[ c64.sk ] NUFLI/MUIFLI Converter released!
It is finally out! With this converter that has been almost 2 years in the making, you can convert anything into MUIFLI (interlaced) or NUFLI (static), such as seen in Crest Slide Story 90% , Carrion’s OLDSCHOOL Pixels 100% or BluREU . It offers an auto-prepare function for arbitrary truecolor images, but it was primarily designed for pictures in the c64-palette. You can even load your IFLI or Drazlace pictures directly and render them either static in NUFLI or Interlaced, but without flicker in MUIFLI. You can also save the imported IFLI as BMP to extend it into the FLIbug area before rendering it in NUFLI! This is the death of Flicker-lace! Finally!
[Submitted by BitBot]

One month has passed since the last news from ArtCity, but if you think the sunshine outside kept us away from being active, you couldn't be more wrong. The Day of the 10k is what we like to call this news item, because we have a triple to celebrate. The 10K pictures barrier was broken, 10K votes were reached and 10K more tags were added to improve finding what you search for on ArtCity!

Current ArtCity Stats:
* 07.06.10: Artists: 2073, Pics: 10681, Comments: 1572, Votes: 11525, Tags Unique/All: 1759/44009
* 03.05.10: Artists: 1780, Pics: 8154, Comments: 1209, Votes: 7381, Tags Unique/All: 1472 / 32357
* 01.03.10: Artists: 1060, Pics: 3983, Comments: 446, Votes: 1422, Tags Unique/All: 715 / 11411

News:
Since launch we've roughly doubled the amount of artists and nearly trebled the amount of pictures stored, which we are very happy about! With the help of Proteque we also celebrated the arrival of an Atari gfx-artist called Stos. Other new artist profiles include Cat Man and Clown, both having their home on Spectrum. Amiga updates include the well known gfx artist Facet, whose gallery has seen a decent expansive information update and influx of pictures. Also the galleries of 3D Addict and Tasha (both PC) have seen massive updates with replacements of older JPG material with lossless png versions. More significant updates include for example Enok and Edvard.

Some updates from the team:
* We now have a Lost & Found thread on BitFellas, where all the graphics are shown of which we don't know the proper authors. Any information is appreciated here.
* We raised the maximal file-size for submitted pictures from 1 to 2,5 MB per picture.
* To extend our range of Atari gfx and information, we are still searching for a motivated scener with the knowledge and the time to help us out.

Thanks:
Of course there are again a lot of people we have to thank for their participation and help in constantly improving ArtCity.
These people are: gr4ss (.hu), Elend, Sensei, Asle, RRR, Proteque, Bobic, Pheel, Bracket, Tempest, Breeze, Raven and ne7.

Artist of the Month
If you find the time, check out our new Artist of the Month June: Joe!
[Submitted by CONS]

Since launching just a few weeks ago, the revamped ArtCity has grown beyond our wildest expectations! On launch day march 1st, we had just under 4000 pictures in the database. Today, we have over 8000 pictures! We have not been resting on our laurels however, and several improvements and tweaks to the code have been implemented since we last updated you, making life easier for visitors and admins alike. In this small update, we will let you know of just a few of the cool new things we have added since we last spoke.

Lets start with the dry statistics:
01.03.2010 Artists: 1060, Pics: 3983, Comments: 446, Votes: 1422, Tags Unique/All: 715 / 11411 - Launch of ArtCity
10.03.2010 Artists: 1138, Pics: 4512, Comments: 661, Votes: 2857, Tags Unique/All: 852 / 14336 - 1st Newsitem
03.05.2010 Artists: 1780, Pics: 8154, Comments: 1209, Votes: 7381, Tags Unique/All: 1472 / 32357 - Today

What you can instantly see when you log on is the newest pictures and comments, but we are also actively updating existing information, giving each image rich metadata and information on what productions it was used in, etc.

Our tag system grows every day, detailing images in ways that was previously impossible. We also have tag-subcategories, like tool (detailing the tools used to create an image) and fun tags like coop that can be searched to see all pictures that were cooperative. Real cool searches are now possible, like stringing search words together to get exactly what you're looking for. Type in for example: mountain,waterfall or c64,logo and click search tag to find all pictures that contain both aspects.

While all areas of the site has grown, some have grown more than others, like our especially rich collection of logos. We now total more than 1400 different ones, all searchable through name, artist or even our tag system. Oldskool penetration from systems like the Amiga, Atari, Spectrum and of course C64 also grew immensely.

New staff; we have added several new members to the staff, each specialized in their own fields to bring expertise to various areas around ArtCity. Menace (amiga), Veto (c64), Diver and Riskej (both spectrum) all joined the staff recently.

Scene Artifacts; these have become immensely popular! Basically, it's the banner under which we collect all manner of imagery from the demoscene, not particularly an artistic piece but other pieces of memorabilia. Check it out here and support us by providing us with pictures of your gadgets.

We now have an infobox on the front page of BitFellas functioning as an appetizer, in which you can see the 5 latest comments and a randomly selected picture from the database of ArtCity.

A warm welcome to the new gfx-artists that have registered at BitFellas since the last update: Dimidrol, bfox, Piesiu, pheel, pROF (Artist of the month May). Enjoy your stay and participate, together with all the other new registered users that we also welcome!

At the very end, we just want to give a shout-out to our many non-staff contributors, some of which have been submitting such MASSIVE amounts of new material to the site, we have been hard pressed to keep up. The people who especially need to be thanked are Asle, Darklight, Irwin, Nero, Gr4ss, Zeila, Slayer and Proteque who all have contributed with support, images and other things.

We invite you all! And by the way, did you give your vote for the "Top 100 Rated Pictures" yet?
[Submitted by CONS]

The most powerful graphics editor on the Internet.

Hello,

My name is Mario aka T-Bone, Ex-Amiga demo coder from TRSI. I am writting to you because I released some videos of my online graphics application at http://www.gfxeditor.com
You can go to the website right now and checkout videos of this amazing application that I have made. You can also signup for an account, see some nice artwork on the gallery and post comments on the blog. The launch date is set for the 1th of May, 3 weeks from now. Please spread this news to everybody you know...

Thank you.
Mario Gomes Cavalcanti
Founder, CEO, developer of Mersica Inc.
[Submitted by gfxeditor]

Hello,
The GrafX2 project team is proud to announce a new stable release of GrafX2. Improvements from 2.1 includes :
* Layers
* Lua scripting to do any kind of weird things to your pictures, generate textures, or whatever you may come up with
* A lot of bugfixes and improvements
* ... and even more fun !

Download the latest release at our homepage : http://grafx2.googlecode.com
Available now for Windows and gp2x. The source is availalble and should build fine almost anywhere. Binaries for other platforms may be uploaded later.
[Submitted by PulkoMandy]