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I hate to make this a tie but I like Barbells the bestest!

Oh, Questionable.
I'm sorry to tell you, but that entry isn't valid. The rules clearly say "Pixel-Art", and this is not. I know, I'm such a party pooper. Maybe you just do another one?
But hey, 2 (okay, 1) entries today, awesome. Keep em coming!

Au Contraire my friend, it is INDEED pixeled by my own divine hands. If you zoom in you might be able to see the telltale signs of my shoddy craftsmanship.

I can, however, make something a bit more "low-res" for thine appeasement.

Probably a bit nit-picky, but the way his hards are resting feels awkward to me. I would say tilt them inward a bit.

Other than that I think it's pretty sick.

Come on! You knew somebody was going to do it... AND I WANTED IT TO BE ME!

=P

Roots Bloody Roots Sepultura/Soul Fly
American Witch - Rob Zombie
Go With The Flow - Queens of the Stone Age
Slight Return (almost ANY live version) - Jimi Hendrix

I kind-of stopped paying attention in the last thread but I thought the point of the room was that it COULDN'T exist, yet it does exist because the player is actually kind-of trapped in their crazy brain and only when they accept that as the case can they escape...  That's why I thought it was all batshit.

Maaaaan! I wish I had bought that banjo when I had the chance

If I had a nickel for every-time I've said THAT to myself!

This thread made me want to do some official research:

According to Wikipedia John Alton was a prolific noir cinematographer and created alot of the visuals that we associate with film noir.

I can't say specifically what noir films he's done (never got into the cast and crew side of films, besides directors) but it might be worth digging up some of his work!

I find this to be conclusive proof that

Spoiler

Jews did 9/11

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LMFAO!!! I THINK I JUST HAD A MINOR SEIZURE!!!

Understood!

In order of what I last watched:

Lust & Caution (Chinese Language and therefore more unique than your typical Noir)
A Prophet (A bit slow in bits but ultimately a really good movie)
No Country for Old Men*
Gone Baby Gone
Murder on the Orient Express (I started watching it on TV, but had to stop. Got it about a three weeks ago. Just now watched it... it's simple and hardly Noir but it's got a great sense of characters and it might be helpful if you're doing this for research.)
Lucky Number Slevin
Collateral
Insomnia
The Dead Girl (Never Heard of this movie until I saw it in my brothers DVD collection, pleasantly surprised)
Scenes of the Crime
Inside Man
The Pledge (Saw this movie in Theatres and couldn't remember the name of it, a friend of mine figured it out and I JUST NOW FIGURED OUT WHO THE KILLER WAS... I consider this more of a psychological noir, it's not very gritty but focuses on the inner darkness of a man)
The Long Goodbye
Mystic River
The Usual Suspects
MR73 (Was watching TONS of French movies around this time and I stumbled across this rather good Noir)
Eye Witness (Another simple story, told well, with good characters... this on is closer to Noir than Orient Express, though)
Confidence
Beautiful Creatures (Reminds me of Lucky Number Slevin a Bit)
The Name of the Rose
Vertigo
The Killers (1964)
Blow Up (1966)
Devil in a Blue Dress (I don't remember watching this... lol, I'll have to go back and watch it now!)
Twilight (Kind-of bored me near the middle but I liked it after watching it all)
Mr. Brooks (Don't think I would consider this Noir but I did when I gave it a Genre...)
A History of Violence
Tony Rome (Kind-Of lame but Sinatra is how I would imagine an American James Bond)
Coma (It's listed as "Thriller" in my library but, it's decent and I have a soft spot for Michael Chrichton [R.I.P.] SO F***ING WATCH IT, ALLRIGHT?!)
Snake Eyes
Night Moves (Chinatown proved to me that Jack is an awesome actor, similarly, this is one of the movies that made me respect Gene Hackman)
Farewell My Lovely
Kiss Kiss, Bang Bang
Blood Work
L.A. Confidential (A Masterpiece in terms of Contemporary Noir)
The Walker
Klute
The Constant Gardener (I really like noir that collides with political thriller [a'la Chinatown] it adds to a greater sense of corruption. Too often noir relies on gangsters and petty criminals yet ignores real crimes that people would kill over.)
8MM
Presumed Innocent (a noir from an interesting perspective with a kind of gay denouement)
Affliction
The Spanish Prisoner
Road to Perdition


Just about anything by Guy Ritchie & the Cohen Brothers* can be considered contemporary noir, too.

Classic's You Should Watch:
Asphalt Jungle
The Killers (1946)
The Night of the Hunter
Rear Window
To Catch A Thief


Two movies that pop into my head in terms of the style that I'm trying to achieve in my Noir game is The Black Dahlia and Changeling (come to think of it, Clint Eastwood's cinematography matches my visual concept of modern Noir the best: Invictus & Gran Torino look so Noir to me...)

Something I saw recently that isn't in my library is Edge of Darkness, it's a bit slow, unbelievable and derivative but every actor gives a solid performance and it's definitely worth a watch.

I just got "Brick," haven't watched it yet. Heard good things, I'll keep you posted.

Final Thought: The impact of crime and lies is illustrated beautifully in: separate lies.

EDIT @ Rincewind:
90% of David Lynch makes me wish I was stoned so I could enjoy it... =P

I've added a new "Polish" progress bar because it will need a lot before beta testing starts and it means I can ramp the others up to 70%!

If you need help translating the game into any other languages besides Polish, let me know!

I'm fluent in English, Piglatin and Gibberish.

Are looking for modern noir because they're easier to find or because stylistically that is more what you are pursuing? I'll browse my library and put a list together for you!

Apparently there are no arseholes:

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It looks to me like you've drawn various body parts and you're animating them like some type of paper puppet.  This would be all right if that's the style you're going for, if this was a low res character or there was almost no detailing (think South Park simplicity.)

With what you've got here if you want fluid and believable motions I would position the "body pieces" and then draw over them. Each frame being an entirely fresh composition. This will allow you more freedom to customize the appearance of him as a whole in each frame.


*ACTIVATE NIT-PICK MODE*
The biggest thing that is bugging me is that in the first animation his body motions are far too exaggerated and in the second he seems drugged. His legs don't feel like they're connected, his head is bobbing out of sync, his arm doesn't move enough and there is no sense of twist or torsion in his steps.

I think that if you bring the body motions somewhere between the two, do something with the legs and make each frame unique you'll have a masterpiece on your hands!  Great work so far, by the way. Took me ages just to get something that looks half this good and it's STILL pissing me off...

Interestingly, in the UK if an 11 year old boy does something sexual to a 15 year old girl then its the boy who has committed the offence.

Interestingly, if the same boy did the same thing to the same girl in the US, he would  be given a Congressional Medal of Pimperishness.

FACT

The solution is simple. Stop hitting the 3 button everytime you type the letter "e."

If that doesn't work, buy a new computer.






P.S. Are you drivers up to date? Is this a Dsktop/Laptop/Mac?

Maybe the piratey-ness is partly because the font is a variant on Caslon Antique which is the font from CMI. That's my typeface anecdote quota filled for the day.

Is CMI, Curse of Monkey Island? Or, something else... I want to make sure I understand what the adults are talking about.

It's this damned laptop... The screen is dark when the cable is unplugged & it makes everything look richer...

http://crystalshard.net

Oh no! His crystals have gone hard! =' [

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Maybe i'll start a website JUST because of this thread, when I get home... Hmmm- we'll see.

I believe we were promised gratuitous swearing, Ali...

You sir are a failure.

P.S. Nice banner, you cunt!