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- Enjoikr3w, on 10/12/2007, -5/+113its just a ***** picture. they can be thin if he wants them to be.
- MadMan6680, on 10/12/2007, -5/+112How the hell do you make a fake a video like this?
- otheruser, on 10/12/2007, -4/+76Looks like he was using some kind of pen-tablet. In which case it's not so much an issue of being skilled in MS Paint as it is an issue of being a skilled in drawing. So even still, very impressive.
- lagartoflojo, on 10/12/2007, -5/+71I can't believe it's not Photoshop!™
- jackal42, on 10/12/2007, -8/+59mad skillz
- Miyazaki, on 10/12/2007, -3/+52I don't like to brag, but I'm not so bad myself...
http://img48.imageshack.us/img48/9519/imtherealmasterja8.jpg - inactive, on 10/12/2007, -2/+51So was typing urls like that.
- kokorhekkus, on 10/12/2007, -6/+49@retreal
Low profile tires. Having a low profile will give a much stiffer tire, less "give" when turning or accelerating. Downside: not comfy. Of course most people have them to project a high-performance image and not to use them. - aaronm67, on 10/12/2007, -6/+47It's actually a fairly popular skill. People call it "pixeling". I used to play a game called Runescape, and it was very popular to make pixel signatures for forums, and some people spend a lot of time learning to do it, and some people are pretty amazing at it.
Not saying I can do it, and not saying everyone is as good as him, just saying that its pretty popular for people to learn to do, and it's probably real.
Look at this guy's latest work, it shows much more skill then the car does.
http://www.pixelgod.net/img/gallery/angry_mage.jpg - nickerbocker, on 10/12/2007, -3/+42Speaking of buried for lameness...
- pdawg90, on 10/12/2007, -2/+39"like becoming a world famous kazoo player."
I resent that. - Mulo, on 10/12/2007, -2/+28The software has very little to do with it. The software isn't important, the artist is. Don't forget that many great works of art were done without computers.
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -6/+32didn't you guys know... everything on the internet is fake... digg.com isn't even real... it's fake too...
/sarcasm - tnoy, on 10/12/2007, -1/+24Paint calls it the "curve" tool
- olddirtycr, on 10/12/2007, -1/+207 hours 27 minutes ago
Depending on your timezone yes and no. - Bean945, on 10/12/2007, -4/+22...and then he discovered photoshop...
- sooperdooper, on 10/12/2007, -3/+20The song for the video should have been done by a world-famous kazoo player.
- theonlybigboss, on 10/12/2007, -2/+19I declare sorcery
- pronouncable, on 10/12/2007, -3/+19Wacom isn't the only company that makes tablets.
- bloqmon, on 10/12/2007, -2/+17Looks more like the squiggly line tool.
- tnoy, on 10/12/2007, -1/+13If you watched the video you would know that isnt possible.
- skoles, on 10/12/2007, -2/+14Does MSPaint have a pen tool? The video looks like he's getting a lot of arcs by doing that. And by "pen tool" I mean the bezel pen.
- KniteWulf, on 10/12/2007, -2/+14Don't use huge titles that people won't read.
- olddirtycr, on 10/12/2007, -3/+14You missed the whole point of the drawing.
- Thaddeus, on 10/12/2007, -0/+10@aaronm67
New Artwork: Angry Mage
Tools: Photoshop
From his front page ;-) - inactive, on 10/12/2007, -4/+12I would like to see you use a WACOM tablet and be as skilled to draw even the simplest of stickmen :o)
- olddirtycr, on 10/12/2007, -2/+10sounds like it would be more work than drawing it honestly.
- gameguy43, on 10/12/2007, -2/+10nonetheless, it's interesting to see how the shininess is produced on the pixel level. i've tried to create a similar effect with pixel drawing before, and believe me it is not easy. it's quite a bit easier, at least more intuitive, to create this effect with pen and paper, a bit more impressive to see it done pixel by pixel.
