Creativity of the day

Neek · Post by **Neek** » Fri Aug 13, 2010 8:17 pm

TheGoatMan wrote:I'm pretty sure the motto is grammatical (since you use ad with the Accusative), which is meant to be roughly "to the death", or "until death" cf. hasta la muerte!

ad isn't always used with the accusative, but it can be. The usage you're going for, definitely with the accusative. Excellent work!

Morrígan · Post by **Morrígan** » Sat Aug 14, 2010 12:43 pm

Neek wrote:
TheGoatMan wrote:I'm pretty sure the motto is grammatical (since you use ad with the Accusative), which is meant to be roughly "to the death", or "until death" cf. hasta la muerte!
ad isn't always used with the accusative, but it can be. The usage you're going for, definitely with the accusative. Excellent work!

Thanks. I made a revised version; I didn't really like the way the type looked, and I cleaned up the gauntlet (which had been auto-vectorized) an rescaled some things.

For some reason, I always use low saturation colors...

Still, I wonder if AD MORTEM is too fatalistic for the regular SSC; for the Special Planetary Combat Service, it would be understandable, though in that case I might go with AD MORTEM FESTINAMUS.

I just want to avoid anything stupid, like AD ASTRA

Nortaneous · Post by **Nortaneous** » Sun Aug 15, 2010 4:17 pm

Dicking around in Flash. You'll probably want to turn the volume down.

This really isn't all that impressive, but the thing in the middle looks the way it does because of a bug in... I'm not sure exactly what. But I've always had fun beating the shit out of Flash like that.

Torco · Post by **Torco** » Sun Aug 15, 2010 4:58 pm

nais!

I recommend to overlap the audio with a remix of Nancy Sinatra's Bang Bang.

Viktor77 · Post by **Viktor77** » Wed Aug 18, 2010 2:13 pm

I know I posted a thousand pixels here but this my last, I promise. It's a collaboration of all my previous pixels to illustrate a neighborhood.

View it here and click "download" to open (note: not actually download) in a new window the 4000 X 1000 pixel image.

Guitarplayer II · Post by **Guitarplayer II** » Wed Aug 18, 2010 5:53 pm

Shameless plug. And another one (Stuff in yellow is stuff I need to work on. It may be implausible. The whole thing is still Work in Progress anyway, and will stay for the next couple of months I guess, except this time I'm decided to get it done.)

Neek · Post by **Neek** » Wed Aug 18, 2010 6:12 pm

I haven't actually closed that pdf, Dampantigaya. Instead, though, you've motivated me to write up my own reference grammar.

Jacqui · Post by **Jacqui** » Thu Aug 19, 2010 10:20 am

I dottori pesti

Jacqui · Post by **Jacqui** » Fri Aug 20, 2010 5:34 am

A new thing I'm starting up using only actors or musicians before the 1970s.

Marilyn Monroe:

Jascha Heifetz:

Pthagnar · Post by **Pthagnar** » Fri Aug 20, 2010 5:35 am

that's definitely edge detection

Jacqui · Post by **Jacqui** » Fri Aug 20, 2010 5:49 am

Pthug wrote:that's definitely edge detection

Oh well done....

Brownie point.

Pthagnar · Post by **Pthagnar** » Fri Aug 20, 2010 5:54 am

the glory is all yours. i wouldn't want to diminish it by a candle.

Jacqui · Post by **Jacqui** » Fri Aug 20, 2010 6:40 am

Oooh I found Silvana Mangano:

Nortaneous · Post by **Nortaneous** » Fri Aug 20, 2010 9:38 am

Reminds me of the things I did a while back with presidents:
http://nortajnh.deviantart.com/art/jerd ... -162493336
http://nortajnh.deviantart.com/art/jern ... -162643339
http://nortajnh.deviantart.com/art/ther ... -162745425
http://nortajnh.deviantart.com/art/jerm ... -163446640
http://nortajnh.deviantart.com/art/jerm ... -163496270
http://nortajnh.deviantart.com/art/quon ... -165239801

I should reinstall GIMP and start doing these again.

