It Happened! Bebot L I V E S (Bebot only competition begins)

brice

Not that I wouldn't wear that Tshirt I mocked up....I just want to state for the ABF record there was never any intent to create such items, at least not without the complete permission and encouragement from the owner (s) of that adorable art. Was just a way to celebrate the announcement this morning. And given the fact that I am currently working on a design project that involves numerous apparel items, I seized the opportunity to deviate from the 50 PSD comps on my screen and give Bebot some new pretend digs.

To be honest....there are a number of apps with aesthetics that would make fantastic looking t-shirts, either remixed or reimagined, or carbon copies. I'd legit wear a shirt with Animooog's traveler screen. Or some crazy Audulus wire world. Damn it....Audulus patches really need to be on t-shirts....just floating that out there......

But yes, Bebot lives, and that makes me happy.

skiphunt

@brice said:
Not that I wouldn't wear that Tshirt I mocked up....I just want to state for the ABF record there was never any intent to create such items, at least not without the complete permission and encouragement from the owner (s) of that adorable art. Was just a way to celebrate the announcement this morning. And given the fact that I am currently working on a design project that involves numerous apparel items, I seized the opportunity to deviate from the 50 PSD comps on my screen and give Bebot some new pretend digs.

To be honest....there are a number of apps with aesthetics that would make fantastic looking t-shirts, either remixed or reimagined, or carbon copies. I'd legit wear a shirt with Animooog's traveler screen. Or some crazy Audulus wire world. Damn it....Audulus patches really need to be on t-shirts....just floating that out there......

But yes, Bebot lives, and that makes me happy.

thanks for clarification, I was wondering about the copyright issue.

+1 for Audulus patches being aesthetically pleasing design art in their own right

Curious, are you using that t-shirt company for commercial work? You can reply privately if you wish. The pricing seemed a bit steep, but the quality looked good.

JeffChasteen

@skiphunt said:

@JeffChasteen said:

@skiphunt said:

@brice said:

@Samu said:

@brice said:
That Theremin patch is magic. Put it through some AudioDamage stuff and call it a night.

Or run it thru an amp-sim or something similar, I can't put the damned thing down...
On most waves vertical axis controls the filter cutoff and timbre is resonance for some weird wahwah or 'Bebot Acid'

I had almost forgot how fun one can have with BeBot!

I think I am going to get some Bebot t-shirts made.

I'm surprised the dev hasn't done this. Or, a few other devs of the more iconic apps. I'd buy one, and I can think of several other devs apps I'd buy a t-shirt of too.

I floated this idea by Zolotov for SunVox but he didn't seem very interested. You could have a lot of graphic fun with this stuff and I bet most of us iOS app nerds would wear them in the same way some of us wear our favorite band concert t-shirts.

A Bebot shirt does exist. MrsChasteen gifted me with one a couple of birthdays ago.

So it does! And there's a link on the dev's page for it. Though it looks like someone else created the art and maybe sharing profit with the dev. http://www.normalware.com

Kinda like Brice's a little better, but the one on the dev's site is tempting.

I also prefer Brice's design. On the "official" shirt, Bebot is placed too far down over the abdomen area; he should be higher.

JeffChasteen

@brice said:
Not that I wouldn't wear that Tshirt I mocked up....I just want to state for the ABF record there was never any intent to create such items, at least not without the complete permission and encouragement from the owner (s) of that adorable art. Was just a way to celebrate the announcement this morning. And given the fact that I am currently working on a design project that involves numerous apparel items, I seized the opportunity to deviate from the 50 PSD comps on my screen and give Bebot some new pretend digs.

To be honest....there are a number of apps with aesthetics that would make fantastic looking t-shirts, either remixed or reimagined, or carbon copies. I'd legit wear a shirt with Animooog's traveler screen. Or some crazy Audulus wire world. Damn it....Audulus patches really need to be on t-shirts....just floating that out there......

But yes, Bebot lives, and that makes me happy.

I greatly prefer your design to that of the "official" Bebot shirt.
Nice work, Brice!

