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Post by bloodreaper on Sept 14, 2008 5:22:32 GMT -5
It does look like it might have pixilated a bit, but it looks fine anyway.
I'm impressed anyway.
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Post by Fox on Sept 15, 2008 19:21:47 GMT -5
I have a shiny new animated avatar. :B I wish I had the patience to clean it up & color it..but meh. The actual file is way too big to post here, but from what you can see on the 100x50 pixel version of it, any suggestions on wing movement?
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Post by bloodreaper on Sept 15, 2008 22:51:19 GMT -5
It looks to my eye, that his his wings sweep foward on the downstroke, and backward on the upstroke.
Isn't that backwards?
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Post by Faith on Sept 15, 2008 23:01:29 GMT -5
Yeah... I really don't like how pixilated it looks in areas... like the top of the bud, in particular... and those tiny sparkly things don't look very well accustomed to that size... there were other ones that were a darker shade and made it look more... well, subtle. Also, you can't see the detail on the thorns. I made them tipped sorta reddish-brown...
Ah well. What does it matter that it looks better in Paint, I guess. It's here now.
Heh...
The first down-swoop of the wings makes them look too frail, and kinda limp... then its somewhat odd and sharp in a sort of unnatural way... at the shoulders and the curve of the wing...
But that last may be from the resizing.
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Post by Fox on Sept 16, 2008 12:57:10 GMT -5
Yeah..it's the re-sizing. Being the species of dragon he is, he doesn't actually have bones in his wings. So that might be why they look "frail".
I really need to do a lot more studying on wing movements, but meh. I had no internet at the time I did this, thus no easy accsess to bird videos.
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Post by Faith on Sept 16, 2008 22:11:00 GMT -5
Heh. ;D
Um... no bones?..
That explains some things.
How does that work/what kind of dragon is it?
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Post by Fox on Sept 16, 2008 23:01:26 GMT -5
It's material similar the that of cartilage, but slightly more flexible. Argon is a Reptian dragon. (It's a planet I made up when I was like...8. The name stuck..so don't ask. D< ) His mother was a mortal dragon, and his father is a Spirit dragon. Both of very high ranks.
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Post by Faith on Dec 24, 2008 8:27:13 GMT -5
 Eh. Why not? Seriously, though; must something always damage everything I make? Look at how pixilated and blotchy the little monster lookes! O.o It appears fine in Windows Paint; smoother, better color and proper shading... but when I transfer it to Photobucket? No.I mean... just looking at how blotchy the nose on that thing is makes me flinch a little. Why would it do that, anyway? Would you guess that it's my computer or Photobucket? But, yeah, after ranting about that, for a bit... I figured, well, nobody put anything in here, for a while, and I needed an avatar, anyway. Not that the whole, "This image has been moved or deleted - Photobucket." wasn't great or anything. |
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Post by Dragyn on Dec 29, 2008 19:28:43 GMT -5
You do seem to have things get moved around a lot by Photobucket...
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Post by Fox on Dec 29, 2008 23:37:05 GMT -5
.jpeg format tends to do that.
'Tis why I prefer to save files, espcecially scanned ones, as .png.
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Post by Dragyn on Dec 30, 2008 18:58:14 GMT -5
Yup, png and bmp are lossless, and don't get as pixelated.
Note that Photobucket and most similar sites tend to compress files more than they already are, which tends to be a lossy process. I don't think the effect would be as big on png and bmp, though.
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Post by Faith on Dec 30, 2008 20:19:41 GMT -5
Hm...
See, I have no idea as to how any of these things work. XP
How do you guys figure that stuff out, anyway? O.o
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Post by Dragyn on Jan 2, 2009 1:52:25 GMT -5
I work with the stuff regularly, so I've made a point of looking it up.
Also, this stuff gets discussed on the Xepher.Net forums pretty frequently (as well as most any major webcomic's forum), so I've seen several different people's opinions.
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Post by Faith on Jan 2, 2009 4:11:57 GMT -5
Heh.  Well, I guess it's lucky for me, 'cuz if I don't know, then I get to just ask ya'll. XD (Hope that doesn't bother you, though... heh. '  ) |
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Post by Fox on Jan 2, 2009 13:01:39 GMT -5
.PNG takes a heck of a lot longer to load, but it's easier for me, if I want to go back and edit something. You don't have those annoying, grainy pixels. >.<
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I finally changed mine. D: I think that Raptor/Sage one was the longest I've ever kept one....heh.
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