Jacqui · Post by **Jacqui** » Fri Aug 20, 2010 10:31 am

Nortaneous wrote:Reminds me of the things I did a while back with presidents:
http://nortajnh.deviantart.com/art/jerd ... -162493336
http://nortajnh.deviantart.com/art/jern ... -162643339
http://nortajnh.deviantart.com/art/ther ... -162745425
http://nortajnh.deviantart.com/art/jerm ... -163446640
http://nortajnh.deviantart.com/art/jerm ... -163496270
http://nortajnh.deviantart.com/art/quon ... -165239801

I should reinstall GIMP and start doing these again.

Oh they're cool

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Yeah I've got like a website devoted to it now.

Oh and it's more than -70s actors and musicians now. It's expanded to Lindsay Lohan, Pamela, and Paris.

Jacqui · Post by **Jacqui** » Fri Aug 20, 2010 10:36 am

Here is more:

Lindsay:

Paris: (This is from her sex tape btw)

There's more than that but meh.

din · Post by **din** » Sat Aug 21, 2010 9:45 am

Filters != creativity.

Skomakar'n · Post by **Skomakar'n** » Sat Aug 21, 2010 3:03 pm

Some pixel work:

Viktor77 · Post by **Viktor77** » Sat Aug 21, 2010 3:08 pm

Nice work! Very cartoony!

Skomakar'n · Post by **Skomakar'n** » Sat Aug 21, 2010 4:57 pm

Viktor77 wrote:Nice work! Very cartoony!

Thank you!

din · Post by **din** » Sat Aug 21, 2010 5:27 pm

Looks like you're making a 2D computer game?

Skomakar'n · Post by **Skomakar'n** » Sat Aug 21, 2010 5:46 pm

dinnae wrote:Looks like you're making a 2D computer game?

Yep. Not sure if we will use a pixelated art style at all, though. We're playing around, testing things, and experimenting. Does this look appealing to you?

Rui · Post by **Rui** » Sat Aug 21, 2010 6:01 pm

These are some of the pictures I took while in Tokyo/China this summer. I fiddled around with the colors in Windows Photo Gallery. (Yes, these all started out as photos...I was quite happy with how some of them morphed into something that looked hand-drawn, actually)

(And yes, these were all done in Windows Photo Gallery. wtf)

Ueno, Tokyo

Soldiers marching in Tiananmen, Beijing

Hutong alleyway, Beijing

Summer Palace, Beijing

Great Wall, Beijing/Hebei

Sunset over a Stupa, Wutaishan

Temple, Wutaishan

Sunset over the Bell Tower, Xi'an

Wenshu Monastery, Chengdu

Pudong, Shanghai

Yuyuan Garden Bazaar, Shanghai

Garden of the Master of Nets, Suzhou

din · Post by **din** » Sun Aug 22, 2010 4:11 pm

Skomakar'n wrote:
dinnae wrote:Looks like you're making a 2D computer game?
Yep. Not sure if we will use a pixelated art style at all, though. We're playing around, testing things, and experimenting. Does this look appealing to you?

Very much depends on the theme.

If the topic is supposed to be reminiscent of 90's 'high school' cartoons, like Doug and such, I'd say you're on the right track with that style.

It's always a bit safer though, as an amateur, to not go for fancy 3D stuff, because it easily starts looking tacky.

I should add that I actually like the style you went for in that image.

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Chibi:
The summer palace picture looks nice. You enhanced reality there. The others just look like you abused your photo editing program. Experimenting is good of course, but (I believe) it's either supposed to be a photo and look like one (you may push the edges, though), or be a form of digital art, and drop the idea that it was ever a photo. Most of your pictures are lost between the two and thus look silly and over-edited.

I apologize for feeling the need to comment :P

Skomakar'n · Post by **Skomakar'n** » Sun Aug 22, 2010 6:25 pm

@dinnae:
I suppose so. Thanks.

I fixed up the bugs in the particle system today. Working smoothly now: