PixelJoint People Pixel Picture!
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Category: Pixel Art
Forum Name: Collaborations/Challenges
Forum Discription: Submit pixel art project ideas/templates or contribute to an existing pixel art collaboration.
URL: https://pixeljoint.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=546
Printed Date: 09 September 2025 at 8:03pm
Topic: PixelJoint People Pixel Picture!
Posted By: Saboteur
Subject: PixelJoint People Pixel Picture!
Date Posted: 18 July 2005 at 12:07am
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Hooray! This is gonna be fun! This collab's goal is to make one big "group photo" outta pixels, in which any PixelJointer could add themselves. We will most likely have a background with things you could make yourself interact with, so you could make yourself poledancing on the swingset, if you felt like that's who you are. Alright, so basically we've got nothing so far. Everything (almost) is open for public discussion, and any ideas you wanna add, add 'em. -WARNING- I tend to be pushy with my ideas, by no means are they final, if I say they are, remind me that I'm a one and you are a many. Now that that's been cleared up, here's my vision for the project. Background: In my brain, the setting would be in front of the PixelJoint building, if it had a building. Hey, buildings can expand. I'd love a highly diverse and interactable environment. By this I mean I would like it to in no way restrict how a user wants to put themselves into the shot. The most logical real-life example would be a playground, with lots of places to sit/hang/talk. It would end up being tiled, methinks. This means there's be an end cap on each side of the background, and a repeating (or many different tiled) section(s) in the middle. I'd love for it to be elaborate as well. If it does end up a building, I think opening it up to pixel murals would make the peice luverly, even though the murals may be partially or completely covered over time. People: There would only be a height restriction. You gotta allow for fat people There would be no limits as to where you could put yourself, and (no?) limits as to how you could make yourself. Pouring every ounce of your creative brain into yourself makes Saboteur smile Most importantly, there would be a function of some sort that allowed the viewer to see a miniature biography* of whomever they're holding the mouse over. That, and the full shot of the person, because there will be overlap. And if clicking the person would bring them to the person's gallery.... mmm, that would be awesome. And submitting yourself to the gallery after you're done is lame. *Mini bio would consist of Alias (Saboteur) Age (17) Motivation/Interests ( -about a small paragraph, maybe?-) Specialty (Non-iso small icons) Dimensions: We could go a few ways here. -Set height. This means that it would end up being a long wall that would require scrolling as you go along. Well, maybe not right away, but eventually. This does not mean we'd be in a giant line, simply that the background would always be around... lets say... 500 pixels. Probably more. -Set width. We'd have a base That would evenly fit the screen, and people with wheels on their mouses would get to use them. Seeing as most people stretch vertically, I think this is the wiser option. Plus I'm lazy so I wanna use my mouse wheel. -Neither set. Free range! This is probably just a bad idea. I think. DONE! That's what I think. Please! post what YOU think and what YOU want to see in this! The only stupid idea is the one you don't say! ------------- "I was minding my own business and walking across a pebbled path, and a Duck started giving me the business." |
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Posted By: ryan-gfx
Date Posted: 18 July 2005 at 12:12am
| Why dont you take the concept out of your brain and put it on the canvas so we have something to go by. |
Posted By: Saboteur
Date Posted: 18 July 2005 at 12:17am
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heh, I did. Here.
That was posted in the collab discussion forum. It doesn't support the tiledness of the background, and I hadn't yet gotten to adding more things to interact with. So really, it would be a scene more than a photo. And I can't find a group picture (real life) that suits my idea. ------------- "I was minding my own business and walking across a pebbled path, and a Duck started giving me the business." |
Posted By: ryan-gfx
Date Posted: 18 July 2005 at 12:22am
| Soooo... it's going to be people sitting on the ledge of a building? |
Posted By: Garage Inc.
Date Posted: 18 July 2005 at 12:35am
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Ryan, did you read the first post all the way through? There are no limits to where you can put yourself. This sounds like a great idea. Id you need any help getting it set up, I'd be glad to help. ------------- For every second spent wondering if you can do something, you could spend 2 seconds doing it. |
Posted By: ryan-gfx
Date Posted: 18 July 2005 at 12:49am
| Garage: It looks like there's just a ledge there, so are we gonna be like floating in the air and falling off the building or is he not finished? |
Posted By: Saboteur
Date Posted: 18 July 2005 at 12:53am
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Haha, no offence, just read a little harder next time. "It doesn't support the tiledness of the background, and I hadn't yet gotten to adding more things to interact with." No, not done. And I think it's gonna get trashed anyways. And if you had read the whole first post (I know, it's long) you'd have read about the playground and how I would like it to have lots of stuff to interact with. Seeing as the example doesn't, I'd say its not done. And at the risk of sounding harsh, don't post here anymore, at least until people have posted actual thoughts. That goes for all of us ------------- "I was minding my own business and walking across a pebbled path, and a Duck started giving me the business." |
Posted By: Garage Inc.
