Pixelation
General => General Discussion => Topic started by: happymonster on December 11, 2006, 01:24:36 pm
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Hello all!
It's strange to see the return of the pixelation site, and with some familiar names here too! It's been some time since I was last active on pixelation, but I'm looking forward to seeing some of your great art here on this site. :)
Richard.
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Hello, welcome back.
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Hello Helm.
Good to see you are still around. Are you still conducting secret graffiti raids? ;)
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Post your Amelie picture, NOW!
Welcome back :D
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Thanks for the vote of confidence Ptoing! ;)
Hey, I like those cool self-portrait avatars. Is no-one doing a christmas themed avatar yet though?
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I still wanna see that Amelie picture again T_T
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Ok, well I guess it's been a long while since I posted this. :)
For those who didn't see it, a few years ago I decided to try to copy a movie frame from one of my favourite films at full size and in only 16 colours to test my copying ability. ;)
I took a screengrab from the DVD of one of my favourite films Amelie and traced the outlines in a white colour. I then made all the other colours black so I had only a rough 2 colour outline drawing. Using solid and dithered fills I blocked in the base colours, added shading and refined each area again and again, until I come up with the finished picture. I did work from a traced outline and used dithered fills in a paint package, but everything else was hand drawn. The white highlight colour made a surprising difference to the image, I couldn't sacrifice it for a bright yellow like I wanted to originally. I also used heavy dithering both in the luminance and the hue channel. :)
Here is the movie still:
(http://www.reflectedgames.com/amelie/amelie1.jpg)
The progress pictures and then the movie still again:
(http://www.reflectedgames.com/amelie/amelie2.gif)
(http://www.reflectedgames.com/amelie/amelie3.gif)
(http://www.reflectedgames.com/amelie/amelie4.gif)
(http://www.reflectedgames.com/amelie/amelie5.gif)
(http://www.reflectedgames.com/amelie/amelie6.gif)
And the final picture:
(http://www.reflectedgames.com/amelie/amelie7.gif)
(http://www.reflectedgames.com/amelie/amelie1.jpg)
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ah, i remember that pic, welcome back!
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Hi Alex,
Sorry I can't remember your work. Got any examples? :)
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Hey there, I remember you by that image editor you were programming, geared towards pixel art creation. Never tried it, heh :P
Alex is Kon(spiracy) btw.
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Ah! Hello Kon!! I do remember you.
And you Miiascugh! :)
Sadly, the art program was a bit too ambitious for me at the time. If I had the creative skills of some of the people here, no doubt I would do another program for myself to use.
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Ah damn, happymonster, I remember you. I'll never understand how you made the Amelie image so well.
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Thanks! But I'd rather have the creative abilities that you and the other top artists here have. :)