Giovanna wrote:

As for Anthy...good morning!
NWS
http://i133.photobucket.com/albums/q60/ … orning.jpg

If I woke up to that in the morning, it would really be a GOOD MORNING!

Tamago wrote:

If I woke up to that in the morning, it would really be a GOOD MORNING!

No kidding. I'd totally tap the hell out of that.

There are a lot of really gorgeous shots of Anthy in the last arc, luckily I'll be so knee deep in gallery work at that point that I probably won't attempt vectoring quite yet.

Lightice wrote:

I wouldn't be fapping if I woke up to that in the morning.

...well that does explain why Akio's way over on the other couch...

Lightice wrote:

I wouldn't be fapping if I woke up to that in the morning.

I would have used the :bonking: smilie instead if there was such a thing.

Raz-tan wrote:

I think that vector tracing is fun... Does that mean that there's something wrong with me?

Hell no! In fact I think there is something very right about thinking that vector tracing is fun, I only wish I had the program to do it myself.

Edit: Added Razara comment

Last edited by Tamago (12-31-2006 05:28:39 PM)

Giovanna wrote:

No! I like vectoring, I'm just well aware it's grossly time consuming and I'll have other things on my plate.

Like the one of Akio in the suit. Oh yes. I will finish that.

Oh, yeah... I'm looking forward to the finished product...

I'll add to the chorus of gratitude. Thank you, Gio! Take a break and vent whenever you need to, and I'm sure us forum goons will make you feel better with our crazy.

Tamago wrote:

Giovanna wrote:

Like the one of Akio in the suit. Oh yes. I will finish that.

You might finish it quicker if you can try to restrain the as you work on it.

Oh come on, give me a little credit.

It's not like I'm drawing him in a three-piece suit standing on Wall St or anything.

...ooooooo

Gio... you spoil us, you really really do!

>< Gio I just love you so much. Whenever I yap to my friends about how cool EM is, this is what I'm talking about. I know of no other website owners who would go "Hey, you know what? I can make this site better and cooler. And I'm going to do it even though it'll take gaint amounts of time and will be a huge pain in my ass." I love you.

Last edited by belladonna (01-01-2007 05:11:49 PM)

Ok, I'll rescan them then, but it might take a while because I have some other projects on the to-do list.  Can you explain what is "PNG-24" though?  My graphic software is one that nobody else seem to use these days, so I'll have to give them to you in a format that will work for you, and these graphic terms are different on different software....  Do you mean PNG in 24 bits while I do nothing to compress it?  The E-graphic cards are 5"3/4 by 8"1/4 only.  Would 600dpi be large enough? (can try higher if you want....but the original print might not be any better in resolution anyway).  I will try, but no gaurentee on quality 'cause I really am not too sure about my scanner.  It is a fairly basic and cheap scanner unlike my previous one which I did the old scans with.  Don't forget I host the scans on my own site too, so I'll have to rescan everything and update my own page anyway.

Progress report! (And a little gloating.)

Episodes 11 and 12 are capped, and by capped I mean I took about 3400 shots between the two. These episodes, 12 especially, are far and away the best animated episodes in the series. Including, I think, the last two. The animators just went a complete orgy and the images pulled from these episodes are gorgeous. My gripe? Software Sculptors apparently decided to take a huge steaming shit on them, because the DVD capture quality noticeably plummets for the second half of the episodes on this disc. I seriously hope the DVDs of the rest of the series look a little less like vomit, because I'm having a miserable time making the caps look good.

My other gripe is these episodes are chock full of panned shots that I absolutely cannot do anything with, and even more panned shots that go both vertically and horizontally, which means no matter how many shots I take, the whole piece is going to be missing parts of the image, though it's usually sky or whatever. I've decided I'm going to pan the shots of this nature together as best I can but leave the blank space where there's no source material. I can't be making backgrounds for the animators, or I'll never get this done.

That said, I just spent far too long making a single shot out of this. Not impressed? Check the episode. He's pulling the sword out as the camera moves, and there's no one shot of his arms that's complete. The only other shot so far that's eaten up that much of my time was of his miserable sister with the swirling snails in the foreground and the moving background and the speed blurring over the screen. I'm still surprised I got a single image out of that, even if it didn't come out quite as crisp and clear as I'd like.

But less talk. More Touga!



Okay fine, so I'd hit it. Hard.

And one for the road. This is, so far, the only liberty I've taken with the original material. In this shot, Utena appears as the screen pans up. Instead of just putting the shots in sequence, I blended them.



Now I'm sleepy. These episodes are all kinds of ouchy on my mouse and eyeballs.

BY THE WAY. AKIO, YOU JERKASS. I DON'T DOUBT FOR A SECOND IT WAS YOUR IDEA TO MAKE YOUR STUPID RECAP EPISODE NOTHING BUT PANNED SHOTS ACROSS GLOWING OBJECTS THAT CAPPED LIKE CRAP. I HATE YOU.

OMG! Perky Movie!Utena and Perky Movie!Anthy and Perky Movie!Touga and Perky Movie!Aki- err. :p EE!

At any rate, I spent the last minute or so going *squee squee squee*, so... I suppose all I can do is thank you, though if you are in need of a cult member, high priestess, oracle, fighting ninja for your army, etc. etc. My services are heartily available.

If you want a sacrifice victim, I can't oblige since I want to enjoy the pictures, but I'm sure I can drum something up...

*worships at the church of Giovanna*