Date Posted: 18 July 2005 at 12:55am
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Ok, Idea. If you don't want to do a playground, you colud do some kind of stadium with bleachers and a field and like Field Goal Posts and soccer goals for people to climb on, You could also hvae like, tables on the site for people to sit at and stand on. But thats jsut a thought. ------------- For every second spent wondering if you can do something, you could spend 2 seconds doing it. |
Posted By: Saboteur
Date Posted: 18 July 2005 at 12:57am
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That IS an idea. It would go well as a different setting. Well, g'night for today. ------------- "I was minding my own business and walking across a pebbled path, and a Duck started giving me the business." |
Posted By: ryan-gfx
Date Posted: 18 July 2005 at 12:59am
| It sounds... kind of meh. I guess it'll really have to catch on in order to continue. Because right now it doesn't seem that interesting. |
Posted By: Monstara
Date Posted: 18 July 2005 at 3:33am
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I wrote in the "suggest a project" thread, but realized I had to post here - so: I suggest the "Sliding Doors" technique from http://www.alistapart.com/articles/slidingdoors/ - A List Apart cause you can get variety in the background, and at the same time keep it expandable. A narrow repeating pattern would probably suck. Unfortunately, making different 'spots' for putting people might be a hassle, because we should be able to code the project once, and let it grow itself. I am all for an interactive background, but I'll write more about that when we get to that stage. I suppose we have to go for set height, because, after all, the idea is to have a school-type photo. Now, we can fit 5-6 people in the height of the page, and the z-index (depth) will probably be determined by -y (i.e. the higher a person stays, the further in the back they are). I would really wish to have the icons shuffle, so every time you visit the gallery, people are in different places. Otherwise the later posters will be somewhere at the ends of the 'bench'. |
Posted By: Ensellitis
Date Posted: 18 July 2005 at 10:42am
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I am going to draw a rough sketch here so you can know what I'm talking about with the backgrounds: Left cap:  Right cap:  And the background:  The background don't have to be the same, nor that width... Just as long as the can all be put edge to edge and be seamless. The way you suggested, as I have said before is going to isolate newer members from joining once it fills up because another background would need to be made... Here is an example:  It doesn't have to be just like that, people don't just have to stand there like that, they can do whatever... But this atleast keeps everyone together... ------------- There's a pubic hair on my keyboard. What the f**k?? I "mow the lawn" so it's not mine. Gross. |
Posted By: sedgemonkey
Date Posted: 18 July 2005 at 1:38pm
Thank you Ensellitis for visually demonstrating what I was trying to express. 
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Posted By: Ensellitis
Date Posted: 18 July 2005 at 1:42pm
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And thank you for expressing what I was trying to demostrate.
------------- There's a pubic hair on my keyboard. What the f**k?? I "mow the lawn" so it's not mine. Gross. |
Posted By: Saboteur
Date Posted: 18 July 2005 at 10:45pm
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Ahh, schweet! I see! And I'll be gone for the next few days, so don't expect my opinions or whatev... just go. I'd love to see what we can come up with. ------------- "I was minding my own business and walking across a pebbled path, and a Duck started giving me the business." |
Posted By: Monstara
Date Posted: 19 July 2005 at 12:50am
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I don't want to be repeating, but I think this way it is going to be
better - a tile in the center would be really boring. In this example,
there are only two images. A left cap, and a right image, which
contains the cap itself. The rest of the right image is what our
background is going to be. The left cap's position is moved to the
right so it goes over the right image. the part beyond the left cap is
cropped. (sorry I'm using A List Apart's image, but I'm at work and have no time lol)  |
Posted By: Ensellitis
Date Posted: 19 July 2005 at 1:25am
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There wouldn't have to be A tile, there can be several...You could have it: [ Left end cap | Tile 1 | Tile 2 | Tile 3 | Right end cap ] Since sedge is 99% likely to use ASP, alot can be done. All that would have to be done is to have, say if div's are going to be used, is to have the script dynamically create let's say a div that is 250px wide everytime the last one is filled... ------------- There's a pubic hair on my keyboard. What the f**k?? I "mow the lawn" so it's not mine. Gross. |
Posted By: Monstara
Date Posted: 19 July 2005 at 1:30am
| Ahem, that'd work, too. But messier code. |
Posted By: sedgemonkey
Date Posted: 19 July 2005 at 8:25am
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Don't worry about the code. Coding is easy no matter what is decided on. The background is a big part of the project so it should be done right. We could even just place "objects" on a large background tile. Example: if we were to do a park theme we could have a big wall/grass/sky tile and place a jungle gym, a slide, buildings, posters, graffiti, bleachers, trees, fountains, etc as separate small graphics that rest on top of the wall tile to give it some interest. We can't just have a gigantic background graphic... the file size would be too large and the project wouldn't be very flexible. |
