I love it! Very funny ZigFried. It's all the more amusing because of how accurately you've reproduced the shots in terms of composition, camera distance, point of view, etc.
Thanks to Laserman for animating the initial images together... it was very amusing seeing it play out as a "movie."
If, as was suggested, it were possible to edit the audio to match up to these images when animated, that would be hilarious.
I had to shut down my computer so the lightning wouldn't fry it. In doing so, I lost all the custom colors I was using for most of the characters. Therefore halfway through this set, the colors will become slightly inconsistent. I apologize for the inconvience:
Set 12 comes tomorrow morning...
EDIT: I screwed up on the back of Vader's helmet. Fixed it.
With your permission I'd love to edit this together with the sound of Star Wars Ep IV. Is that something you're planning on doing or can I go ahead? It would really be something unique =P
Honestly i love the Paint Wars and i think you should turn this into a flash movie series that would be great i would actually take the time to watch that.
One edit to consider: It's not "counselor", it's "consular".
Fixed it.
With your permission I'd love to edit this together with the sound of Star Wars Ep IV. Is that something you're planning on doing or can I go ahead? It would really be something unique =P
I've decoded to take a break on this for a few days. This is a lot harder than I thought it would be. I'm only on the first scene of the movie and already I've drawn over 100 images! The folder I keep the drawings in is already over 140 MB!
Originally posted by: ZigFried I had to shut down my computer so the lightning wouldn't fry it. In doing so, I lost all the custom colors I was using for most of the characters. Therefore halfway through this set, the colors will become slightly inconsistent.
You should be able to restore the custom colors easily: 1. Open up an earlier picture with the correct/original color. 2. Click the eye-dropper tool ("Pick Color") and click on the color in the picture. 3. From the drop-down menu: Colors > Edit Colors... 4. Click "Define Custom Colors", click "Add to Custom Colors", and you've restored one. 5. Repeat as needed.
Originally posted by: ZigFried I've decoded to take a break on this for a few days. This is a lot harder than I thought it would be. I'm only on the first scene of the movie and already I've drawn over 100 images! The folder I keep the drawings in is already over 140 MB!
Don't give up man, this is fantastic stuff. Get an external harddrive for Christmas to store all the images on
Keep up the great work, but I don't blame you for wanting to take a few days off
Originally posted by: ZigFried I've drawn over 100 images! The folder I keep the drawings in is already over 140 MB!
The answer to that is PNG! The version of Microsoft's free Paint accessory that comes with Windows XP SP2 can save images as PNG. Same exact quality as BMP, but losslessly compressed to approximately 1/50th the original size...
Don't give up man, this is fantastic stuff. Get an external harddrive for Christmas to store all the images on
Keep up the great work, but I don't blame you for wanting to take a few days off
I didn't say I was giving up. I'm just taking a break because drawing all those images is hard work.
The answer to that is PNG! The version of Microsoft's free Paint accessory that comes with Windows XP SP2 can save images as PNG. Same exact quality as BMP, but losslessly compressed to approximately 1/50th the original size...
Thanks, but I'd like to keep the pictures in their original format until it's absolutely necessary to compress them...
Ahh but you are missing the point, png is like .zip there is absolutely not one pixel different between a .png and a .bmp. You are not gaining anything (except a full hard drive) by sticking with .bmp.
Storing in bmp is like storing balloons by inflating them all first.
Just want to say that me and all of my SW friends are enjoying this edit immensely! I love the idea of marrying this to the original sound that would be the greatest. I would love to watch this on my big screen TV! By the way your artistry has a smurf like quality.
ZigFried: You will be much, much happier if you sort out how to make PNG your native format, rather than BMP. Right now, most of what you are storing on your hard drive is completely unnecessary!
Don't think of PNG as being "compressed"; think of it as being "efficient"! There is absolutely NO quality difference between BMP and PNG. Just that PNG is about 50 times smaller for the sort of images you're creating. You say that you've got about 140 MB on your drive as BMP. Well, as PNG, those images would look exactly the same, but take up only about 3 MB!
PNG is not like JPG, which makes your type of artwork look terrible when compressed. JPG is perfect for compressing photos, but it's not at all good for cartoon-like art like yours. PNG is good at storing your type of artwork.
I don't know what program you're using to create your images, but surely it can handle PNG as a native format? As I mentioned, even MS Paint in WinXP SP2 can use PNG in the same way it uses BMP. So it should be very easy to switch!
BTW, I showed your work to my wife, who isn't a big SW fan like I am, but who has nevertheless seen all six films. She laughed, and said your work is "really cute!" So you've got at least one fan outside the usual die-hards on this forum...
Now I have to put this off even further, because my house is getting broadband, and my computer's being used as the guinea pig, so I can't do anything on it until everything is set up...