First background(DeluxePaint) need criticism please

[abstauber]

You're really doing this with deluxe paint  :o
You know, like no layers, only one undo and such?!
Wow

[Gilbert]

Actually the two background frames of DP enables us to do complex stuff like masking, etc., which effectively eliminates most needs for layers.

[Jens]

To avoid false hopes at this point: For a real FoA-style background it's however necessary to have fully detailed, painted ([digital highres/highcolor] oil on canvas) artwork in front of you that shows the picture exactly how it has to look like as a background later on. It's very unproductive to do sketching and palette-work on the fly in DPaint, better use The Gimp, Photoshop or anything else + a tablet for that.

Having created the artwork (and that's the hardest task), you draw the basic outlines, create the palette and then lay down gradients, followed by click-per-click-detail-work in Deluxe Paint. So DP is only for digitalizing an already existing background in a way that prevents blurry shapes and creates sharp, recognizable structures with dominant colours instead.

[Lt. Smash]

Yes, thats true.
For the outlines I built up a 3d room using Google SketchUp. Then I made a screenshot reduced its size and redraw the outlines.
And then I started with it in DP.

But for any other room where you don't have any reference (like Indy's buro) I would recommend Jens painting suggestion.

[abstauber]

Still I wonder why DP stays that popular. It's not that the Autodesk Animator Pro hadn't had it's moments, for example it's usage in the Feeble Files.

Anyway, excellent work and I really enjoy, looking at Dpaint backgrounds in that quality. Btw. why not opening a dpaint-shrine thread - there's a lot of material floating around this board, why not concentrating it ?