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General Discussion / Re: Animal walk cycle strips
« on: August 11, 2013, 11:37:03 pm »
Thank you.  I've downloaded the image adcrusher524 posted and I will download the images from the thing Ptoing linked to when I get a bit of time.  Looks exactly the sort of thing I need.  :)

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Pixel Art / Re: W R E S T L E
« on: August 10, 2013, 07:47:39 pm »
Is that a Randy Savage with cybernetic arms?  These are pretty cool.

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General Discussion / Re: The grass tile - a unsolved problem?
« on: August 10, 2013, 07:46:03 pm »
I stumbled upon this lately. Three more pages of grass in games refs.

The hell's that guy using for screenshots in some of those?  Some images have gradient backgrounds when they shouldn't.  Some have the main sprite using some drop shadow effect.  And Yoshi's Island's background is blurry as heck.  Very odd.  Some cruddy new emulator effects perhaps?

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General Discussion / Animal walk cycle strips
« on: August 10, 2013, 07:44:51 pm »
Does anyone have a link to a site full of walk cycle references of animals?  I mean of the image strip sort, not videos.  I haven't had much success looking on google.  I must be typing the wrong words.  I looked for tigers running and ended up with a lot of images of American Football players.   

Cheers and such.

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2D & 3D / Re: Making perler bead art?
« on: July 28, 2013, 10:46:55 am »
I've often found people have recreated my work in these things (my mini-ThunderCats and my Doctor Who sprites being the most common I've come across and one guy even did my avatar, framed it and stuck it on his living room wall).  They're actually pretty cool.   I haven't the patience to do them myself though.  Bit too fiddly for me.

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Pixel Art / Re: Workbench 3.1 icons
« on: July 03, 2013, 12:09:38 pm »
   

    "All the animation from an entire country is for little kiddies! Seeing any influence of Japanese art puts me off!" Come on, Carnivac! Give the magical girls and super powered teens of the world another chance! They'll grow on you, bro! (?>?<?)?
    Or just go watch Ghost in the Shell or Samurai X or something. You're an artist, so you'll probably appreciate them.
     
    Ok.  So very, very wrong.
     
    I was actually a HUGE fan of anime in the early to mid 90's and still consider such films as Akira, Ninja Scroll, Ghost in the Shell and Wings of Honneamise to be big favourites of mine.   Back when anime (at least here in the UK) was seen as quite underground and definitely NOT for kids (it had the reputation of being animated porn thanks to over the top demon rape stuff like Urotsukidoji... not one I should not have purchased, looking back, now).   I had every issue of the UK magazine Manga Mania which reprinted various stories such as Akira (which took about half of each issue for most of it's publication history cos it was so huge), Dominon: Tank Police, Ghost in the Shell, Appleseed and others plus various trade paperback versions I still own including 3x3 Eyes, Lupin III, Ranma 1/2, Dirty Pair, Bubblegum Crisis, Devilman (I had almost all of the fewture Devilman figures during the latter part of the 2000's).  Then when the whole Pokémon thing kicked off it's like the perception of anime went completely the other way and everyone started assuming it was all for kids.   Suddenly I was getting ridiculed for supposedly liking all this awful crap I had no interest in such as that and (the worst anime I've ever seen) Dragonball Z.  My sole birthday present one year (other than cash) was a frickin' 'talking' Pikachu plushie... ugh...  Hated the damn thing.  Ended up giving it to a children's hospital charity thing (rather than setting it on fire as had been my original plan).
     
    I've tried various anime series since then though the only ones that have appealed to me have been Cowboy Bebop (largely helped by a great soundtrack by Yoko Kanno who also did the Macross Plus music of which I own the CD's for) and I admire the Miyazaki movies (in that something like Spirited Away or My Neighbour Totoro can be charming and family friendly in an imaginative way and not a merchandise-driven gimmicky badly-animated way like many others) though my favourite work of his is still the classic Lupin III movie The Castle of Cagliostro.  However there are certain anime-stylistic choices, mostly in action series (even of companies I respect the work of if not always enjoy such as Madhouse), either irritate me or just seem unintentionally ridiculous when used in supposedly serious stories. 
     
   
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    Watch them in Japanese, so the god-awful dubs your country's distributor supplied doesn't make you want to throw up and/or punch someone.
     
    Sorry, I know I may get hated by 'purists' but I just can't stand japanese voice acting...  It has always given me headaches or made me grit my teeth like the sound of nails on a chalkboard.  Besides, having to watch subtitles makes it harder to appreciate and study the animation in anime that I do like.  While there are some truly awful dubs for sure I actually do like a lot of the better done dubbed voice acting.  And in some I actually far, faaaar prefer the US replaced soundtrack (particularly the heavy rock and metal choices for Cyber City Oedo 808 and Street Fighter II, the latter of which pretty much made the KMFDM song 'Ultra' my absolute fave tune ever for kicking peoples faces in... in video games I mean... honest   )
     
   
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    Then you'll be able to enjoy Arne's new set to the fullest!
     
    Yeah if it was anime-inspired of the ol' 'cyberpunk' type maybe.  Not the pocket monster variety.   Anyways as I said I do like the actual icons themselves and the pixelling.  Just could do with a lot less of the cutesy stuff.
     
    Ok I'm done. Sorry Arne for the somewhat longer than necessary post.  Just had to make it clear to that person that I have actually seen a LOT of anime and I definitely have a preference for the old school stuff.  Some of which did make it onto the Amiga in some ways.

Keep up the great pixelling.

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Pixel Art / Re: Workbench 3.1 icons
« on: July 02, 2013, 10:17:26 am »
Well, I'd say some of those faces might need a second pass to look like "integrated" into the art, and definitiely not some kids-scribbling over icons, but they definitely contribute to the theme's look and feel,and make it unique.

Personal preference then.  It's just that one of the many reasons I still prefer the age of 8/16 bit home computers here in the UK or Europe was that it was time before the whole kiddy-anime thing that swept over here in the late 90's likely due to things like Pokémon and the internet in general and just seeing elements of it merged here into the Amiga's look is a bit of a turn-off for me. 

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Pixel Art / Re: Workbench 3.1 icons
« on: July 02, 2013, 09:25:20 am »
As an Amiga user myself I like these a lot.  I could do without the faces on some of the floppy disks (especially the cat face which for some reason I truly hate when someone uses as an emoticon.  I don't know why... ) and the sweat drop on the format disk is a bit too 'anime' for my tastes.  But overall the icons themselves are very nicely done.  And seeing the AMOS Pro icon made me smile (still own all the disks to that and the box and thick manual in great condition)

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General Discussion / Re: Official Off-Topic Thread 2014
« on: June 27, 2013, 10:23:48 am »
Guess so.  Maybe cos it's a very controlled and tidy form of art and I don't have to clean up my desk afterwards (unless I been eating at the laptop again)

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General Discussion / Re: Official Off-Topic Thread 2014
« on: June 26, 2013, 07:24:22 pm »
@Carnivac, what other types of art/drawing do you do? That's pretty good, though. Still better than all my animation attempts.

Um. Nothing really.  Doodle a bit now and then.  Never got the hang of painting and attempts at digital painting or anything else really just didn't appeal to me enough to have the patience to put into it all.

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