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I got bored looking at the forums yesterday.

Then I decided,

I'd like to contribute something to the OOT community.

But even though it's top-notch,

My computer will not cooperate with video files other than game and SWF.

Then I thought:

YES! That'd be perfect! And it hasn't even been done before!

And so, I proceed to create:

PAINT WARS (a.k.a. Crappy Star Wars)

A recreation of the Original Star Wars Trilogy using extremely sloppy MSPaint bitmaps.

In a comic-book like fashion.

And it shall be posted exclusively here on Originaltrilogy.com.

10 Images per post.

When finished, someone could make a slideshow of it synced with the movie audio.

Send me a PM requesting caption removal.

I shall upload the first 10 images in a few minutes...
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EDIT: Because the project is no longer called "Crappy Star Wars", I felt I needed to go back and fix some images I did very sloppily and inexperienced. So I redid the entire opening:

http://img390.imageshack.us/img390/6158/01bi8.png

http://img390.imageshack.us/img390/3682/02mr8.png

http://img134.imageshack.us/img134/1438/03dm6.png

http://img399.imageshack.us/img399/9531/04df1.png

For the purists:
http://img399.imageshack.us/img399/6720/051977uh1.png

And for those who really don't care:
http://img399.imageshack.us/img399/3661/051981ap8.png

http://img172.imageshack.us/img172/4723/05bfc0.png

http://img399.imageshack.us/img399/4456/06ki4.png

http://img399.imageshack.us/img399/2774/07be1.png

http://img134.imageshack.us/img134/166/08jg4.png

http://img490.imageshack.us/img490/1656/09dy8.png

http://img490.imageshack.us/img490/8717/10fs7.png

Those are the first 10 images. Unfortunately, the second set won't come until later tonight, because Mom doesn't want me hogging up the Internet all day, and uploading that first set took me about an hour.

Yes, I'd like to do the Prequels. But I want to finish the OOT first.
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There's a certain charm seeing it like this, but you should have done the prequel trilogy - THAT would have been funny. By all means, continue.
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Yeehaa... great work. By the way, make JPEGs, then the upload won't take that long ;-)
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The thing is, that even though the images are BMPs, ImageShack automatically converts them to PNG format. So I'm comfortable with that.
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This idea reminds me of these........

http://www.nd.edu/~dowens/starwars/sw-anh-pixelmash.gif

http://www.nd.edu/~dowens/starwars/sw-esb-pixelmash.gif

http://www.nd.edu/~dowens/starwars/sw-rotj-pixelmash.gif

4 - 5 - 3 - 1 - 6 - 2

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Originally posted by: Laserschwert
the way, make JPEGs, then the upload won't take that long ;-)


NOOOOO!!!

Whatever you do, do not -- I repeat: DO NOT -- make these things JPGs. The JPEG format was not designed for big blocks of solid colours, and will actually look worse and increase the size of the file over PNG.

PNG is lossless, but compressed, which will give you exactly what is put in (unlike JPG), and will be nice and small. Line art like yours will compress to a huge degree.

The best idea is to convert to PNG before uploading. For example, the title card graphic you posted is just 23kB as lossless PNG. It is impossible to create a JPG with that quality and that size. BMP is a terrible choice for uploading, because it is uncompressed. Each picture would probably be about a MB, I'd guess? Boo...



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It doesn't take THAT long. I'm using 56k and it only takes about a minute.

But if you think converting to PNG beforehand helps, then point me to a converter, because I don't have one.
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Originally posted by: ZigFried
But if you think converting to PNG beforehand helps, then point me to a converter, because I don't have one.

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Hi everybody. You’re all awesome. Keep up the good work.

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Thank you. And yes, PNG is much quicker to upload. Here's the second set:

http://img389.imageshack.us/img389/8085/11wz6.png

http://img489.imageshack.us/img489/1444/12he4.png

http://img82.imageshack.us/img82/8196/13nu3.png

http://img392.imageshack.us/img392/1646/14nv5.png

http://img295.imageshack.us/img295/9049/15cq3.png

http://img358.imageshack.us/img358/6100/16ur0.png

http://img483.imageshack.us/img483/8085/17gi7.png

http://img483.imageshack.us/img483/9340/18zy0.png

http://img376.imageshack.us/img376/6168/19xw0.png

http://img376.imageshack.us/img376/1682/20cg8.png

The 3rd shot was redone to be more consistent with other Rebel shots.
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Did a little experiment: Took your "Episode IV" crawl screen, and converted it to various formats.

