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I thought I would go with the random composite image. I like doing that kind of thing in Photoshop and it's about the limit of my skill.

Cool vectors though... I think I could do a lot more with them. But, this was just for fun.

I'm in! I would really like to have a little project to keep my occupied and it sounds like a good way to to get to know other artists.

This has been alive for 6 months!!!

At 8/16/07 01:33 AM, XdemondaysX wrote: well its here once more.... *grabs blam guns and other cool junk* *sigh* it takes so long to blam clock moives with all the clock people voting 5s no mater what but i shall HELP! SPAAAARRRTTTAAAA! sorry i just wached 300 sorry...sorry...sorry

I've been handing out 0s all day. It sucks to be the garbage man that has to clean up after the festival.

I'm always looking for motivation. I usually work best for people I don't know... Maybe the girlfriend idea would work... though I think I would need to get a real girlfriend and not just pretend.

Since I've actually seen your house, that is really amazing! I thought you stopped making that pixel art house a while ago, but it looks like you've improved it a LOT since I last saw it.

I am impressed.

I really thought this guy would look tough when I first working on him. It wasn't till I was doing the sadows that I sat back and looked at him a 100% zoom, instead of 400%, that I really noticed that I had failed at life.

What's up with these 13 year olds that can draw WAY better then me?

I prefer to use the line tool and make the basic shape of what I'm drawing but without rounded edges. and then I use the drag tool to round things out and clean it up. I guess that my style though and you have every right to do things whatever way you want.

I did a quick example below... I cheated a little by looking up some pictures of penguins first.

You know, I'm really seeing an improvement in your art! I really like the Robots, you have good detail and the have character.

You should make sure to ALWAYS have a pen or pencil with you and doodle whenever you get the chance. (I'm sitting on a plane, I'm doodling. I'm sitting in school, I'm doodling. I'm sitting in church, I'm doodling.) And always critique yourself.
If you're hard on yourself then you will always strive to be better. But, don't ignore what other say when they compliment you because that's the fuel that keeps you going.

For your age, I think you show exceptional promise. And, ignoring your age, I think you've got something going and you just need to make a short comic or something. Nothing with a story line, that just gives you writes block. Just draw three frames about how the robot met someone who found something cool. You know, stupid stuff.
Then you can draw with purpose. Maybe spend a little extra time on the backgrounds since you seem to like doing scenery (I'm assuming, since you spent 4 hours on a mountain crag sunset).

Yeah, I think you are on the right track.

It's considered bad coding practice to put code directly on a MovieClip. But, since it works I guess I will deal with it and try and help.

let me start with this one:

onClipEvent (mouseMove) {
Xd = _root._xmouse-_X;
Yd = _root._ymouse-_Y;
radAngle = Math.atan2(Yd, Xd);
_rotation = int((radAngle*360/(2*Math.PI))+270);
updateAfterEvent();
}

I assume that this finds the change in mouse position, and then angles the movieclip to face the mouse.
You don't have to add any sort of mc._rotation because it implicitly sees this._rotation and I'm assuming that's what you want. That code should work fine, does it?

Next we have this:

onClipEvent (enterFrame) {
_root.standing = true;

if (Key.isDown(Key.UP)) {
_root.attacking = false;
_root.standing = false;
_root.maincharacter.gotoAndPlay(2);
_root.maincharacter.walk.play();
if (_rotation>180) {
_y -= (5*Math.cos(Math.PI/180*(_rotation)));
_x += (5*Math.sin(Math.PI/180*(_rotation)));
} else {
_y += (5*Math.cos(Math.PI/180*(_rotation)));
_x -= (5*Math.sin(Math.PI/180*(_rotation)));
}
}

if (Key.isDown(Key.DOWN)) {
_root.standing = false;
_root.attacking = false;
_root.maincharacter.gotoAndStop(2);
_root.maincharacter.walk.play();
if (_rotation>180) {
_y += (5*Math.cos(Math.PI/180*(_rotation)));
_x -= (5*Math.sin(Math.PI/180*(_rotation)));
} else {
_y -= (5*Math.cos(Math.PI/180*(_rotation)));
_x += (5*Math.sin(Math.PI/180*(_rotation)));
}
}

if (_root.standing == true && _root.attacking == false) {
_root.maincharacter.gotoAndStop(1);
_root.maincharacter.stand.play();
}
}

that looks like it should make your character move in the direction that he is faceing... If there is no walking animation I would say that has something to do with your "stop command on all frames!!"...

