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Vernal Festival by Limp Ninja [web]
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screenshot added by comankh on 2024-08-20 15:23:38
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release date : august 2024
release party : Evoke 2024
compo : pc demo
ranked : 6th
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popularity : 62%
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alltime top: #3231
  • bruce bruce [Code, graphics, music]
added on the 2024-08-18 02:33:22 by Shifter Shifter

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Best crt / vcr post process ever. Also a damn fine demo underneath all that.
rulez added on the 2024-08-18 03:03:44 by uncle-x uncle-x
Ho i love this one
rulez added on the 2024-08-18 05:11:27 by nytrik nytrik
Wonderful analog postprocessing filter. The femo I wish had gone more from A to B, but as a mood piece it works really well.
rulez added on the 2024-08-18 07:05:36 by Preacher Preacher
excellent stuff, especially the music <3
rulez added on the 2024-08-18 09:29:41 by kimi kardashian kimi kardashian
Loved it on the bigscreen!
rulez added on the 2024-08-18 10:06:13 by v3nom v3nom
finally a worthy stream killer again!
rulez added on the 2024-08-18 11:57:54 by post malone post malone
Dope! Broke twitch.
rulez added on the 2024-08-18 12:03:24 by okkie okkie
Best of party, no contest. Made me want to reach out and touch the screen to feel the static electricity.
rulez added on the 2024-08-18 12:39:16 by break break
Absolute banger in all aspects... Just sick af
rulez added on the 2024-08-18 13:44:25 by wrighter wrighter
:U
rulez added on the 2024-08-18 14:17:12 by p01 p01
black screen (nvidia).
added on the 2024-08-18 14:22:32 by hitchhikr hitchhikr
only 6th? Jesus, should have been at least top 3!
added on the 2024-08-18 14:44:24 by okkie okkie
Yup.
rulez added on the 2024-08-18 15:01:39 by Y0Gi Y0Gi
Great effects and a nice message. The best production of the compo imho.
rulez added on the 2024-08-18 15:17:22 by Navis Navis
It’s so so good !
rulez added on the 2024-08-18 17:07:03 by alkama alkama
The best production of the compo and.... 6th! But for me you're my personal number one. Very well done.
rulez added on the 2024-08-18 18:02:07 by neoman neoman
Great stuff. Should have ranked higher.
rulez added on the 2024-08-18 18:53:10 by gaspode gaspode
Great
rulez added on the 2024-08-18 21:35:01 by ISL ISL
great esthetics
rulez added on the 2024-08-18 23:22:58 by wullon wullon
I really didn't like this one.

The main problem I see is that the VHS effect was just completely overdone. It's one thing to imitate an aesthetic, but at this point this makes no sense any more. Back then when you had a video looking this bad you wouldn't continue viewing, because it was unpleasant for one thing, but also and mostly because it likely meant something was wrong with the player and you didn't want it to eat the magnetic tape.

And this leads to the second problem: with a visual clue that is screaming to stop the video before something goes wrong, and a very tame atmosphere with little happening, at some point this demo just overstayed its welcome, and overshot it by a large margin.

It's as if you made a music that included cracking vinyl sounds, but cranked it all the way up to sounding like the diamond actively scratching through the disk, and maintained that effect during several minutes.
added on the 2024-08-19 01:06:17 by Zavie Zavie
great stuff, a graphics experiment that escaped from Sutherland’s lab and was handed down amongst the early demosceners through the analog miracle of vhs-copying. Should have ranked higher!
rulez added on the 2024-08-19 08:46:25 by coat coat
I very much disagree with Zavie. On the contrary, Limp Ninja manages to make it work, when it would likely look cheap and jarring if anyone else tried doing the same.
rulez added on the 2024-08-19 09:23:58 by havoc havoc
concept!
rulez added on the 2024-08-19 09:38:13 by warp warp
This is probably the most realistic fake VHS glitch effect I've seen so far, and I love the period-appropriate font too.
rulez added on the 2024-08-19 11:40:54 by KeyJ KeyJ
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The main problem I see is that the VHS effect was just completely overdone. It's one thing to imitate an aesthetic, but at this point this makes no sense any more. Back then when you had a video looking this bad you wouldn't continue viewing, because it was unpleasant for one thing, but also and mostly because it likely meant something was wrong with the player and you didn't want it to eat the magnetic tape.


At this point the 'vhs effect' is an aesthetic beyond the actual physical effect on vhs tapes back in the day. Where people that have never actually experienced it in daily use elevated it to a video aesthetic by itself, where you let go of any physical boundary that ever was and push it to its limits.

