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We made an animated movie in 8kB
The Sheep and the Flower - a demoscene production and real-time animation that looks like a standard short animated movie, in just 8kB
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A dive into the making of a 64K Intro
This article is also available in Russian, courtesy of Vlad Brown: Погружение в создание Immersion At last. Last December, we finally finished it. This video here is our last production, a 4 minute animation called “Immersion”. To be more precise, it’s a capture of what is usually referred to as a 64k intro. But more…
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Procedural 3D mesh generation in a 64kB intro
In this third article of our series on the making of a 64kB intro, we present how we use and combine a few simple techniques to create a variety of procedural 3D meshes for very few bytes.
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15 Years of Shader Minification
How do demosceners create complex computer animations in just a few kilobytes? One of our secret weapons is Shader Minifier, a tool that minifies GLSL code. Over the years, it has evolved to pack more data into tiny executables, pushing the boundaries of what's possible. In this blog post, we'll go through its…