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hell yeah, I love the canvas events :3
I took the liberty to extract the designs from last year:
the cute critter (@OmegaMouse@pawb.social) in the middle of the rainbow owos:
the knot lipstick combo:
the pawb social logo:
the rainbow owos:
the yiffit logo:
some kind of tribute to yiffit might be nice to remember it.
Hey, this is great!
It'd be awesome to have some cohesive (larger) design this year rather than just adding things as we think of them. :)
I miss yiffit. I loved the vibe there. I believe the cute critter is @OmegaMouse@pawb.social
oh yeah, thank you for providing a link to the creator!
Nice work! Would be fun to recreate these or something similar :3
I'm uncreative as fuck but as soon as there is a template you have my ~~axe~~ pixel.
If nothing else, we could always make a little collage of everyone's sonas or favorite characters. Would require everyone to supply their own image, though, and we'd have to get them all sized, arranged, and reduced to the available color palette.
I could try (emphasis on try) to create a pixel version of RAM. If anyone else wants her on the canvas, any help for the template is appreciated.
Here's all of the ones that've been posted, plus a few others that furries will probably find familiar. Some (like the Yiffit logo) will need to be cleaned up if we end up using them, and some are obviously too large as they are (and will need to either be behind other elements or be trimmed down), but they're all using the right palette.
I've got them in separate layers in aseprite and I don't mind making the final template / doing the cleanup, but I'd like to get some feedback from folks on arrangement. I'm a pretty shit artist.
Even if you want to just toss things in a rough position in MS Paint, that's fine - input needed.
Ethanol, tblFlip, l_b_i: If you want to get your sonas or favorite character included, I'll take care of pixelifying it for you, just give me a source image (ideally with high contrast).
@OmegaMouse@pawb.social @Ethanol@pawb.social @green_copper@kbin.earth @tblFlip@pawb.social @l_b_i@yiffit.net
Just realized I didn't have OmegaMouse's pixel art version in there. This is what it looks like when reduced to the Canvas palette - it's workable, but it'd need some work. Up to you which one you prefer.
My current proposal. I think we should also talk about the sizes of easier-to-scale elements. The Pawb logo is one of the smallest, but I scaled it that way as we currently already have quite the amount of pixels.
That actually fits together pretty compactly. We could omit the boykisser, there's been boykissers elsewhere on the canvas for the last two years, anyway, and it's the only component that doesn't fit in nicely.
If no more edits are are added 'til tomorrow I will allocate an area and add a comment to the template-finer thread in c/canvas (but no pressure, I will edit the comment if the template should be changed afterwards). Any wishes for position? If not I will gravitate towards the top right corner.
@KoboldCoterie@pawb.social @OmegaMouse@pawb.social @Ethanol@pawb.social @l_b_i@pawb.social @tblFlip@pawb.social
The right side will be in the middle on the final canvas (assuming it goes the same as last year, with the size doubling mid-way through). Not a bad thing necessarily but worth noting.
As noted above, though, this is too large - we'll never get this much space to ourselves and we'll simply never finish it.
This is a composite of the templates currently posted there - top right corner doesn't work as we'd be competing with another group.
Compacted a few things, removed boykisser, and swapped Omega and the paw to make it a bit more compact; this is the most compact layout I can find. Total outline is 216x180, though, which is way too large. We'll never get that much space to ourselves, and we'll never actually be able to finish it.
this is pretty cool! Well done on the arts! :3
ok, wonderful moment to figure out that lemmy does not send me push notifications. at all...
but lucky me: the color palette is not diverse enough to get me on there anyways! :D
I think we should compact the arrangement, so that we don't compete for so much area.
The blue Pawb logo can be shrunk and then put into the space between RAM and the Kobold. The green dragon head fits under the sword (to the right). Boykisser can then take its place.
Do you have a Gimp project-file? Because this PNG is not to scale and I would like to help with the refinement of the Yiffit logo. I can also create a shared Nextcloud folder if you want.
