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heres a background for a brakenwood one I'm doing.

Great, I put already so much detail into my project that I can't even fill it in with colour now. Flash has froze and shut down already 9 times on me, even when I go into Task Manager and set it into 'Real Time' priority. Looks like I'm going to have divide all of it into sections and piece it all together (I fucking hate this). I hate you Flash.

At 10/6/08 08:13 PM, PolishMatt wrote: Great, I put already so much detail into my project that I can't even fill it in with colour now. Flash has froze and shut down already 9 times on me, even when I go into Task Manager and set it into 'Real Time' priority. Looks like I'm going to have divide all of it into sections and piece it all together (I fucking hate this). I hate you Flash.

I would export the image then import into flash, break apart then use the wand colour tool to help me colour it in.

At 10/6/08 08:54 PM, ShortMonkey wrote: I would export the image then import into flash, break apart then use the wand colour tool to help me colour it in.

That won't work in my situation, it's filled with too many small delicate tiny path ways and details on a too much of a large scale to do that. I need to use the paint bucket.

I was gonna release this one , but have no Idea what the BG should be
It's really crowed so let me do a count off(top to down)
Pico,Madness Zombie,Me(very tiny)ButtCrasher,Red Crasher,Blue Crasher,Flaming Mushroom,Luis,Mushroom Guy,CastleClock,Pico Again,Gnome Hand Guy,Bitey,Alien Homined

Yah very Crowded , But if I do finish it any suggestion on a background???

Does that pink knight have a boner?

At 10/7/08 01:53 AM, Luis wrote: Does that pink knight have a boner?

Yah I'll make it more noticable (well it is more noticable when you see the bigger one)
also hey Luis I Just relized your a level 2 now after the redesign
I have Lv 1 for life on your shirt so I'll have to change that , also any suggestion on a good
skin color for you cuz the color I got right now isn't my fav.

Well, can somebody give me an opinion? To be honest I kinda got lazy with the background... I wish I had a better editing program...

Also, regarding the subject matter: Is it acceptable or do I need to change the character into someone like Tom or a Tankman? It's based off the series sooo...

OH SHI!*

RUUUUUNNNN!!!!!

At 10/7/08 03:34 AM, Apeman1813 wrote: Well, can somebody give me an opinion? To be honest I kinda got lazy with the background... I wish I had a better editing program...

I like it, generally. The hand looks a little off though - I think if the index finger is pointed slightly upward, you'd see a little more of the bottom of the hand and the rest of the fingers would be at a different angle - or maybe it's fine, I'll admit that someone more knowledgeable should probably be the one to offer a criticism of anatomy and not me.

I think as far as background goes...I would make Uncle Tom slightly smaller, move him over to the right, with the slogan underneath him, and, on the left hand side of the picture I'd draw something along the lines of "Raising the Flag on Iwo Jima," but with Tankmen, possibly incorporating the Newgrounds city skyline into the background.

But yeah, I like what you've got so far - but you've still got 7 or 8 days left, so I know you can do more with it.

Also, what editing program are you using?

At 10/7/08 04:27 AM, johnnycancer wrote:

At 10/7/08 03:34 AM, Apeman1813 wrote: Well, can somebody give me an opinion? To be honest I kinda got lazy with the background... I wish I had a better editing program...

I like it, generally. The hand looks a little off though - I think if the index finger is pointed slightly upward, you'd see a little more of the bottom of the hand and the rest of the fingers would be at a different angle - or maybe it's fine, I'll admit that someone more knowledgeable should probably be the one to offer a criticism of anatomy and not me.

I think as far as background goes...I would make Uncle Tom slightly smaller, move him over to the right, with the slogan underneath him, and, on the left hand side of the picture I'd draw something along the lines of "Raising the Flag on Iwo Jima," but with Tankmen, possibly incorporating the Newgrounds city skyline into the background.

But yeah, I like what you've got so far - but you've still got 7 or 8 days left, so I know you can do more with it.

Also, what editing program are you using?

Wow, thanks! That really helps and makes me feel like I'm not just wasting my time!

Right now, I'm using this demo program for the Mac called Pixelmater (you can see the logo in the center...). I picked it up because I wanted to do some sprite editing and whatnot and it came in handy for making the slogan. I wish I could have something like fireworks or photoshop, but they cost a bit too much money for something I would consider a toy and I doubt I would put excessive use in. Besides, the program I'm using isn't exactly bad, but it doesn't have all the bells and whistles I guess. I'm still getting used to it...

some sort of elderly pico.

hilarity shall ensue.

trust me

At 10/7/08 03:34 AM, Apeman1813 wrote: Well, can somebody give me an opinion? To be honest I kinda got lazy with the background... I wish I had a better editing program...

Also, regarding the subject matter: Is it acceptable or do I need to change the character into someone like Tom or a Tankman? It's based off the series sooo...

That's pretty sick, I would say just give him Captian googles, like half of them sticking out the bottom of his hat cause he is leaning.

At 10/7/08 04:42 AM, Apeman1813 wrote: Right now, I'm using this demo program for the Mac called Pixelmater (you can see the logo in the center...). I picked it up because I wanted to do some sprite editing and whatnot and it came in handy for making the slogan. I wish I could have something like fireworks or photoshop, but they cost a bit too much money for something I would consider a toy and I doubt I would put excessive use in. Besides, the program I'm using isn't exactly bad, but it doesn't have all the bells and whistles I guess. I'm still getting used to it...

I'd recommend GIMP; it's a free program that I use, for basically the same reasoning that you have, which is that I don't want to spend upwards of $900 for software that is just for a hobby of mine. It's similar to Photoshop, although it's important to emphasize that it's not a substitute for Photoshop - Photoshop, from what I am told, has way more features. But, I use it primarily to digitally color art that I've drawn by hand, and I've never found myself wanting for anything in that respect.