BMP: 1.37MB, uncompressed, edges sharp
JPG: 139kB, lossy compressed, edges blurry
PNG: 23kB, losslessly compressed, edges sharp

That is why converting first is best, and why you should not convert "cartoon-like" line art to JPG.
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Best.Idea.Ever

I can't wait to see some sort of finished project haha
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Yeah, I'm impressed since this is all done with a mouse and paint. Would like to see what you'd with a wacom tablet and adobe illustrator.
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I actually suck at MSPaint. I'm much more talented on paper and pencil though...

Don't worry Richard, I'm doing the whole Original Trilogy by myself. Don't know how long it will take but it'll be worth it.
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Thank you. I'm glad you do.

Well my sister had to do homework online, and I'm too tired to do anything else tonight, so I'll begin set three in the morning...
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Originally posted by: Karyudo
Did a little experiment: Took your "Episode IV" crawl screen, and converted it to various formats.

BMP: 1.37MB, uncompressed, edges sharp
JPG: 139kB, lossy compressed, edges blurry
PNG: 23kB, losslessly compressed, edges sharp

That is why converting first is best, and why you should not convert "cartoon-like" line art to JPG.


But if he did that his uploads would only be 6 times faster....


The X0 version will add animation to restore this version to the way the Author originally intended it ;D

http://www.mudgee.net/ot/paintwars2.gif
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Wee Woo... I love it! At last, the whole trilogy in CGI, just the way GL wanted it

DE
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Wow that GIF looks great Laserman!

I'm working on set 3 now. EDIT: Here it is:

http://img475.imageshack.us/img475/5278/21kw9.png

http://img457.imageshack.us/img457/9862/22hq4.png

http://img353.imageshack.us/img353/3360/23hq8.png

http://img457.imageshack.us/img457/8352/24gm1.png

http://img457.imageshack.us/img457/5690/25ua8.png

http://img457.imageshack.us/img457/1918/26ll1.png

http://img358.imageshack.us/img358/7141/27qf3.png

http://img457.imageshack.us/img457/8439/28ar6.png

http://img457.imageshack.us/img457/3034/29ez2.png

http://img389.imageshack.us/img389/1160/30ub8.png

I think I can do one more set before I have to disconnect for the morning...
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Here's Set 4:

http://img397.imageshack.us/img397/6966/31kt2.png

http://img299.imageshack.us/img299/2272/32kd8.png

http://img269.imageshack.us/img269/3742/33xu9.png

http://img351.imageshack.us/img351/1180/34sv6.png

http://img400.imageshack.us/img400/9273/35wq7.png

http://img470.imageshack.us/img470/9458/36hu9.png

http://img400.imageshack.us/img400/1262/37es0.png

http://img387.imageshack.us/img387/4805/38bx5.png

http://img477.imageshack.us/img477/6114/39qh6.png

http://img477.imageshack.us/img477/9701/40kc9.png

All right, I have to disconnect for the day, but I'll return at 5PM with Set 5...
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I always liked that guy who got this nice long glorious closeup before his death in that scene. Oh and this is hilarious...
He big in nothing important in good elephant.

"Miss you, I will, Original Trilogy..."

"Your midichlorians are weak, Old man." -Darth Vader 2007 super deluxe extra special dipped in chocolate sauce edition.

http://prequelsstink.ytmnd.com/
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Hmm... I wonder if you brought in these images into flash, duplicated each on its own layer to 30 fps and synced up some audio how it would look...
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This is awesome! Keep it up!
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Originally posted by: casualimp
Hmm... I wonder if you brought in these images into flash, duplicated each on its own layer to 30 fps and synced up some audio how it would look...


I'm just drawing the images. Someone else can do the flash video. Laserman already made an animated GIF, so it shouldn't be too hard converting it to flash and synching it with the movie audio...