Apr 26, 2009

Slow Wave


Based on an interesting idea "" this website allows anyone to submit a dream to a skilled comic artist.  And after selecting one he will turn it into a comic, and publish it.
Slow Wave is an ongoing webcomic that incorporates actual dreams submitted by readers into a fictional narrative, written and drawn by Jesse Reklaw.
So instead of simply talking about your last night's dream during breakfast, you can actually show the comic it has inspired. Totally cool !

I would recommend to have a look at the archive section of the website too - it goes back to 2004 and it's awesome.

Apr 19, 2009

Street Fighting with Gimp

Gimp has some hidden secrets - and among them is the ability to generate animated Gifs - so to give it shot I needed to find a couple of sprites - As a Street Fighter fan I obviously selected Cammy White here and Bison here.

Before even starting the animation a little work is required on both Sprites file : 
1. removing the green color to make it transparent - you need to add an alpha channel on the layer and then using select color / green and remove it - should do the trick. 
2. You also need to proceed to a horizontal rotation of Bison's sprite (otherwise the sprite won't face each other) 

Now it's time for the big fight "Cammy vs Bison" 

From a blank document I started copying and pasting respectively from Cammy Sprites file and Bison sprites file into the new animation layer - when copying make a new layer each time then merge down - so the 2 opponents are on the same layer - the process is quite long and my sequence is 20 layers in total.

The key for a smooth animation is to keep the previous layer visible - so you don't move too far from the previous position. 

Each layer will have his own digit for the animation and in parenthesis the duration (100ms) and the mode (replace). This syntax is for Gimp to understand how to manage each layer.

At the end the whole sprites on top of each other looked like this :


To make the whole animation nice - the first and the 20th frame are identical ; it's an imposed trick because the Gif will loop forever - Now to export the result as a Gif file make sure you select "save as animation"

And here's the result : 

Apr 15, 2009

We're not worthy

I was getting all excited about ArtRage2 and found some tutorials ... to do absolutely crazy things with textures. And then I realized there's so much to learn and sooooooo little time ; but I know that when I grow up I want to be Nick Harris ;)

[ Pixelbrush ] - Interview with Nicholas Mark Harris

"We're not worthy!" (repeated, while bowing, to guests whom the two deem themselves unworthy to interview)

Springtime


A little pseudo painting using ArtRage2 - "Spring" is the word !

Apr 1, 2009

Announcement openclipart release version 0.19 (cont'd)

While I'm using the new ocal version ... I noticed the 0.19 release includes 248 html files with quick preview - this is new (compared to previous release) and really makes the ocal's browsing experience fun ...

For exampel I found this excellent set of cartoonish animals from StudioFibonacci.

Here's the link to the official announcement from Jon Phillips co-foundator of the openclipart website
Open Clip Art Library Release 0.19 Announcement and OCAL10K Goal Exceeeded | rejon.org is Jon Phillips.

On a sidenote I also noticed a few cliparts that were included in the 0.18 release have disappeared in the 0.19 ; like this one below - luckily it's still available from the clker.com website :

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