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ceenda · member Member # Joined: 27 Jun 2000 Posts: 2030

Haha, found it! This is the first picture I ever posted at Sijun. Dean-whoring all the way, baybeeee!

ChenZan: This was posted about 2001, when I was about 22. I'm 25 now.

watmough · Posted: Mon Oct 04, 2004 4:04 am

chen zan,age?! could be a little embarrasing...hmmmm..lets see...i think i did that one in 2000,that would've made me...29!
capt flushgarden,haha,yeah right!

Meaty Ogre · Posted: Mon Oct 04, 2004 8:05 am

flush, that's impresive for 16. I wish I had kept better care of my oldest work. I remember painting on an Amiga in 93, but the oldest stuff I have now is from 96.

I started working as a pixel pusher for a tiny java game company right out of high school. These are with a mouse. I was 21.

And this was my first attempt at using photos in the image.

Cicinimo · Posted: Mon Oct 04, 2004 8:05 pm

Mwahahahahah

15 at the time. I spent so much time on this thing.
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Danny · Posted: Sun Oct 10, 2004 10:55 am

Hehehe... this is fun. Smile

Let's see.... My first stuff would have to be ascii art done on the basic screen on a C64 20 years ago or so. Stuff I couldn't (didn't know how to) save. After that I remember doing a version of the Ferrari car featured in the Arcade game Outrun. Created a 2x2 grid of sprites and 'pixeled' it on graph paper, calculated the data values and typed those into a little Basic program to have it displayed on screen. Why you ask? Because there wasn't any software to draw in (at least not that I knew of... hey.. I was 12 or so! Smile

) Anyway.. moving on, I remembert after a while getting hold of something called Art Studio I think it was... which was so simple.. but fun as it allowed you to use the joystick to paint. No mouse (and certainly no Wacom) around at that time. This package was kinda the equivalent of MacPaint for the Mac in that it was monochrome. Fun to use but rather limited... then came something called Amica Paint which was awesome. I remember painting my first colour full screen image with that. A portrait of a space-fighter pilot sitting in his cockpit. I still have the image on a disk somewhere if it hasn't deteriorated yet... that must have been 1987-89.

Aaaanyway.... . I managed to salvage some old Amiga work I did in the early 1990s... let's have a look.. somewhat chronologically.. (upscaled for better visibility)

This was a little something I pixeled in Deluxe Paint working on a Game project with some friends called 'The Survivor' It was a horizontal shoot-em up and this little guy came from a level consisting predominately of chrome pipes and metal structures. He would transform out of the background into a fighter plane and engage in attack. 1989 I would guess....

Another animation from the same project. Explosions.... Very Happy

End product of flame-thrower.

I have tons more of that stuff.. but let's see something else..

Portrait of Ms Schiffer I believe it was.. 32 colours... or maybe I used something called 'Extra half-brite' Which was an awkward (but usefull) feature the Amiga 500 had that effectively copied the colours you had reserved in your palette and offered them to you at half the brightness. Cool! Smile

Logo's were always fun to do. Allowed you to experiment with weird dithering techniques and textures. Good to practise your anti-aliasing skills with as well. We're so spoiled these days with our PS and Painter and ArtRage and whatnot... Wink

From 1995 this one. Done on an Amiga 1200. For those in the know, this one had a much more powerfull graphic chipset than the earlier models. You could now use 256 colours on screen at once from a bewildering choice of 65000 or so. Aah.. the freedom that gave you. Wink

This logo was also done in a strange screen resolution called Med-Res where the pixels were rectangular rather than square giving more detail on the horizontal.

While I'm on the vertical theme....

I think this was 32 colours again..

Hehehe... this one was funny. Done for a demo on PC (pixeled on Amiga mind you!) After completing this one, I decided it would be fun to animate this little guy to fall over backwards out of boredom (great way to end a demo). I had a friend help out doing several of the frames.

hehehe... speaks for it self really... gotta love the clashing colours. For the same PC demo btw... Done in 1995 or 1996... Smile

big sucker... awfull lettering.. Sad

I need to find some of my older stuff.
I just realized these are all pre PC... The Halcyon days. I feel old..
time to go back to the shadows...

Danny

ps. Hey Spooge, did you ever during your time at ILM run into a guy called Ronn Brown?
On the subject of the conventional to digital transition in the matte dep. Didn't Yusei do his Peter Pan Neverland flyover matte painting (the one with the aquatic compass) partially 3D? I think that was 1992 or so? Have to re-read my Cinefex. Smile

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Capt.FlushGarden · Posted: Sun Oct 10, 2004 2:29 pm

wow! pure eyecandy everyone!!

Danny, that was a good set of images man, Smile

Messiah · Posted: Tue Oct 12, 2004 10:03 am

Very early stuff, got really into ascii art as a kid. Below are .gif versions as the text won't format correctly in these forums. Helps if you back away from them a bit. Was prolly 14-15 at the time.

silber · Posted: Wed Oct 13, 2004 11:12 am

cool thread!

Is there someone here who is able to copy amiga stuff to PC?

I checked internet already and the solutions provided there are all a bit tricky for me.
especially because I can't find Delux Paint III
and I haven't my amiga anymore.
I got delux paint animations and pictures which I haven't seen since 12 years or so. and I would like to see them so bad!

Maybe someone out there I could send the disks and he/she could copy it to PC? who wants to get my gratefulness and love for eternity? someone? pleeeeassse!

Danny: Awesome pictures your patient making those schiffer hair astonish me, I really like the boy in blue.
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