Pixel Art Timelapse Project

[Vegeta897]

Hello art forum.

I've been working on a new pixel art piece in MS Paint, and after a few hours of work, I decided I would do what I've always wanted to do: make a timelapse of the creation.

So I found a program that takes pics of your screen every x seconds, and saves them in an image sequence. After like 1.5 hours of working and recording, I decided to compile them into a video to see what it looked like. ****ing cool! Very excited, I'm going to continue doing this.

See the test video here: http://media.putfile.com/Ultimate-Groovebox-Timelapse-Test

I'm so far working in black and white only, but once I'm finished with all the linework, I plan on taking it into full color, with hand-done antialiasing, like my City 17 piece.

What it is is an imaginary musical hardware I'm designing, based heavily on an existing piece of hardware called the EMX. I'm making the "ultimate groovebox" which is going to be like an improvement on the EMX. Not that it really matters, and not that most of you know what the hell these things do, the important/cool part is the actual drawing of course.

Remember, all in MS Paint too, like all my stuff... All text in the picture is hand done by me, no fonts or text tools used. I am using that EMX pic for reference on borrowed elements/design, of course.

tldr: I'm recording a timelapse of the creation process of a pixel art of an imaginary groovebox in ms paint.

Here is the image so far: http://img517.imageshack.us/img517/8034/ultimategroovefs2.gif


What does hl2.net think of all this?

 

[Pesmerga]

I don't know what this is but I like it.

 

[Naudian]

I know what this is it don't I like but.

 

[Viperidae]

I know what it is and I have it. Wat.

Where's my envelope, Veggies.

 

[Ennui]

You're really good at making pixelarts Veg, that looks really good. You put everything exactly where it needs to go and your font work is superb. The time lapse thing was cool but IMO it would look a lot better if you just took a screenshot of the whole image every 3 minutes or so instead of moving around with it like that.

 

[Vegeta897]

I actually like how you can see me drawing in the fonts and stuff. You wouldn't have that with every 3 minutes... and it'd also severely interupt my workflow
Also, 3 minutes is wayyyyyyyyyy too long. That would only be like 400 frames for 20 hours of work... Also, viewing the whole drawing at once at all times, you wont be able to see the details like you can when I'm zoomed in working.

Thanks for the feedback, friends.

 

[Ennui]

Zoom in then, but screencap it all!

 

[Vegeta897]

I have no idea what you're talking about. The zoom-out-screencap-every-3-minutes idea is problematic for several reasons which I listed.

I don't see what's wrong with this as it is.

Update: http://img149.imageshack.us/img149/6695/ultimategroovehh3.gif

Do you guys want me to keep releasing video segments as I update it, or just give update pics and wait for the full video finale?

Or no update pics at all? D:

 

[Viperidae]

Polysynths? Plz? Also, accent better be for each part, not ALL OF THEM at once. God I hate that on the EMX.

 

[Vegeta897]

You are way too software-spoiled

Accent is never independent to each part, man.

I have no idea where I'm going to put the arp controls... I would exclude it if I hadn't already put functions related to it on there.

Perhaps I could go with my mini-keyboard idea along the bottom and have the arp on the left along the bottom too.

 

[Viperidae]

/wrists

 

[-Psy-]

I like but.

roflchar.

 

[Qonfused]

I lol'd hard.

 

[FishBulb]

Neat. Are you gonna do one for Isotown?

 

[Krynn72]

How would he be able to do one for stuff hes already made?

 

[FishBulb]

For the new ones, obviously.

 

[ChiliFan]

That's awesome, loving the amount of detail in your work. What was the name of the program you used to take the pics?

 

[Vegeta897]

Thanks guys.

Nah I won't bother doing it for Isotown, Isotown isn't as advanced as far as the drawings, and it's a lot of me just sitting there thinking of what to do. And I don't have like 3 hour long Isotown sessions, I draw only like one update at a time.

The screencapture program is called TimeSnapper, and the images-to-video compiler program is called PhotoLapse. Both are free.

Edit:

New preview: http://media.putfile.com/Ultimate-Groovebox-Timelapse-Project-Preview-2

I included talking to Raz and Qonf just for kicks, heh.

Image so far: http://img208.imageshack.us/img208/1999/ultimategrooveoc4.gif

Edit 2:

Why does nobody visit the art section anymore ;(

Anyway, I think I'm done with the linework...

I think it's pretty solid, everything's there all packed in nicely, I like the way everything looks. Note, the 897 logo has those lines and that text above it to remind me to have the 8 9 7 in different shades when I color it.

Man, I really wish I had started recording earlier. Most of this last linework is just a bunch of letter copy pasting and arranging.


Edit 3: Started coloring and antialiasing the various letters. Watching the antialiasing done in fast motion is crazy, it looks like I'm using a blur tool or something

I'm very pleased with how it's looking, the text looks like straight out of a video game.

 

[Raziaar]

It looks like garbage! Black and white newspaper garbage.

 

[kineaesth]

GOD-LIKE.

 

[Vegeta897]

Coloring is going well. I'm done with most of the lettering, which was a bitch to do. (Copy pasting all the colored+antialiased letters onto the original black and white ones)

Been working on the buttons, and I really like how they're coming out. My anti-aliasing has gotten better.

 

[kineaesth]

There is one thing left to do.

Use Photoshop.

TO DESTROY PHOTOSHOP FOREVER.​

Nice ****ing work man.

 

[Druckles]

God, Veg, you're for too good with your pixels. Shame I can't say the same about your [insert item here which can be construed as a sexual innuendo].

The video looks pretty awesome, too.

 

[Vegeta897]

It's done, woo!

Youtube link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xWrs5oHYvxshttp://www.youtube.com/v/xWrs5oHYvxs

(may not be available immediately)



The final product:

2x scaled link: http://img181.imageshack.us/img181/4306/ultimategroove2xtr9.png

In the 2x version you can really see all the detail I put into it, and the hand-made smoothing.

Thank you for all your comments, please enjoy.

Though the video was longer than I thought it would be, it may bore some of you

Or make your head hurt.

 

[Raziaar]

Just finished watching. Awesome stuff! The jumping around a lot is distracting in some parts, but I understand it can't be helped considering all the hours that went into this.

Tribute to Raziaar... I still like the version without DnB better. :-P


It's no longer black and white newspaper garbage, that's for sure.

 

[kineaesth]

I like you.










Very nice.

 

[Wanted Bob]

Wow, so much detail! I would never have the patience to do that...

I am very impressed.

 

[Naudian]

Bscly holy shit.

 

[Sedako]

I KEEP TRYING TO TURN THE KNOBS AND PUSH THE BUTTONS BUT THE ****ING THING SUCKS! Also known as awesome!

 

[MJ12]

Dayum

 

[Lester]

It's done, woo!

In the 2x version you can really see all the detail I put into it, and the hand-made smoothing.

Thank you for all your comments, please enjoy.

Though the video was longer than I thought it would be, it may bore some of you

Or make your head hurt.

This is really awesome , reminds me of Korg's Electribe series

 

[Vegeta897]

Yup that was the inspiration, thanks.

 

[Acepilotf14]

I like you.

Vegeta, what happened to this?

 

[Vegeta897]

KA still likes me what do you mean.

 

[kineaesth]

God damn it Ace that was a secret!

 

[15357]

I think you're awesome.

 

[Mellish]

Nice.