The Official Pirate Challenge

[Zach]

the zippy stuff, is motion blur frames, when he stretches the animation out, makes it looks like he's zipping around and schtuff!

[Pegucha]

iST:  That animation will look great if you can get the blur effect. It'd be pretty sweet if you animated the pirates mouth moving up and down too 

could fix the purple though i think, make it a little stronger if your into that kinda thing

Yea I figured the saturated orange I had was beating up other colors and making stuff look uneven so i took it out

Here's an update getting into the aa. I'm pretty shaky with heavy aa. So I'm not sure if my technique in some areas is as good as it could be

[Niss]

1bit action:

rats are leaving the boat - cat too.

and here is the progress so far:

Arrgh is it really THAT neon? (I really start to hate LCD's ...)

some thoughts: I tried to keep this connected to his avatar which has only a few colors (3 if I remember correct) and a kinda flat look. That flatness is a result of the low contrast which I obviously didn't used in my pic. But I hope it still has a "flat" look. Anyway the pose of the pirate comes close to the pose of the guy in the avatar AND there's a cat in it (he likes cats). Dunno if I will do another one with more colors... let's see. Oh and I do not consider this one finetuned and all so please c+c appreciated!

iST: The speech bubble is absolutely gorgeous - lovin the idea!
sedge: HUGE improvement
pep: That's wonderful but I like the higher contrast version much better
monsoon: I can't wait to see this becoming real. The face looks ace but I like your simple bg most so far...

[Dogmeat]

Hey guys, I just want to see who's done, who doesn't have a partner, who's still working on WIP and whatnot.

[Akira]

My partner is flaber cause Kyron hasn't showed for like two weeks...
Tried to reference some of his stuff.

[flaber]

haha nice nice.
Im lovin the dragon on his shoulder. its great
not to worry. yours is comin too.

[Negative Gravity]

I'm still working on mine. 
Awesome entries so far.

[Xion]

Well, I was unhappy with what I had before, so I scrapped it in favor of a more cartoony style:


Is this in more of your style, iST?

BTW, yeah, for the blur, I just stretch the guy out to make it look like he's goin' really fast. That is one of my most prided works, and one of a very few animations. Do it justice.

[Negative Gravity]

  Yes. This is BIW, believe it or not. I'm having trouble with texturing and just general texturing. And I have already run out of colors.  Any help appreciated.

[flaber]

alright i feel bad akira.
no i did not abandon you.
just finishn up a display pic of my own and workin out ideas for your pic.

heres concept character ideas. not final poses, not finished product. only concept.
yepyep.



this is all youll see till the end.
enjoy