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Re: Art Thread

Posted: Fri Jun 01, 2012 8:13 pm
by Riku
Man, I am on a roll lately.

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If anyone is wondering, the phone says "Caller: Ahalya" in Hindi

Re: Art Thread

Posted: Fri Jun 01, 2012 11:30 pm
by Zang
love it riku

i did a thing today

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Re: Art Thread

Posted: Fri Jun 01, 2012 11:32 pm
by Riku
Ahhhhhhh all of the improvements! I like the softer style of the new face.

Re: Art Thread

Posted: Fri Jun 01, 2012 11:45 pm
by Tall-Hatted Yanimae
ZANG LOOK AT YOU GO

I'm sorry I still gotta send you those books downloads

Re: Art Thread

Posted: Sat Jun 02, 2012 1:16 am
by Tatzel
You're the best example of what someone can achieve when they work hard and determined enough

Re: Art Thread

Posted: Sat Jun 02, 2012 6:27 am
by Zang
oh my god I love you guys.
Tatzel wrote:You're the best example of what someone can achieve when they work hard and determined enough
something in my...fucking eye...


you guys are great, I would still be at square one if it wasn't for everyone's encouragement and advice.

that being said I made a little sprite thing

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Re: Art Thread

Posted: Sat Jun 02, 2012 6:48 am
by Riku
Hahaaaaaaaaaaaa it's cute. I love it

Re: Art Thread

Posted: Sat Jun 02, 2012 7:18 am
by Sol Reaper
For some reason I keep seeing a little "c:" smile even though one's not drawn in

Re: Art Thread

Posted: Sat Jun 02, 2012 7:51 am
by Zang
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binary is kinda fun sometimes.

Re: Art Thread

Posted: Sat Jun 02, 2012 7:52 am
by Riku
What do you mean by that?

Re: Art Thread

Posted: Sat Jun 02, 2012 7:55 am
by Zang
RikuKyuutu wrote:What do you mean by that?
the binary tool is kinda fun to use i guess? I dunno is that some kinda like, offensive thing out of context? hope i didnt do that.

Re: Art Thread

Posted: Sat Jun 02, 2012 8:03 am
by Riku
Oh, no, not offensive, haha. I'm not a Tumblr social justice warrior. I just was wondering what binary was supposed to mean. I didn't know it was a brush thing or whatever. I thought it was a style or a program or....I don't know.

Re: Art Thread

Posted: Sat Jun 02, 2012 8:14 am
by Tatzel
The binary tool is pretty much a pixel brush, you can compare it to the MSPaint tools.

Re: Art Thread

Posted: Sat Jun 02, 2012 3:11 pm
by Ersatz
I think that would mean the tool's alpha channel (transparency map) only supports one bit (completely opaque or completely invisible, just like GIF). That means brushes have no anti-aliasing at all.

Re: Art Thread

Posted: Sat Jun 02, 2012 4:05 pm
by Ersatz
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The one on the left does not have anti-aliasing, the one one the right does.
Anti-aliasing kind of blurs edges to make them softer.
Each pixel of a picture usually has three values: Red, Green, Blue, and Opacity (alpha) when it is supported. GIFs use a palette (index) to reduce file size. A GIF pic has a maximum of 255 different colors and uses them as in a number painting (dunno if that's how it's called in English; the kind of paintings with outlines of zones to fill in with a set color). GIFs also only support a 1-bit Alpha channel, which means the fourth value of every pixel is either 0 or 1 (invisible or opaque).
By comparison, PNGs can have more than 16 millions of colors and a full 8-bit alpha channel (256 possible values of opacity for every pixel).
This means GIFs can't have anti-aliasing in the alpha channel, but PNGs can.
That's also why when you edit GIFs, you'll want to make them RGB (unindexed) beforehand so you can use whatever color you want and not only the ones in the existing palette.
Hope this helps.