Which is exactly what this demo does.
added on the 2024-08-19 11:44:31 by okkie okkie
spring equals summer, fall equals winter, hmm…

obviously the best and most serious entry in the compo, not surprised to see it land in the middle of the pack in the results; people don't come to demoparties to experience introspective thought provoking art after all.

with that said however, i don't think it's the most realistic VHS effect or whatever, but more to the point it's presented as exactly what the demo intends it to be, repurposing the characteristics into beauty in and of itself, recontextualizing them into a reified form. it isn't about realism of the 'effect', it just ends up as such as a secondary consequence.
rulez added on the 2024-08-19 13:16:30 by noby noby
i also fully agree with okkie, but also wanna point out that
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It's as if you made a music that included cracking vinyl sounds, but cranked it all the way up to sounding like the diamond actively scratching through the disk, and maintained that effect during several minutes.

this absolutely is a thing, need to look no further than at the intersection between something like electroacoustic improvisation and turntable music. a notable trend in both music and visual arts during the 20th century was exploration of mediums themselves as forms of art, employing them not as tools to create art but repurposing them as art in and of itself. it doesn't mean you have to like it—certainly not every piece of such art—but this example is already very much a thing that exists.
added on the 2024-08-19 13:22:46 by noby noby
yes
rulez added on the 2024-08-19 13:34:58 by SiR SiR
sweet
rulez added on the 2024-08-19 14:06:36 by Ramon B5 Ramon B5
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only 6th? Jesus, should have been at least top 3!
rulez added on the 2024-08-19 15:10:23 by porocyon porocyon
Really lovely! Also great work on the soundtrack.
rulez added on the 2024-08-19 15:48:22 by Rob Rob
I really liked this one.
rulez added on the 2024-08-19 17:28:28 by chavez chavez
This is art
rulez added on the 2024-08-19 17:37:49 by Daddy Freddy Daddy Freddy
Wow! Probably best glitchy outline trip since years...
rulez added on the 2024-08-19 21:00:01 by Herr_Irrtum Herr_Irrtum
Feels good <3
rulez added on the 2024-08-20 13:08:31 by hamoid hamoid
amazing demo, one of the highlights for me in the compo.
just one thing to complain about: a 25fps cap switch would be ace, to make it more VHS like; other than that a perfect combination of visuals and music.
rulez added on the 2024-08-21 01:47:14 by teo teo
summer daydream
rulez added on the 2024-08-21 09:05:21 by pandur pandur
Very nice, should have placed much higher IMHO. I liked it a lot, stood out from the other entries in the compo for me.
rulez added on the 2024-08-21 15:56:42 by edhellon edhellon
Beetje heel erg meh, sorry.
added on the 2024-08-21 16:57:50 by superplek superplek
This was my favorite in the compo. Interesting and different!
rulez added on the 2024-08-21 20:40:08 by rimina rimina
love this on so many levels + what okkie said.
rulez added on the 2024-08-22 11:31:05 by LJ LJ
what noby said
rulez added on the 2024-08-23 20:07:38 by Fell Fell
..and fall equals winter? Smooth and polished prod, I like your style.
rulez added on the 2024-08-23 21:38:05 by bsp bsp
Somehow not my cup of tea, still good.
rulez added on the 2024-08-23 23:05:02 by gopher gopher
Excellent style in every department.
rulez added on the 2024-08-24 11:24:20 by a-move a-move
Rara avis.
rulez added on the 2024-08-25 05:11:40 by ham ham
Nice visual, but the audio was OK.
added on the 2024-08-25 07:18:35 by AntDude AntDude
I wasn't immediately wowed, but I got gradually into it during my viewing. Which is unusual nowadays since 2024 attention spans are about 6 seconds, I suppose.

The music will probably show up in a nightmare at some point, though.
rulez added on the 2024-08-25 14:02:29 by sagacity sagacity
I very much enjoyed this entry, especially the music, one of my favorite at Evoke.
rulez added on the 2024-08-28 15:05:25 by dok dok
a very strong
stronger
very

production
strong
very

summered.
Unusual design
rulez added on the 2024-09-03 16:44:18 by ajcek ajcek
Very interesting. I appreciated the printed look of the outlined 3D shapes with filled patterns. Fresh while still connected to the past of computer graphics in a beautiful way.
rulez added on the 2024-09-13 15:31:34 by cce cce
VHS 💗
rulez added on the 2024-09-14 08:49:56 by Olympian Olympian
ok
added on the 2024-09-15 15:25:57 by Frequent Frequent
Cool style! I was also thinking that it could be capped at a lower framerate to go all the way on the vhs style.
rulez added on the 2024-09-27 15:01:28 by rloaderro rloaderro
What a beautiful kind of weird.
rulez added on the 2024-10-09 17:52:55 by darya darya

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