AuthorTopic: Helm/Ptoing collab (update 23rd of march) (Read 19185 times)

ptoing · **on:** March 10, 2006, 07:28:23 pm

Helm and me started this shortly before the original Pixelation got hacked and wanted to finish it once pix was up again.
Pix being down for ages, jobs and life stopped up from working on it more.
But now we are determined on finishing it, and not only finishing it but bringing the old bits up to our current skill level

Basically i did all the dark tiles and helm the slightly lighter ones

current status

animation of the steps before

Matriax · **Reply #1 on:** March 10, 2006, 07:57:44 pm

Its simply incredible

, good design, good colors... no crits

Helm · **Reply #2 on:** March 10, 2006, 08:04:26 pm

oh my! one easy tile, one difficult tile. Like the old days.

robalan · **Reply #3 on:** March 10, 2006, 09:08:44 pm

I was just about to ask if you were ever going to start this back up. I'm glad you have; it is a quite impressie work. Methinks there are a couple of tiles (the top left corner and the dudes at the bottom) that were not there the time I saw it last. I suppose they were posted between my last viewing of the old forum and its demise. I can't wait to see this finished!

David · **Reply #4 on:** March 10, 2006, 09:34:50 pm

The big yellow one has always looked off balance to me. He needs a leg, or arm, or something to brace him. Even if he's a big worm of a thing there's just too much mass to be so straight up. I would think anyway.

Helm · **Reply #5 on:** March 10, 2006, 09:47:45 pm

Yeah, when we're done with the tiles and move on to overal tweaking, I'm going to be adding an arm or something to prop him. There's going to be a lot of work after tileage. About 10% of the work will be after we're done playing turns, really. All the optimization, extra AA and fixes...

Tinygiant · **Reply #6 on:** March 10, 2006, 11:20:40 pm

I remember this pic, it's looking truly stunning. Gonna be interesting to see how you are gonna pull that black sky in the top corner into the pic smoothly.

AdamTierney · **Reply #7 on:** March 11, 2006, 08:19:18 am

I kinda wish the gun-blasting chess piece section (although very pretty) was removed, just because the piece as a whole is so damned gorgeous I want to see it completed pristine. Nice job, both of you.

- Adam

Dhaos · **Reply #8 on:** March 11, 2006, 06:41:16 pm

To this day that image still scares the hell outta me... Quite well done though...in a very disturbing way >.<

Conzeit · **Reply #9 on:** March 11, 2006, 09:45:18 pm

holy collaborative crazy hued goodness batman! has it been one year already?

keep it up boys, I agree with adam the crazy chesspiece fest should be done away with, it's too late to integrate it into the picture.

ptoing · **Reply #10 on:** March 11, 2006, 10:04:31 pm

Awesome job Helm, I love the hueshifts on that cable and the glowy golem kicks ass!
I will get onto my tile on monday (typing this from my flatmates ibook, no promotion here)

About the chesspiece thing, it obviously started as a fun thing Helm threw in there at some point and i added to it and he added to it. We thought about removing it, but came to the conclusion that it belongs to the piece now even tho it makes no sense at all (even less than the rest of the picture)

The whole thing is random to begin with and if it has something that resembles a composition than that's mostly due to luck as nothing was planned here. The only rational choice we made so far was that we should move the chess stuff over to the top left because it was making the thing too rightheavy being on the right.

Cheerios

Helm · **Reply #11 on:** March 11, 2006, 11:01:34 pm

We really need a blue highlight, or to say, we COULD have used it earlier in the design. Hueshifts are fine, but the glowy golem should have been blue blue blue bright blue white really. We can't rely on everything turning yellow when we want it to be lighter. Or maybe we can, for this piece, it's not like we haven't done more improbable unifications... Oh well.

ptoing · **Reply #12 on:** March 12, 2006, 12:14:02 am

Good point there, inclusion of white and a buffer colour to the brightest blue would help for cetain highlights for sure.

