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[unwanted christmas present]

Hi everyone!

Welcome back to the Coloring Ball, the competition where we give you shapes and you fill them in.

With Christmas just around the corner, let's continue with the festive theme for a bit longer and go with a holiday classic: the dreaded unwanted christmas present.
Yes, you've just opened that parcel you've been eyeing under the christmas tree for weeks, only to discover it's not that big box copy of "Phantasmagoria 2: A Puzzle of Flesh" that you were hoping for after all, but something quite different. It's...

Hm, yeah, what is that unwanted christmas present exactly?

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Fill out the shape with your own idea and interpretation of the shape.
You may rotate the shape, you may color the outline and either the inside or the outside of the shape.
The weirder and crazier, the better!

The deadline for entries is January the 15th, 2022. Good luck everyone!

Hey all! A bit of a blast from the past here, but while going through some old folders on my computer I found what I think are most of the old AGS Shows made by m0ds, Grundislav, etc, back in the early 2000's (Episode 00 to 13) as well as some of the AGS Operas and other miscellaneous little audio things from ye olden day of the community, including some AGS podcasts, AGS debates, AGS Idol and more.

I tried to search around the forums to see if these are still available to download somewhere, but couldn't find any links that worked, so I thought I'd just put them in a shared google folder for anyone to download if they're interested. I'm not sure how many of the old school members are active here anymore and remember these, but I thought it might be nice to save these silly nuggets of AGS community history for posterity anyway. 

Relistening to these is a wild time machine into the early 00's forum, though, so beware: not every in-joke has aged with grace...

Heyhey, folks. Been getting myself used to using photoshop lately, and especially for design purposes, making record covers, mostly for my own band, sometimes for a real demo, and mostly just for fun.
I've basically been just putting together something without even thinking about how a good piece of cover-design should be done.
So, with this one, I felt like the whole design wasn't all that bad and fully usable, but I also wanted to hear some critique and comments from you other design and art gurus out there, so that I might improve it.

http://www.2dadventure.com/ags/kraademo.png

The band in question is not mine this time, however, but a great local six-piece folk-rock-band called Kraa, therefore I wanted to use the rather simple design, with a forest/nature/green-theme throughout the whole thing, to connect a bit with the feel of their music.
And no, it's not for an official release or anything, so the songtitles are just silly stuff in swedish. If I'm happy enough with it, though, I might ask them if they want to use it for their demo coming up in June, however.

Cheers!


(And yeah, btw, if you'd like to hear Kraa, you can listen to them here )

Hm, yes, I'm in one of those periods again, when the creaitivity starts to flow, and I pick up the ol' pen and paper to draw something. And this time i even deciced that I'd try and learn something, so I used a technique I've kind of resisted before... Using a photo-reference... Ahem... Heh... So I chose a picture and tried to make it as close as possible to the original without copying it straight off.



Original picture:
http://www.2dadventure.com/ags/sannagräs.jpg

I'm kinda happy with it so far, but any suggestion, comment, whatnot is of course welcome!
In other words: Hit me with c&c, damnit... I might wanna show it to the model sometime...Ã,  (a girl I'm seeing at the moment... )

Cheers!

Well, hi again, folks!
To cut it short, I've been pushing around the pixels on this one by myself for a long time, but now I feel I really need some help/critics/opinions, etc.
It's the main character for my game, "Trailing Blood", and you might've seen him before in my earlier threads, but in a less developed form...
Anyways, it's the side view that's giving me the most trouble right now - I can't get it to look any good. I'm pretty happy with the front view, but any suggestion is of course welcome! Just bring it on!



Cheers!

Well, well, one would think that due to the downtime of the forums, I would have had time to work on my game, right? Well, wrong! I would have, had it not been for the fact that the computer that I have everything on decided to be a jerk and crash, so it'll take a while before I can get back on that track.

So, just recently, I started reading some of my old X-men comics again, and realized it would be pretty fun to do some fanart for a change. (And to prevent my drawing skills from deteriorating...)
So, here it is.



I did both Wolverine and Cyclops at first, but then settled for Storm. Hehe.
My main concern is how I should do to get her chest/breasts to look good - I've tried several times without getting it to look good.
But any critisism or comment is as always welcome!

Cheers!

Hey - Recently started to realize I needed to change the size of my bg's for them to fit in better in the game, so I began with reworking some of my older backgrounds that needed a good going over anyways...
This one you might remember, posted it in the lounge quite a while ago .



