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- #Giantitp order of the stick Pc
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Using any image found on the Internet without first ensuring that permission was obtained. Here is my opinion of proper avatar usage. On Giantitp, this is fortunately not a common problem, but still crops up occasionally. I sometimes notice that people use avatars in ways which I don’t agree with and I consider bad form.
#Giantitp order of the stick Pc
Near the bottom of the power level scale, there is the default PC program MS Paint. Other good programs like the GIMP, Paint Tool SAI, and Paint.Net are also very capable of producing complex images, without the hit to your wallet.
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The proprietary program Adobe Photoshop is capable of almost every image manipulating function currently devised, and is an industry standard in professional graphic and media design. In this case, power level refers to the range of functions an editor is capable of, the quality of its output, the sophistication of its scripts, etc. Raster based image editors come in varying “power levels”. To get around the inability to scale a raster image to a larger size, I generally draw my avatars at a much larger resolution than the final, usable avatar. Raster based programs are thus considered more difficult to work with, but I personally find that achieving success in raster based images can be especially rewarding. If changes are drastic enough, then the avatarist is often better off just redrawing the piece from scratch. Another drawback is that once completed, a raster image takes much more work to make changes or fix errors. Raster images have fixed resolution, which means they cannot be upscaled without loss of quality. However, raster programs have some notable drawbacks. There are effects, such as textures, which are best achieved in a raster based editor. Another alternative is the proprietary application called CorelDraw.Īlthough less often used, raster based programs do have some loyal users.
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This usually ends up being the open source program called Inkscape. However, being a proprietary application, access to Illustrator is associated with high cost, and so most amateur avatars use whatever program is more easily available. Vector graphics are also scalable to any size, and are easily editable. His style, which features strong black outlines and colourful flat fills, lends itself quite easily to vectors. The comic’s creator, the Giant, draws the comic in the professional vector program Adobe Illustrator. As previously exposited, the forums on Giantitp are populated mostly by avatars with styles inspired by the popular webcomic called The Order of the Stick. Vector based graphics are the more predominant method, and not without reason. Next post will be more about image editors.Īt least in Giant in the Playground, there are two basic approaches to making avatars: using raster based graphics or vector based graphics.
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Overall, this avatar is a testament to what can be achieved when working with OotS-style avatars. On the other hand, the composition has multiple space-filling features, like the parasol and dress, which make the character seem small and detract from the details at the limited resolution. In my opinion, the strong points of this piece are the basic colours, the clean composition, and level of detail. However, the issue of the pixelation is solved when the avatar is resized to standard avatar size on Giantitp.
#Giantitp order of the stick windows
MS Paint is included with every Windows PC, and is derided as the complete amateur’s program. The reason is this avatar was made in MS Paint. Immediately apparent is the lack of antialiasing, which produces a pixelated look. Actually, this piece was one of my better received avatars which I posted on the Giantitp forums. The character it depicts is not important at the moment. They are simply here to illustrate the phenomenon of OotS-style avatars. At the risk of embarrassing myself, I am about to post some of my earlier avatars, which are worthy of ridicule by many artists’ standards, I think.