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At 6/2/05 01:26 PM, littleNorwegians wrote: Ok how do you make em? CAN ANYBODY ANSWER ME THAT! Ive been waiting some time now. Please?!?

You have to make your BBS Signature pic in a graphic or animation program like Photoshop or Flash. 400x60 (I believe) is the maximum and most common size.

When you have made it click BBS Signature Pic in your Grounds Gold menu and upload it there.

At 6/2/05 01:11 PM, DarkRomances wrote: In my flash project, I use custom fonts, but in the movie they don't show up. Is it a compatibility problem or anything like it ?

Well that does seem odd. You should break your fonts down to their base layer (ctrl+b twice), that way there shouldn't be any compatability issues as the font has been converted into a vector image.

Good luck. :)

Take your chill pill:

At 6/2/05 12:02 PM, aquaticmole wrote: does anyone know how to get a picture of your flash movie next to "whatch this movie"??? i really want to know and i know i asked this question yesturday but i couldn,t understand my answer so can some1 tell me how more thoroly?

On the Flash Submit Page there is a place to upload a 46x46 gif, jpeg or png, you can publish one with flash or take a screenshot and crop it or whatever.

I don't think you can change the pic after your flash is already in the portal though.

At the very top ^^ click on the button that says "submit content" and follow the instuctions on the following page.

I look forward to watching and voting on your submission! :)

Give some more specifics of what you're after such as;
Number of artists wanted,
Framerate,
Stage size,
Default bg color,
and what exactly you expect (frame-by-frame or tweening, lip sync collab, music video collab, something else)

Good luck.

At 6/1/05 02:46 PM, mymummyneverlovedme wrote: Does anybody know were i can find Metal slug sprites

But not of Panel monkey (sorry if i got that wrong)

Thanks

Here you go:
Game Sprite Archives - Neo-Geo

Hope that helps! :)

Have you made sure that there are enough frames on the main layer to play the entire movie clip?

At 6/2/05 02:40 AM, Y9 wrote:

At 6/2/05 02:37 AM, BlackmarketKraig wrote:

At 6/2/05 02:32 AM, Dark_Toaster wrote: A colored mad guy!

Looks more nauseous or constipated than mad...

Someday I will have your talent for drawing, Toaster.

Shuttup retard,we all know how jealous you are.

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What?

I wasn't flaming, I'm sorry that it could be seen that way...

Carry on.

At 6/2/05 02:32 AM, Dark_Toaster wrote: A colored mad guy!

Looks more nauseous or constipated than mad...

Someday I will have your talent for drawing, Toaster.

Music is a HUGE part of my inspiration too.

Another thing to try is reduce distractions and stresses. Turn off the tv, clean up your workspace, find some quiet time away from your roomates or family...

Also doodling is a great way to get the creative juices flowing.

Good luck! :)

Sounds like a lot of kooky-talk to me.

Some of the most incredible movies have been submitted over the past 3-4 months.

Every week when the top 50 list gets updated the top 5 or so movies have been the weekly favorites every time for the past month or so.

The portal system is in place to keep out low quality movies, if crappy movies get in it's the fault of us the viewers. It's democratic and for the most part it's fair.

File size doesn't matter that much, I have dial up and have to blam a lot of cruddy low filesize movies and usually miss out on protecting the really good ones, but I've seen some good stuff that has a filesize of under 300kb:
Awesome movie under 100kb
People who know what they're doing can make a low filesize movies and games of quality.

At 6/1/05 10:54 PM, dr_Beast wrote: well i did this....took me a while

The body and the clothes (especially the boots) look nice. But the way the wings are handled looks really inconsistant with the rest of the picture, the lines are heavier than the and look a little sloppy...

Just a little constuctive (I hope ) critique. :)

At 6/1/05 09:17 PM, NuiStyles wrote: 5 min sketch coz im sooooooooooo bored ( just a random picture not dong nothing with it :P )

Sweet!
Awesome structure and movement.

At 6/1/05 09:00 PM, NuiStyles wrote: Very Bored oh so bored, asked renaenae what i could draw she said a spider so this is what i came up with :D

EEK! I hate spiders!

But that's a cool pic. :D

Well this is quickly going in a negative direction...
Parroting criticism without suggesting ways to improve the idea are uneccessary.

The idea is fine as long as there are elements in place to have this animation stand apart from a field of basically the same song collabs.

At 6/1/05 07:26 PM, PhIrEPhYtER wrote: Maybe hes right. Cause everyone else i doin the same thing. Srry dude im out. its gonna be hard. good luck. ;( Again srry dude.

Yes, it a poplar idea right now.... Which is why something original needs to be introduced here. If it turns out like all the others it's a loss...

At 6/1/05 07:30 PM, MaxR wrote:
but we can hint how they will turnout at the end by how they are on the past or current.

