#i had this at 600dpi

[lancteu]

this has drained me of my will to live

[hira492]

The still images! I had to lower the resolution a little cause the original file is 600dpi and more than 13000 pixels wide :>

[glass-warehouse]

holy fuck, he's done

I was so sad when I had to cover up the rendering on his hands with the tats :(

also I had to force tumblr into posting these - all my stuff is png's, and babyyy those files are massive. I imagine that the quality has been nuked.

cut to me screaming and crying on the floor about working at 600dpi that no one but me can appreciate

[soleilnmity]

MEDIA - 女神異聞録ペルソナ ～神取の野望～ [ENG]

Title: 神取の野望 (Kandori's Ambition) Written by: 南原 順 (Jun Nanbara) Illustrations by: 金子一馬 (Kazuma Kaneko) Publisher: Victor Books/Victor Novels (Label)

Summary: This novel serves 'prequel' to the events of Megami Ibunroku Persona, focusing primarily on Kandori and his course of action throughout SEBEC but there are other characters featured and mentioned such as Reiji Kido and Maki Sonomura.

Google Drive link

(Included in the folder are: The translation PDF, scans of the cover and the illustrations inside the novel in 600dpi resolution, and credit pages present in the novel)

Personal Note: Finally at long last, the Kandori novel translation is finally done! I've used a personal copy for the scans and translation, but still massive thanks to fadetoblack1058 for having uploaded the raw version of the novel! I'm sorry to be so slow uploading things sometimes >_< I started the translation around the start of last month and only finished now @_@ on top of that, I haven't been scanning doujinshi or materials enough...I had to get a new PC for that because my old one couldn't keep up and I've been very busy kljsdfh either way, In comparison to the P2 novels, this one features a bit more OCs for the story, so the focus at times ends up focusing on them a bit more than necessary orz I have a bit of mixed feelings on the novel personally, but I nonetheless recommend reading it to get a new insight and perspective regarding these characters!

[pleucas]

hello! may i ask what device are you using to draw? You mentioned using Procreate, so i think it's an iPad, but i was wondering what model it is and if you'd recommend it for painting

hey there!

thanks for sending in an ask. i’m pretty sure i have the iPad Pro 2020, 12.9in. i use a gen 2 apple pencil with it :)

and abt digital painting etc…

i���d def recommend it for digital painting! since it’s an old model you’d prob be able to get a discount for it, or find a used one in good condition 👍👍 the screen size is sometimes excessive for me, i think the 11in model or anything smaller would work fine. only concern there would be functionality and memory, bc digital painting is very storage taxing

i’ve been using this guy for four years and she’s holding up very well. i’ve noticed that the battery is less effective (draining quicker, charging slower, etc) but it hasn’t severely inebriated my painting practice

i used to have a paper feel screen protector for it, but for the past year i’ve taken it off. i think there was just an adjustment period from traditional to digital and i hated the slippery screen, but i noticed it wore down my pen nib really quickly lol. now i use a nib with a metal tip (kinda looks like a mechanical pencil tip) and the smoothness doesn’t bother me as much. just took some time getting used to

smth abt digital painting on procreate/ipad that i both hate and love is the color display. apple color display is super good, almost too good… laptop/phone screens don’t match up and i find myself editing things for posts or printing lol. important to note, apple specifically functions in their own RGB scale, so exporting files from procreate preserves that color profile. it’s not compatible with printing, sharing, or anything LOL so be careful to convert things to sRGB (learned this the very hard way…)

i do hate procreate sometimes because their DPI is just. SOOOO low. if you transform or rotate anything then it pixelates 😭 i enabled all the hacks and nothing helped. nowadays i set up my canvas to be 3k+ pixels on at least one axis and 600dpi, it’s marginally better but i def do adjust my process to avoid any transformations 😞 maybe its just particularly bad for my style bc i like my details n Things all over the place but yeaaa prolly the biggest pitfall for ipad/procreate

another note (not rlly digital art related), i pretty much just use my ipad for digital painting, gaming sometimes (i had a crazy genshin/hsr phase), note taking on pdfs whtv. it prolly averages to ~2.5 hours per day, which isn’t a lot. so idk if you plan to use an ipad more intensively (ik some pals who deck out their ipad and basically use it as a laptop), then aforementioned problems might be a much larger issue

this got suuuuper long i apologize but all in all, ipad is def good for digital painting! it’s accessible, customizable, transportable (even with my massive 13in screen LOOOOL), and worth :) but at the end of the day, it’s a tool and its utility is what you make of it. hope i could help!

