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So far, so good:

• Juno First sprites - done!
  
• "This Old House" - watched!
  
• Pizza - half-eaten! (which reminds me... it's lunchtime - time for the other half)
  
• Ice hockey - well, I channel-surfed past it. The women were curling again. What can you do?
  

And then...

• Revised the Ladybug sprites that were, well... "bugging" me
  
• Got the Four-Play label about 80% done, just waiting to hear back from Zach before I continue working on it
  
• Albert sent me the text for the Man Goes Down manual, and I came up with (hopefully) a pretty cool idea for it
  
• Got started on the large bitmap for Zach
  

Not too shabby of a weekend. I didn't get to work on the KrokCom icon, but there's always next weekend. And there's still plenty of Olympic hockey left to tape... I mean, watch.

Continuing from last weekend:

• Got the OS X KrokCom icon done
  
• Finished the bitmap for Zach (actually I got that done last week)
  
• Watched (and taped) some of the medal games for ice hockey
  

Zach approved the Four-Play label, so I'll work on finishing that up soon. And I'll probably get started on those other labels and the Man Goes Down manual next.

And a way-cool KrokCom icon it turned out to be

 

Think I'll knock out an update this week that uses stella.pro to auto-detect cartridge types.

Thanks - it was fun revisiting the Krokodile character.

 

This is what the finished KrokCom icon looks like:

 

OS X can have up to 128 x 128 icons, although there are also several hinted sizes to help it scale more cleanly. I used Photoshop to create the icons and masks, and Iconographer to put it all together.

 

And here's the sketch I worked up for it:

 

Although the icon turned out nice, there's always something lost in the translation from the original sketch to the finished artwork.

Although the icon turned out nice, there's always something lost in the translation from the original sketch to the finished artwork.

 

The Roughness? Or Rawness?

Well, the spontaneity of it is one thing that gets lost.

 

There's almost a sense of movement to rough sketches, as if there's more "life" to them. By the time it gets all cleaned up, that liveliness tends to be diminished.

 

I've seen this a lot in animated films. The pre-production sketches and storyboards are always more dynamic and interesting looking than what ends up on the screen. But that's a necessity of the process - sketches are very individual, and animation is collaborative, so there has to be a watering-down of that dynamism in order for everything to look consistent.

So far, so good:

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• Juno First sprites - done!
   
  

 

The Juno First sprites that you created look great! Hopefully I will be able to post some code in my blog soon which shows them in action.

 

Chris