Currently they're pretty populist, now we make them artistic! :D

At 6/1/05 07:22 PM, MaxR wrote: we'll see if these "new" collabs are any better. You never know, they might be going backwards instead of "evolving".

Nothing evolves with innactivity...
True they might suck and the fad will die out or they might be fantastic, but likely fall somewhere in between.
But art builds on the things that came before, maybe this one branch will go nowhere or maybe it will grow into something wonderful...
you never know if you never try.

One Love came out in Januray... duh... I feel stupid(er).

At 6/1/05 07:10 PM, MaxR wrote: first off, djamin's movie wasn't the first to make a movie like that, even he said that he got an idea from a movie he recently saw. Certainly these kind of movies are overrated. Why? because the artist itself didn't draw much, no mor ethan 5% they have drawn, but other artist did. Consisting of around 20 artist cannot co-author every single one of them. Now noobs, with posts 0, or even not-so-good movies are starting their own collab that will be taking other artist's animations and perform a line of singing. This is overrated, for the artist don't deserve t o take all the credit, many other aritst did.

Well, doesn't seem like the right forum to start a thread about other peoples flashes.

Regardless, I agree to a certain extent.
The first one I saw was Gerkinman's collab One Love back in February.

It was pretty neat the first time I saw it, then Stop Crying... came out. Which was pretty much the same thing with a different song and new artists.

Now others are springing up. However like all crazes, "evolve or die" is the key. If other collaberations are convinced to make it cool and unique (and with a good song this time) people will realize that there is more to be done here, not just a solitart charater mouthing the words.

At 6/1/05 07:02 PM, Roon wrote: Here I want to know how to get the broken apart sprites Sharp

When you do Trace Bitmap set the Color Threshold to 1, Pixel Threshold to 1, the Curve fit to Pixels and Corner Threshold to Many...

Does that work?

What do you mean by sharpening them? Sprites are already pretty sharp.

At 6/1/05 06:48 PM, PhIrEPhYtER wrote: I tried uploading the song but it cant it wont let me. Srry. Still in. ^_^

Is it segmented? I have a server and I could upload it for you if you e-mailed it to me. It might take awhile because I have dial-up, though.

At 6/1/05 06:40 PM, Flynt_19 wrote: Yeah we need to think of something great. Its gotta be awesome. and NO it doesnt have to be anime, i meant animation not anime. Anyway, yeah all requests can be accepted, you all got the lines you want

Alright, since it's such a visually effective song perhaps the animation sequences could be representations of the lyrics rather than some dude standing and weeping into a microphone. Lol.

I'd like lines12, 27, and 33 if that's cool.

Also upload the song cut into segments so we can download our parts.

I have to agree with Twinsen about originality here.

I like the song, and doing a collab about it would be fun, but there needs to be something new this time.
One Love (in both it's nearly identical versions) and Stop Crying... were pretty much the same thing and now there are several other collabs of this nature floating around the BBS.

If you come up with something new and exciting to do with the song I'd be into it and I'm sure you would draw lots of other artists that way... but one more white background lip syng song collab sounds pretty ...m.e.h... -_-

Yeah, it's a great song and maybe I'd like to do this.
It would probably help your case for enlisting people if you listed the:
stage size,
framerate,
background color,
and what you expect of the animated segments (something just like One Love and Stop Crying Your Heat Out, or something new)...

At 6/1/05 04:31 PM, AncientChicken wrote: Yeah will i need to fix it cause im not going to pay 250 bucks to rebuy it again.
-AncientChicken

DANGER!! Don't rebuy Flash.
Have you gone to the publish settings and moved the jpeg quality slider all the way up?

At 6/1/05 01:53 AM, Trigger_Z wrote: Sorry I don't mean to sound like a bitch, but most of the stuff I post in here, I ask for your guys opinions etc. I know your not getting paid to do it or anything, but I've asked for constructive critisicm on all my stuff when I post and no-one says a word. If its crap just tell me its crap, I want to know what it looks like from someone else's perspective. Thanks

Well people just kind of breeze in and out, comment on something or post something and puff they're gone... It probably has nothing to do with any of your posted pics.

As for your 3d face, it looks good. I imagine natural forms are very difficult to pull off in 3d. If I were to suggest places for improvement it would be that the lips need a little definition, show the angle at the top of the upper lip and bottom of the lower one. And the eyes need to be done (but I'm sure you already were intending to). But all in all it works well. I'd love to see it rendered with a textures and lighting, maybe some other angles. :)

At 6/1/05 12:04 AM, Greedom wrote:

At 5/31/05 11:38 PM, BlackmarketKraig wrote: I had a (probably very unoriginal) idea yesterday and decided to make a very short animated sequence of it.

cool, good job on the smooth loop.

Thanks. ^_^
Bad loops make my scalp hurt.