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Turn videos into ASCII pixel art! Use your webcam feed or upload a video, then use the controls to adjust the colors, resolution, text style, etc...
You can create a video export to save and/or share your animation afterwards.
This tool is completely free, open source (MIT license), without any paywalls or premium options. You are welcome to use it for personal or commercial purposes.
If you found this tool useful, feel free to buy me a coffee. This would be much appreciated during late-night coding sessions!
The code used to create the animation is quite resource-intensive, so it may run with some lag if your computer doesn't have enough computing power, too many tabs open, low battery, etc.
If the video export feature does not work for you, please try a free screen-recording tool such as OBS Studio.
This project is coded using Javascript, HTML canvas, and CSS (see github repo linked below). Video creation and encoding is done using mp4 muxer.
Enormous thanks and credits to Aleksandr Kubarskii, whose code served as the foundation for this project.
I do not have access to any of the videos that you upload here, as all processing is done "client-side" (i.e., no videos or images are saved/stored by me — they stay on your computer only).
Feel free to reach out to discuss, ask questions, or to share your creations! The animations can be easily uploaded to instagram or otherwise -- you can tag me @stereo.drift :)