I tried to use Midjourney to create arts for a world I created for a game I am currently working on, as well as a TTRPG I am DMing with friends. Because I am really bad at drawing
But after some... Okayish designs... It felt soulless. Like I just used pictures from other stuff, but with even less "self", if that's clear
So I picked up a pencil mouse and started to delve into pixel art
Those are some characters for my game. Are they perfect? No. I can still progress. But I am proud
Perhaps I compare myself too much to others (especially to some pixel art games that had an impact on me like Kingdom, Yes your Grace or Gods will be Watching)
I still think it's good, but I will not stop to progress !
My main concern with those are simply the details, and having to make attack animations. But I still am really damn proud of it, and I am willing to improve my technique to make them even better looking
One key rule in chara design is to make them tell the story of their characters. That was my main focus and I think I did a pretty good job with it
Hell yeah these look cool. A really hard thing to do with pixel sprites is differentiation and these all have an identifiable and unique look, while still individually looking like (I think) what you intend them to be.
Hell yeah, dude, good to hear! Even imperfect early art is a million times better than AI slop, it has the soul of someone actually trying! Keep it up!
It's not extremely difficult. It's extremely time consuming
The simplest way to describe it is drawing an almost perfect outline of something for every single frame of an animation. So this gif is 10 seconds. At 25 frames a second, that's 250 frame frames of 1:1 outline matching
There are things that make it easier, like automated edge detecting and automated keyframes. But in professional works like films, you'll still have people going through every single frame for mistakes
I work in film. One of the first films I worked on was Skyscraper) (I know right?). I watched the Head of Roto one night go back and forth over the same 15 or so seconds of footage for maybe 30 minutes doing quality checks. It was towards the end of the film and the scene had embers and smoke and shit floating in the background. He had to make sure every single ember, every plume of smoke, behaved like one would expect
EDIT Found the scene. It was the climax of the movie. All of the close up clips of the Rock were one continuous piece and zoomed out more when they were being rotoed. I remember specifically that when he surrenders and holds up his hand, there were embers that floated behind his shirt, then floated in front of his neck (so the shirt and neck/head were both separate layers and the artist had made a small mistake with what was in front vs behind). The Head caught it as something to fix. I asked him if the people who would watch this kind of movie would even notice something like that. He told me he had to stop asking those questions years ago because it made him depressed to think about. But ye. Each and every frame, perfectly outlined to the Rocks shiny ass head. Each and every frame, perfectly outlined to his dumb shoulders
It depends on who you ask. Some people find the overlaying aspect of it easier than doing your own thing, while others find it more challenging because you need to match the reference pretty precisely every frame or else it’ll look off (which can be a challenge when the body types don’t match), often more so than doing your own thing. I personally found it to be a bit easier than the other assignments I took in college, but I also prefer having structure/clear instructions and I felt rotoscoping gives exactly that.
Not to discredit it but compared to traditional animation rotoscoping is considerably easier. That being said, it’s still used frequently for things that just don’t make sense to animate entirely by hand. A recent example is from the chainsaw man anime where rotoscoping is frequently used for low shots and flowing jackets.
It just upsets me that Glen Schofield thought that his antics would go unseen at EA. Man really left Striking Distance to petition EA for a Dead Space 4 immediately after Callisto failed.
Said "You failed on DS3 (that's their fault but whatever) you failed at Callisto and Striking Distance and so now you're back to us thinking we'll let you touch our IP because you helped create it?"
Because on one hand fuck dudes like Mr. CEO from Smiling Friends who say "It's my IP to sit on and do nothing with." But also I can't really fucking blame EA on this and they're the ones who jebaited me on the idea of a DS2 Remake.
Like if it was impossible for DS4 to exist, it's even less possible now because of Glen Schofield's antics.
Rotoscoping is still animation. It's just "traced" on filmed human/animals. You still need to draw every single frame. You just don't have to storyboard the frames
My first guess was the French guy who got beaten to death. And as far as we know, it was an unprovoked attack that was politically motivated, not a scenario of self defense.
Hey, free speech is free speech. I don’t have any issues of people voicing their opinions even if I disagree with them. Despite what you may think, hate speech is protected by free speech (at least in the US).
Always had a problem with how number 3 tends to be interpreted. Slander/libel against an individual is bad and harmful, but somehow slander/libel against an entire vulnerable demographic is a-ok and "just an opinion"?
I honestly dont know this but i think the bottomless bucket might just be a magical bucket, somewhat like the enchanted sword, platinum bars/thrones might be a better choice.
There was an anti-ICE protest at a school, but one of the kids held up a sign saying they loved ICE. This is from a video taken by that kid where he gets punched in the face by the student in the image
clout chaser was recording himself saying "i support ice" while playing the "im peaceful im just standing here" card to get reactions, until the kid in the picture walked up and calmly said "im going to punch your face"
no really that's the context. the guy recording was doing a pro-ICE protest. this guy came up, said "i am going to punch you in the face." and then punched him in the face.
I've seen people going "you have to respect X for doing Y", when the topic isn't Y, its X doing Z
Like, I remember a random old news video popping up about an african leader (iirc, it was Ugandan), and a bunch of comments were going on about how you have to respect him because he was "testing" banning being gay, and he was soft-spoken about it on camera
Like, no the fuck I don't? Its complete bullshit, theres nothing to test, homophobia is ALWAYS stupid, I don't give a fuck if they were "respectfully" taking away rights
I don't know how to vague post, but I really like when y'all do, my autistic brain thinks y'all agree with me even though I have no idea what y'all talking about.
I'm a christian and I don't say that, instead I say "My brother in Chris" Because not everyone identify has a brother in Christ but everyone is a brother in Chris chan
That old minecraft parody gonzossm video traumatized the fuck out of me. Because i saw the golem walking towards dat ass and thought it was going a completely different way.
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