- vhold, on 10/12/2007, -1/+9Uhm. It's art. Artists look for different mediums all the time. I think the image has a very distinct and cool-retro style by virtue of the tool he used.
And in this case, by creating that video, the process of the creation is art as well. - 15charmaxwtf, on 10/12/2007, -1/+7At least 672 people don't aggree with you. Do you walk into a shop and complain about the stuff their offering, no you don't, you just don't buy it. So why don't you apply the same logic and not read it!
- vhold, on 10/12/2007, -3/+9Well, I think this passes the "deleted bits" test for detecting fake because that'd mean he was drawing white splines and ovals over the existing ones. That'd be hard to begin with, and nearly impossible unless the original drawing was done with the same tools.. so.. it makes faking it harder then doing it for real at that point.
Oh, I guess even then that makes no sense because then it'd be erasing more then you see, you can tell it's definitely adding black, not removing white.. - Philbert, on 10/12/2007, -1/+7While Wacom isn't the only company, they're so far ahead of the rest they might as well be.
- AmishRefugee, on 10/12/2007, -11/+17WOOT for NIN, love that song
and very nice work, whoever that was - ever, on 10/12/2007, -1/+6You hit the nail on the head. Demoscene had a lot more impressive stuff in the late 80's already, and the tools used were a lot less sophisticated than MS Paint :).. Not to mention game graphics in the early 90's, etc. etc. And now a guy who can draw a fairly simple picture of a car is called an MS Paint God. No digg.
- look4alec, on 10/12/2007, -1/+6actually the mage picture mentioned above was made using photoshop, and the difference is noticable. Still, good skill, and good to see he knows about photoshop too...
- tnoy, on 10/12/2007, -7/+12Neither is a pen and paper, but look at what people can do with that.
- mushk, on 10/12/2007, -1/+5How many of you ran MS Paint after seeing this video?
I did. - detonate, on 10/12/2007, -1/+5You're not being sarcastic, you're being facetious. Look it up.
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -1/+5@Locke40
If i don't put /sarcasm at the end of a comment that may be offensive (but i am genuinely being sarcastic), i will have -100 diggs before you can say sarcasm. - aaronm67, on 10/12/2007, -1/+4Heh, my bad, I realized that was photoshop after the comment timer ran out. It's still damn impressive, but yeah, he still has some impressive pixel art.
- ApeInago, on 10/12/2007, -2/+5mspaint's curve tool (which he used a lot), isn't very intuitive with a wacom ;)
- Philbert, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3This just goes to show, it's not the tools, but the artist using them.
- secleinteer, on 10/12/2007, -3/+6For those of you interested, the artist's site is http://www.pixelgod.net/
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3Yep, I remember doing art for C64 demos was much harder than this. I placed _every single pixel_ by hand and it took hours just to do a simple logo. Not only that but dealing with an FLi editor and trying to choose which colors will coexist happily in an 8x8 pixel grid was like playing pixel sudoku while drawing. Nightmarish.
I still give people like this props, because there are still a ton of pixel artists out there. They usually find good jobs making icons for cellphones and other embedded hardware that use tiny images. - spudnic, on 10/12/2007, -3/+6It's pixel art if you do what you outlined. But he didn't, so it isn't. Nor was he claiming it be
- acetv, on 10/12/2007, -1/+4It's from the With Teeth album, called "Right Where It Belongs".
- Indeed, on 10/12/2007, -3/+5Something even more oldschool:
http://www.goodbrush.com/hirez_pgs/macpaint/macpaint.htm - venicerocco, on 10/12/2007, -1/+3Obviously he didn't erase it bit by bit. Jeeeeez, people.
- gharding, on 10/12/2007, -4/+6@milomilomilo:
It was at the bottom of the screen. "Right where it belongs" - paulmdx, on 10/12/2007, -6/+8Even better: add a mute button.
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