Incoprea · Character art
ASCII in motion.
Landscapes, moving worlds and music films drawn from animated text characters. Watch the films or open the live text players.
Featured films.
Eight favorites · Play with sound
Wind Separates the Roof Dust
A Spine That Misremembers Its Animal
Capillary Riot
Grain Boundary
Phonon Bruise
A Weathered Face
Flour Finds the Gap
Pollen in the Air Intake
New explorations.
3 films · Original soundtracks
Roughness Invariance
A dense material journey through grain, fracture, exposed interiors and immense buckling relief. Each new scale reveals another structure that refuses to become smooth.
Negative Relief
Travel inside luminous incisions as etched matter branches, folds and peels through copper, violet and ivory depth. A vast quiet cut opens into layered vacancies before an immense connected relief refuses closure.
The Alphabet Under Load
Printed characters become a brittle material. Compression, slip, tensile strain and fracture pull the alphabet apart before one unreadable line remains.
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ASCII Voyages.
Three films · 11–12 minutes · Abstract character textures
The Unfinished Weight of Soft Rooms
An 11-minute abstract ASCII music film. Dense character textures shift into bands, ridges and darker channels, inspired by spaces exchanging weight and distributed responsibility.
Weather Made from Unsent Gestures
A 12-minute abstract ASCII music film. Curved character layers flow, part and recombine as a study of communication without resolution.
The Orchard of Incompatible Distances
An 11.5-minute abstract ASCII music film. Dense gray character textures swell into bands, cavities and shifting depth, inspired by incompatible distances.
Deep time and desert dreams.
Two films · 4:00 each · Original soundtracks
Deep time awakens
Fossil Frequency
A crack in stone opens into ammonite chambers, a waking prehistoric skull and floating skeletons. Ancient wings rise above the strata.
A desert learns to fly
Dust Takes Flight
Enter a grain of sand, cross shifting dunes and watch a castle gather from dust. Wind grows wings, then a whole desert takes flight.
Two imagined journeys.
Two films · 4:00 each · Original soundtracks
Paper fable
The Typewriter Ate the Moon
A printed sentence grows legs and follows an escaped moon through word stairs, letter rain and a sea in the page margin.
Imaginary atlas
Atlas of the Unwritten
Coastlines wander, mountains unfold and rivers write their names. Travel across ice, dividing continents, storms and a map of night.
ASCII music films.
Four journeys · 3:12 each · Play with sound
First-person adventure
Wild Signal
Fly through forests, cliffs and caverns, pass beneath bridges, then rise among floating islands.
Journey edition · Six worlds
Character Dreams
Explore mirrored seas, mountain ridges, orbital gardens, a deep canyon, temple halls and a dreaming district.
Journey edition · Color
Chromatic Bloom
Drift between five living sculptures, passing close to luminous rings and unfolding petals.
Journey edition · Black & white
Monochrome Gravity
Fly through woven forms and open passages, past floating lines and intricate paper structures.
Three Worlds — a character triptych
Open the live text playerCanyon Run
A river of characters rushing between towering cliffs.
Cosmic Gates
Rotating rings and star streams opening into deep space.
Moonlight Drive
A mountain road above shifting clouds and moonlit valleys.
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Explore the galleries.
ASCII Art Gallery
Material studies in printable characters: intricate grain, folds, fractures, cavities and sculpted surfaces. Explore each work closely, or let it move.
Explore still art →ASCII Animations
Roaming character worlds, with close passes, changing heights and adventurous viewpoints.
Explore moving worlds →ASCII Interactive
Fold, carve, weave and draw. Each character exhibit responds to your hand, with its own controls and ways to change the artwork.
Move the matter →An ongoing collection. New character worlds will appear here as they are finished.