Crazy Asian Gamer · **Reply #13 on:** March 12, 2006, 12:19:32 am

The lack of support for the big guy makes me think he's falling down in that instance of that time. I would think that support is optional, providing the picture isn't stable.
Extremely cool.
I'd say it's the best collaboration I've seen.

...Anyways, as soon as you finish this monstrosity....
(right-click set as background)

Akira · **Reply #14 on:** March 12, 2006, 06:28:52 am

oh man i remember when pixelation went down and i didn't save this. I thought it'd never came back... man its good...

sedgemonkey · **Reply #15 on:** March 13, 2006, 07:52:47 pm

Nice to see this brilliant tile collab still has legs. Watching this piece grow at pixelation is one of my fondest memories of the old hub.

Brian the Great · **Reply #16 on:** March 13, 2006, 09:57:12 pm

This and the "I Hate Sals" fad is what made me want to get better at pixel art. Good to see it's alive again.

Dan · **Reply #17 on:** March 15, 2006, 07:28:23 pm

He, hey i remmeber this! It was great, still is! can't wait to see it finished!

Thanks,

Dan

baccaman21 · **Reply #18 on:** March 15, 2006, 08:12:14 pm

good lord sven... still not finished this yet? sheesh...

Ari · **Reply #19 on:** March 21, 2006, 08:13:05 pm

You guys blow my mind. I don;t see how this is even possible. It makes me think so much lower of myself as an artist lol.

Ryumaru · **Reply #20 on:** March 21, 2006, 08:30:09 pm

and there even BETTER now

Ari · **Reply #21 on:** March 21, 2006, 08:47:37 pm

Quote from: Ryumaru on March 21, 2006, 08:30:09 pm

and there even BETTER now

Yeah that makes me feel so much better. lol

Faktablad · **Reply #22 on:** March 22, 2006, 12:05:40 am

You guys are continuing this, aren't you?

Alex · **Reply #23 on:** March 22, 2006, 01:20:09 am

oh sven, you are so productive.

ptoing · **Reply #24 on:** March 22, 2006, 09:28:11 am

Grah! I know that i am slacking a bit on this, but i have tons of stuff to do at work and other private things in the pipeline.
Need to find both time AND energy!

baccaman21 · **Reply #25 on:** March 22, 2006, 12:57:51 pm

work? what's that? Mr Adams pushing you too hard? lol... you could always hand it over to me and I can screw it up for you and helm...

ptoing · **Reply #26 on:** March 22, 2006, 01:22:16 pm

haha, I have quite a bit to do. I am sole artist on a GBA game atm. So yeh. work work work

Darion · **Reply #27 on:** March 22, 2006, 11:55:21 pm

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Helm/Ptoing collab continues one year hiatus.

Fixed.

Aleiav · **Reply #28 on:** March 23, 2006, 04:18:34 am

Wow, I remember when this first started. It's been awhile since I came back. I think it's amazing so far. Especially the "rift" on the left side.

BlackEye · **Reply #29 on:** March 23, 2006, 12:46:26 pm

Quote from: ptoing on March 22, 2006, 01:22:16 pm

haha, I have quite a bit to do. I am sole artist on a GBA game atm. So yeh. work work work

like... putting your page online again?

faules stück

ptoing · **Reply #30 on:** March 23, 2006, 06:51:47 pm

Thx for the replies guys and gals.

No new colour added. one easy and one intermediate tile.

Quote from: baccaman21

good lord sven... still not finished this yet? sheesh...

We have not worked on it for over a year for various reasons, wiseguy

Quote from: Ari

You guys blow my mind. I don;t see how this is even possible. It makes me think so much lower of myself as an artist lol.

Thx, but with this attitude you have lost as an artist. Practise is everything. Lots of it. Since I started pixeling in april 2003 I pixeled alot of stuff in my freetime and since almost a year I work as a professional pixelartist so i get plenty of practise every day, and i also study demoscene and oldschool gameart quite a bit. It all helps. Just saying "omg this is impossible, i could never do this" is just as good as giving up.

