Why bother using gif2ansi?

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By
Dangermouse on Thursday, December 31, 1998 - 06:39 pm:

I know this has been a heated discussion of recent times, but let's revisit it! :) Ok, lets discuss it in the context of this month's article. If people use gif2ansi should they say they did? Or should they even be using the program in the first place?

Indeed, why bother even using it if most of the people who do get caught anyway? Too much of a risk if you ask me..


By RaD Man on Thursday, December 31, 1998 - 07:31 pm:

All the GIF to ANSI converters I've ever seen look like they'd put you at a disadvantage versus just starting the image from scratch in ACiDDraw.

Also, I find it much more important that the "artist" credit the original author that they are using as a reference rather than rattle off the list of utilities they used to get from point A to point B. SO WHAT if Sudden Death used some sort of a conversion utility to expedite the processing of someone elses comic-character into ANSI. If he can do it fast and make it look good then who cares how he really got there? Maybe people should stop saying "Artwork by ___" and start saying "Image processed into ANSI by ___". Unless of course it really is their own art.

I'd really like to see this program that Sudden Death has been allegedly using for GIF 2 ANSI conversions.

-r


By Scrye on Friday, January 1, 1999 - 07:50 am:

In my mind, I dont see TOO much of a problem with GIF2ANSI ..

I remember back before I joined to scene, I used Gif2Ansi to convert pics out of comic books into ansis for my makeshift RA[Hah. =] BBS .. I guess that can be considered ripping. But, if some artist scans a pic from Gen13 or Spawn or whatever, converts it, and calls it their own to get a big name out their as a kickass artist, that is generally unethical and could be considered ripping in my mind .. Though, if someone sketched their own pic on paper, scanned it, and lastly shadded it, I dont see a problem with it.

-sC


By Bym2ansi on Friday, January 1, 1999 - 08:07 am:

it might not be a problem but i hell isn't drawing ansi, it's using converters.. and for what sake? how fun is it "producing outlines" like sudden death expressed it?

The only artists that will gain respect from me is the ones that are actually drawing, or doing something to encourage drawing, like discussing the art, writing mags or benefitting in some other way. Soo get all of those lame gif2ansi utils out of my sight and start drawing real ansi artwork!!!


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