Posted By: Monstara
Date Posted: 19 July 2005 at 8:34am
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ok, I see your point. Yeah, this would work too. Trouble would be placing those objects in the right places, but anyways, it will work. and it's good cause you can call up random objects and place them along as the pic grows. This may result in slower rendering but does reduce the filesize of the bg. |
Posted By: zachriel
Date Posted: 19 July 2005 at 9:53am
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of all I feel like confessing I have no idea how to code a thing like
that and I would probably not contribute with more graphics than my own
picture (since you're all in such a higher league than me), so I
apologize in advance if something I write is just plain stupid or not
possible at all  I think the playground idea is wonderful, and since the coder claims that it wouldn't be hard at all to place objects as background I am positive about it not being repetetive. It would be interesting to see some individuals hiding behind a buch, some other sitting on the swings, and a line waiting to ride the slides. The background (behind the objects) could be a city, which could be easily expanded if someone or some people agreed to expand it when needed. I'd love to join the PixelJoint Playground Personalities Collaboration  |
Posted By: zi-double
Date Posted: 19 July 2005 at 10:27am
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Just to say ... Nice idea ... ==================== :) GDGB :) |
Posted By: Ensellitis
Date Posted: 19 July 2005 at 11:20am
Ok, so what about the scale? I think it should be somewhat like this... That allows detail to be put into it... Once we decide this, we can start doing the background... And com'on So-Lou, we need your skills on this! ------------- There's a pubic hair on my keyboard. What the f**k?? I "mow the lawn" so it's not mine. Gross. |
Posted By: Godslayer
Date Posted: 19 July 2005 at 11:33am
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I'll do one, just as soon as we agree on a template. ------------- Oi. |
Posted By: zachriel
Date Posted: 19 July 2005 at 12:05pm
| Yeah, that scale size is a nice one. Enough to add some details, but not too big (so that us below the elites will have a chance to still make it good). |
Posted By: Saiklor
Date Posted: 19 July 2005 at 3:14pm
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can it be a little bigger? you know what they say about bigger..... |
Posted By: PixelSnader
Date Posted: 19 July 2005 at 5:13pm
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Posted By: sedgemonkey
Date Posted: 19 July 2005 at 5:39pm
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I actually think that's a pretty good size. For some reason I had always pictured kind of an exaggerated large head for this project -- more cutesy. But hey, normal size is cool too.
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Posted By: Godslayer
Date Posted: 19 July 2005 at 7:02pm
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So thats the template then? I'll get started. ------------- Oi. |
Posted By: Saboteur
Date Posted: 19 July 2005 at 9:56pm
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Heh, never knew that some hotels have wireless internet So I'm back to comment again! Sedge's idea is a good one, I think we should throw it into play. Huge heads allow for facial expression, which means its easier to show who you are through your character. Definitely experiment with big-headed templates. And I'm glad Ensellitis shows interest in this, I think we'd be at a standstill without him. Thanks for chippin' in, man! Now, about the setting. This is high on my list of things to hammer down. A sports theme has been suggested, which does leave opportunity for plenty of places and objects to add in. I think something like a pixeljoint building would be best. Other options could be a park (which would take a lot of work, because we'd need nice-looking plants and stuff, which can be hard to do), the interior of a building, a wall, a balcony... I dunno, we just need to set something so we could make background "tiles" and stuff. ------------- "I was minding my own business and walking across a pebbled path, and a Duck started giving me the business." |
Posted By: Ensellitis
Date Posted: 19 July 2005 at 10:08pm
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Well, I think inside of a gym like setting would be the best bet.
It would be simple enough to create the actual background, and it
wouldn't be as busy as a park would. Obviously we want the focus on the
people, but the background should still be eye candy, ya know?
------------- There's a pubic hair on my keyboard. What the f**k?? I "mow the lawn" so it's not mine. Gross. |
Posted By: Monstara
Date Posted: 20 July 2005 at 1:10am
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A gym is fine. It will really make a school photograph. I also imagined bigger heads, first because it allows for more detail on the face, and second because it is supposed to be funny (well you could make it funny anyways). The bg should certainly be eyecandy, so we could make it as collab, and everyone should comment, add, edit, etc. |
Posted By: Xion Night
Date Posted: 21 July 2005 at 9:09am
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Do they have to be ourselves or can we have alter-egos?