Quote from: Alex

oh sven, you are so productive.

Yes I am, I work and I also have other things I do apart from working on this collab. btw, you are 1 strike away from having 3 strikes, just informing you

Quote from: Darion

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Helm/Ptoing collab continues one year hiatus.
Fixed.

You go and scan that page before you make statements like that. BURN!

Quote from: BlackEye

like... putting your page online again?
faules stück

Har! I am working on it. My homepage has a shite infrastructure and is hence a bit tedious to update, esp after over 1 year of slacking.

Helm · **Reply #31 on:** March 24, 2006, 02:15:04 pm

Hehe quite the little collection of various golems we've got going on the bottom row. I'll do my tiles tonight, I'll probably try to do one of the more difficult ones (next to the stone formation, perhaps) so we can get a bit unstuck since we seem to be doing easy golems to stall the fact that we eventually HAVE to go back to the dinoguy and the left part.

Guys, give Ptoing a break with the time schedule

He's living the dream, doing pixels for a living! I sit here and draw comics and pet my cat. I've time.

If nobody else posts after me, this post reserved for art.

baccaman21 · **Reply #32 on:** March 24, 2006, 02:29:07 pm

Quote from: Helm on March 24, 2006, 02:15:04 pm

Guys, give Ptoing a break with the time schedule He's living the dream, doing pixels for a living! I sit here and draw comics and pet my cat. I've time.

Oh boy - and what a dream... Coventry "the city of dreams"... lmao...

(sorry to be so negative ptoing... at least u're getting paid...)

ptoing · **Reply #33 on:** March 24, 2006, 02:48:00 pm

Coventry is the most awesome city in the world! Perfect holiday resort as well.

But yeh work is still quite fun actually, if not a bit hectic atm.

DrDerekDoctors · **Reply #34 on:** March 24, 2006, 04:06:21 pm

Haha! Coventry is a shithole and you know it.

I reckon a return visit from the Luftwaffe would probably make it prettier on average.

ptoing · **Reply #35 on:** March 24, 2006, 04:23:24 pm

Yeh, Cov could use another carpetbombing for sure.

baccaman21 · **Reply #36 on:** March 24, 2006, 04:46:24 pm

Quote from: DrDerekDoctors on March 24, 2006, 04:06:21 pm

Haha! Coventry is a shithole and you know it.

I reckon a return visit from the Luftwaffe would probably make it prettier on average.

It used to be prettier than stratford you know...? back in the day... those incediaries really did the work. Blooming 1950's design... what a disgrace. (mind you, the swan theatre ain't exactly the most cutting edge of architechural icons is it?)

I'm in leam btw - nice to have another old skool pixeler in these parts... once upon a time the place was crawling with them (thanks to codies) - that was before the dark side came and ruined it all, before the dreaded Z-Axis...

Helm · **Reply #37 on:** March 28, 2006, 10:18:53 pm

two sky tiles to finish up with the sky eventually, and a tile of rockage which proved to be more interesting than not. You have a bottom red secondary lightsource to deal with now, ptoing!

Alex · **Reply #38 on:** March 29, 2006, 04:39:20 am

im loving the rocks helm. im just terrified as to what the rest of the beast will look like, hes terribly off balance. and i cant help but think of his eye and the shadow as a steak .

Helm · **Reply #39 on:** March 29, 2006, 07:33:08 am

I see you have an eye for the choice cuts! Here you go, then!

I'll probably add an arm when we're done with the piece, to balance out dino.

baccaman21 · **Reply #40 on:** March 29, 2006, 09:40:31 am

It's a bit chewy...

Faktablad · **Reply #41 on:** March 30, 2006, 03:40:13 am

It's a bit rare, too. I'm liking the progress, gentlemen.

sonic_reaper · **Reply #42 on:** March 30, 2006, 07:51:44 am

Hm, what can I say? Masterful color choice, excellent lighting where it is applied and interesting subject matter. Keep at it.

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