[thegayestcat]

Mermay Bruno time!!!

So pleased with this, made Bruno much more koi-like this time, and I had fun making his tattoo more mermaidic and giving him some curls~

Below the cut is the OG 600dpi version :p

[siphersaysstuff]

THE GHOST OF PICS: MECHS PAST

And with THAT tortured pun, December's Patreon-backed @tfwiki picture batch is all stuff we've kinda needed forever, all stuff from the prior century, and all stuff from outside the US market!

We start with Takara's original DEATHSAURUS, Decepticon leader in 1989's Victory, who just had his Legacy Haslab toy start showing up on doorsteps. And of course, new separate pics for his Breast Animal partners EAGLEBREAST and TIGERBREAST (yes, get them giggles out, go ahead).

Let's jump back a year to 1988's Super-God Masterforce, and the Godmaster RANGER. This mold is the only one of the three Powermaster Autobot cars to get recolored for its Takara release. Sadly, the MIB copy I bought back in 1996 was missing its gun, thus my general reluctance to add a pic to the wiki. But lord, that tiny, crunchy book scan we were using suuuucked. Made Ranger look white when he's a very light stony blue. Still using the scan though, just now in an inset panel to show off the gun I don't have.

And now we bounce ahead to 1990's Zone, and the Micro Transformer base SKY HYPER, piloted by Deadwheeler. I took these pics forever ago at some BotCon, and have long lost the notes as to who owned this piece a few hard drives back. This sample was also missing the three ramps, thus both the length of time it took for me to get comfy going ahead and adding these to the wiki, and the new book-scan inset to show the missing ramps.

Let's shift over to the European market, with 1992's THUNDER CLASH, the leader of the Autobot Turbmasters. His gravity-feed missile launcher was, like all the Turbomaster and Predator launchers, very much not US choke-gate compliant.

Fun fact: Thunder actually did get a Japanese release! He and Skyquake were straight imported to Japanese stores in Hasbro packaging, with just some necessary legal info changed to Japanese on the boxes. This was the Operation: Combination year, where Takara released the small Turbomasters and Predators in 2-packs.

And now we're going much further back, and much further south. No, that's not Brawn, that's OUTBACK, the 1987 Mexican version by IGA. Apparently, IGA was unwilling or unable to pay for the new '86 Mini Vehicle molds, thus they made their own versions by simply recoloring the '84 originals and slapping them on new cards for the '86 characters. Sometimes with alternate decos to boot!

Sadly, I don't own this toy, and like Sky Hyper, this was a BotCon pic taken with original owner info lost to time. (I always try and credit the toy owner when they let me take pics.)

Now here's the ones I'm super-happy about. These are two of the three Eletrix, ESPORTE and PORSCHE, exclusive to Estrela's 1985 Brazilian Transformers line! These toys transform and walk/roll forward via remote control, attached by a wire over 4 feet long. I'm keeping an eye out for the third one, Jipe.

None of the '85 Brazilian toys have any faction markings, but the Autobot-style packaging leads one to assume "all good guys". As do the bios of many of the toys in the line... but the Eletrix lack bios, sadly. Which is weird, as Estrela made up new bios for some toys in the line, and just straight-translated others from their Hasbro bios.

These molds were released in the US, but as the "Pow-R-Bots" in Village Toys' TF-wannabe line Convert-A-Bots. Like Estrela, Village licensed them from Japan's Yonezawa Toys, where they were the Remote Change Robo Series. All of these releases use the same plastic colors, but give them new stickers for branding and language.

I bought these two MISB (cellophane still there!) earlier this year, but was a little gunshy about opening them, worried the electronics might have somehow rotted. Schrodinger's Electronics. But no, since they didn't come with batteries, no corrosion, and they work as well as a 1984-mold cheap electric gear-powered toy can (that is to say, loudly).

And of course, since I got the boxes, I took the opportunity to take 600dpi scans of the box art unique to Estrela's packaging!

Man, I love going through these older, not-US corners of TFdom, and hope you learned something new about the vast TF universe. And if you'd like to help make that just a little bit easier and get more pics out a month, consider joining my Patreon! "gregstfwikipics" there, every little bit helps, plus at higher pledge levels you can pick a theme for the month!

