In my animation presentation, I got to talk about Pinot, one of Indonesian Animators that inspires me. Pinot is known to be experimental about his animation media, some of those media are old computers. What I haven’t gotten the chance to share was my experiment in code drawing with this old computer, which is Sinclair ZX Spectrum. Although in this experiment I didn’t use the real computer, but an emulator called Spectaculator. I started by going through Pinot’s social media posts that gave any clue about how he draws with the computer. I tried to watch some tutorials, but because I never code, I don’t understand the language and terms that they used. So, I just started writing based on what I saw on the posts and experimented from there.
It started with me figuring out what the numbers represent and what was the output. Then once I know that some numbers represent coordinates and some represent colours, I started making notes and creating my illustration plan.
Then, I started writing based on these plans and the coordinates that I have calculated.
I could say that almost half of the time of doing this was just me wondering what was it that I wrote. But this experiment was a great experience for me and it got me to appreciate the works of Pinot more and the time that he must give to learn and understand these media.