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Greatest moments in MMA history... recreated in MS PAINT, part SIX

i dont remember seeing one of these

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Slobodan said:
@TigerUpperKut @HughPhug @Empty Emp

do you guys zoom in when you're doing your drawings?
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depends on how detailed i wanna be

i don't know about everyone else but i only use a mouse to do my paints. that being the case, i have to use the zoom feature at times

I've been meaning to ask @Empty Emp what he uses besides ms paint. some of his gifs are too clean to be strictly ms paint. like the anik/big ben interview, the background stays the same as characters move. unless there's a feature in ms paint i don't know about that allows you to use a background.

that's why all my gifs don't have backgrounds. it would be practically impossible to have a background that isn't a solid color for me to have a moving character pass by in front of it
 
i'm gonna stay away from gifs for a while, or at least the complicated ones. i get to contribute more paints when it's just a still picture

the dwts chuck one took 23 different stills to make.
 
Slobodan said:
Is this when Grey Maynard knocked himself out? Lol
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im pretty sure its khabib throwing some noob, probably trujilo?

i like the art in this one btw, recognisable but still ms paint/ghetto lookin
 
TigerUpperKut said:
i swear emp, your attention to detail is second to none.

after doing two good ones, the rest would start looking more and more like lizard gsp if i was to do this one. believe me, i've thought about doing this a while back and decided to pass up on it
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Thanks. That one was a lot of work. I actually thought about stopping a few times, but I just saved it and came back later. You can see I finally gave up when I got to the mountain background. I was a few minutes into it and decided solid colors were good enough haha.

Slobodan said:
@TigerUpperKut @HughPhug @Empty Emp

do you guys zoom in when you're doing your drawings?
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I zoom in a lot. It all depends on the style. I usually use the smallest pencil brush, so I have to zoom in when I'm drawing details like faces, hands, etc.

TigerUpperKut said:
depends on how detailed i wanna be

i don't know about everyone else but i only use a mouse to do my paints. that being the case, i have to use the zoom feature at times

I've been meaning to ask @Empty Emp what he uses besides ms paint. some of his gifs are too clean to be strictly ms paint. like the anik/big ben interview, the background stays the same as characters move. unless there's a feature in ms paint i don't know about that allows you to use a background.

that's why all my gifs don't have backgrounds. it would be practically impossible to have a background that isn't a solid color for me to have a moving character pass by in front of it
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I use GIMP for animations. I try not to use GIMP's advanced features to stick with the tradition of the thread, but sometimes it's worth it. For the Rothwell one, I drew each character and the background on different layers so I could just move the layers for each frame. For the background, I drew that layer 2 or 3 times the size of the image so I could just move the background layer over a little bit each frame while he was walking away. The next time I make an animated one, I'll try to remember to make a tutorial.
 
Now that Sherdog have the spoiler tags function, I highly recommend all the painters to include the (hidden) original photo with their artwork in v6.

I know most people instantly recognize the paintings without it, but just having the confirmation there will cut down a lot of the "who is that" enquiries if the "Greatest MMA Moment" that you have chosen isn't quite as well-known :)
 
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Empty Emp said:
Thanks. That one was a lot of work. I actually thought about stopping a few times, but I just saved it and came back later. You can see I finally gave up when I got to the mountain background. I was a few minutes into it and decided solid colors were good enough haha.



I zoom in a lot. It all depends on the style. I usually use the smallest pencil brush, so I have to zoom in when I'm drawing details like faces, hands, etc.



I use GIMP for animations. I try not to use GIMP's advanced features to stick with the tradition of the thread, but sometimes it's worth it. For the Rothwell one, I drew each character and the background on different layers so I could just move the layers for each frame. For the background, I drew that layer 2 or 3 times the size of the image so I could just move the background layer over a little bit each frame while he was walking away. The next time I make an animated one, I'll try to remember to make a tutorial.
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gimp, gotcha.

yea, that allows you to take advantage of layers. i don't have gimp. and ms paint only has one layer, lol, so to have a complex background (like a cage), it would be pretty much impossible to animate a character in front of the cage. at least without it not looking super retarded.

i might have to try out gimp. never used it before. it would probably make my life easier
 
Arkain2K said:
Now that Sherdog have the spoiler tags function, I highly reconmend all the painters to include the original photo with their artwork in v6.

I know most people instantly recognize the paintings without it, but just having the confirmation there will cut down a lot of the "who is that" enquiries if the "Greatest MMA Moment" that you have chosen isn't quite as well-known :)
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i think someone suggested this, maybe it was you, in the last thread. someone else said that part of the fun is the guessing.

for me, i think almost all the ones i do are immediately recognized. but if i should ever do one that isn't well known i think it's a good idea to use the spoiler function
 
Arkain2K said:
Now that Sherdog have the spoiler tags function, I highly reconmend all the painters to include the original photo with their artwork in v6.

I know most people instantly recognize the paintings without it, but just having the confirmation there will cut down a lot of the "who is that" enquiries if the "Greatest MMA Moment" that you have chosen isn't quite as well-known :)
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Original photo?! Fuck that. These artworks stand alone.
 
TigerUpperKut said:
get some new stuff in bro. would like to see some work from you of more current stuff
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Honestly I just don't have time lately, did all these when it was slow at work and I don't have many slow days lately. If I get a good idea I will do 1 though
 
WalkenWouldOwn said:
Honestly I just don't have time lately, did all these when it was slow at work and I don't have many slow days lately. If I get a good idea I will do 1 though
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lmao, some of you guys doing these things at work? must be nice...

i do mine at home on my computer
 
TigerUpperKut said:
lmao, some of you guys doing these things at work? must be nice...

i do mine at home on my computer
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I have even less time at home! Kids lol

Yes all my masterpieces were crafted at work. So I was getting paid to make them, I guess that makes me a professional artist.
 
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