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i'm sorry lee harvey oswald...

if you want some tips from my 8 year old self it would probably be something like "Hi, monsters are pretty cool and I like comics... Did you ever see Bill and Ted? There's this funny part where Bill falls down the stairs in a suit of armor and then this other guy, they're in the past cause they have to save the future cause the future is in trouble, but this other guy stabs the suit of armor and then Ted sees this and says "You killed Bill you midievil..." Mom can I say it? Ok, "You killed Ted you midievil dickweed!" it was hilarious..."

man i was stupid

NICE TRY!

Superman Cartoon Maker...

Honestly people can we stop this?






hehe just kidding, nice backgrounds my one suggestion for future work would be to define your lights and darks better. sometimes the shadows seem to just fuzz around on the surfaces and not really stick. the bottom one is the best of the bunch cause of the contrast between the lights and the darks, that big shadow area and the light outside, and i like the foreground stones in the first image cause of their darks playing with the lights

know what i mean?

http://www.gamespot.com/all/news/news_6076612.html

bum de bum...

maybe yakspit can give us the inside scoop

let everyone but rodekill in

jannar, why not just use curves and threshold like my method?

http://www.sylpher.com//kafka/tutorials/curves.htm

i feel i have more control over the finished lineart when i have sliders to slide instead of just leaving it up to the scanner

no need to worry fellas...

they'll put the cd in and try and play Rode Quest 1 and immediatly start crying and take it back....

THE FOOLS!

eric

[muah rodekill]

don't mind me.. just bored and posting things

i guess i should just put them on my website......

nah

http://sylpher.com/kafka/junk/gooshy2.jpg

because there were people running for office who had YEARS of political experience...

he has not...

he is an actor... now it is time to worry about who the director is

arrrrgh

it's thinking like this that perpetuates the stereotypes in the first place

i had a chat with my girlfriend about this and she agrees with me, that people act like people and gender has so little to do with it that it's almost pointless to bring up

an extremely stereotypical view on women would be that they are more worried about emotions than anything else. they'd rather see a story about relationships and growing up and people overcoming cancer for one more night to celebrate their brother's birthday who just came out as being gay.

an extremely stereotypical view on men would be that they would rather see something exploding and people being torn in two and eaten alive by zombies than anything else.

why can't people just be people?!

why do you have to look at everything so closely and find a reason men and women are different. I can think of tons of games where the characters were written as bland terrible nothings both men and women.

You really have to give examples if you're going to make a statement like "Most males are written as pretty open and honest guys, whereas girls tend to be more complicated." because it's really a case by case basis that these things have to be judged. How complicated was Rosella in King's Quest? How complex was Jill Valentine? How complex was Duke Nukem or Guybrush or Graham or Cedric or or or or or...

i can't really think of many characters at all that had a complex emotional or personal drive, "I want to be a pirate" isn't complex neither is "I must survive." Not even Manny had that complex of a personality. He had a little bit of mystery but it was basically "I like Meche, must save her!"

"Well, they are still women, but they are now women who act like men."

tsk tsk dave....

no i use scripts to move the viewport cause it's smoother and i can get more exact movement with it

no it's fester shinetop

you'll remember the identity of Fester was a mystery...

so my theory is

it's miez... who is also fester shinetop... who i drew in my sketchbook when i was 8... who is also lechuck

* MrColossal readies his rootbear

argh!

we have a winner, it's Grundislav with "Fester Shinetop"

he's the only thing on the page right in the middle of my sketchbook...

how weird

and yes, he has a gorgeous rack

http://www.gamasutra.com/features/20030409/rubin_01.shtml

if you have a fast connection i recommend you watch this

it was posted before but i love it still, love it so i found a way to steal it and save it on my comp!

you need a free account to view it

hey

here's how i scan

i draw with pencil usually, then i trace it with ink either directly on the sketch or with my light box [if directly on the sketch make sure you erase the pencil lines and don't use HEAVY DARK FIRM lines for the pencil sketch]

then i use Curves or Levels in photoshop to bring up the black and white areas of the drawing, this will get rid of the grey paper colour and any stray pencil lines and only leave the black black

or i just trace it in photoshop on a seperate layer

i believe i talk about this in one of my tutorials

it's the one about colouring a scanned image and it's one of my worst

Guess who!



i must have drawn this when i was like 8 or something...