I'm using it on Windows, so, I don't know what you need to do to run GIMP on a Mac, but, on the official GIMP page they've got a section about it:

http://www.gimp.org/macintosh/

Anyway, maybe that will help, although, I'm not sure what you were using your software for exactly, so, maybe not.

Catoblepas IS the bestest

At 10/7/08 01:24 PM, johnnycancer wrote: I'd recommend GIMP; it's a free program that I use, for basically the same reasoning that you have, which is that I don't want to spend upwards of $900 for software that is just for a hobby of mine. It's similar to Photoshop, although it's important to emphasize that it's not a substitute for Photoshop - Photoshop, from what I am told, has way more features. But, I use it primarily to digitally color art that I've drawn by hand, and I've never found myself wanting for anything in that respect.

I'm using it on Windows, so, I don't know what you need to do to run GIMP on a Mac, but, on the official GIMP page they've got a section about it:

http://www.gimp.org/macintosh/

Anyway, maybe that will help, although, I'm not sure what you were using your software for exactly, so, maybe not.

I appreciate it. I tried to download it and get it to work on my Mac, but it seems more hassle than it's worth messing with it...

At 10/7/08 08:04 AM, Ajator wrote: That's pretty sick, I would say just give him Captian googles, like half of them sticking out the bottom of his hat cause he is leaning.

Thanks! I thought about making it look more like Tom or a Tankman, but I don't think giving him goggles would be right. It's suppose to be based of Uncle Sam which is kinda like the father of America at time so I made him look like Tom, but you can't really tell because I tilted his hat down to cover his eyes and didn't draw a nose, because you never see their eyes and noses in Tankmen.

I see about three or four options I'll do if I ABSOLUTELY HAVE TO:
1. Just make it a tankman (which will make me sad because Uncle Sam is NOTHING like a soldier)
2. Tilt the hat up and make it look more like Tom
3. Remove the hat and make it a lot more like Tom
4. Draw the nose?

Are we aloud to make it hand drawn? Maybe it would kinda look themey, I don't know.
But I kinda started a picture of The Savior, and it came out well I think.
Sorry about shitty quality, I didn't have time to scan it >____>

At 10/7/08 04:59 PM, Ajator wrote: Are we aloud to make it hand drawn? Maybe it would kinda look themey, I don't know.
But I kinda started a picture of The Savior, and it came out well I think.
Sorry about shitty quality, I didn't have time to scan it >____>

Damn Right you better be sorry for that shitty quality lol

I drew mine by hand when I felt satisfied I outlined it with a sharpie and scanned it. I only edited in the color and the background, but kudos to you if you can do it all by hand. I'm definitely not that talented lol.

Ohh, I just had a idea! Maybe a drawing/sketching on notebook paper would be a bad idea for a month like august when people go back to school!

At 10/5/08 02:39 PM, JTricks wrote: This is just a random idea I had, it is nowhere near finished, I could improve the detail and mabye put it into a bigger scene or something. Please tell me what you think.

And Steve said that, not Captian. That's Captian's face.

I love that Kuro re-touched his Pico Day contest entrie, it is sooo much better now.

ReNaeNae..where is you?

At 10/7/08 06:02 PM, WAaAzZAaA wrote: I love that Kuro re-touched his Pico Day contest entrie, it is sooo much better now.

ReNaeNae..where is you?

I like that when Kuro isn't tracing people's pictures, he's re-using old stuff he's submitted before.

I like that when Kuro isn't tracing people's pictures, he's re-using old stuff he's submitted before.

why tracing?

At 10/7/08 04:59 PM, Ajator wrote: Are we aloud to make it hand drawn? Maybe it would kinda look themey, I don't know.

Hand drawn/painted is cool, as long as it meets the size/res requirements.

At 10/7/08 06:02 PM, WAaAzZAaA wrote: I love that Kuro re-touched his Pico Day contest entrie, it is sooo much better now.

I've told a couple of other people that they could submit things from before as long as they weren't 'exactly' the same.

I'm well aware of Kuro's past transgressions and people's animosity towards him, but please keep it out of this thread. Thanks.

At 10/7/08 04:52 PM, Apeman1813 wrote: I see about three or four options I'll do if I ABSOLUTELY HAVE TO:
1. Just make it a tankman (which will make me sad because Uncle Sam is NOTHING like a soldier)
2. Tilt the hat up and make it look more like Tom
3. Remove the hat and make it a lot more like Tom
4. Draw the nose?

Sorry GIMP didn't work out for you.

I don't really think you ABSOLUTELY HAVE TO do anything - I actually thought that your concept was pretty clear, and I really like the basic design of Uncle Tom as is - at the very least, definitely don't make him a tankman and definitely don't remove the hat.

I like that one entry where the person just tiled all the downloads on the wallpaper page lmao.

what did that take him all of 2 mins?

At 10/5/08 02:04 PM, UnderARock wrote: I need an opinion :B
Textured

or this non textured

i adore this one.

At 10/4/08 06:18 PM, DooDooMeaT wrote: I should have been working on my finals for school school but this seemed more important...

reminds me a bit of the one i made, except better in concept.

At 10/7/08 08:59 PM, AlmightyHans wrote:

i adore this one.

thanks hans, cool to hear :B

At 10/7/08 06:02 PM, WAaAzZAaA wrote: I love that Kuro re-touched his Pico Day contest entrie, it is sooo much better now.

Well, it's not so much 're-touched' as entirely redrawn.

But thank you.