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Subject: Couple of drawings I did in Flash of Halo things.
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Several things.
Have you ever seen the film, A Scanner Darkly? It employs similar effects (vectorizing) to your pictures.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0405296/

Also, its Adobe Flash now, not Macromedia. Adobe purchased Macromedia in 2005.
http://www.adobe.com/aboutadobe/acquisition.html

You might try learning Photoshop or Illustrator. These are much better tools for what you are trying to do.

  • 05.04.2009 9:43 AM PDT
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I've never seen it but I know of it.

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Wow, great work.
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  • 05.04.2009 11:46 AM PDT
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Posted by: COL0NEL SANDERS
Wow, great work.
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Same to you man. What you did with chicken is a work of art in its own right.

  • 05.04.2009 12:23 PM PDT

These are some of the best I have seen, good job.

  • 05.04.2009 12:25 PM PDT

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Very nice, Sizzled Chicken. You've used your colours brilliantly to achieve a sense of shade and highlight and have even got what looks like reflections in some of them. :twothumbsup:

  • 05.04.2009 12:46 PM PDT
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Thanks. I did my best. ^_^

  • 05.04.2009 12:57 PM PDT

I believe 100% that these pics are legit, new art, not stolen regardless of the base picture used.

You should highlight all of the layers and take a screenshot with your computer to show everyone how much work it takes. It ends up looking like a wire frame when you do that. I'll upload one of my similar pics that I did that for if I can find it. (I did mine like 2 years ago).

EDIT: Here's part of a similar master chief drawing that I did with the lines highlighted. Shows how much work it takes

Master Chief (unfinished version with colored lines)

Finished Version (for those who want to see)


[Edited on 05.04.2009 2:18 PM PDT]

  • 05.04.2009 1:52 PM PDT
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I've only got two layers. >_>

  • 05.04.2009 2:20 PM PDT

Posted by: Sizzled Chicken
I've only got two layers. >_>

did you draw multiple objects per layer though? I have a habit of making a new layer per piece for no good reason

  • 05.04.2009 8:59 PM PDT

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Last time I checked my media rights, it said that if you was to remake a picture making it look completely different you wouldn't steal it. In fact you would get new copyrights, since your pic is now unique.

Thats a bit iffy there, in the same way that if I was to make a halo clone by tracing over the images but then call it "Circle" I would still be breaching copyright. However I can't see anything wrong with the pictures really you're not selling them so you might just want that infamous phrase about created using assets from Halo copyright Microsoft.
Foman usually knows these things, see what he says if he appears

...stop using black outlines
I like the black outlines! Alien Hominid and Castle Crashers are both created with thick black outlines and they're awesome


About the copyrights:
You're right about the selling part. He is not making profit off of these pictures = no money lost for Microsoft (who owns Halo rights) = no problem.
On the other hand: copyright laws are per definition iffy. I am Dutch, Dutch copyright laws allow me to vectorize Halo images which gives me copyrights over the images I just made. American copyright laws are completely different.
Good example: Look at the Piratebay trials going on in Sweden I believe.
In the Netherlands, you could never be put on trial for what they did, since the copyright laws don't forbid linking to illegal files. Even Google could be accused, since they do the same thing as Piratebay did. Different copyrights per country make it an iffy issue, that's why there should be a global copyright law.

About the outlines:
Castle Crashers and Alien Hominid look good with black outlines, since they are an essential part of the graphic style. The the details etc in these pics (and many other "traced" images) outlines make it look sloppy. For instance, the Banshee would look better if the colors flowed into each other instead of being separated by black lines.
But this is personal taste. I think black outlines are fine as long as they serve the graphic style, but are not done when they don't contribute to it at all.

Example: this MR T piece I did last year would look like -blam!- if I would turn on black outlines.
But This piece would look a lot more flat if I would turn off the black outlines.

See what I mean?

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That's a sweet Mr. T.

  • 05.05.2009 5:47 AM PDT

Why so serious?

those are awesome

  • 05.05.2009 7:21 AM PDT

holy sausages thts good :O

  • 05.05.2009 12:54 PM PDT
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I call shotgun - I call 9mm.

Those are pretty amazing. Flash is much more than an animation program, and youve demonstrated this very well.

  • 05.05.2009 1:19 PM PDT
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Thanks man. ^_^

  • 05.05.2009 3:25 PM PDT

Posted by: Sizzled Chicken
That's a sweet Mr. T.


Thanks!

  • 05.06.2009 5:03 AM PDT