------------- Kizzah! http://www.thepixelagency.com"> 
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Posted By: sedgemonkey
Date Posted: 21 July 2005 at 10:21am
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I was thinking alter-egos would work as long as they can be made from the base template (human-like). |
Posted By: Pixofied
Date Posted: 21 July 2005 at 3:24pm
Oh, i'd love to work on this. I have no idea what i'm doing though; As soon as someone starts the trend, i'll follow...  |
Posted By: Saboteur
Date Posted: 21 July 2005 at 8:37pm
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Good that we've got interest in the project! A Gym would be a good setting. Since I can't yet make anything, I'll continue posting ideas. Gym Base BG - brick wall, Bleachers Objects - BasketBall hoops, scoreboards, Award banners, wall mural(s), Bleachers (Are they really called that?), The knotted rope, rings End Caps - Huge speakers, ... Dunno Park Base BG - horison (Flat/Hilly/Mountains/sunset/sunrise) Objects - Trees (Treehouses?), park benches, lampposts, swingset, big ol' general playset (rings, slide, steps, tic-tac-toe, etc...), arbours, gardenlike things. End Caps - Nothing definite, just basic continuation of the scene. PixelJoint Building Base BG - Brick wall with sky along the top (above the wall) Objects - Benches, lawnchairs, pipes/ladders up the wall, awning, windows End Caps - PixelJoint entrance, Building end. _______________________________________________________ There. We will only be doing one, probably, and we're not just limited to these either. More ideas are very welcome. And yeah, if you didn't make it yourself, we'd never really know, would we? Aliases are more than fine by me. (Still booking it around Canada, don't have my pixelling programs here, so when I get back, I'll start making backgrounds and such.)
------------- "I was minding my own business and walking across a pebbled path, and a Duck started giving me the business." |
Posted By: So-lou
Date Posted: 21 July 2005 at 9:09pm
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Wow, this sounds like a totally different thing to my idea. I guess I'll start mine up now. I don't completely understand this project, guess I'll have to wait and see what people make to get it. ------------- -So-lou |
Posted By: sedgemonkey
Date Posted: 21 July 2005 at 10:32pm
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This tends to happen to projects that wallow in chit chat land too long without enought supporting graphics. Everyone just gets confused. We're visual people damnit.
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Posted By: Garage Inc.
Date Posted: 21 July 2005 at 10:36pm
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I think I get it. The will be a scene, there will be different objects in the scene. You pixel yourself in some sort of position depends on what scene we use and then you place yourself somewhere in the scene. Is that what ya'll are getting at? I would definitly be interested in helping and participating. ------------- For every second spent wondering if you can do something, you could spend 2 seconds doing it. |
Posted By: zachriel
Date Posted: 22 July 2005 at 2:13am
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Aww, I'd like to see some sort of a skyline, or just a distant town, as
a background to the park. It'd make it more interesting than a change
of colors in the sky (sunset) and a few clouds here and there. I
suppose mountains would be a bit interesting, but that'd require a
great artist to make them, a town wouldn't be as hard
------------- Always remember that you are unique. Just like everybody else. http://despair.com - despair.com |
Posted By: Saboteur
Date Posted: 22 July 2005 at 9:03am
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Mountains aren't that hard. And pixel what you mean, Zach, I'd love to see what you can come up with! Really, we just need someone to decide on something and make a cap/tile for it. I think the others will follow. ------------- "I was minding my own business and walking across a pebbled path, and a Duck started giving me the business." |
Posted By: zachriel
Date Posted: 23 July 2005 at 12:01pm
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Originally posted by Saboteur And pixel what you mean, Zach, I'd love to see what you can come up with! I take that as you wanted to see what I meant with the town as a background. So here's a quick example I threw together, just keep in mind this is a horrible sketch which I'd like to improve with your help. I'm not sure if I got the scale right (should it be closer or further away?) or if it's better as black/white or in color with details. In color with details is what I have in my mind, but it might not do well in reality  And I expect the park to be a lot more interesting with benches and playgrounds and just a bunch of stuff, this is just a quick thing. It would be great to have a few different templates for the people as well, some sitting, some standing, and perhaps a laying and/or swinging. ------------- Always remember that you are unique. Just like everybody else. http://despair.com - despair.com |
Posted By: Ensellitis
Date Posted: 23 July 2005 at 6:27pm
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Wow, I love that idea! I think that is the way to go right there.
------------- There's a pubic hair on my keyboard. What the f**k?? I "mow the lawn" so it's not mine. Gross. |
Posted By: Saboteur
Date Posted: 23 July 2005 at 8:54pm
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Zach, I think you nailed an awesome example. I'm gonna start working on some background! I'm convinced that park is the way to go. And are we gonna have bigger heads, or keep the existing guidelines? I'll do a check a sec, and get back to y'all ------------- "I was minding my own business and walking across a pebbled path, and a Duck started giving me the business." |
Posted By: Ensellitis
Date Posted: 23 July 2005 at 8:55pm
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I think we should stick with normal size... ------------- There's a pubic hair on my keyboard. What the f**k?? I "mow the lawn" so it's not mine. Gross. |
Posted By: Saboteur
Date Posted: 27 July 2005 at 12:34am
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Ever so slowly it cometh. I'm working on other projects as well, but I'm getting somewhere with this, finally. This is the size of an end cap. And the height of a tile thingy Sooo... we have the people template, we have (almost) an end cap, anyone wanna try the other end cap? Or a tile in the middle?
And for my end cap, how the hell do you do treetops? Its much too frustrating for me to just try do by trial and error, I'm sure there's a way to do it without too much fuss, but how? ------------- "I was minding my own business and walking across a pebbled path, and a Duck started giving me the business." |
Posted By: zachriel
Date Posted: 27 July 2005 at 12:16pm
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Originally posted by Saboteur ... how the hell do you do treetops? I am sorry to say I have no idea (it's something I still need to try), but I just wanted to tell you that your vertical log* sure looks nice  And those houses in the background is somewhat what I had imagined, so great job on reading my mind! But come to think of it, perhaps there should be some sort of a fence seperating the park from the town, don't you think? Don't know how parks are in reality, to be honest.. * tree trunk ------------- Always remember that you are unique. Just like everybody else. http://despair.com - despair.com |
Posted By: Rynov
Date Posted: 27 July 2005 at 5:41pm
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Hmmm...A suggestion... Perhaps put a scale on the example, so you can tell how tall or short the person is, so you can adjust accordingly. Also, the right leg is thicker than the left, but I don't care if nobody else cares. ------------- Shine my shoes, infidel! http://www.kamikazerocket.deviantart.com - http://www.kamikazerocket.deviantart.com |
Posted By: Ensellitis
Date Posted: 27 July 2005 at 6:03pm
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------------- There's a pubic hair on my keyboard. What the f**k?? I "mow the lawn" so it's not mine. Gross. |
Posted By: Saboteur
Date Posted: 27 July 2005 at 10:33pm
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Originally posted by Rynov
Also, the right leg is thicker than the left, but I don't care if nobody else cares. Well, I don't think anyone's gonna use that exact pose, that's just a guideline for height and such. You get to make your own wild pose. I hope sedge makes himself in mid hip-thrust. ------------- "I was minding my own business and walking across a pebbled path, and a Duck started giving me the business." |
Posted By: Monstara
Date Posted: 28 July 2005 at 2:25am
| How closely do we have to follow the template person? i.e. is this max height, can we use a different silhouette, etc. |
Posted By: Ensellitis
Date Posted: 28 July 2005 at 2:37am
Basically, you are just following the scale... The height that
silhoutte is represents 6ft, beyond that, go crazy... THen make a
pixel version of yourself. 
------------- There's a pubic hair on my keyboard. What the f**k?? I "mow the lawn" so it's not mine. Gross. |
Posted By: TACW
Date Posted: 28 July 2005 at 9:22am
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Oh wow sounds interesting. I do have a pixel person, not of myself but as a ego. I call him PoppaPixel.. I do have to fix him up a bit to fit here.. It may be awhile till I can get to him. To busy do other projects XD ------------- http://hometown.aol.com/boomerangproduct/myhomepage/index.html"> 
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Posted By: Saboteur
Date Posted: 07 August 2005 at 12:11am
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Yeesh, I've been avoiding that damn tree.
An update. Sadly, all those changes took about an hour and a half. A good amount of which was going back, redoing dithering in the sky, and completely redoing whatever I'd done on the tree. I'm semi-satisfied with the tree, and barely satisfied with the sky. I've still gotta battle through the sphereness of what I've done on ye olde foliage. Well, I think I will, it doesn't look horrible as that circleyishness. What? And I CAN do this all by myself, it will just take forever. Feel free to make a tile or end cap or whatever. ------------- "I was minding my own business and walking across a pebbled path, and a Duck started giving me the business." |
