[S] REX DUODECIM ANGELUS - Thread Two!

[BlackholePA]

God damn. I want to contribute, but I would have to scan in and colour pencil drawings on my computer (because I'm... bad... at drawing direct to the computer with my tablet). However, my scanner is broken. It's really annoying.

[Lientie]

Have done the terezi jumping bit, and also ended up doing art for her unsheathing the cane, unfortunately am stuck on my phone right now, so will post them here as soon as I can borrow a laptop..

[Elanor Pam]

Moraic, I did several Tavroses in his flying car which I think fit in your list. Just telling you in case you missed them.

[MoraicTrochee]

Quick reminder to our new contributors: UPDATE THE CREDITS PAGE SO THAT YOU ARE INCLUDED!!! We have so many amazing people working on this project, and it is absolutely vital to me that all of you are adequately credited. The best way to ensure this is to put yourself in this list: http://rexduodecimangelus.wikispaces.com/contributers

And now responses:

Minti - Got them, thanks!
Dream - Excellent news Do you have an estimated time period for when you will be able to start transferring assets? (Also, any chance you can get me a link for the new version flash files (not Gamzee) so that I can stick it on the wiki for archival purposes?)
Lientie - Perfect!
Elanor - Great catch, you are totally right!! Updating the lists now

[crystallinePerplexity]

Flash files:
Equius/Nepeta
Fereri/Eridan
Terezi

Had to convert Terezi's storyboard from 20fps to 24fps so the timing in this file is a bit different from the sfw I posted earlier... I'll update the links whenever I change something in the flashes, or at least I'll try to remember doing that...

Also, when you mentioned adding tentacle attacks to the first interlude I remembered someone once suggested using a Problem Sleuth reference:
http://www.mspaintadventures.com/?s=4&p=001674
I think this could be used in combination with the part where Vriska carries Eridan around by his scarf, the tentacles could kinda pluck them from the sky. Nimz also mentioned maybe a tentacle swatting Aradia away after she saves Gamzee...

Edit: I just realised that that king for the Tavros part that needed updated injuries was mine, so here's the new version:

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[Flairina]

I know I'm not part of this, but crystalline, why does he have no tentacles? Is someone else adding those?

[BlackholePA]

Hmm. In some of the animated .swf files, a few of the images look sort of... low quality. I'm seeing fading around the image edges, which is virtually never seen in MSPA style art and clashes with the overall feel, and even in rare cases what look like .jpeg artefacts. Are these temporary things? Are my eyes playing tricks on me? Don't take me wrong, it looks fantastic overall, but every now and again I see an image like that and just go "Hmmm" to myself. I just want this to be as awesome as possible! (If increasing it's awesomeness is even something that can be done).

[Redux]

Hope these OPTIIC BLA2T2 look good on the Black King. I ended up sizing them down but they're still pretty huge (about 1500x1300).

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And for fun, here's a gif of them strung together (sized waaaaay down).

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[crystallinePerplexity]

He has no tentacles and wings because they are on different pics for animation purposes, and since they didn't need to be changed I didn't see a reason to post them again...

BlackholePA, some pics are drawn anti-aliased instead of pixelated so I guess that makes the edges kinda fadey. As for the artifacts, that's not really supposed to happen anywhere besides that OW WTF pic of the black king in the nep/eq part, at least I think that was intentional... If you can tell me the specific scenes in which it happens, I'll try to fix it.

Those are great eyebeams Redux But could you perhaps post them as seperate pics without the black king?

[Redux]

Hup.

[Lientie]

The aforementioned artwork-

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Also, those eyebeams look great I don't know how people can do effects like that, I can't do them at all..

Made some meteors a while back too and forgot to post them:

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[Redux]

Here's my secret if you use Photoshop: Set the brush to Screen, get a color, brush like a madman and hope it comes out good.

[crystallinePerplexity]

Yay, thanks, Redux :3

I've added some stuff to the first interlude storyboard:
https://dl.dropbox.com/u/53935606/first%20interlude.swf
Going to change that attack on the Aradiabot to the claw cutting her in half, but I'd like some opinions on whether or not the tentacle attack thingies work...

[Minti]

Hey, here's a random background I made. It's kinda sucky because it's my first time making something like this haha.
I guess it can be used anywhere it's needed.

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EDIT: I can also do the part where Terezi acts surprised and grins if that's alright.

[BabylonRanger]

Hi, I'd just like to say that I'm really enjoying the art and animations so far. I was watching the Feferi and Eridan section when I noticed that during the part when the king is flapping his wings (right before the close-up on Feferi), part of Ahab's Crosshairs is missing (the speary-harpoony part). I was wondering if that was intentional or if it was accidentally forgotten. I hope this wasn't too forward of me to bring it up.

