Re: Share Your Artwork

by pspiddy Sat Nov 02, 2013 10:10 pm

Thanks, man. I tried to bring my A-game since Choco and Lenny are so good. Since the fucks given about this thread turned out to be zero, I thought my sketches would suffice. It's OK, I'll just assume everyone else is as lazy as me when not getting paid. And that I'm champion of the Halloween illustration contest.

I dare Trip or Bret to go methanemax on some pumpkins and post pics!

by Motinator Mon Nov 04, 2013 2:44 am

Ha, I love the Clank and Daxter one

by lenny.b Wed Nov 06, 2013 4:04 am

pspiddy wrote:Here's what I had going for the Halloween theme thing. The lack of effort is from not wanting to commit to digital or traditional. And the seeming apathy in this thread

Original idea:

Then I got sick of cutesy stuff so I started this:

Overall this project made me want to get back into traditional art, so I'm happy. But it also made me realize just how difficult storytelling is. Digital is so, so much easier in that complex shapes and colors are only a few clicks away. In the age of instant gratification, traditional art really does require passion.

Dude, these are AWESOME! Turns out that I really didn't have enough time to do anything this term. I also was a part of a wedding party, and many of my weekends were busy helping to prepare for that, then we left for Montana last Thursday until Sunday. :p You inevitably win, Spiddy!

I especially dig your piece with Clank and Daxter! Hahaha. So awesome.

by chocobot Wed Nov 13, 2013 4:10 pm

Awesome sketches, spiddy. Like, really super awesome! While I was away I kept thinking about this thread and how bad I felt I never got around to completing anything for it lol (._.)

by pspiddy Mon Nov 18, 2013 11:08 pm

Hey, thanks for the compliments, guys! Much appreciated Very Happy

Sorry I was so lazy I just posted sketches. I'll try and do better next time. (good opportunity for Greenie to post Bart saying "I can't promise I'll try, but I promise I'll try to try")

Anyone down to do a Christmas art thing? I figure if the soul-crushing Christmas music is already testing the sanity of retail employees, it's not too soon to throw this idea out there. Like, traditional art or lights or Christmas cards-if you guys send those out- snow men/women/castles or whatever. Hell, even dog costumes. I just don't want to be the only participant!

by volvocrusher Tue Nov 19, 2013 12:13 am

I throw whatever Simpsons clips I want to!

by Miraculous Kaydybug Tue Nov 19, 2013 3:14 am

Maybe, if i can get up the motivation for it.

Last time i tried doing art for Christmas was in 2006. My mother and father both ended up in the hospital that year one right after the other my mother with heart issues, and my father with a brain tumor. My grandmother died after that. Things were really tough on everyone, and I worked so hard that year to get everyone nice presents, I decorated the house myself. I spent the week before Christmas wrapping gifts in the best way i could, and hand making Christmas cards for everyone. I spent hours upon hours making that shit i even wrote little poems for everyone inside, and they all ended up in the trash just like those lame Hallmark cards would have. I worked so hard on those, and it was heartbreaking.

but anyways thats probably enough rambling, my point is i'd like to try again, but someone better fucking appreciate it.

by pspiddy Wed Dec 04, 2013 2:04 am

@Kay: send me an email so we can work out some x-mas cards. PM for my addy.

I'm trying to get some shit done with T-wolf but he likes fucking around. It's not that he's bad people, but he's bad people.

by BretBaber Wed Dec 04, 2013 3:17 am

A video I made of my daily drive to work on the first day of snow in Michigan. It looked pretty. Probably not the safest thing to do, but I was driving a lot slower in the video. Typically takes me 20 minutes to get to work. I like black and white and I like old style footage, and when I sped it up the video was 4 minutes and 31 seconds long, and I felt The Rip by Portishead was a fitting song to play with the video. I've always liked sped up footage as music videos, so I thought I'd record my own. There's a portion at a four way stop when someone called me on my phone, losing 40 seconds of drive time which makes me mad because it's the prettiest and dreariest looking section of my drive. Oh well.

by Captain N Wed Dec 04, 2013 3:26 am

Didn't know we had something for art, might post some of my older stuff and see if I can make something new.

by lenny.b Wed Dec 04, 2013 3:59 am

lenny.b wrote:
pspiddy wrote:Here's what I had going for the Halloween theme thing. The lack of effort is from not wanting to commit to digital or traditional. And the seeming apathy in this thread

Original idea:

Then I got sick of cutesy stuff so I started this:

Overall this project made me want to get back into traditional art, so I'm happy. But it also made me realize just how difficult storytelling is. Digital is so, so much easier in that complex shapes and colors are only a few clicks away. In the age of instant gratification, traditional art really does require passion.
Dude, these are AWESOME! Turns out that I really didn't have enough time to do anything this term. I also was a part of a wedding party, and many of my weekends were busy helping to prepare for that, then we left for Montana last Thursday until Sunday. :p You inevitably win, Spiddy!

I especially dig your piece with Clank and Daxter! Hahaha. So awesome.

Dude! I totally dig that one of Clank and Daxter. Badass!!

by Miraculous Kaydybug Wed Dec 04, 2013 5:23 am

pspiddy wrote:@Kay: send me an email so we can work out some x-mas cards. PM for my addy.

I'm trying to get some shit done with T-wolf but he likes fucking around. It's not that he's bad people, but he's bad people.

