Tahrey: also, i'm not good with either latin or made-up languages, so what's "dan ex nirn" mean, other than being something to do with that world in general?
Tahrey: ...fused? fussed about what to have for dinner? futzed around for a bit? futilely attempted copulation? future-proofed their horse? furled a flag? furnished the lounge? furrowed their brows? furiously argued? furtively snuck around the back of the haybarn? furthered their education? funked up the area like a pair of absolute mothers? FUPA-shamed a load of guys on Tumblr? funded an orphange for a year? fundectomised a corrupt mage? funeralized dmitri? fumigated several local properties after setting up a pest control business? fumbled the pass? funambulised? full-frontal flashed the entire patronage of a nearby tavern? fulfilled a string of courier jobs? fulminated some apples? fuggled? fugitometered katia's outfit? fucivored? fucked up a two-car funeral? fuddled shamelessly all night? fudged their tax return? fugaciously jigged? fuelled speculation about the state of their relationship? fubbed off the audience with a cliche ending?
C'mon, don't leave us hanging! I wanna know how the story ends!
Tahrey: PS I think the continual-autosave thing was part of Dwarf Fortress, for one thing. And effectively Minecraft too. Though the second is still more of a sandbox than a truly persistent experience.
The only way you could get around it was by backing up the folder...
Also, Zelda: Link's Awakening worked this way, and it was basically impossible to cheat unless you were very sly about it (or playing it using an emulator).
If you wanted to be REALLY cruel, you could have the game write its creation date into the actual save data in an encrypted fashion, and then compare it to the actual filesystem metadata on reload. If the two differ, then things diverge very quickly towards an unavoidable BAD END...
(So if you wanted to guard against hard drive crashes or whatever, you'd have to either do regular full-drive-image backups that would therefore exactly recreate all the metadata as well, or use one of those incremental utilities that shadows each file written into the backup, and hopefully can restore the full metadata when copying from backup to new drive...)
Tahrey: @TGWAKW ... lol, wat :D
Oh god now I'm imaginging it. SO WEIRD.
Yet kinda addictive.
...ooh, cold nose, should have expected that.
@Adroma: Ditto, actually. Might colourise it, possibly in a stylised fashion (desaturated / spot colours / etc), on the computer first though. Just personal preference, nothing else.
katiaaitak: Yeah, seriously, the foreshortening on the hand seems a bit off, and there's the aforementioned aspect oddness and unavoidable jitter, but in general it's worthy ^_^
Tahrey: That's come out pretty good then, normally I'd expect a large block of a medium colour like primary yellow to end up awfully splodgy because of all the overlaps you end up with.
So the eyes really are neon yellow highlighter like I was quietly suspecting? The nose pink highlighter too? This is the kind of art aesthetic I can get behind.
What are the lines done with? Doesn't look like ballpoint ... Pilot fineliner or the like?
Tahrey: Pretty neat, how did you do them? Just by eye, some kind of grid, massive zoom on monitor and rough trace with pencil?
Also, go on... put a martini glass on her butt and a bursting bottle of champagne on the counter jetting an arc of overpriced fizzy dry white into it :D
Tahrey: Yay... #artistscurse :D
But yeah ... you need to get larger paper next time! And maybe opt for more/quicker but lighter pencil strokes when shading (though this way does actually give a nice suede-like effect to the tunic). Otherwise not a bad effort at all.
Tahrey: Things got a bit TOO dramatic. Like, people weren't limiting it to descriptions of the image any more.
And, well, it's true that characters have been straight up killed or blasted into bloody chunks in the comic, but so far KM hasn't really received any significant injury (at least, nothing that wasn't self-inflicted) like cracked teeth/bleeding gums & lips, bloodied nose, black eyes, cuts on the face etc. So this art itself is a first.
We can only hope she received such in the middle of an epic battle she herself instigated, rather than just being beaten up for someone's sick imaginary pleasure...
Is it me or does she look even thinner than usual? :D ... no trace of any figure. Though that's actually more likely to be accurate to the strip, really...
Maybe her feet/shins could move very slightly in time with the rest of her body (inc thighs)? Just, like, one pixel or something, to suggest a change of angle... I know that's extra work though. This is cool as it is.
Tahrey: I count 8 colours (or possibly 7 + transparent depending on whether the eyes and nose are meant to be see-thru), so, maybe 3-bit. Or 4-bit in a wasteful system where one bit is reserved for transparency.
....oh, wait. The bands on the sleeves. 9 colours.
So let's say it's 4-bit, 15 colours plus transparent, of which this uses 10.
Tahrey: Katia has fallen through a hole into the Freefall universe...
Suddenly she is surrounded by loads of children and middle aged women throwing their hands in the air and yelling "KITTY!" whilst all the robots flee in terror lest they be used as vehicles.
Though it does make her look a bit like she's covered in snow now (illumination can't fix all camera problems ;)
I agree about the eyes, though. That's a really cool way of doing it. Just need to fill in a little bit more sclera around the edge of the lenses so there isn't that obvious shadow.
Tahrey: Ruffling the wax to look like fur? Now that's a cool idea! :3
BTW, if the camera isn't too good indoors, get as much light (other than its own flash) as you can on the subject, maybe put it on a minipod or just a flat surface of suitable height and orientation and use night-shot/fireworks/etc mode, and stand it a little further away so it can focus better. A slightly smaller image but with crisper focus can still look a lot better after being cropped down.
