Requesting Help with Art
Requesting Help with Art
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I've been trying to whip together little intro-screens for the bosses in an upcoming game, but I've been sort of held back by the fact that I am blunderously inept at making visual art. The images that I'm looking for are silly enough that I figured I might be able to crowd-source them from the community; anyone who helps will get an in-game credit and my gratitude.
I'm requesting in-game portraits for the following:
-A stereotypically French vampire
-An ogre in a Zoot Suit and fedora, holding a Tommy Gun
-A ninja (with online degree in Ninjutsu)
-A 1950's-style killer robot
-A Frankenstein-style monster in Victorian nobleman's garb
Any help is appreciated!
I've been trying to whip together little intro-screens for the bosses in an upcoming game, but I've been sort of held back by the fact that I am blunderously inept at making visual art. The images that I'm looking for are silly enough that I figured I might be able to crowd-source them from the community; anyone who helps will get an in-game credit and my gratitude.
I'm requesting in-game portraits for the following:
-A stereotypically French vampire
-An ogre in a Zoot Suit and fedora, holding a Tommy Gun
-A ninja (with online degree in Ninjutsu)
-A 1950's-style killer robot
-A Frankenstein-style monster in Victorian nobleman's garb
Any help is appreciated!
Re: Requesting Help with Art
here's an ogre I whipped up. Couldn't manage to make a fedora look good so I scrapped it. It's a start!
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Hi gsamsa.
You can give ZAP a try if you want to import a BMP image for editing.
That's a cool ogre.
![THE UNIVERSE IS TOAST :keen:](./images/smilies/yaaaa.gif)
You can give ZAP a try if you want to import a BMP image for editing.
That's a cool ogre.
![THE UNIVERSE IS TOAST :keen:](./images/smilies/yaaaa.gif)
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That's freakin' awesome, Commodore. Thanks!
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BMP import is the most you should ever do with ZAP.
That editor needs to be buried almost as hard as ZZT Experience.
That editor needs to be buried almost as hard as ZZT Experience.
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I use zap for making fades and landscapes. I seem to be able to achieve a more 'natural' randomness to my shading with a mouse than with the keyboard. Of course I clean up the details in kevedit. Sometimes using cursor keys alone can make your graphics mechanical.
How someone does fades like frost, etc one block at a time with cursor keys is beyond me, it must take a painful amount of time. Recently I've been avoiding attempting brilliant graphics in lieu of functional, and appropriate graphics. Kevedit's gradient feature is a big help, though it can be pretty obvious when its used unadorned (the splash background for my ogre as a case in point.)
![Image](http://zzt.org/images/fg/frost12-2.gif)
How someone does fades like frost, etc one block at a time with cursor keys is beyond me, it must take a painful amount of time. Recently I've been avoiding attempting brilliant graphics in lieu of functional, and appropriate graphics. Kevedit's gradient feature is a big help, though it can be pretty obvious when its used unadorned (the splash background for my ogre as a case in point.)
![Image](http://zzt.org/images/fg/frost12-2.gif)
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I was under the impression that Nadir never used an external editor for everything. Probably because he was crazy.
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Re: Requesting Help with Art
Borrowing stuff from the web is sort of like "crowd-sourcing" just ask Google.
I find machine-generating colors and patterns is appropriate for this art-form, but human effort is essential.
(I'm proud to say I've done 90% of my graphics by hand.)
So where's Nadir idling?
I find machine-generating colors and patterns is appropriate for this art-form, but human effort is essential.
(I'm proud to say I've done 90% of my graphics by hand.)
So where's Nadir idling?
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Importing bitmaps is good for getting texture and for seeing color combinations you might not have otherwise considered. I used two pictures squashed together in paint to make this landscape.
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Wow. That is... incredibly helpful, thanks! Commodore, now I have to ask if you'd be terribly offended if I used my own image for the ogre. ^-^
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I would not be offended at all, though with a little effort I'm sure you could change him into the Victorian Frankenstein creature.
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