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General => General Discussion => Topic started by: happymonster on December 11, 2006, 01:24:36 pm

Title: Hello
Post by: happymonster on December 11, 2006, 01:24:36 pm

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.

Title: Re: Hello
Post by: Helm on December 11, 2006, 01:27:37 pm

Hello, welcome back.

Title: Re: Hello
Post by: happymonster on December 11, 2006, 01:33:55 pm

Hello Helm.
Good to see you are still around. Are you still conducting secret graffiti raids? ;)

Title: Re: Hello
Post by: ptoing on December 11, 2006, 01:41:01 pm

Post your Amelie picture, NOW!

Welcome back :D

Title: Re: Hello
Post by: happymonster on December 11, 2006, 01:47:53 pm

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?

Title: Re: Hello
Post by: ptoing on December 11, 2006, 03:39:51 pm

I still wanna see that Amelie picture again T_T

Title: Re: Hello
Post by: happymonster on December 11, 2006, 04:57:32 pm

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)

Title: Re: Hello
Post by: AlexHW on December 11, 2006, 05:46:37 pm

ah, i remember that pic, welcome back!

Title: Re: Hello
Post by: happymonster on December 11, 2006, 06:57:48 pm

Hi Alex,

Sorry I can't remember your work. Got any examples? :)

Title: Re: Hello
Post by: miascugh on December 11, 2006, 07:28:02 pm

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.

Title: Re: Hello
Post by: happymonster on December 11, 2006, 07:44:25 pm

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.

Title: Re: Hello
Post by: Blick on December 12, 2006, 12:39:48 am

Ah damn, happymonster, I remember you. I'll never understand how you made the Amelie image so well.

Title: Re: Hello
Post by: happymonster on December 12, 2006, 08:41:13 am

Thanks! But I'd rather have the creative abilities that you and the other top artists here have. :)