You mean my email address? You wanna start a thread and see if anyone else wants to?

by pspiddy Wed Dec 04, 2013 5:45 am

Kayshire Cat wrote:
pspiddy wrote:@Kay: send me an email so we can work out some x-mas cards. PM for my addy.

I'm trying to get some shit done with T-wolf but he likes fucking around. It's not that he's bad people, but he's bad people.
You mean my email address? You wanna start a thread and see if anyone else wants to?

For sure.

by Krubixcube Wed Dec 04, 2013 12:00 pm

pspiddy wrote:@Kay: send me an email so we can work out some x-mas cards. PM for my addy.

I'm trying to get some shit done with T-wolf but he likes fucking around. It's not that he's bad people, but he's bad people.

I would deny this, but you're not wrong.

by Rainjar Wed Dec 04, 2013 4:47 pm

@psdiddy, those sketches are fucking awesome!

@bret, wow there's fucking nothing where you live. I'm jealous, it's that shitty kind of busy and packed here. Really liked the music too.

by BretBaber Thu Dec 05, 2013 2:12 am

@rainjar, yeah it's a typical small town. What's nice is that I live like 20 minutes from Flint (that name problem doesn't mean anything to you since you're across the pond, but fellow Americans might know it as one of the most dangerous cities in America), and an hour from Detroit (another murder capital). So it's pretty quiet where I'm from with stuff to do, and more to do not too far from home. Portishead is a great relatively unknown band, I think they're similar to Radiohead but with a female singer at times.

by pspiddy Sat Apr 12, 2014 7:42 pm

Holy shit. I was changing passwords to all the sites I belong to and I found an animation I did over 10 friggin years ago! This is the only thing (I know of) that I have left from my college years after losing all of my HDDs and such in the flood.

The music is stolen from Wu-Tang (which was stolen from movies) and the design is obviously Samurai Jack inspired. Enjoy:

http://www.flashkit.com/movies/Animations/Cartoons/Chop_Soc-pictoria-8619/index.php

Note that 68 internet people voted it 4.94/10. Jealous much? Fuck the internet.

by A Roguish Ham Sun Apr 13, 2014 9:16 pm

Anybody know of a good open source music composition program? I need something I can use without a midi input device. I do have a keyboard, but no way to hook it up to my PC.

by pspiddy Sun Apr 13, 2014 10:03 pm

Fruity Loops has a bunch of plug-ins for digital keyboards and such. The UI isn't really for beginners so there is quite a learning curve. If you can find an older version (like, a decade older) it was much simpler. And as with all sound software it has presets and samples. And, of course, you can always buy a 1/4" to 1/8" adapter for instruments and use USB microphones. Hope that helps^^

Oh, I just looked it up and it is no longer Fruity Loops but FL Studio.

by A Roguish Ham Sun Apr 13, 2014 10:45 pm

I used Fruity Loops ages ago. I didn't care for it much. I'm looking for a full on composition program where I can literally use notes on a staff to write music instead of a keyboard, or better yet, something that will let me do both.

I'm really surprised there's not something like a MIDI to USB converter or something like that...

by ajapam Sun Apr 13, 2014 11:21 pm

noteflight.com lets you write and play back music on a staff and export them, but as an actual composition program I doubt it suits your needs. It's more useful for simply making sheet music. Though it does let you export them as MIDI files so you can probably write music on there and use it in something like fruity loops (though I can't make guarantees. I've never actually tried something like that.)

I have a midi to USB cable somewhere. They definitely exist. Unless you meant the kind of adapter to use a normal MIDI plug as a USB

by Krubixcube Mon Apr 14, 2014 1:27 am

That animation wasn't too bad for early early flash days spiddy!

by pspiddy Mon Apr 14, 2014 2:00 am

Oh, it's fucking excellent for 2003! Flash 5 was when rollover buttons were all the rage. And the /followcursor commands brought us such internet hits as "shoot x amount of these and win a free y". Homestar Runner topped the charts and maddox@xmission taught satire to a young internet.

by Krubixcube Mon Apr 14, 2014 7:52 am

Hey...homestar runner is still awesome.

by BretBaber Mon Apr 14, 2014 3:25 pm

Yeah that animation was pretty awesome. Samurai Jack is great. Make a sequel with the Scotsman.

by A Roguish Ham Wed Apr 16, 2014 10:39 pm

Ok so my keyboard does have USB out, and I'm an idiot.
I fought with getting the driver installed for a couple hours, and now that everything is up and running, I can't get any of the software I'm trying to use to detect the friggin keyboard.
This is such a pain in the ass.

by Krubixcube Thu Apr 17, 2014 12:03 am

Man...you'd think stuff like keyboards and mice would be figured out by now -_-'

My mouse works for about 10 minutes in blutooth mode before it stops working...so I've got a fancy wireless mouse that I wire in almost always.

Yaaaay.

by ajapam Thu Apr 17, 2014 1:48 am

Sometimes I try to print 15 pages from my printer and it stops after 2. Full ink and everything

by Krubixcube Thu Apr 17, 2014 3:43 am

Welcome to the future.

by Motinator Thu Apr 17, 2014 4:49 pm

I used to try to print lab reports to my printer over university residence internet. Biggest waste of paper and ink ever.

And seriously, why aren't bluetooth mouses more of a thing? I get that the dongles are really tiny, but requiring nothing would still be way cooler.

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