My main concern is the shading - I'll be darned if I can get it to look right, so at the moment it looks rather akward. I'm also sure the perspective have some issues... It usually has...
As usual though, any other help/suggestions/c&c/tips are welcome!Ã, 

Cheers!Ã, 

Hey and hello, everybody - I thought I might post here to hear if someone could be of any help with a small problem that me and a buddy have had with CoolEdit Pro (V. 1.2a, if that is of any use) while recording some various musical stuff. I figured there are plenty o' talented musicians here on the boards that might know something...

To the point: When you usually record on the multitrack, you can have the benefit of hearing your previously recorded tracks in the background while recording the new one - I.e: What you usually do while dubbing over vocals, another guitar, drums or whatever. Nothing odd there.Ã, 

Now, the trouble is that recently while recording, the program has gotten the annoying habit of recording not only the new one, but it also records the previous tracks again, which of course sound rather bad and crappy. In other words, if I just press the record button, and I don't play anything, (Assuming I've got a synth, mic or something on my line-in) it still records the sound of the other tracks on the new track, instead of just being silent.
Now I know it shouldn't do that, since it's worked fine before. I assume it's some setting in the program that's gone bad, but I'll be damned if I can find out what it is... Been trying for months now to fix it, but to no avail.
Muting the old tracks of course works, but then you obviously can't hear the stuff you're supposed to be dubbing over... (We tried doing a record with this method, but it was the most un-tight crap you'll ever hear...)

So, any ideas, just anything that could be of any help is appreciated...

Help me, AGS community, you're my only hope!

But alas, not an animated one, this time, I'm afraid...
This is just at the end of act/day 1, before the "day 2" animation comes in.
I'm mostly concerned about the way the light touches the character - Does it look correct? And of course, any other suggestions are as always welcome! (Proportions, shading, etc...)



Cheers!

[Cyberpunk/Future City]

Ok, no time to waste here, let's jump right into the new BG-Blitz topic:

Cyberpunk/Future City

That is, a futuristic scene, either from earth or wherever you want it to take place, but preferably in a city. Dark and gloomy is a plus...
If you want some reference shots, I'd advise looking at games such as Beneath a Steel Sky or Blade Runner.Ã,  Ã,  Ã, 

Restrictions:
Max. Size: 640x480
No Colour Restriction.
Last day to enter is the 17th -Ã,  Voting will take place the next day.

Good luck and all that! Cheers!

Well, I've been a bit on the lazy side when it comes to making graphics lately, but now I've pulled myself together and slapped this little baby up for Trailing Blood. It's supposed to be an short cutscene for the beginning of Day 2, alá GK1, (Like I needed to even mention that...) and I think it's pretty nice so far.
But I also think I've been staring myself blind at it, and therefore I thought I'd post it here to hear if anyone's got any suggestions, critics or similar?

- Also, the original version of the girl was made by me, but edited by Loominous, just so that you know. I hope you don't mind me using your edited version of it - If that were to be the case, just tell me, man!  

Hm, I've been working on this one for a while now - I don't know how many times I tried to get this one to like I wanted it to before I finally got to a look that I felt was right. This is supposed to be the apartment of the main character, Kevin, newly graduated art student and careless youngster. A bit dirty and dusty, in other words...


My main concern is the light - Basically: Is the picture to damn dark?
I do want it to be a bit shady and dark, so I can't make it fully lit either.
Any suggestion is as always, very, very welcome!


Also, here's a new edit of Kevin's main sprite. I realized that the skin tone in the old one made him look like a cheese doodle... Hehe...

["After The Party"]

Allright - since I had the fortune to go to a party last saturday, I felt as if it was a bit fitting if this weeks theme was "After The Party"...

In other words, draw an apartment/room/lawn/whatnot just after there has been a huge, uncortollable party.
Beer bottles, cigarette butts, vomits, drugs, cats nailed to the wall... You name it. Use your imagination... (I know you will...)

- No colour limit
- Size: 370 x 260

Draw on, brothers and sisters.

EDIT:
I changed the entry date due to the lack of entries... Come on, people - Not much of a blitz, this? Can you just let Pessi walk away with the victory like that? Hm?

Hiya and hello to y'all again!

Now, what or who is Old Grimsdyke, you all wonder?
Well, those of you familar with cult horror-picture "Tales from the Crypt" might have heard it before, but if you put the film aside it happens to be a "solo-project" by a buddy, Adam, and myself.
It started out as a silly parody of another local band, but in the end we were so satisfied with the sound, that we started to work a bit more serious on it. In late 2003 we therefore recorded a couple of tracks, and made a short demo - Whcih until now has been pretty unknown to the rest of the world... Until now, that is.

Because from today, you can find the best song from demo(in my opinion, that is...), "Northern Star" available for download here.

