Hey Bleed I see you've begun adding Scorp anims to the dropbox. I didn't see the old finished ones in there though. Are those needing to be re-rendered?
Mortal Kombat HD Remix with MUGEN
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Hey Bleed I see you've begun adding Scorp anims to the dropbox. I didn't see the old finished ones in there though. Are those needing to be re-rendered?
Ok, I'm sorry. I didn't know that. You are probably correct about that. I'm noticing the files you dropped in there a moment ago looked like subzero. Is that on purpose? If so, shouldn't they get organized into a different folder for Sub?
Yeah I just put them in there in case he's missing some. The ninja color is blue, for palettes to work better. So the yellow doesn't mix with the skin tones. If I make clashing parts different colors, It's easier to assign a palette without having colors from different parts of the body using the color swatches reserved for another.
Works like a green screen.
I noticed that I forgot to do this for the Test Your Might animations. I put the files in but they will have to be changed to blue later.
The masking color just has to be something that is easy to separate from the others. Red, Blue, Pink, Green.... Anything like that. Once chosen, every sprite for that character has to use the same masking color.
Works like a green screen.
I noticed that I forgot to do this for the Test Your Might animations. I put the files in but they will have to be changed to blue later.
The masking color just has to be something that is easy to separate from the others. Red, Blue, Pink, Green.... Anything like that. Once chosen, every sprite for that character has to use the same masking color.
Ahh, I understand exactly what you mean. It is just wierd because some files look yellow but others are blue already. I would think all would be blue based on what you just said. I'm thinking should you delete Raiden with normals from Dropbox also Goro's Lair Reference? I think we can use all the space we can get.
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Tiago Bacanhim
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hatorris...i like what you did, its amazing dude...am i smelling another project?
Hattoris
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Certainly can't say "yes" right now
But I would love to actually create a full HD character. Not sure how successful I'd be though!Yeah no worries. I'm glad you put everything up there. I like the "being hit" high and low you did. Will you do the really hard one with him stumbling backwards next? That one seems difficult to me.
Just as an update: Goro's Lair is complete and the .rar is uploaded dropbox.
Just as an update: Goro's Lair is complete and the .rar is uploaded dropbox.
ttas
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You should play around with it. It would be great to play AT LEAST as Sonya in HD. I've been experimenting with filming of this kind for a while now. While I don't have HD characters filmed, I was able to get more of a "slightly above SNES" quality sprites while just using a few bright lights and rapid fire on the camera. Not a video cam, cause mine isn't that great (motion blur madness).
But if you have a good video camera, then you should be able to pull it off.
View attachment 3179
Here is the result I got, with my own character.
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Hattoris
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Hmm, attachment isn't working. You can send me a PM if you want. As for my camera, the photos were taken with a Canon T2i, which can also capture video at 1080p at 24fps. If I find time this week, I'll experiment a bit, using myself as the guinea pig
It's a free program called Foreground Utility, that I found a few days ago.
Grab a copy from here.
http://www.digitalartistguild.com/misc/UtilityExplain/UtilityExplain.html
I'm also using a free program called "Desk Pins", and it's for making windows stay on top of other programs.
I mix the two and it works out pretty nice.
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ttas
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Hmm, attachment isn't working. You can send me a PM if you want. As for my camera, the photos were taken with a Canon T2i, which can also capture video at 1080p at 24fps. If I find time this week, I'll experiment a bit, using myself as the guinea pig
Okay well I'll try again,
.If that doesn't display, then try http://ttas.humblefly.net/kywana_fightingstance.gif
Oh and here is another animation.
It's an original character I made for a full game I'm working on in MUGEN. But as you can see, it can totally be done.
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Hattoris
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Very nice! You said it was "slightly above" SNES, but I'd put the resolution on par with the arcade MK games, actually! It'll be interesting trying to make sprites for 1080p playback, though... I'm sure I could work it out.
ttas
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Thank you! I guess you might be right about arcade quality. I guess I was just thinking about how they look in MUGEN when stretched out to full screen mode. Things get a little pixely. But yeah, I think you should totally give it a try. At the very least it would be a fun experience. Like I said all I did was, my photographer setup the lights and the white balancing and all that, and set the camera to rapid fire for a high frame rate (I don't recall the exact frame rate) and all I had to do was just do the various actions. Trying to do them as slow as possible without sacrificing the movement. Like on the roundhouse kick. Can't do it too slow or it won't move right.
Hattoris
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Good point, I remember in a lot of the behind the scenes clips of the arcade MK games that the actors had to perform the moves slowly for best possible capture. Of course, as you said, not all moves can be done at slow speed. So what lighting did you use? I assume regular "static" lights as opposed to strobes, as I haven't had the best experience mixing rapid-fire photography *and* strobes... you tend to have unbalanced lighting in that case. Yours looks like a steady overhead light. You might've noticed from my shots that I tried to replicate the back/side light and front/diagonal lighting style that they used for the first game. I think by MKII they changed it to the back/side light & master overhead light that would later be used for MK3 and UMK3 as well.
ttas
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The lights were just 2 or 3 of the photographers main lights she uses for portrait stuff, just turned on and left on. So no they weren't strobed, the lights wouldn't refresh fast enough. I just found one of the original photos from the shoot, I'll post it.
The quality of the photo here is crappy cause I just tried to shrink it down and saved for web, so I could post it here, but you get the idea of where the lights are.
EDIT: Also there is the room's ceiling light left on.
The quality of the photo here is crappy cause I just tried to shrink it down and saved for web, so I could post it here, but you get the idea of where the lights are.
EDIT: Also there is the room's ceiling light left on.
Hattoris
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Always a fan of behind the scenes shots... you might've caught the "scissor leg grab" BTS photo I posted a couple of pages back. It looks like the overhead light is giving the most light to the character. Plus the contrast boost your added definitely made it more vibrant. Meanwhile, this all makes me want to play with M.U.G.E.N. again... been WAY too long!
EDIT: Also, in the event I actually do a follow-up shoot, the sprites should most likely be this big for 1080p:
EDIT: Also, in the event I actually do a follow-up shoot, the sprites should most likely be this big for 1080p:
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