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I just came back from WLC (Warrior Leader Course) and in order to stave off the Army's brainwashing I ignored the classes as much as possible. With the sanitized laptop I was issued that meant fucking around with MSpaint. Behold.

AWESOME! What is the tank rolling over... some kind of purple dinosaur thing?

I see the army is aware of and is training the nation's citizens to defend itself against the zombie menace. This is good.

havokeff wrote: AWESOME! What is the tank rolling over... some kind of purple dinosaur thing?

A wrecked and burning car? That light blue part looks like a shattered car door window.

M$Paint??? Fuck me sideways that took some doing.

havokeff wrote: AWESOME! What is the tank rolling over... some kind of purple dinosaur thing?

Looks like a crunched up blue car to me.

Best I can do in MSPaint

you did that free hand Tev, as there's tools that can help to simple straight or curved lines (my motor control is a bit fucked up so I rarely draw free hand)

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here's pic of the ship I talked about in this thread, ofc it's still very much a work in progress, so any input and/or suggestions are welcome as long as they're productive and serious.

Hell yeah, can I get in on this?

*Crushes people with anti-aliasing*

The battle damage on that has improved since last time it was shown, RRoan.

^^ I dig the Starship Troopers pic.

You would, Karl *coughwhichsetdidyoudesigncough* I might try another one

I just realized I muffed the trousers though; they should be grey ones of the sort that schoolboys wear that offer no protection against anything stronger than a light breeze.

Congratulations, WARRIOR Pulp Hero! You know join the ranks of WARRIOR Brungardt in completing that course (that I am aware of). Your WARRIOR training shows through in your art.

I'll kill you. With my brain.

tim31 wrote:You would, Karl *coughwhichsetdidyoudesigncough* I might try another one

coughcoughtheretrievalboatandcommandlanderexteriorsandtheCampCurryconfidencecourseandexteriorsandthetransportermodulesandbugttunnelsandjohnny'swhippingpostcoughcough



if you can find the 'art of Starship Troopers' book, I am in a photo inside - the unidentified "art department worker" (grrr) working on a study model of the Camp Curry confidence course.

Wouldn't it have been easier to say 'all the cool ones'?

Was the button that tightened the restraints on the whipping post functional, or was it just stage hands pulling on ropes as usual?

tim31 wrote:Wouldn't it have been easier to say 'all the cool ones'?

Was the button that tightened the restraints on the whipping post functional, or was it just stage hands pulling on ropes as usual?

I don't remember how the tensioning on the whipping post worked. We ran cables and sheaves inside, but whether they were servos or mechanical or grip-powered I can't say. Probably grip-powered; it's safer. In any case, though, so far as I can remember the button was just a plant-on.

To me, the Rodger Young flight deck was the Cool Set, of the film. Alas I didn't have any input into that one at all.

By flight deck, do you mean the drop boat hanger, or the bridge? Either way, they were cool sets. I loved the pop-up Big Red Button for the asteroid near-collision scene; that was so Sci-Fi B-movie

Kanastrous wrote:Probably grip-powered; it's safer. In any case, though, so far as I can remember the button was just a plant-on.

lol "In other news, former daytime tv actor Casper Van Dien lost both arms in what Touchstone Pictures is calling a tragic set accident."

Well...

...maybe not that tragic.


I mean the bridge; the flight-control seats with command chair behind.

Yeah, that set was b-movie porn. Monitors everywhere, the Big Red Button, hierarchy deliniated by the character's seating elevation, the control yokes bringing to mind bombing aircraft. Hell, they even threw in a giant rotating cylinder just to clinch it.

Can't go wrong, with a giant rotating cylinder!

RRoan wrote:*Crushes people with anti-aliasing*

You're obviously dedicated and talented, but why MS Paint? Some kind of vow of purity? I know of persons that also abstain from the automated "line" and "circle" tools, but to me it seems rather senseless.
Personally, I use Pixen, for pixel art.

Melchior wrote:

RRoan wrote:*Crushes people with anti-aliasing*

You're obviously dedicated and talented, but why MS Paint? Some kind of vow of purity? I know of persons that also abstain from the automated "line" and "circle" tools, but to me it seems rather senseless.

Why Paint? Because I know it well and it's pretty much what I got to my current level of artistic skill using. Mostly, though, I use it because I find producing extremely detailed lineart with fucking Microsoft Paint amusing as hell.