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ydnar · Posted: Wed Sep 27, 2000 7:43 pm

was visiting craig mullins' site earlier, and came across a link to this forum. was a pleasant surprise; i found the signal/noise ratio to be pretty good. constructive criticism, with actual here-check-this-out-and-change-it-if-you-want. brought a smile to my face and made me remember that i used to do this stuff for a living, too.

anyways, i dragged out an old mac gathering dust in a corner, found an old keyboard and (heh) a one button mouse, plugged it into the network and grabbed this painting.

it was painted over the course of a year (whenever i had some time), as a background image for a game called "Reflexion." it was supposed to be the sequel to a game i'd released the year before, Troubled Souls. it's actually several images, which were merged to create the final bit. the fingers on the right hand are the player's 'lives'. everytime you would lose a life, a spark would shoot out of the orb above the hand onto a little guillotine around the finger and chop it off.

anyways, to make a tedious story short, after i finished this piece and made the fingers animations, the whole thing got shelved and i moved on to other things. it's just been sitting on various hard drives all these years, so i figured i'd just release it. people here seem to like this kind of stuff. :)

constructive criticism welcomed.

ydnar
http://shaderlab.com/

wigin · Posted: Wed Sep 27, 2000 7:48 pm

wow i think that would me an awesome game display,,, to bad you never finished it i would of loved to see the fingers get chopped off heh... looks great

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Icannon · Posted: Wed Sep 27, 2000 8:24 pm

ooh, eerie. very cool.

egerie · Posted: Wed Sep 27, 2000 8:31 pm

Wow interesting
May I ask you what kind of software you used back then ?
comment: Hmm it seems the skull & mutilated hand on the right aren't as 'sharp' as the other hand on the left of the image. Looks like the later got more of your attention/time

ege who remembers fondly her TRS 80...

ydnar · Posted: Thu Sep 28, 2000 2:35 am

photoshop, mostly the brush tool. the outlines were painted to mask channels first in b&w, and then the highlights, shadows. the background image behind everything took 9 months alone. i'll see if i can dredge that up as well.

it was before pshop had layers and all those fancy compositing features... ;)

ydnar
http://shaderlab.com

silber · Posted: Thu Sep 28, 2000 2:55 am

sorry can't give any constructive criticism
looks just awesome to me

want to see more of your work

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balistic · Posted: Thu Sep 28, 2000 7:23 am

Cool interface . . . cool site . . . good taste in music

Looking forward to seeing more from you.

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RamDac · Posted: Thu Sep 28, 2000 8:58 am

Yeah! Looks like one cool I-face you�ve got there!

ydnar · Posted: Thu Sep 28, 2000 3:59 pm

all: thanks!

egerie:

i'll see if i can dredge up the skull and arm paintings. they're on an external scsi hard drive in a box somewhere. some of the detail was lost when i added the cast shadows.

ydnar http://shaderlab.com

A.Buttle · member Member # Joined: 20 Mar 2000 Posts: 1724

Very clever, Randy

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Dean Welsh · Posted: Fri Sep 29, 2000 2:28 am

I lost like.... too much of my art time playing troubled souls. you Bastard! he he he just kidding, thanks for the game.

Looks really nice. I Knew it was a troubled souls thing as soon as I saw it.