Hi!! I’ve been working on my year 12 student animated film and while it's a mixed media project so not entirely ANSI it has a lot of ANSI elements including some of the characters being almost entirely ANSI art and so for ease of animation when mixing it with other types of digital art I’ve started trying to create tools to allow artists to use ANSI in the drawing program Krita. So far it’s looking okay but it’s not complete (still trying to give it some of the limitations/behavior of ANSI, because personally that’s one of my favourite things about the art-form)
At first I was only going to work on it to the point of at least being functional enough for my film but after some thinking I wanna see if anyone in the community would be interested in a public release of a more complete version after I’m done with my film. So please let me know what you think!! even if it’s negative.
And if it’s something you do want what features would you want in a hypothetical full release?
Also, a few quick questions: should I put a limit on the character size?? I’m not sure because while a limit would make it more difficult to get it working on a wide array of canvas sizes (right now it only works on a canvas size of 4096 x 1716 as that’s the canvas size for my film) I have heard some discourse over at what point something stops being ANSI and becomes pixel art. My second question is should I or should I not allow for people to use more colours than just 16? cuz while I adore ANSI art I just haven’t interacted with the community enough to know how people feel about these kind of things being being used in ANSI (or if it even counts at that point) and I wouldn’t want to upset anyone.
Thanks for reading :3 !!