The gathering of the Fad Avatars

[st3ady]

Long time lurker, first time poster 
   

[Lawrence]

*Gasp*

[Scotteh]

Scotteh: Quite...simple fad avatar?

 


O RLY?

update:

[ZoSo]

Yea, a bit late.. but better late than never.

v.1

v.2

[Godslayer]

The hair is gorgeous, Zoso, but the shoulders are dirtied by dithering, which just doesn't hold up as well at 2x.

[ZoSo]

Thank you .

Yea i know, i did't really know how to make the shirt good.. , anyway ideas how i should improve it?

[AdamTierney]

Quick attempt. Not exactly photo-realistic. It's 1 color, animated between three frames to simulate 3 shades.



EDIT:

I made it transparent (making it a little softer on the eyes) and added a background to better match the others. I'm tempted to go nuts on this, because I know smarter dithering all over and a frames (as opposed to 3) could probably create a much smoother image, but...eh. If anyone else wants to experiment with the idea, feel free. I used Photoshop and Ulead Gif Animator and outputted a 50fps animation with transparency.



EDIT2:

Did the BG mathematically and was able to get 9 different 'shades'. This was just using 3 ditherings (dots, dithered, solid missing dots). I've seen guys like Ptoing with a helluva lot more ditherings than 3 in a piece. It'd be cool to see a larger piece flickered at 1x size and really maxed out - see just how much depth and detail can be gotten from 1 color and some animation.

[Helm]

Oh my. Epilepsy warning! Interesting effect though, reminds me of flicker modes on the c64 (IFLI and the like. take two FLI widepixel pics, hardware hack one of the two one half-pixel to the right, flicker between the two as fast as the poor c64 can handle, get more colors and simulated single-pixels almost)

I will try some things with this in black and white to see what can be done. Inspiring.

[Darien]

I remember when you tried something like that before, Adam.  This seems to have worked out better, if I recall correctly.  Is there anything different you did this time?

[AdamTierney]

I remember when you tried something like that before, Adam.  This seems to have worked out better, if I recall correctly.  Is there anything different you did this time?

Not that I know of (don't really remember earlier tests). I did a GBA demo with a programmer friend several years back and that was amazing. Since the GBA runs at a steady 60fps (unlike glitchy web gifs) it didn't appear to flicker at all - it just looked like a flat grey. Coincidentally, my lead programmer on the Flash GBA game used this technique all over the place - flash's blur, and all shadows in the game are pure black or red, flickered on and off at 60fps. That's why in the game it's this nice, smooth opacity but it looks like crap in screenshots online because they either capture pure black/red or none.

- Adam