The style is acoustic, melancolic pop with some psykedelic influences, and the line-up is Adam Gustafsson on guitar, and meself doing the vocal chores, plus writing the lyrics...
This one is very short, though, so don't expect any epic masterpice...


Just thought I'd post it here to see what all you others say about it, if you like it/hate it/are indifferent about it...  

Cheers!

Well, I haven't been doing a lot of characters for my upcoming game yet - It's mostly been bg's, but today I sat down and did some work on one of the more important characters in the game.



I based this sprite on another one I did a while ago, (The "devil woman" one, if anyone remembers...) and I think I've been able to make it a bit better this time.
Still, I'm not genious when it comes to bodies/proportions, so any critisism/comments is as always welcome!

...Well, ahem, no - Not a real one. But I have been working on some new backgrounds for Trailing Blood, which actually is a bloody miracle, since I have been down in one of the worst creative lows of my life. I got absolutely nothing creative done for a long period of time, and that included anything for the game, I'm afraid...  

But as I said, here is the latest little thingy I've been doing - As the topic line implies, this is supposed to be a mourge/autopsy-place, and so far I have very few ideas on what to put inside it. It is, in other words, very clean. A bit too clean.  

So give me all your ideas, critics and suggestions - I need it...

Ah, right -

...Well, as a member of an "underground"-band myself, I have recently started to think about how many good, but unsigned bands there actually are out there - Bands that have no fat record contract or any sleazy manager.
Just in my local area where I live, there are several extremely talented and good bands that definately deserves some more attention, and I can imagine that there's a lot more of them around in the world...

Now, I thought that I could just place some links and descriptions to some of my favourite bands around here, and then if anyone feels like doing something similar... Hey presto - Write it here. If you feel like it, that is.



DYsDaIN
Perhaps nothing for those not interested in the more extreme metal-scene, but for people who are, this band is something above the rest.
Wierd, downtuned and technical riffs stands as a solid background for their two singers, one doing a more "traditional" death metal-growl, and the second one doing more high-pitched screams and also some "clean" vocals. Just to hear that odd contrast on tracks like "You vs. Me", "Armaghetto" and my favourite one - "Dread" - makes my day.
Go download their songs or buy their demo, becuase it's absolutely worth it.  
And just to add a last comment - Possibly one of the best live-band I've ever seen as well. Pure Rock Fury, if i ever saw it...


The Grand Opening
And perhaps the total opposite of above mentioned Dysdain, we have The Grand Opening, a band who plays soft, melancolic pop/rock with vibes from both Red House Painters, Pedro The Lion and Neil Young. Personally I'm more fond of their older, quieter material, but new songs like "A Pair of Shoes" are also great. Check them out.


Volcanic
With sludgy riffs taken right out of the book of desert rockers Kyuss, Volcanic is a cool Stoner Rock-band that should please anyone interested in hard rock of the 70's with a bit of psychadelica in it...  


Hollowhead
Now we're talking pure, agressive metal with a huge influence from Slayer among others, and with some very political lyrics. I still think they could use a better singer, but they are a very promising band none the less.


The High-Heeled Honeys
60's Rock meets 70's Punk? Yep, I think that's the best way of descibing HHH - With only two members and a limited number of chords they rock on, furiously and with the energy of a rabid bulldozer gone berzerk - But not without losing the sense of melody.
Kickass, to say the least.


Well, there - Wasn't that nice?  
Now start supporting your local bands! Yarr.

Ok, if some of you can remember, I posted my first, rather feeble attempt at tracing a photo a while ago, and as I look back on it now, I realize that a lot of the stuff I did looks really bad...
So, therefore, as a way of improving my skills, I did a new tracing of another photo, (Of the same girl, though...) and personally I think it looks better than last time.



What do you say? As always, I value c&c more than anything!

And, btw - Those brownish-gray spots on her lips and sweater aren't supposed to be there, it's the .gif compression doing that...

Well, I've been working on a library-background recently, and even though it's not completed yet, I thought I'd post it here to get some pointers and tips on how to improve it as much as possible...
I'm mostly concerned about the perspective and the shading(Heh, I never learn anything...), but also about the choice of colours - Anything you react to that looks odd? Just tell me.  

Well, it's like this - Yesterday, after a long while trying to do something sensible in DXPaint, I finally gave up and resorted to my faithful companion - Ol' MSPaint, where I sat down and came up with a picture:



Now at first, I made it for my current mystery/thriller game, "Trailing Blood", but then I thought "Hey, wouldn't she look great with horns?" and so I added them and then an idea for another game came to me...

I'm not sure about the proportions, but rather I'm pleased with colours and the general look of it. Any comments or thoughts are welcome, as usual.

And the title is only temporary, until I think of something better.