CHALLENGE 2/2/2015: B.C. (Before Columbus
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Topic: CHALLENGE 2/2/2015: B.C. (Before Columbus
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Subject: CHALLENGE 2/2/2015: B.C. (Before Columbus
Date Posted: 02 February 2015 at 12:01am
Replies:
Posted By: Muxaun
Date Posted: 03 February 2015 at 11:07am
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Step0:
quick sketch 
Step1: touch the worst parts. Just to see how it goes. 
Step1.5 slice it into two layers and make quick animation just to see how large it will be 
Well it will be big. more than 600 frames. I will also have to make turning animation, fire animation, add some parallax, maybe HDR effect (but it will cost me some colors), add some human silhouettes, cloud animation, make proper cycling of the background enough work till the end of this week. |
Posted By: Kudashn
Date Posted: 03 February 2015 at 11:25am
| WOAHH! I like your WIP, the grass animation is huge! |
Posted By: Muxaun
Date Posted: 03 February 2015 at 12:19pm
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the grass is the simplest part actually.
it's this animation:  repeated many times.
It is tempting to write a program to add grass automatically, but I am not sure if it will be against the rules or not. |
Posted By: Limes
Date Posted: 03 February 2015 at 9:43pm
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Wow, Hope you finish, Its an unpopular contest too you'd have a first for SURE! ------------- |
Posted By: Splurge
Date Posted: 03 February 2015 at 11:28pm
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Originally posted by Limes Wow, Hope you finish, Its an unpopular contest too you'd have a first for SURE! If he finishes that in style, I think it'd be a contender even in a crowded weekly challenge. I somehow like the roughed out steps a bit more than the more finished hard lines though - maybe uneven them a bit, to show heavy use? Guess I'll reserve judgement and see how it pans out... |
Posted By: Pookaball
Date Posted: 03 February 2015 at 11:28pm
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This seems like a contest I'd try taking part in, and, yes, Muxaun's WIP is indeed fascinating.
I'd even like it as a whole picture, not the animation, but that's against the rules :c Either way, here's my WIP so far. 
I don't really know where to take it, but I can draw a few people and maybe a campfire there. Also I need to draw more vegetation and props/doodads. |
Posted By: TrojanMonkey
Date Posted: 04 February 2015 at 4:30am
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I thought to myself : "Hey, let's go check out PixelJoint after not visiting for so long!"
And then my whims meet with a challenge which stumps me like no other challenge had managed before. Well, f**k me. P.S: Muxaun, which program did you use to animate your scenes? |
Posted By: Muxaun
Date Posted: 04 February 2015 at 5:00am
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Originally posted by TrojanMonkey
Muxaun, which program did you use to animate your scenes? I wrote a simple program in C#. |
Posted By: Pookaball
Date Posted: 04 February 2015 at 8:26am
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@Muxaun
Cool, I always thought studying programming can come in handy in art. Do you automate a lot of animations like this and how exactly does your program work? |
Posted By: AlphaJaif
Date Posted: 04 February 2015 at 2:22pm
 Don't really know what I'm gonna do with the pyramid yet but here's where I am after a day. |
Posted By: Hapiel
Date Posted: 04 February 2015 at 2:36pm
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Originally posted by Muxaun
Originally posted by TrojanMonkey
Muxaun, which program did you use to animate your scenes? I wrote a simple program in C#. I wanted to know the same... There is nothing between frame by frame manual editing like graphicsgale and no pixel manipulation at all but move your existing objects like Spriter... I am curious to what your program can do, how it managed to copy and paste those grass animations so good! ------------- |
Posted By: Muxaun
Date Posted: 04 February 2015 at 8:45pm
added some more assets, fixed background layer, experimented with clouds.
Theese all will end up sitting on different layers. + I'll have to add more assets. + put grass animation back, add animated people, animate trees, stars and fire. Originally posted by Pookaball
@Muxaun Cool, I always thought studying programming can come in handy in art. Do you automate a lot of animations like this and how exactly does your program work? actually this is the first time I am actually automating the work. Pixeling everithing manually is the core of pixel art itself IMO. But I think that the most boring work should be automated though. Originally posted by Hapiel
I wanted to know the same... There is nothing between frame by frame manual editing like graphicsgale and no pixel manipulation at all but move your existing objects like Spriter...I am curious to what your program can do, how it managed to copy and paste those grass animations so good! it just moves layers and saves the result to separate files. Layers can be animated. Then I load those files into gimp, optimize them and export as gif. Nothing special. here's a screenshot of the UI if you're interested: http://i.imgur.com/ThrOEWN.png |
Posted By: Hapiel
Date Posted: 06 February 2015 at 3:31am
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Originally posted by Muxaun Thanks for the explanation. Now I still wonder how you did the grass quickly, maybe this is a GIMP feature (I don't use GIMP, I woudn't know). Anyway, I noticed why the scrolling looks a bit odd: If you'd be driving by the scene at this speed, the sun wouldn't move position at all! The moving sun suggest that the camera is rotating but not moving, but then the background would actually have to move faster than the foreground, not the other way around! ------------- |
Posted By: BathMaster_2000
Date Posted: 06 February 2015 at 9:23am
| to me, the scrolling sun suggested the passage of time from the late afternoon to night. |
Posted By: Muxaun
Date Posted: 06 February 2015 at 2:00pm
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@Hapiel: I didn't think this way.
You're probably right. But what if the camera is moving AND slowly turning around? Now I still wonder how you did the grass quickly, maybe this is a GIMP feature there are several plugins that allow copy-paste of multiple layers. Like this: http://registry.gimp.org/node/24270 .Update: 1.36 Megabytes! It is VERY hard to manipulate everything. 
I still have to animate the fire, fix layout and colors to make everything visible. + animate alpacas, hair, stair, and the sky looks like it should be animated too. Too much work. [UPDATE] Looking at it now I think I should abandon the parallax idea and just make a good static scenery without shifting everything |
Posted By: jalonso
Date Posted: 06 February 2015 at 2:45pm
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I like the parallax I do think its moving too fast and it would be great if it looped.
So cool seeing something new from you :) ------------- |
Posted By: Volrak_Rutra
Date Posted: 06 February 2015 at 5:16pm
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i gotta chime in, i don't really like these multicultural challenges, as i personally don't know much of either Australia or Americas before Columbus |
Posted By: Muxaun
Date Posted: 06 February 2015 at 5:17pm
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fitting everything to look good with parallax and looping it properly is a pain: it is a long process of adjusting layout, speed, building the animation, staring at it for a minut and repeat all steps over and over again.
Tried polishing some parts without parallax. Here's a result 
I have to sleep to decide wich way I'll go. |
Posted By: jeremy
Date Posted: 06 February 2015 at 9:16pm
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Posted By: Muxaun
Date Posted: 07 February 2015 at 1:07pm
tried to add reflections to the smoke and failed clouds look unfinished, but I don't know how to fix them. I guess this is going to be the final version. |
Posted By: Froste
Date Posted: 07 February 2015 at 2:54pm
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Originally posted by Muxaun
tried to add reflections to the smoke and failed clouds look unfinished, but I don't know how to fix them. I guess this is going to be the final version. Well now, I guess I'm out. LOL |
Posted By: jalonso
Date Posted: 07 February 2015 at 4:34pm
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Originally posted by Froste Well now, I guess I'm out. LOL wimp :p ------------- |