redrain85 Wrote: Sketch, all your recent avatar changes are making me dizzy! TheReelTodd, I actually like that color image a lot. I don't know about other people, but it reminds me a lot of old school 8-bit computer graphics with its limited palette.

I like the color image, also; but to me it has more of an Andy Warhol pop art look than a limited-palette computer graphics one.where to buy abortion pill ordering abortion pills to be shipped to house buy abortion pill online

MutoidMan Wrote:I personally think that the rotating cube o' characters in the background is really what gives Weed Killer Gone Wrong its Matrix feel much more than the monochromatic color scheme. Maybe trying a different background would do the trick?

Well, I've considered replacing the ASCII text background with a kind of circuitry board background for the green monochrome image-type look. I've also considered doing a basic grid for the 3D background. Both have TRON elements to them (which I really like) and neither should look like anything from The Matrix.

MutoidMan Wrote:I like the color image, also; but to me it has more of an Andy Warhol pop art look than a limited-palette computer graphics one.

Ahhhh! Nooo!

I don't want people thinking about Andy Warhol paintings when they see "Weed Killer". Crap! I'm guessing it is the dark blue contrast that causes that look to pop in to your mind, and not just the face colors. I chose the dark blue for the darkest color because it seemed to have that slightly-off look to it, as many color graphics in the early 80's did. Perhaps if the dark blue were changed to dark gray? This is getting tricky.

Qix77 Wrote:About video taping from a camera of a TV set... There are ways to do it by syncing the refresh rates together but the deivces you could use are expensive..... or the one my brother and I use are expensive.... but doesn't seem to work all the time.. lol... I'm looking forward in seeing this new installment. Keep us posted..

Thanks for the input, Qix77! But the problem is not with the video sync, it is with the way colors and detail get washed out when I shoot a TV set. It's a little better shooting a computer monitor because the colors display better, but even they get washed out some. On a TV though, the colors end up looking not so good and the image looks more like a bright glowing blobish image more than a TV image. The scan lines of the TV do not come through so well, just the light portions kind of blend together, if that makes any sense.




Ok, as a refresher as to what early 80's 8-bit color graphics look like, I did some searching and tried to focus on human color tones. These images are all from the C64, one of the better color rendering computers of the early 80's. There is a lot of dithering going on in many of these images. I don't care to simulate dithering because as my video image goes through video compression and resizing, the dithering will look more like compression artifacts than dithering. I was really going for the area-fill-in look, for those of you who remember when many draw-in graphics images would outline an area and fill it in. I figured that look would alter my face enough to not just look like a digitized video image (although it still does to some extent) and still have a somewhat old-school computer look. Notice I even found a C64 image of Max Headroom himself! I can't do lines (as in the outlines of characteristic) in my pseudo-simulated imagery though - that would require rotoscoping and take an insane amount of time for a 1-man crew (me) to complete. I included my Weed Killer image on the right for comparison.







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Thanks Todd.

Having fun tinkering with the images and actually using some random photos I've taken, which have inluenced me in what directions to try out with the images of a recent photo hobby.

Go right ahead and post the images I made if you want. I don't mind the others seeing them one bit.

I still like Effect 5 the best. It has that plastic look and with the angled nature of the skin tones form is abstract in such a way that it LOOKS like a digital character, unlike first round of images. Throw in a hint pixels and scanlines to really sell the monitor enviroment. Even though the eyes and mouth features are rather muted, I wouldn't worry much about that cause with how animated your personality is Todd in the videos that wouldn't be lost at all, in fact it would really bring a strong lifeforce to the character. That's one key element, is as a stillframe the personality or figure doesn't look real, yet once in motion it becomes real due to the liveaction nautre of it.

Whoo hoo... C64 color.... May the Commodore and the Amiga live forever!!!!!!!!!!!

All in favor of C64 and Amiga say AYE!!!!

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TheReelTodd ~ Did you make your video longer recently? I swear when I first watched it, it was only like 15 seconds long or something short. Now it is a couple minutes. ???? I'm confused. Did you add to it, or did my computer just not download the entire video before? You decide!abortion pills online abortion questions cytotec abortion

Traahn Wrote: Weed Killer Gone Wrong: You Decide TheReelTodd ~ Did you make your video longer recently? I swear when I first watched it, it was only like 15 seconds long or something short. Now it is a couple minutes. ???? I'm confused. Did you add to it, or did my computer just not download the entire video before? You decide!

I originally released a short, unfinished version (on YouTube only). That is probably what you are remembering. I wasn't sure if I was going to finish the project as it was proving to take longer than I expected and I wasn't sure the effort was worth the outcome. Of course, I did finish it and posted about it again when complete.

Sketch Wrote:Just sent you a few more experiments Todd. Enjoy.

Sketch - as always, your work is awesome!

Thank you so much for spending your time on this!

I'm sure you've read through the THREE page e-mail I sent you by now.

Short on time - must log off for the night now.

For those who wanted to see Sketch's concept imagery, I'll be adding a Weed Killer concept page to my website sometime in the near future, I hope. Don't have the time to host and post anything here right now.

Thanks everyone for your kind words about the character and insightful remarks about the design and look of him.

More to come soon.