSJ · Post by **Conan the SSJ** » Wed Feb 22, 2006 8:04 pm

Zackarotto wrote:
Conan the SSJ wrote:If you guys think the special effects from the Matrix are something, you haven't seen some of the awesome stuff from Smallville. That show is awesome in special effects, IMO it shows a live-action DBZ movie could probably be done, especially considering it's just a television show with a budget. But seriously, who couldn't enjoy a show about a growing boy who was sent to Earth from his dying planet to fulfill a great destiny he knows very little about.
...Cool, but what does that have to do with anything?

Well, I'm just expressing my feelings toward a live-action show that can use amazing special effects, like some of you guys are doing about the Matrix's bullet thing.