[majimasleftasscheek]

May I ask how you made the shaker charms? I've been wanting to do that a while but no clue how to.

aight so I'mma go into this with a lil assumption that there's some prior knowledge about making digital art but if you have any questions about anything, you can definitely ask!

so first step is finding a place that can make you the shaker charms. I use vograce - it's a lil more expensive than other places but I like the customer service and low minimum order amount. they have a specific tab just for shaker charms that breaks them down into what options you can pick, sizes, what the art files need to be like, etc that you can take a looksie just to see how they're made. I like to see in the comments at the bottom too to see what neat things people have made.

and this is what my art looks like (minus the background). I made the main shaker with plenty o' room to shake around the bits inside. and then the pieces to the right. the gate itself is around 1300px wide, 600dpi (which is tbh a lot, 300dpi is fine) — big enough so when it's shrunk to charm size it doesn't lose too much quality. save them out as transparent pngs separately (the main shaker + pieces). most places prefer CMYK color profiles but I'm a scrub that doesn't use that so I go with RGB and it works just fine. if you have the ability to preview color profiles, I go with CMYK: Japan Color 2001 Coated to help me adjust my colors for print.

then I made a draft of what I wanted it to look like when finished, specifically showing how the text should not flip the wrong way on the reverse side. I also put the bits inside but the manufacturer should be able to figure it out anyway lol. the dots atop the charms are where I want the hole to be for the chain. I send this to the manufacturer too just to make sure we're on the same page.

send the files to whoever is making the charm and that's about it. the hardest part really is making the art assets. there's no real rule to anything, I just eyeballed it all tbh.

the most important part imo is making sure everything's big enough (1000px, 300dpi or larger for the main shaker part imo) and making sure your colors are okay because what you see on screen can be pretty different in actual print. that requires a lil research like purple for example sometimes shows up like ass when printed.

as for sizing, that's very much up to you. sometimes making paper models to hold irl can help you decide how big you want things. I went thru 3? iterations of just this charm alone cuz I wasn't happy with the sizing or colors so I had to make a few adjustments. I often ask manufacturers for previews of my charms before they actually make them just to be sure they followed my draft.

this is the final version (ignore the scratches, that's just the film you gotta peel off). I also requested for sequins to be put in. the inside bits may come out a tad smaller than compared to my draft, just due to compensating for the outside border around the bits but more or less it's what I drew 👍

[bob-artist]

Art vs artist 2023!

In terms of comics, this was my most productive year ever, which also meant that in terms of money and social media presence (two things entirely unrelated to each other for me), it was my worst year in recent memory, haha.

That's what happens when 90% of your work is for projects that aren't released yet. (And, income-wise, when you're doing more comics and less product design. But I really needed to make that shift...)

Here's some of what happened in 2023!

I finished 23 pages of DOTU

I finished 26 pages of Into the Smoke

I thumbed/penciled/inked/flatted an additional 45 ITS pages (meaning they're each about 2 hours away from being done)

I scripted chapters 2 and 3 of Into the Smoke (150-200 pages)

I sold a graphic novel to a publisher! 🎉

I scripted 260 pages of that graphic novel

I offloaded a HUGE amount of dead weight from my chest :D

I lost soooooooo much muscle :( (post-op restrictions)

But now I'm finally starting to gain it back!

I had to say goodbye to 3 elderly pets ;_; The worst

Oh and also there was freelance, though I took a lot less this year

Since I've been working on pages assembly-line style, I'm a little annoyed that my "finished" count of total comic pages is only 50 despite having nearly finished 95 pages. But that means that in January or February 2024, I'll get to magically say "I finished 45 full-color, shaded, 600dpi comic pages this month." XD

Part of me is happy with these numbers because they're better than any previous year. But they're also lower than I *want.* I'm at an age now where I'm calculating how many healthy years I have left to make these epic-length comics, and it's... not a great thought. I know that the only way to work faster is to simplify my style or hire help, but I have mixed feelings about both of those things.

Also, as someone who was a prose author first, I'll just always be frustrated by how much slower and more labor intensive comics are for the same amount of story.

I also have to occasionally remind myself that I lost some time this year to pet hospice care, pet grief, and a major surgery...

Also, I'm happy I got so much comics work done, but I'm sad that I didn't write any prose this year. But hopefully now that I'm so far ahead on the *writing* portion of my active comics, I'll have more steam to pick up Merritt's Story book 3 next year...