Oh for sure, I'm not proposing that this is the design, just arranged everything spread out enough that they could be cut out and moved around if someone wanted to propose something. (The red kobold doesn't need to be there in its entirety, either; it's quite large. We also don't need to use everything here, obviously.)
I don't have a GIMP file; I'm working in Aseprite, but I can export a to-scale PNG. I can also share the Aseprite file (with layers set up and the color palette loaded) if anyone else is using it.
I tried to Pixel RAM, here is the result:
I also did another one, but I think the first one is better.
They are not very small (96px on the long side) but scaling them more down made the results to bad.
This is great; have you confirmed that your color palette is supported?
You've got about 4000-4500 colored pixels here, or 6650 if you're thinking to have a solid background behind it; that's a lot - you might need to trim it down to just a bust (for example) to cut the size down, unless you're planning to be super active. (There's a ~30 second cooldown between pixels you can place, so drawing something that big takes a long time. To put it in perspective, the entire area we were working on last year with 3 or 4 of us very active and a number of others popping in for shorter periods was about 7500 total pixels.
@tblFlip@pawb.social @Ethanol@pawb.social @l_b_i@pawb.social @OmegaMouse@pawb.social Do you all (and anyone else, but you all have replied here) want to supply some character images, too? We can put together a collage with all of them around a paw or a slogan or something to tie it together.
I have this pixel art I did years ago
I also like this headshot I did recently
Buuuut I'm not sure how well it translates to pixel art x3
Here's an attempt at conforming it to the Canvas color palette; could use some cleaning up, but it's quite workable.
I'd like to get a kobold or two in there, too - still mucking with it, but something like
or
Do we want to include a paw or some text or something? Furries of the Fediverse! I don't know.
We could do all of the headshots surrounding a central paw, maybe.
Aw great work on cleaning up that mouse headshot!
The second kobold there is my favourite :3 And yes I love the idea of a central paw!
I'm good tbh, I don't have any pixel arts to supply. We should also be careful not to take up more space than we can manage :P
Also here is last years canvas color palette as a png:
Very helpful!
Have you got a fursona you'd potentially want to include? If you've got some non-pixel art art, I might be able to make it work. I'm not much of an artist, but I know my way around Aseprite, at least. Just don't want you to be left out!
I checked the color palette and made all pixels fit. The background is transparent; so other small artworks can be integrated in the empty spaces.
I think I will start from the head and the see how far down I can go.
Just found out this was happening and sad I missed it, but must say.. seeing the results of y'all's work is damn impressive! There was also stats linked on the canvas@toast.ooo community: https://pawb.social/post/28021100, so for the name I saw first at #2 out of all 638 users, well done @tblFlip@pawb.social with 4598 pixels and thank you to everyone who contributed and organized \o/
We're intending to get organized a bit earlier next year - love to have you then!
And we should definitely upgrade our marketing strategy until then :D
Obviously far too early to start planning something, but I think we should go with a collage of instantly recognizable furry gateway characters - Disney's Robin Hood, Gadget Hackwrench, Nick Wilde / Judy Hopps, Lucario, Renamon, etc. - and prep the image a month or so in advance, then start posting it around a few furry subs to publicize it. If we can get any traction on the design ahead of time, it'd be easier to get people on board with making it.
I get your idea with the classics but I also liked the vibe of this years project with the OC and favorite characters as it is more individual expression.
Yeah, I quite like what we made this year. Wish we'd had more people getting involved - would have been neat to have like, 10 or so small things in there.
sure, i'll be around for the whole thing. should the impossible happen and lightning strikes me indoors, causing me to have an idea for what to draw, i'll post it
I kind of hate how restrictive the color palette is with regards to actual colors. Things with an excess of browns and greys are very easy to make work, but anything with an abundance of color ends up looking very basic. For example, this guy looks fine when converted to the palette, but trying to do it with a green (for example) character just looks like a mess.