Oh, and if you can take the pic in the middle of the day near a south facing window, with the artificial light acting only as fill-in, that can make a dramatic difference. Funnily enough you really need as much of the blue end of the spectrum as possible... indoor lights tend to be short on it, but at the same time most digital cameras are least sensitive to those colours also, which is what causes a majority of the graininess after it performs the internal white-balancing steps (which, for one thing, will then end up massively boosting the blue channel and then post-smoothing it, leading to that characteristic grainy-yet-blotchy appearance, as there might only be 2 or 3 bits worth of intensity there instead of a good 8 or more). If you can get a blue-tinted incandescent craftlight, or some halogen bulbs, instead of CFLs or cheap LEDs, they work the best as they're closest to sunlight and so give good colour rendition. "SAD lamp" fluorescents or LEDs aren't as good because they're made specifically to flood the eye with blueness at the expense of all other considerations - they'll get rid of the grain, but as they don't have a proper continuous spectrum, some colours will end up looking very strange.
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I suppose you ain't gotta explain shit, but still, wtf?
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C'mon, don't leave us hanging! I wanna know how the story ends!
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Nice pastel pixel pasta p.....icture? psomething.
And GJ keeping it inside 16 colours...
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The only way you could get around it was by backing up the folder...
Also, Zelda: Link's Awakening worked this way, and it was basically impossible to cheat unless you were very sly about it (or playing it using an emulator).
If you wanted to be REALLY cruel, you could have the game write its creation date into the actual save data in an encrypted fashion, and then compare it to the actual filesystem metadata on reload. If the two differ, then things diverge very quickly towards an unavoidable BAD END...
(So if you wanted to guard against hard drive crashes or whatever, you'd have to either do regular full-drive-image backups that would therefore exactly recreate all the metadata as well, or use one of those incremental utilities that shadows each file written into the backup, and hopefully can restore the full metadata when copying from backup to new drive...)
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Also, Prequel has fanon now?! o_O
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Oh god now I'm imaginging it. SO WEIRD.
Yet kinda addictive.
...ooh, cold nose, should have expected that.
@Adroma: Ditto, actually. Might colourise it, possibly in a stylised fashion (desaturated / spot colours / etc), on the computer first though. Just personal preference, nothing else.
katiaaitak: Yeah, seriously, the foreshortening on the hand seems a bit off, and there's the aforementioned aspect oddness and unavoidable jitter, but in general it's worthy ^_^
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So the eyes really are neon yellow highlighter like I was quietly suspecting? The nose pink highlighter too? This is the kind of art aesthetic I can get behind.
What are the lines done with? Doesn't look like ballpoint ... Pilot fineliner or the like?
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Also, go on... put a martini glass on her butt and a bursting bottle of champagne on the counter jetting an arc of overpriced fizzy dry white into it :D
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But yeah ... you need to get larger paper next time! And maybe opt for more/quicker but lighter pencil strokes when shading (though this way does actually give a nice suede-like effect to the tunic). Otherwise not a bad effort at all.
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I mean, TGWAKW obviously got the skills but it's very very jaggly...
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Strangely, though, they all seem horizontally stretched?
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Quick someone call Sarah Millican to put her hand up onto this side of the glass
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Loving the oldskool full-colour font, too.
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Also, nice drawingses and animootuns
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And, well, it's true that characters have been straight up killed or blasted into bloody chunks in the comic, but so far KM hasn't really received any significant injury (at least, nothing that wasn't self-inflicted) like cracked teeth/bleeding gums & lips, bloodied nose, black eyes, cuts on the face etc. So this art itself is a first.
We can only hope she received such in the middle of an epic battle she herself instigated, rather than just being beaten up for someone's sick imaginary pleasure...
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Is it me or does she look even thinner than usual? :D ... no trace of any figure. Though that's actually more likely to be accurate to the strip, really...
Maybe her feet/shins could move very slightly in time with the rest of her body (inc thighs)? Just, like, one pixel or something, to suggest a change of angle... I know that's extra work though. This is cool as it is.
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....oh, wait. The bands on the sleeves. 9 colours.
So let's say it's 4-bit, 15 colours plus transparent, of which this uses 10.
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Suddenly she is surrounded by loads of children and middle aged women throwing their hands in the air and yelling "KITTY!" whilst all the robots flee in terror lest they be used as vehicles.
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Though it does make her look a bit like she's covered in snow now (illumination can't fix all camera problems ;)
I agree about the eyes, though. That's a really cool way of doing it. Just need to fill in a little bit more sclera around the edge of the lenses so there isn't that obvious shadow.
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cooooool
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I'm gonna live forever...
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So, were you the one who just submitted HTML/CSS For Retarded Cats?
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BTW, if the camera isn't too good indoors, get as much light (other than its own flash) as you can on the subject, maybe put it on a minipod or just a flat surface of suitable height and orientation and use night-shot/fireworks/etc mode, and stand it a little further away so it can focus better. A slightly smaller image but with crisper focus can still look a lot better after being cropped down.
Oh, and if you can take the pic in the middle of the day near a south facing window, with the artificial light acting only as fill-in, that can make a dramatic difference. Funnily enough you really need as much of the blue end of the spectrum as possible... indoor lights tend to be short on it, but at the same time most digital cameras are least sensitive to those colours also, which is what causes a majority of the graininess after it performs the internal white-balancing steps (which, for one thing, will then end up massively boosting the blue channel and then post-smoothing it, leading to that characteristic grainy-yet-blotchy appearance, as there might only be 2 or 3 bits worth of intensity there instead of a good 8 or more). If you can get a blue-tinted incandescent craftlight, or some halogen bulbs, instead of CFLs or cheap LEDs, they work the best as they're closest to sunlight and so give good colour rendition. "SAD lamp" fluorescents or LEDs aren't as good because they're made specifically to flood the eye with blueness at the expense of all other considerations - they'll get rid of the grain, but as they don't have a proper continuous spectrum, some colours will end up looking very strange.
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Also why yes I do have a piece of yellow rope in my pants, that's totally pornographic therefore... ¯_(ツ)_/¯
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Nice duke. Classic.