Creativity of the day

[Jipí]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cXb4MYKlK-o

Tags: stony, apricot, salesman, dream, theater, homage, mini, megan, fox, opera, garage, band, sex, tape, garageband, metal

Intention, or Youtube automatically suggesting keywords? Who knows~

[joey]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cXb4MYKlK-o

Tags: stony, apricot, salesman, dream, theater, homage, mini, megan, fox, opera, garage, band, sex, tape, garageband, metal

Intent, or Youtube automatically suggesting keywords? Who knows~

Marketing strategy

[joey]

Hasn't done much for me yet, but, I mean, ya never know.

[Skomakar'n]

Haha. I do that too.

[Viktor77]

Collage I've created of all 50 US state capitol buildings. The US had quite the obsession with domes haha.

[Skomakar'n]

You've... created them? Huh? Aren't those photos?
Nice picture, though! I can see what you're saying about those domes, haha.

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Today, I made a pumpkin sprite for my game.

[Astraios]

You've... created them? Huh? Aren't those photos?

He created the collage.

[Skomakar'n]

You've... created them? Huh? Aren't those photos?

He created the collage.

... How could I even miss that? I read the sentence like ten times to get it right... I didn't spot the word 'collage' even once.
I still understood that he meant he had created the collage, but I just wanted to get things right. s:

[lctrgzmn]

I found my tablet under my bed while I was moving things around, so I decided I would *try* drawing something. Meh. It's been too long.



The making of this toucan contained incredible amounts of MIA's music being played, fyi.

[Aurora Rossa]

Is the toucan supposed to be gripping the tree branch with its beak?

[lctrgzmn]

No, I actually just drew the toucan alone but a friend of mine suggested I add in something to give it perspective and to balance the space. I never saw the toucan as biting the branch, now that I think about it. Nice observation.

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I don't look at many toucans really but it looks to me like the neck is too long. Some of the proportions are off.

[bulbaquil]

Collage I've created of all 50 US state capitol buildings. The US had quite the obsession with domes haha.

Yeah, as I understand it many of the state capitols emulating the federal one, which of course is domed.

You can hardly have a rotunda without the dome.

[lctrgzmn]

I've noticed. I ~kind of~ plan on making a series on exotic birds, so in the long run I can get better and see the progress. The only other thing I've ever drawn with a tablet is the little bird icon I'm using on this site.

[vampireshark]

Whee, boredom.

[vampireshark]

More boredom results:



Potential idea for a new residence permit card for Telèmor, an ID-2 format document as opposed to the old, A5-size paper as seen below (old):


I also reworked the UND stamp (not the standard Border Police entry/exit stamp) to make it about the same size as the Border Police stamps, as shown below:


And something you might not want to see in your passport.

[bulbaquil]

Trying to do an orbital gravity simulation, but I keep getting an increase of 120 five-minute timestamps between successive periapses, even though it's a two-body problem. Perhaps my parameterization is off...

...edit: Yeah. I was using an Euler method rather than a Runge-Kutta and so truncation/floating-point errors were compounding.

[Skomakar'n]

Loading screen for my game! Took for ever.

[makvas]

I wonder, what process do you use to make your images? Just pixel-by-pixel until you get perfection?

[Skomakar'n]

I wonder, what process do you use to make your images? Just pixel-by-pixel until you get perfection?

Pretty much, yeah. I think this one took at least seven or eight hours. Maybe more. I did use the gradient tool for the sky, and the circle tool for the outline of the glass ball, and some very non-traditional tools such as feathering and blur for the lighting, and a noise filter for the small snow flakes. I work in layers and copy things like snow flakes, and other stuff that should look the same, around. GIMP has a great "chain pen tool", where you can hold shift to drag a line from the last pixel you clicked on, that I use to drag lines, which is very handy.

The moon, the snow in which the entire thing rests, on top of the loading bar, and the icicles, as well as the snow flakes, were all old graphics from other parts of the game that I just copied and slightly modified, but at one point I did make those by hand myself, too.

[bulbaquil]

The Runge-Kutta method works SO much better. Still get a 15-m per year orbital radial increase for the innermost planet, but over the 200-year period I'm running it that won't be an issue. (Heck, I could run it for a million years and it probably wouldn't be that much of an issue. Of course, then it would take more than 2 years of real time rather than ~4 hours, and I don't have that kind of time.)

It's producing the data fine, I think. (Except I accidentally told it to write the data to the file six times. Fortunately, it's a small amount of data that needs to be written.)

[vampireshark]

Skomakar'n: Nice. The only thing that looks out-of-place to me is the uniformity of the snowflakes, but it still looks pretty awesome. Is it animated?

As from my end:

[Skomakar'n]

Skomakar'n: Nice. The only thing that looks out-of-place to me is the uniformity of the snowflakes, but it still looks pretty awesome. Is it animated?

Really? I just put them here and there at random... or do you mean the tiny ones?
It's not animated in the loading screen, because it's running in the same thread as the rest of the game (except for music) and I just don't think it's worth it. I will probably be putting an animated version, with the loading bar replaced with the game logo, in the main menu, though.

As from my end:
http://i53.tinypic.com/2lm526c.jpg

You like to do this kind of stuff quite a lot, don't you? Good job, as always.

[vampireshark]

Skomakar'n: Nice. The only thing that looks out-of-place to me is the uniformity of the snowflakes, but it still looks pretty awesome. Is it animated?

Really? I just put them here and there at random... or do you mean the tiny ones?
It's not animated in the loading screen, because it's running in the same thread as the rest of the game (except for music) and I just don't think it's worth it. I will probably be putting an animated version, with the loading bar replaced with the game logo, in the main menu, though.

I mean the ones in the foreground, the somewhat larger ones... the tiny ones look just fine and nonuniform.

And fair enough. It just, to me, looks like something that'd be doubly awesome animated, like a snow globe. Now that I see the bottom's the loading bar, though, I completely understand: crashing the machines of the

As from my end:
http://i53.tinypic.com/2lm526c.jpg

You like to do this kind of stuff quite a lot, don't you? Good job, as always.

Tack. And, yeah, since I can't really draw, I like doing things with the infrastructure of my concountries, and writing long histories takes a lot out of me mentally, this type of graphic design's the type of thing that's right up my alley.
(Actually, I got into conworlding because of my love of the smaller stuff: foreign money, public transport, the road signs/roads that were so different in each of the different countries I visited when I was really, really young...)

[Skomakar'n]

And fair enough. It just, to me, looks like something that'd be doubly awesome animated, like a snow globe. Now that I see the bottom's the loading bar, though, I completely understand: crashing the machines of the

What happened to the rest of the sentence?

I just finished up the first animated image for the game, and the first animated image I've made at all, in years! E':