[scarefox]

Recently had to silently listen to my sport studio owner, that she wanted her professionally taken photos printed. But the photo was too dark for her liking, so she edited it brighter on her phone, with her simple phone software and then sent it to the printing company like that 😬

Before she told that I already tried to explain to her that colors never look 1:1 on your screen like the print settings, unless your screen is professionally calibrated to print colors. And also that the quality of a photo changes depending on the color profile embedded and the dpi.... but she didn't understand, so I stopped my explanations.

(print needs one of many possible cmyk profiles and 300-600dpi, everything online and digitally made automatically has rgb and 72dpi... unless you change it before saving it)

Just wished her luck it will print good this time... since she already sent and paid it.

[ruptinea]

hi pupa🤍🧸 artist ask game, just the ones you can answer! 4,11,14,16,19,22,25,35

will answer them all!

4. piece you wish got more love? mizuki akiyama dressed as ouji 💔 it was very difficult

11. do you listen to anything while drawing? when I draw on the computer, I usually listen to react videos about some tiktok/instagram/youtube drama, funny gameplays, some podcasts and also video essays. I used to like listening to true crime a lot too. when I draw on paper, I listen to music.

14. what's your favourite thing about drawing? I like that my art is a safe space for me where I can work through my trauma and stuff patiently, without being judged. it's very soothing.

16. how do you motivate yourself to draw? that was answered two asks ago! I think I just want to get better and be able to draw what I like in a way that I like it doesn't matter what, even if I'm pushing myself through it.

19. where do you find inspiration? usually in other artists? like here on tumblr my biggest Inspirations are monopoisonous and highendsheep. I have an artist that I always admired ever since I was a kid, and she's my biggest inspiration but I'm embarrassed to talk publicly about her...

22. do you have a favourite color palette to work with? no. I hate all colours equally 💕 for real, I have a problem with colours so I don't have an answer to this. when I resolve my issues with colours maybe I will find a favourite palette

25. what size canvas/paper do you use? I draw pretty small and I never go above 2000x2000 pixels, but I always have 600dpi. on paper I don't have a preference because again, I draw small, so the sheets are full of small doodles clumped together.

35. if you had one piece of advice to give your younger artist self, what would it be? "practice a lot! I know that everyone says this, so you think I must be joking but you gotta practice a lot! specially on computer! since I'm your future self telling you this you must know how much is being hard for me right now, don't you?! if you don't want to face the same consequences, practice a lot!!!"

[mi6011-abbiesmith]

introduction sc1 new scanning method. Chloe came up with this method to give the animation more stability. A brief description of how this worked:

First each sheet of frames was rescanned at 600dpi but this time as a whole sheet. The sheet had to be pushed right into the corner.

Once all are scanned, the first image is imported into After Effects, the frames are manually lined up with the composition screen, and keyframes are made for each frame.

This is then exported as png sequence.

Next, the next sheet is imported with the replace footage button, and the sequence is moved along to the next 16 frames, and so is the view selection.

The previous export setting is duplicated with the title and exported.

Repeat for all sheets.

This new method took a similar amount of time as the first one, but did make the animation a lot smoother but still with a printed stop motion style. One main thing to note is that I messed up the sequence slightly which meant when it came to importing it all as an image sequence it didn't work properly This is something to note for the other scenes. I do think this is a better method so big thanks to Chloe for figuring this out for me and frankie.

[why-its-kai]

Monthly Satellite Times update

apologies for a whole lot of nothing lately, despite having obtained 12/13 of the LaserDiscs, my project momentum kind of hit a brick wall bc depression been kicking my ass lately.

Good News Though:

-Stage 1 is nearly complete, it's fully scanned and stitched, currently working on the cleanup for page 3, which is the last one that needs cleanup. It's taking a long time bc this one was a bit tougher to extract the background from due to the sketchier artwork in the settei on the Production Preview pages and I'm very nitpicky when it comes to cleaning things up, haha. Also had to rescan and restitch this entire insert due to my scanner software having automatically sharpened all the scans, which causes issue on the cleanup process. These were my first scans done on my new pc so I had not realized that option was on by default on my software and simply forgot to check, oopsie. but yea i am about 1/3 done cleaning page 3. hopefully can have it done this week