man.. crazy shit

yea eldkatt i think i went a little too much with the contouring the light on his body

but it doesn't really bother me, thanks for the comments, i was always a little "hmm" about that area

now since i've been doing more drawing than i have colouring [i really need to learn more colour theory...] i'm just gonna post what i've been doing and any comments are more than appreciated from anyone

http://sylpher.com/kafka/junk/airship.jpg

i did this on a very good day... and i have no idea how i did it to look back on it... which angers the poo out of me

http://sylpher.com/kafka/junk/notherhead.jpg

trying to paint, guess who it is

http://sylpher.com/kafka/junk/timetraveler.jpg

just dickin' around

http://sylpher.com/kafka/junk/timetraveler2.jpg

who's a happy guy?

Pesty and I had a little animation jam where we picked a topic and animated it:

this was our first: Something falling down

http://sylpher.com/kafka/junk/falldowngoboom.gif

these were just animations i did for fun:

http://sylpher.com/kafka/junk/getglass.gif

http://sylpher.com/kafka/junk/liftarm.gif

http://sylpher.com/kafka/junk/spin.gif

bored colouring:

http://sylpher.com/kafka/junk/balls.jpg

learning to digitally paint:

http://sylpher.com/kafka/junk/head2b4.jpg

and here is what i'm doing at the moment, teaching myself to draw women... i've always been terrible at it so here are the new drawings, granted they're only side views but i'm so happy with them compared to what i was doing

http://www.sylpher.com/kafka/junk/nude1.jpg
http://www.sylpher.com/kafka/junk/nude3.jpg
http://www.sylpher.com/kafka/junk/dress.jpg

dunno how i feel about dress but i like the detail on the dress...

i know this is a lot of stuff and i don't care if no one responds or anything, i'm just dipping in to anyone who feels like they'd like to comment on anything here is more than welcome

Spoiler

and if you're feeling adventurous go ahead and look at nude2 it's the end product of staying up WAY too late and drawing.

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GarageGothic for president




on second thought lemme add something:

"Could it be that male designers are afraid of creating flawed female characters?"

this right here seems like something i could almost 100% agree on... I took it that you ment if they portrayed a female wrongly people would get upset and say "why is the female lead so stupid" or some such. As in a designer fears to create anything but a strong female character for fear of the backlash that the game demonizes women.

if that's what you mean than i can almost 100% agree, if not then i almost 100% agree with what i just said. except i can't figure out why they'd feel better creating a "sexy" pile of polygons with barely any "clothes" on and not feel scared of a backlash.

well you said a LOT of things and they all didn't remain on track yufster.

why bring up alone in the dark and lara croft and say that they are poor characters? Then mention that laverne had to be rescued by a man. And then mention role reversal with Elaine? And then mention females as "eye candy" in Tekken and Resident Evil.

if you wanted to stick to your subject maybe you should have left out the middle 3 paragraphs about misrepresentation of women.

and i did answer some of your questions... why don't you read my post and see...

"And where do you think people have succeeding in creating a well characterized and likable female lead?" answered that.

"And was it only LucasArts that wasn't afraid of a female lead character?" answered.

and where are you even getting the idea that it's difficult to connect with a female lead character?

i was just as riveted when watching Boys Don't Cry or Frida as I was when watching Barfly or About Smidt. The same with reading Invisible Monsters and Ham On Rye. The same with playing King's Quest 3 and King's Quest 4.

I guess it's personal to you that you have a hard time getting into the character when it's a woman.

That seems to be the case and I doubt there is anyway we can diagnose that problem for you. Maybe you should have asked if anyone else has a problem suturing in to a female lead character.

as for females being smarter dressed, April Ryan was just wearing clothes, the same with the lady from Syberia. They didn't have on suits or anything so I don't think this makes sense to the idea that females are harder to take seriously as a main character. As you said yourself in the same post that it's stupid when women wear tube tops and all that and then say that they are usually smarter dressed.

In the first game guybrush actually wore a clean white shirt and pants and was very smartly dressed, elaine is governor and she was also wearing clean clothes i'm sure, second game he gets the stubble and the long coat, third game back to the nice clothes. so i think it's safe to say that theory isn't valid.

hehe i'm from the us

http://www.maakies.com/SMPages/index.html

in case you hadn't seen Sockmonkey [the agser]

can i see the image stamped onto a white background

i take it it's a greyscale image and you coloured it?

i just want to know what it originally looked like and what you added

eric