It’s hard to explain this style of graphics art for someone who wasn’t there during the 90’s. The companion style “ASCII”, monochrome art using characters on the keyboard, is still something you stumble across on the Internet today. But ANSI used the extended character sets and 16 forground colors and 8 background colors, was almost always in the 80x25 characters resolution, and mostly seen on Bullentin Board Systems or ANSI graphics packs.
ANSI was at the time highly relevant to my interests: being creative in limited environments. Could I mimic chrome? Transparency? Text written sideways, or multiple light sources in different colors?
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Unfortunately I haven’t been able to recover most of my work, and it’s too old to be available online. I found a few files on a floppy disk though, mostly work in progress, and somewhat broken from conversion to jpg/png.