-I managed to get to the library and try their large format scanner, which was large enough to scan the LD sleeve & obi strip I brought to try as well as whole pages of the entire Monthly Satellite Times, which means no stitching will be needed! the scanner is also much faster at 600dpi than mine is, so I'm going to try to get the rest of the inserts scanned that way to save me the stitching trouble as well as get all the LD sleeves & obi strips. the computer has a 1hr time limit for use but i was able to get everything i needed from the 1 LD in about 30 minutes so it will be multiple trips to get everything but hey it'll get me out of the house right ? haha

The Not Good News:

-I have been misattributing the Vash the Gallery artists, which I hadn't realized--the artist credits are for the artist featured in the previous volume! this was described on the Stage 1 insert (using google lens for translation) and due to my inability to read the language I had not figured this out sooner. oops. once the proper artists are figured out I will go edit the original posts featuring those detail scans. I know they have been reblogged many times already some of them and i feel bad for spreading misinfo....something i am trying to do the opposite of... I'm sorry !!!!!!

-I am still missing Stage 12 and on the lookout for a copy, preferably the LaserDisc but I'd take a tape if it has the insert included...idk just lmk if by chance you find any listings for Stage 12 !!!! i've been poking around a bit and have yet to find one..... also lmk if any listings for a complete LD Box 2 shows up, I am unhinged enough about this series to buy duplicates of 6/7 of the LDs I already have just to get 1 missing one + a cool box to match the LD Box 1 I do have, and also hopefully get the Stage 8 obi strip (which is the only obi I am missing)

And to end off, here's my entire Trigun original Japanese home media release collection at the moment, tehe (i forgot if i posted this pic already so sorry if it's repeat).

(I am planning on reselling one of my Stage 4 LDs, and any other potential duplicates I may end up with should I manage to get my hands on a LD Box 2)

[desperatefunproductions]

Stream Reno 2: Celsheet boogaloo

With the basic background, chat box, and window capture all sorted, I now need to start working out cels. And I have the perfect one to start with:

Meet the hand-drawn copy of the Fountain Force 2 "where the real games are" NZ-made console of the mid-1980s. I didn't give a monkey's about one. I had a Commodore 64.

After trying 200dpi, I've reverted to 600dpi, which is a bit large, but for this one, is still fine for sorting out sizing. The cartridge is supposed to have promo art for the game, so anyone (more like any scammer) who stumbles on my humble stream knows what I'm streaming.

After some measuring, cropping, reopening apps I closed absent-mindedly, and repeat attempts, I have decided to settle on keeping the console about 512px high. Now all I need is to colour the thing to match the background. Cranky has a habit of playing with the lights out, no matter how many times his mum scolds him for it.

So here we are with the scan reporportioned, and masked off; now it's painting time!

While the original Force 2 was encased in basic black, I'll be using the very dark grey for most of it. Please note that the image I'm working on has two layers - I'll be painting directly on the bottom layer, with the outline above it. Conceals a lot of mistakes that way.

I decided that pure black would be too distracting. The original console had a pale plastic surround where the cartridge goes in, and chromed panel around the buttons, so I'm keeping it simple. The flat colour might seem wrong on top of the poorly applied paint, but think Hanna-Barbera, and how you could always tell where the hidden door was well before the characters could.

After deciding to keep the label backing on the cart the same as the rest of it, we're almost ready to roll. Let's bounce it out as PNG and try it:

Hey, that's not bad. Just need to fix the masking on the edges and we're away laughing. The outlines make the console stand out in the foreground without being too obvious. If this keeps up, I might get a job at Termite Terrace!

Now I just need to do the same with scanning Cranky's body cel, head cels, arm cel and leg cel. He's going to have quite a bit of life once I'm done with him... or at least enough for Thursday's Fallout London stream!

[devotedlyqualitygalaxy]

[msviscoml6]

FMP Scanned Images

Wednesday 22nd March 2023

Going through the items that were given to me after my Grans passing also included shifting through many many photographs. Growing up, I was always aware of a few photo albums my Grandparents put together as they did it for all of my siblings. However, I wasn't aware of the huge collection of photographs that didn't make the cut. I have an extra four albums of childhood photographs that didn't make the official album cut, however, these images are ones I've never seen before or even knew existed. It was pretty emotional for me to see these extra photographs, but it also reminded me of my Grampy and how he'd always have his camera on him, capturing every moment he seemed appropriate. It was great seeing these images of me as a child again, but also seeing my life through my Grampy.

Scanning these images took a while, I originally had scanned half but soon realized that the images were scanned in 75dpi, so annoyingly I had to go back and rescan them all at 600dpi, a lesson learned for scanning in the future!