{"author_link":"\/users\/samusoidal","author_name":"Samusoidal","author_uid":"samusoidal","comments":[],"epoch":1494262526,"event":"LD38","format":"md","ldjam_node_id":30531,"likes":2,"metadata":{"p_key":"93046","p_author":"Samusoidal","p_authorkey":"1009689","p_urlkey":"305964","p_title":"GIFted: My Art Process","p_cat":"LDJam ","p_event":"LD38","p_time":"1494262526","p_likes":"2","p_comments":"0","p_status":"WAYBACK","us_key":"1009689","us_name":"Samusoidal","us_username":"samusoidal","event_start":"1492732800","event_key":"69","event_name":"LD 38"},"node":{"_collation":{"body_sanitizer":"TextUtils::SanitizeHTML via existing importer","event":"LD38","removed_author":false},"_superparent":9405,"_trust":4,"author":9689,"body":"Okay, so maybe I'm not gifted.    \nWhatever.  \nHere's a really terrible, tiny, and lossy GIF showing the process I used to create the art for [my game](https:\/\/ldjam.com\/events\/ludum-dare\/38\/a-relatively-small-world).  \n![ezgif.com-optimize.gif](\/\/\/raw\/9d5\/2\/z\/416a.gif)  \nFirst I drew the picture on a blank sheet of paper. I am by no means an artist or an animator (it took me a couple tries just to get the drawing in the video right), so I used minimal frames (by chopping up the images and moving the parts to create movement). Then I scanned them in and inverted the colors in paint.net (me image editor of choice).  \nThe reason I inverted the colors in the first place was because it would be easy to remove the background using additive color once I had scanned the pictures in.  \nAdditive color?  \nAdditive color takes the color of each pixel and adds its values to the one below it. Because black has a value of zero in all categories, the black is not drawn and voila! You have a see-through outline.  \nFrom there I used [myscriptfont.com](http:\/\/www.myscriptfont.com\/) to create a font from my own handwriting, and the art was complete.  \nAgain, sorry about the GIF, the max upload size is 4 WHOLE MEGABYTES! (My gifs turn out to be somewhere between 30 and 40, by default)  \nUse [this site](https:\/\/ezgif.com\/optimize) to optimize your GIFs. It will take the filesize down up to 60%.","comments":0,"created":"2017-05-08T16:50:09Z","files":[],"files-timestamp":0,"id":30531,"love":2,"love-timestamp":"2017-05-08T19:42:14Z","meta":[],"modified":"2017-05-08T19:42:14Z","name":"GIFted: My Art Process","node-timestamp":"2017-05-08T17:43:43Z","parent":15578,"parents":[1,5,9,9405,15578],"path":"\/events\/ludum-dare\/38\/a-relatively-small-world\/gifted-my-art-process","published":"2017-05-08T16:55:26Z","scope":"public","slug":"gifted-my-art-process","subsubtype":"","subtype":"","type":"post","version":80456},"node_metadata":{"n_key":"30531","n_urlkey":"305964","n_parent":"15578","n_path":"\/events\/ludum-dare\/38\/a-relatively-small-world\/gifted-my-art-process","n_slug":"gifted-my-art-process","n_type":"post","n_subtype":"","n_subsubtype":"","n_author":"9689","n_created":"1494262209","n_modified":"1494272534","n_version":"80456","n_status":"WAYBACK"},"source_url":"https:\/\/ldjam.com\/events\/ludum-dare\/38\/a-relatively-small-world\/gifted-my-art-process","text":"Okay, so maybe I'm not gifted.    \nWhatever.  \nHere's a really terrible, tiny, and lossy GIF showing the process I used to create the art for [my game](https:\/\/ldjam.com\/events\/ludum-dare\/38\/a-relatively-small-world).  \n![ezgif.com-optimize.gif](\/\/\/raw\/9d5\/2\/z\/416a.gif)  \nFirst I drew the picture on a blank sheet of paper. I am by no means an artist or an animator (it took me a couple tries just to get the drawing in the video right), so I used minimal frames (by chopping up the images and moving the parts to create movement). Then I scanned them in and inverted the colors in paint.net (me image editor of choice).  \nThe reason I inverted the colors in the first place was because it would be easy to remove the background using additive color once I had scanned the pictures in.  \nAdditive color?  \nAdditive color takes the color of each pixel and adds its values to the one below it. Because black has a value of zero in all categories, the black is not drawn and voila! You have a see-through outline.  \nFrom there I used [myscriptfont.com](http:\/\/www.myscriptfont.com\/) to create a font from my own handwriting, and the art was complete.  \nAgain, sorry about the GIF, the max upload size is 4 WHOLE MEGABYTES! (My gifs turn out to be somewhere between 30 and 40, by default)  \nUse [this site](https:\/\/ezgif.com\/optimize) to optimize your GIFs. It will take the filesize down up to 60%.","title":"GIFted: My Art Process","wayback_source":[]}