Databending Tutorial: Introduction.
Feb. 5th, 2021 09:33 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
icecheetahHey! Do you want to make Glitchy Art? But what you find is either really tedious guides on manually making your own effects? Glitch Apps not giving you results you like? Do you want to genuinely do something that you are not supposed to to your work? Or maybe have no idea what what effect what you're doing will have on your work?
Or maybe you want to do something weirder, like make an image with a .mp3 file hidden in it, a music track that has readable text in it, or something that looks like a broken file but can be repaired to reveal the original file and its contents?
Databending might be for you!
Here, in this series of tutorials, I'm going to teach you how to make art like THIS (warning: Eyestrain, slow "flashing" .gif)
Databending is, ultimately, the art of taking a file and editing it with something that shouldn't edit it. You open an image up with a text editor and then type things up in it. You open a music file up with an image editor and draw on the music itself. Though technically speaking what you create is not true glitch art (that requires breaking files through bugs in programs that are supposed to handle them) you get some cool, glitchy effects that are at least partly decided by factors beyond your control.
I mainly use this to make art and you can find it all here. (Some pieces depict sensitive subjects, I used Databending mainly for Horror art at first, also some pieces have rapid flashing). However, literally everything I have and will mention, I have done.
Next: Warnings
Or maybe you want to do something weirder, like make an image with a .mp3 file hidden in it, a music track that has readable text in it, or something that looks like a broken file but can be repaired to reveal the original file and its contents?
Databending might be for you!
Here, in this series of tutorials, I'm going to teach you how to make art like THIS (warning: Eyestrain, slow "flashing" .gif)
Databending is, ultimately, the art of taking a file and editing it with something that shouldn't edit it. You open an image up with a text editor and then type things up in it. You open a music file up with an image editor and draw on the music itself. Though technically speaking what you create is not true glitch art (that requires breaking files through bugs in programs that are supposed to handle them) you get some cool, glitchy effects that are at least partly decided by factors beyond your control.
I mainly use this to make art and you can find it all here. (Some pieces depict sensitive subjects, I used Databending mainly for Horror art at first, also some pieces have rapid flashing). However, literally everything I have and will mention, I have done.
Next: Warnings
