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Cymoro Administrator                Since: 11-17-05 From: Cymoro Gaming Last post: 6323 days Last view: 6323 days |
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Originally posted by Yoshi DudeOriginally posted by ZemOH YES THE MEMORIES WHERE IS DARK COLIN >( |
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Cymoro Administrator Since: 11-17-05 From: Cymoro Gaming Last post: 6323 days Last view: 6323 days |
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| I'm sorry, what's that? You say your chips are just overhyped corn puffs? Well, Dirty's Chips don't take that shit.
<3  (edited by Cymoro on 11-23-05 12:29 AM) |
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| No...?
*closed for the holeidays* |
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| Woohoo, I just finished up all of the Grand Prixs and have everything unlocked. I must say, Wario is awesome in a Dry Bomber. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Dude, not only is it too early to start this, we only have 9 people with friend codes here. It ain't gon' happen.
Plus, I'm not deleting my 50+ friends list for this. If someone is on, I'll go up against them. There's a reason they made the lock feature. |
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| That's something I've noticed, everyone online uses either Luigi or Yoshi. All I hear before the game istarts is "Here we go!" and Yoshi's noise. It's a bit repetetive, really. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Please, good sir, make a Cave Story one. I have no layout at the moment, and I'm too lazy to put mine back. |
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See, unfortunately, not everything Reggie says is true. Besides, Nintendo is willing to wait two or more years for a change like this. They did with the GBA. |
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I'm sorry, but the lack of Vin Diesel makes this fail. Everyone knows he is better than all. |
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Administrator Since: 11-17-05 From: Cymoro Gaming Last post: 6323 days Last view: 6323 days
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Originally posted by Magikoopa Myster No.
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Administrator Since: 11-17-05 From: Cymoro Gaming Last post: 6323 days Last view: 6323 days
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AAAAAH I JUST JOINED WHAT HAPPENED.
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Seriously, this isn't the place to ask it. Try a place that was affilated closely with it.
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Let's see:
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The Hitchhiker's series. Oh hells yeah. Tick Tock by Dean Koontz. Possibly the only good book he wrote. The Long Dark Teatime of the Soul by Douglas Adams. It's the sequel to Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency. Maus. I got this book at a school fair a few years back. It's very good if you haven't read it. Anything by George Carlin. The man's a genius. I still have to read through A Clockwork Orange. It's been sitting on my shelf for so long. I have shitloads of comic collections. 5 Calvin and Hobbes treasuries, 4 Garfield books, 3 Far Side collections, two Dilbert books, PVP At Large, a Foxtrot collection, the Spy vs Spy ultimate casebook, and the past three years of Far Side calendars. The Onion collections are great reading as well. Trust my reading list, for it is allmighty.
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A friend and I had a joint effort in making this beauty. |
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Danielle: The band is The Buckwheat Boys, and they're credited in the original flash animation that Family Guy referenced.
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Nick: He had to use Brian's version, it was too funny not to.
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I think I may be using this picture more often than hoped.
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Either that, or this one. Hell, they're both very appropriate.
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Administrator Since: 11-17-05 From: Cymoro Gaming Last post: 6323 days Last view: 6323 days
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Kawa: For some odd reason, I always get a runtime error when i try to save my work. Think you know why? Maybe I'm missing a .dll?
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So yeah, beat it all, got the panties. Best independant game ever.
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Modern Art is not the dumping grounds for "RECOLORED TAILS AND THE CHAOTIC EMERALD MARIO HOUR INSANE" types of sprite comics. If you are really willing to make a decent sprite comic, ask about some pointers before you head off into MSPaint. I'll list a few here, then rant on what will happen if your comic has all the opposites at once.