[Nimz]

Hi, I'd just like to say that I'm really enjoying the art and animations so far. I was watching the Feferi and Eridan section when I noticed that during the part when the king is flapping his wings (right before the close-up on Feferi), part of Ahab's Crosshairs is missing (the speary-harpoony part). I was wondering if that was intentional or if it was accidentally forgotten. I hope this wasn't too forward of me to bring it up.

Is that the part where Ahab's Crosshairs is poking into the lily pad? If so, yes, it's intentionally that way, since the speary-harpoony part should be anchoring Eridan against the blast of wind.

Also, welcome to the thread and the MSPA forums!

@Minti: That's not a bad background, and it is appreciated. However, I'm not sure how useful it would be to have everything included in one image. The sky changes colour with storm clouds and meteors having prominent effects that generally tend to grow as the song progresses. An all blue sky would probably only be of much use towards the beginning. It might be possible for someone with art voodoo skillz to adjust that to fit, but as someone that is not an art voodooist maker, my guess is that it would be easier to take the individual elements and start from scratch. Or if you made that in something like photoshop or gimp, access to the psd file with separate layers would probably be best.

One more tip if you want to make more, you might want to make sure the background image is large enough that it can be panned if necessary. There is a lot of movement in the storyboards, and a lot of it requires the backgrounds to move, too.

[BabylonRanger]

Is that the part where Ahab's Crosshairs is poking into the lily pad? If so, yes, it's intentionally that way, since the speary-harpoony part should be anchoring Eridan against the blast of wind.

Also, welcome to the thread and the MSPA forums!

That would nicely explain the pictures I failed to see on page five of this thread.

I really need to learn to read before I act.

Thank you though! I would offer assistance but my abilities are not within the realm of drawing/coloring with computers.

[Minti]

@Nimz: Thanks for the feedback. I just drew the background as a test for myself so I didn't really make it for a particular part of the flash. I did make them in layers in gimp and I could upload them here, but eh... it's not even that good to put in here. It doesn't have to be used if there's no place for it. I hadn't considered some of the points you made and will keep them in mind in the future. I really appreciate it!

@BabylonRanger: Welcome to the thread and MSPA forums! I'm fairly new, myself.

[crystallinePerplexity]

Minti, that is an awesome background and it would fit perfectly in Terezi's part, since that's fairly early in the fight...
So just go ahead and post the seperate layers so I can add that to the storyboard.

This would probably be a good time to mention that it would be greatly appreciated if everyone who posts a background posts seperate layers or a psd file right away, since, I've had a lot of problems while animating because most people just post single layer images and go all like "just contact me for the psd" and then disappear never to be seen again :c

[Minti]

Thank you!! Here's the PSD file.

https://www.dropbox.com/s/x8dekpksg9...ound%20rda.psd

Btw, is it alright if I do the Terezi surprise/grin pictures? I haven't gotten the okay yet haha.

[crystallinePerplexity]

Thanks.

And, yeah, sure. Go right ahead

[Minti]

BAM.

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Lol retarded arms are retarded.
Reason why I finished so fast is because I actually started making these before claiming them 'cause I was bored hehe...
Also, I didn't know how you were going to zoom in to the face and how you wanted me to post the grin since it only shows up close, so I also posted the grin with the whole body.

And I thought that the cane should've been flipped because of the way she was holding it earlier, but oh well.

[MoraicTrochee]

All the wonderful new art and flash files have been added to the wiki

CP - i love the PS callback, please let's do that! Can't see your first interlude update due to internet issues; will try later.
Redux - great eyebeams, thanks!
Minti/CP - I thought we already have those Terezis? Am I getting confused with something else? (Ugh it has not been my week.)

Heads up to everybody -I will be out of commission this week due to job stuff. Be back next Monday! Carry on being awesome

[MoraicTrochee]

Well, I am back, and it looks like we haven't progressed at all, so I guess everyone had a week that was just as busy as mine!

I've watched the First Interlude update, and I LOVE IT SO MUCH!!!!!!

Here is my list of ART ASSESTS NEEDED for the first interlude. If you see that we already have something, let me know ASAP!

- Blinded black king
-Terezi leaping down from black king
- Full front shot of Black King looming over the trolls on the lilypad
- Side shot of the Black King spraying webbing onto the trolls
- Claw descending and smashing the lilypad in half
- Kanaya sliding down frantically
-Equius rescuing Nepeta
- Sollux and Vriska scooping up the remaining trolls
-Problem Sleuth edit of Eridan and Vriska trapped in Tentacles (with transistion)
-Tentacles descending upon lilypad
-Fast action lines
-Artemis The Huntress' "Equius being whacked" sequence needs to be edited to be edited so that he is holding the Unbreakabow.

CLAIM AWAY!!!!!!

Ed: took out the ones that were already claimed

[Redux]

-Gamzee stuck to Lilypad
-Aradia rescuing Gamzee from Lilypad
- Gamzee being dumb and spacing on the lilypad (can we reuse the art from the beginning of the gamzee section?)

CLAIM AWAY!!!!!!

May I?