JeffChasteen

@skiphunt said:

@audiblevideo said:
Poly was updated in August so methinks it's ok.

I was thrilled with this too. I was hoping he'd update Caelestis too, but I contacted him and he confirmed it's toast with iOS11. Which is ok I suppose. Of the two I think I'd rather have Poly overall. And, they are kinda similar when you get down to it.

I almost deleted Caelestis for some unfathomable reason, but am glad I did not.
Unfortunately, I did delete Hexaglyphics. I wish that I had not done so.

JeffChasteen

@audiblevideo said:
Dr ohm and noisemusick &

I still foolishly hope that Dr ohm will get export and a reprieve. I love the origin story/fanciful mythology.

JRSIV

My mistake was I just never took the app seriously. I'd hear people putting it over, saying how good some of the sounds were...but I'd see it in App Store, the little dude moving about & singing, just looked like a kids app.

At $1.99 and now guaranteed to work long into the future as a 64bit app I bought it and yeah, it's really cool. Some of the sounds are really quite brilliant while some are just okay but the ribbon surface ala' Thumbjam makes it really easy to get
all of the tones to morph into something cool.

Don't judge a book by it's cover...or an app by it's main graphic.

brice

@skiphunt said:

@brice said:
Not that I wouldn't wear that Tshirt I mocked up....I just want to state for the ABF record there was never any intent to create such items, at least not without the complete permission and encouragement from the owner (s) of that adorable art. Was just a way to celebrate the announcement this morning. And given the fact that I am currently working on a design project that involves numerous apparel items, I seized the opportunity to deviate from the 50 PSD comps on my screen and give Bebot some new pretend digs.

To be honest....there are a number of apps with aesthetics that would make fantastic looking t-shirts, either remixed or reimagined, or carbon copies. I'd legit wear a shirt with Animooog's traveler screen. Or some crazy Audulus wire world. Damn it....Audulus patches really need to be on t-shirts....just floating that out there......

But yes, Bebot lives, and that makes me happy.

thanks for clarification, I was wondering about the copyright issue.

+1 for Audulus patches being aesthetically pleasing design art in their own right

Curious, are you using that t-shirt company for commercial work? You can reply privately if you wish. The pricing seemed a bit steep, but the quality looked good.

I honestly only know of them from their television ads, and thought maybe others would know the name for that reason. That's what led me to mention them in my original post, not any sort of first hand experience with them or their work. Not to say that's a negative against them, but those types of vendors don't typically fit the needs for the projects I tend to work on. Meaning, the mass quantity, 3-day turnaround, never actually speak to a human sort of places. I'm glad those places exist, for reasons like an impromptu shirt mission where you just want to have some fun in a Beefy-t with an outlandish phrase on the front. But for client work I always prefer a building I can walk into, with people I can talk to face to face who will put up with doing and redoing processes until things are right. There are a lot of those places in Austin that I miss having so close! Drop me a line if you want me to send over some contact info for several I had good experiences with.

brice

@JRSIV said:
My mistake was I just never took the app seriously. I'd hear people putting it over, saying how good some of the sounds were...but I'd see it in App Store, the little dude moving about & singing, just looked like a kids app.

At $1.99 and now guaranteed to work long into the future as a 64bit app I bought it and yeah, it's really cool. Some of the sounds are really quite brilliant while some are just okay but the ribbon surface ala' Thumbjam makes it really easy to get
all of the tones to morph into something cool.

Don't judge a book by it's cover...or an app by it's main graphic.

Wise words. I think for me the app is more of a mental tool than a content creation tool. What I mean is, it reminds me that this pursuit is supposed to be fun in the end. And sometimes, I look at Auria's mixer window and I get lost in meaningless over-thinking. Or when I begin questioning my sanity and inventing curse words while trying to move a damn midi regions handles in BM3....the fun part sometimes needs a mascot. There are probably 10 other apps on my device that function exactly like Bebot, and that sound 100 times cleaner and have a zillion more parameters. But none of them have this specific brand of charm in my view. Plus, if you've got youngsters in your life, it really goes a long way in the smile-maker category!

skiphunt

@brice said:

@JRSIV said:
My mistake was I just never took the app seriously. I'd hear people putting it over, saying how good some of the sounds were...but I'd see it in App Store, the little dude moving about & singing, just looked like a kids app.

