August 06, 2007
I noticed that August 06 hadn't been colored yet, so I figured I would try it. I have no drawing tablet, and just worked off and on for a few days. I don't have Photoshop, but I used the GIMP instead (I'm a cheapskate ). I used a process similar to the one Caigan documented, except I used the pencil tool to trace the edges of colored regions, then used bucket fill. I smoothed the lines on the muzzles with the blur tool. I did gradient backgrounds by bucket filling, then drawing a line and bucket filling again, then using selective gaussian blur on the layer. Here are the results, and an animation showing the individual layers.
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(sees TuxRug's rapid 9 steps)
(sees Sage's 19 steps)
(gets dazed)
(swings like a pendulum)
(sees Sage's 19 steps)
(gets dazed)
(swings like a pendulum)
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Despite that fact, he actually did more work than me.(sees TuxRug's rapid 9 steps)
(sees Sage's 19 steps)
(gets dazed)
(swings like a pendulum)
He just put multiple steps into single frames of animation.
In reality if he had made the animation like I did he would have used more frames because of the background in frame 2, despite me using the slower method which I plan on changing perhaps. I still like coloring with the green background though, so...
Yah, it was harder than it looked in the gif. I'll try a single, simple panel, and make a screencast of it. Problem is... My screencast software is slow and low-res when I do my whole desktop, and the image window keeps changing size, because of the way I have zooming set up. I'll see what I can do though.
I originally started digitally coloring Sabrina-Online, but I used a terrible technique (working in just one layer using bucket fill, but I did shading too). Those who wanna see:
^It's a thumbnail, clikie!!!!!^
I do say that O&M is easier and more fun to color, because I tried this same technique in Sabrina and I failed .
PS Sage: I didn't animate the process really, I just took the layers and saved them as an animation.
I originally started digitally coloring Sabrina-Online, but I used a terrible technique (working in just one layer using bucket fill, but I did shading too). Those who wanna see:
^It's a thumbnail, clikie!!!!!^
I do say that O&M is easier and more fun to color, because I tried this same technique in Sabrina and I failed .
PS Sage: I didn't animate the process really, I just took the layers and saved them as an animation.
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Great coloring job, btw!
Have some blueberry buckle and a glass of milk!
Great coloring job, btw!
Have some blueberry buckle and a glass of milk!
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-He made the absolute nicest comments about me in the other topic. I didn't respond to them yet, because I suck, but they are greatly appreciated! =D
-I would say he would also be a good runner up as one of the nicest people alive.
-He joined the IRC sometimes. But not enough, I say! Chat moar =D
-He is evidently only 18 year old but he could easily pass for 25. =D
-He is a drummer like *I* am and this in itself is cool.
Astro> the happiness radiating from your person is enough to solve tensor calculus
<mib_4do271>everything you touch explodes in pillows of happiness
Ok, I finally got a decent screencast of my coloring process, problem is the only thing that would do it right would only save to flash, so here's a link a zip of the flash file and an html page to hold it in. Extract the files, and open the .htm file, and watch. It's sped up quite a bit, and don't worry about the off colors and gradients, I reduced the colors and resized the frames to bring the filesize down (from 300+MB down to 12MB woot!). Enjoy!
O&M coloring screencast (Hosted by MegaUpload [12MB])
O&M coloring screencast (Hosted by MegaUpload [12MB])
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