You know what... I recommend you ask for help at a site called ActionScript.org They have a huge community of programmers that love to help with this kind of stuff... me included, but I would need to see your .fla to tell you what is going wrong here. Everything in this code looks fine, but I don't know what happens on frame 2 when you call _root.maincharacter.gotoAndStop(2);

At 8/3/07 05:35 AM, ArthurGhostly wrote: *You're

Yeah, it was about 3 AM when I threw that together so I must have not seen the 'A' in pending (or how I said it "Panding").

Also, the conjunction of You - Are is You're ('Your' is possessive I believe).
The font is called "Brushed" and I have no idea where I got it (I have over 1,000 fonts and it gets hard to go through them all sometimes).

You know, I didn't really think about it, but that image is 81 pixels high (like the one I was working off of). Your Sig can only be 50 px high if I'm not mistaken (and I'm pretty damn sure I'm not).

First I would make it the full width allowed (maybe a little narrower). Then I would make Bender much bigger. You don't have to see his whole body, just enough to recognize him and see his expression probably.

I would probably use a different font, maybe something a little more Bender, but that's me.

Here, I did a rough job of what I was thinking of...

At 8/2/07 10:36 PM, KIRBYLINK wrote: wow i suck! :D

It's funny that you say it with that picture, because I thought that was your best one.

Spend more time drawing with pen and paper. It will really help you more effectively get things from your minds eye out into a medium we can all see.

I find tablets are really good for tracing people and faces (actually anything). It's much nicer to drag a pen across the tablet then a mouse across a pad.

At 8/2/07 12:19 PM, test-object wrote: No Photoshop threads + no talking about a free but perfect art program. It doesn't exsist, believe me.

I don't know why people get so worked up about photoshop threads. They are fun and I don't see anything in the forum rules against them.

Art_Rules wrote:
:# Do not post requests such as "Photoshop this" or "Draw this" without giving your own example. You are allowed to create Photoshop threads but you must provide source art as well as a second post with your own submission. Please don't ask people to Photoshop your friends.
:# Any art you post must be your own with the exception of images used to start a Photoshop thread, which may come from the public domain.

yeah, lopas, I've seen that before here http://officer.newgrounds.com/

he posted it in that header contest that was going on about a week ago.

Still, I like the idea.

Oh, yeah. Now I see it.
I was focusing too much on the detail of your character and never really made the connection between the things in his hands.

I like your banner by the way. It's a nice collage of color and characters and it really attracts the eyes (maybe a little too much?).

I talk about the ape in another thread. I basically found him at random and love it.
The font is called "Big Bloke BB" (I probably got the font from a friend, because that's where I get most of my fonts) and it has a few photoshop blending filters on it. Nothing fancy, I like it simple.

not bad, but what the heck is he picking up?

you can just click the profile button at the top of my post. That will take you there.

But, I think this is really about you wanting us to comment on your profile ; )

At 8/2/07 01:10 AM, Dalario wrote: If you don't want this thread filled with crap you should send us the monkey without the background...

OK, if you want it easy. Go here to get the monkey image without a background, I've included the PSD file since I'm not sure if the jpg has a proper transparent background. The image is too big of a resolution to fit in this forum.

I don't like "...one-hundred percent of the proceeds goes to a great non-profit..."
How about 70% goes to me, and they can do whatever they want with the other 30%

At 8/1/07 03:25 PM, Nonman2783 wrote: how much is the new photoshop? i hear it has like an 800$ pricetag if you get a a good deal, but how much did it cost you?

Yeah, it's expensive (if you want to pay for it). Lucky me though, I won the Adobe Creative Suite Design Premium package ($1,800 value) at an Adobe seminar!

I found the image in a random search Monkey With a Gun and I thought it would be really funny to Photoshop it into something. I normally wouldn't think that, but I just got Photoshop CS3 and it has a new selection tool that makes this kind of work almost effortless.

Here is the full image and this is the source for the Background Image

If you have a better idea for where to put him, I would be glad to hear it or see it.

obviously not... I will just take that as rude sarcasm.

Me too...

Yeah, it's traced... This was my first attempt at drawing a female (or anything really) with a Wacom tablet and I needed a guide. Still I did it all by hand with no automation help from flash.
I have other work that's done without tracing, but it would probably be considered hentai.