Orac’s Art Challenge Thread

[Orac]

This is inspired by M's awesome entry and my favourite video game Galaga. It's really just a concept at this stage I'm hoping to add more elements before the end of the month.

 

[Shawnster]

Awesome. Right down to the color of the ship. Love the 47. I would have thought a 1701 would be somewhere.

 

[Santaman]

Also a classic arcade hall feel.

 

[DeMilburn]

Awesome start mate looking forward to seeing it completed

 

[Orac]

I've made a wee bit of progress, it's already bloated to 200k though, hoping to keep the final gif under a mb..

 

[Nakita Akita]

This is inspired by M's awesome entry and my favourite video game Galaga. It's really just a concept at this stage I'm hoping to add more elements before the end of the month.

You guys are so awsome!!!
I'm lucky if I can get a word document to Save.

 

[Orac]

Sorry for those hoping that I'd finally finished my Star Trek Galaga gif, I still haven't.

I had an idea for this months contest though, the idea was a female Tellarite character since we've only seen male Tellarites thus far, so I did this quick sketch a couple weeks ago after I'd had a bad dream, which I found while cleaning up this afternoon and I scanned it and added in some colour in my own inimitable amateurish style. Behold!

I think I'll call this foxy lady Captain Trev, unless anyone has a better suggestion...

 

[Nakita Akita]

Sorry for those hoping that I'd finally finished my Star Tek Galaga gif, I still haven't.

I had an idea for this months contest though, the idea was a female Tellarite character since we've only seen male Tellarites thus far, so I did this quick sketch a couple weeks ago after I'd had a bad dream, which I found while cleaning up this afternoon and I scanned it and added in some colour in my own inimitable amateurish style. Behold!

I think I'll call this foxy lady Captain Trev, unless anyone has a better suggestion...

Well, she seems fatter than the Tellarites from TOS.......
Also it looks like she possibly has some really bad artritis in her knees.

 

[Michael]

Well, I really like your Tellarite lady captain, @Orac! Neat idea. Have we ever seen a female Tellarite on one of the shows? I don't think we have, have we?

And I dig the cartoon style as well. The pose and look of her are top notch! I do feel it would work better with a drawn background instead of the screenshot, though. Or at least scale her down a bit in the corridor.

I think I'll call this foxy lady Captain Trev, unless anyone has a better suggestion...

Sounds like a very Tellarite name.

 

[Orac]

Good point, I've scaled her down a bit, she's still large, but not gigantic:

 

[Captain pl1ngpl0ng]

Yeah she is foxy alright, rrrrr =D
But are you working on the Galaga gif?
That one is inspiring...!

 

[Orac]

I had to take a break from working on it for various reasons, I will complete it though, if it takes me a thousand years.

 

[Orac]

Warning: Large file size!

Return to Star Trek Galaga:

I've seriously compromised my original idea of keeping this under a mb, and trying to recreate the Fesarius in pixels just wasn't working, so you get this instead.

Sorry if I've broken any rules by posting such a large image file.

 

[Captain pl1ngpl0ng]

, and trying to recreate the Fesarius in pixels just wasn't working,

As a concept it does the job but you could maby try a free app/program like the 8 Bit Photo Lab
as a shortcut to produce pixel fesariuses inn different styles? Unless of course you are a purist and would rather do it by hand =)

 

[Orac]

I am a bit of a purist, but if something like that'll work I might try it. Thanks for the suggestion!

 

[Orac]

I used 8bit photolab to rasterize the Fesarius in this version. Thanks again for the tip pl1ngpl0ng!
Although you can barely tell the difference when it's scaled down to 50% Sadly my computer doesn't have enough memory to export the gif at it's original size.

Here's the original Fesarius full size:

Here's the rasterized version for comparison:

ETA: Looking at these I realize I probbly should have used this version instead:

I'll take another stab at it tomorrow.

 

[Captain pl1ngpl0ng]

Looking good Orac! Yeah the yellow one at the bottom are probably a better choice.
You would likely get away with even less details.., anyway keeping the fesarius pixelated like this suit the look & feel better IMO.
I really think its a cool concept you got!
Makes me want to dabble with a "flashback-style" star trek 2d platformer,
just in small gif sections like this.
Thats probably not a project for a phone as a tool tho =)

 

[Orac]

Here's my entry for this month:

And here're the 5 frames at their original size and colour:

 

[Captain pl1ngpl0ng]

I can't stop laughing!! I downloaded your entry and will treasure it forever

 

[Orac]

Q'pla!