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I even added pictures for those of you that suck at reading, or want this in a tl;dr format. 1) Remember to resize your sprites to proportion, and not to make them bigger/smaller in ratio to normal-sized sprites. Oh god, the horrors I've seen. If you want to make a sprite larger, ask yourself, why? Did you need the camera to zoom in to them? Well, that's fine, dynamic angles are a plus. However, when resizing, please, for the love of god, use the Stretch option in Paint. The bounding box (dashed-line that appears around what you selected) is not meant for sprites, it's meant for solid-color areas. Look at the example I provided: 
See Junkman? When you resize his sprite using Stretch (Ctrl-W is a handy shortcut), the pixels stay proportionate, keeping the level of detail in ratio with its original. Using the corner on the bounding box, not so much. Most of the detail is lost with constant resizing to get it right, If you were to flatten the box to 1 px long, them put it back to normal, you'd get a big gray blob. Also, please, don't enlarge sprites to make them bigger than other characters. If there is a more detailed sprite that is naturally larger (Giant Goombas in SMB3 or Banzai Bills in SMW), then use that in place of an enlarged one. However, if there isn't a larger version, then try and make one! Enlarge a normal one to 200% and try to give it the level of detail other characters that large are. You have to apply some effort when making a comic, and modifications are part of it. 2) Recolors. No. None. Never. 
See what I did? I made four two-tone recolors of X in less than 5 minutes. Yeah, that little green blob is him too. Recolors take almost no effort whatsoever, and are majorly frowned upon because of the fact that they, well, suck. If you want to use a sprite for the base of an original character, modify it. Change the clothing, facial structure, just reshape the base as-needed. Get original and creative. Even one pixel can add the biggest facial feature or exp However, don't just change some colors and then go "IM DONE LOL", otherwise I'll be delivering a kick to your groin using FedEx overnight shipping. I hear it's quite fast. 3) Use readable fonts and proper spelling/grammar. The text can make or break a comic. Unless you rely purely on sight gags, it's of utmost importance. I've seen so many comics abuse Comic Sans MS that it's reached a low only recolors could acheive. Please, people, there are fonts that are meant for reading. Verdana, Tahoma, and maybe Arial are well suited for text, as they're constantly used in websites that are meant for readability. However, if the font is too fancy, or just doesn't look good without anti-aliasing, do not use it. That includes: - Times New Roman - Comic Sans MS - Courier New - Impact These are huge offenders, and nearly never work. Another thing to remember is that big words suck big balls. Size-wise, that is. Most of the time, 8 px fonts look beautiful and add functionality. This also allows room for more text and for higher visibility. Let me demonstrate: 
As you can tell, the Mega Man on the left is using a readavle font with a nice box surrounding it. Remember that if you're going to add a box with a background, make sure to make the text first. Draw a box around it, and moce it out of the box. Fill in the box with a color, and re-insert the text. Now, the Mega Man on the right is suffering from a severe case of retardation due to all the pot it had to smoke to keep itself from suffering any more pain. Spelling and grammar are also key; I'm not saying you have to be the best speller in the world, or that you need to be a punctuation nazi, but when your text is mostly capital letters and sounds batshit retarded when spoken out loud, you need to re-write what you have. 4) JPGs suck, GIFs suck, BMPs suck. Go PNG. File formats are an important issue. Some don't look as good, while others just aren't compatiable. So, which should you go for? Why, PNG of course. In the world of MSPaint, your options are limited to JPG, BMP, GIF, and PNG, each with their own positives. So, why am I advocating some unheard of format? Because it's a space saver, and keeps the quality at a maximum, plus it's compatiable with most to all browsers. I'll break down each one individually, though. - JPG/JPEG STAY AWAY. This format is meant for photos, not solid colors. If you use this, your comics will become compressed and look like blurry shit. Not cool. - GIF Unless you use another program to save your work, GIF is not good. It limits the picture's color palette to 256 colors, and if you use Paint, you don't get to pick what they are. The colors in your comic will then be changed to appease the premade 256-color pallete Windows has. It's not pretty. - BMP This format preserved perfect quality for all the pictures in Paint, due to it being a Windows proprietary format. However, the files are huge, and aren't compatiable with some browsers and those people using Mac computers. - PNG Perfect quality, with only a bit more space than a JPG. Is also compatiable with most browsers, which is a big plus. Go for it. I swear to god, people who don't listen at all really get to me, and get no sympathy whatsoever when their comics are ripped on. This here is essentially a disclaimer saying that if you didn't read this, and posted your half-assed shitty work anyway, I'm going to take quick, justified action against your ass. I'll update this at a later time. As for right now, I'm going to go relax, knowing that people won't be stupid or brazen enough to defy these great tips. (edited by Cymoro on 12-08-05 08:36 PM) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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