Since none of us here is reading this thread, I'll just use this as my secret gossip diary...

Dear diary...
Abe lincoln in a karate outfit is sexy

thanks man, but I'll be driving down.  I gotta head back to the apartment at night, so it's best I have my own ride.

I'm looking for a jison (bison for javascript) / javascript programmer to work with me on a small project for some extra cash.  Pay negotiable.  Details discussed in private.  I apologize for being vague.

need a ride, phubans?

Monsoon2D (ben) actually animated the two shown here.  For the gears on the steampunk, I actually supplied him with the gear rotation rough-animation which he cleaned up, but for everything else (and most animated things in general, unless it's a very mechanical-type animation) we animate by hand frame-by-frame.

JR Hill:
well technically there were no lights set to the scene besides full ambient - but yes, the colors were painted as such as to reflect a top-down light.  The reason for this is simple; so we can flip all the right-facing frames to the left without causing some weird lighting inconsistencies - halving our workload.

Chumez:
Thanks! Nope, as explained in my previous post, the polys were simply painted flat colors in full ambient light (no shading).

thanks a bunch guys,

if you're curious about the process, here's what I did.  I made a decision early on that I'd model the trains in 3D before starting the pixel process.  Otherwise, the vast majority of the process would have just been measuring angles and proportions by hand to be consistent across all angles *before* even really starting the pixel rendering process...

so I made a model and set a 100% white ambient light to the scene.  Instead of texture mapping, I simply painted the faces of the model with solid color - just enough for me to keep track of all the detail later on in the pixel renders...



Sometimes I'll duplicate+invert+expand the model to provide a rough outline to help keep track of detail...


Then I render out the frames at game-scale...



then i pixel over them to a polish.

Just thought you guys might be interested to see some of the stuff I've been doing at work..

Welcome miascugh!

Glad to see you over here!  Now you can show up my pixels around every corner.

...Or wear really short skirts only...

Yes please.

Dear Xion,

Please stop drawing the same guy over and over unless you actually start making the game featuring him.  You see, it's so awesome it makes me want the game but it has yet to exists and that makes me cry in my bed at night.

Sincerely,
-Dan

I immediately knew it was you, snake.  The wood bits were a dead give-away.  Its nice to see you're still alive and owlboy hasn't turned you into a zombie.  By the way, you need to be on my buddy list somewhere... just thought you should know.

I'm kind of disappointed that you got rid of the awesome fluid flying-style control.  Ah well

Sounds fun.  I might be able to go

I should probably post my face-thingy along with all the other face-thingies...

To everyone I met there but didn't exchange contact information - go ahead and just add me to facebook...

http://www.facebook.com/dan.fessler

or msn:
[email protected]

or AIM:
itsdanboy

Twas insanely awesome indeed.  So glad I went.

In case anybody wants to say hi.  I look like this...

http://dl.dropbox.com/u/13350050/Photo%20on%202010-10-28%20at%2014.50.jpg

that is so brilliant, Xion

googling Dan Tabar can be a traumatizing experience...

Thanks guys!  The game actually isn't about the bully, he's just one of several awesome choosable characters for a much more interesting game concept.  I'm actually looking for a unity coder to collaborate with if any of you are interested.

for a game i'm working on...



concept: