We’ve finally updated all the artists pages and the Top 5 artist ranking. The only change was enzO (that’s me) reaching the 2nd place before submiting 19 ansis for the last pack, in a total of 28, against a total of 22 by zeroVision that’s now 3rd place.

It has been almost a week since we´ve released the Codename Chris Wirth pack and I must say it was a great success, due to the awesome repercussion on the web. Here are a few examples of the Codename Chris Wirth pack effect:

Blocktronics pays tribute to Chris Wirth (aka. RadMan) with a legendary ansi pack!

As you may know 16colors is the largest online ansi archive. The website keeps the memory of more than a decade of the ansi scene and has been the main source of inspiration of ansi artists for years.

We´ve just added another project on the B7 Labs page. Flashterm is an ANSI capable telnet terminal for the web written for the Adobe Flash Player plugin developed by Peter Nitsch, one of our members that´s also the author of Viewtronics and Drawtronics….This guy is restless and we love him.

big yellow man (bym) is one ot the most talented and respected ansi artists in the planet and also a Blocktronics member, but that’s old news. What you might not know yet but should is that he recently created an ansi CD cover for the “Out of It” music album by Brad Sucks (yes, that’s the guy’s artistic name).

I’ve just found out that one of my ansis (that’s enzO speaking) was featured in FREAX – The Art Album, a demoscene art book published in 2006 by Tamas Polgar, a german journalist.

The new website had a total of 300+ unique visitors 24 hours after the launch. We didn’t expect one million visitiors, but that’s an impressive number, considering Blocktronics has only 35 members. The site traffic shows us that there are still a lot of people interested in ansi art and that’s what keep us motivated.

We will be releasing our #2 ansi artpack on Nov 1st entitled “Codename Chris Wirth”. The pack is an tribute to RadMan, the greatest ansi scene GOD. No, he’s not dead, we just think making tributes to live people is fun.

You may have noticed the “Top 5 Artists” sidebar on the site…so, wtf is that? Well, we are now keeping track of our artists statistics (number of submissions per pack), as you can see on the artists pages (eg avg).