At $1.99 and now guaranteed to work long into the future as a 64bit app I bought it and yeah, it's really cool. Some of the sounds are really quite brilliant while some are just okay but the ribbon surface ala' Thumbjam makes it really easy to get
all of the tones to morph into something cool.

Don't judge a book by it's cover...or an app by it's main graphic.

Wise words. I think for me the app is more of a mental tool than a content creation tool. What I mean is, it reminds me that this pursuit is supposed to be fun in the end. And sometimes, I look at Auria's mixer window and I get lost in meaningless over-thinking. Or when I begin questioning my sanity and inventing curse words while trying to move a damn midi regions handles in BM3....the fun part sometimes needs a mascot. There are probably 10 other apps on my device that function exactly like Bebot, and that sound 100 times cleaner and have a zillion more parameters. But none of them have this specific brand of charm in my view. Plus, if you've got youngsters in your life, it really goes a long way in the smile-maker category!

Word.

Well put.

JohnnyGoodyear

@brice said:

@JRSIV said:
My mistake was I just never took the app seriously. I'd hear people putting it over, saying how good some of the sounds were...but I'd see it in App Store, the little dude moving about & singing, just looked like a kids app.

At $1.99 and now guaranteed to work long into the future as a 64bit app I bought it and yeah, it's really cool. Some of the sounds are really quite brilliant while some are just okay but the ribbon surface ala' Thumbjam makes it really easy to get
all of the tones to morph into something cool.

Don't judge a book by it's cover...or an app by it's main graphic.

Wise words. I think for me the app is more of a mental tool than a content creation tool. What I mean is, it reminds me that this pursuit is supposed to be fun in the end. And sometimes, I look at Auria's mixer window and I get lost in meaningless over-thinking. Or when I begin questioning my sanity and inventing curse words while trying to move a damn midi regions handles in BM3....the fun part sometimes needs a mascot. There are probably 10 other apps on my device that function exactly like Bebot, and that sound 100 times cleaner and have a zillion more parameters. But none of them have this specific brand of charm in my view. Plus, if you've got youngsters in your life, it really goes a long way in the smile-maker category!

+1

AudioGus

@dvlmusic said:
Same here - my kids absolutely love Bebot. We've had sessions where we bust out the three iPads and old iPhone and of for us get crackin'. It's pretty ridiculous. And totally awesome!

So yeah, I would totally by a Bebot t-shirt. The design above it is much better than the one on their website. Why would you make a t-shirt and not use the original art? It seems a ridiculous, especially when the original art is so perfect. It must be all rights thing or something

If I had kids they would be Bebot2 and Bebot3.

brice

Classic Bebot.....

There's a Tinder joke in here somewhere but I've already solidified at least another couple years of being single by doing this so I'm gonna leave it be.

This actually should've been the t-shirt.

Wrlds2ndBstGeoshredr

@AudioGus said:

If I had kids they would be Bebot2 and Bebot3.

Bebot has many children: Thumbjam, Geoshred, etc. Pretty much all of Jordan Rudess's apps.

JeffChasteen

@brice said:
Classic Bebot.....

There's a Tinder joke in here somewhere but I've already solidified at least another couple years of being single by doing this so I'm gonna leave it be.

This actually should've been the t-shirt.

Not in front of Astro!
However, Elroy may snigger mischievously.

oat_phipps

@brice said:

Or when I begin questioning my sanity and inventing curse words while trying to move a damn midi regions handles in BM3....

I'm always on the lookout for new curse words, lay em on us

JohnnyGoodyear

@brice said:
Classic Bebot.....

There's a Tinder joke in here somewhere but I've already solidified at least another couple years of being single by doing this so I'm gonna leave it be.

This actually should've been the t-shirt.

Sacrilege, Sir!