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Posted in: Worst. Release. Ever.
  parabolee
07-08-2009, 10:28 AM
#89
I think Elaine is funny. Nothing wrong with her acting to me. Much prefer her to the Escape Elaine. Also I had no problem with the release. It came out the day they promised and was delayed a few hours due to high demand. That's all good in my books...  [Read More]
Posted in: MI: Special Edition - A comparison study
  parabolee
07-01-2009, 6:30 PM
#235
I like the posture of the SE sprite, but I changed my versions posture to more resemble the original MI2 posture. As in he's stood straighter. irishmile: Will do, as soon as I have time....  [Read More]
Posted in: MI: Special Edition - A comparison study
  parabolee
07-01-2009, 5:46 PM
#227
Guybrush from Monkey Island2 in the Special edition style http://fc08.deviantart.com/fs48/f/2009/182/0/3/Guybrush_Monkey_Island_2_by_Irishmile.png Damn you, been too swamped at work to finish mine first! I'll try and finish mine later in the week...  [Read More]
Posted in: MI: Special Edition - A comparison study
  parabolee
07-01-2009, 10:11 AM
#206
Here are the games classic style: http://i41.tinypic.com/2n07uxk.png Much better, as beautiful as Curse is, I still dislike Guybrush in that game. I just find it hard to see him as the same guy that was in the first 2 games. Love the voice work thou...  [Read More]
Posted in: MI: Special Edition - A comparison study
  parabolee
06-29-2009, 12:37 PM
#171
I actually always imagined Guyrbush as a cool kind of dork... a witty dork (kind of like Spiderman, although I really hate to make that comparison :P) I hear you on that, and I agree more so in 2. But with so many references to how dorky h looks in...  [Read More]
Posted in: MI: Special Edition - A comparison study
  parabolee
06-29-2009, 10:45 AM
#167
I was browsing through spudvision, came across this. I think this is what Guybrush should have looked like in the SE http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_FbFu1YBZ-Hw/R7KGWNtVteI/AAAAAAAAAGo/Ao7ikhAn54Q/s400/Guy.jpg This is great, but isn't he a little too coo...  [Read More]
Posted in: MI: Special Edition - A comparison study
  parabolee
06-27-2009, 6:32 PM
#130
Personally I don't think Thunderpeel attacks anyone, and we have disagreed on some things. I think it's just an issue with message boards not capturing the tone of a post so a negative attitude can be incorrectly inferred. Probably the root of 99...  [Read More]
Posted in: MI: Special Edition - A comparison study
  parabolee
06-26-2009, 11:22 PM
#120
Comentary can sometimes spoil certain things though, for example in films when you didn't know something was a special effect, then it's later reveal as for example a miniature, it may ruin the experience. Yeah this is true, but I think most of us h...  [Read More]
Posted in: MI: Special Edition - A comparison study
  parabolee
06-26-2009, 5:26 PM
#115
Hehe this thread should be titled "Nitpicking SMI:SE to Death." LOL, maybe. But in a comparison study nit picking at differences is inevitable. Although I have to say nit pick I might, but overall all my posts have been of a positive opi...  [Read More]
Posted in: MI: Special Edition - A comparison study
  parabolee
06-26-2009, 5:08 PM
#113
Did anyone notice that Elaine is FLOATING in the Special Edition? Yeah I was working with that image a little while ago for the Guybrush walk above. Seems that the mapped floor is too high on the whole background and a huge stroke of unfortunate luc...  [Read More]
Posted in: MI: Special Edition - A comparison study
  parabolee
06-26-2009, 2:41 PM
#110
Surely the person that animated the HD version of Guybrush saw this, I'm wondering if they didn't want to change it... re sticking as close to the original as possible. If this is the case, this is one of the times doing that bites you in the ass......  [Read More]
Posted in: MI: Special Edition - A comparison study
  parabolee
06-26-2009, 1:51 PM
#108
OK here it is, definitive proof that the slide was present in the original game and is just more pronounced in the Special Edition. I wanted to do more frame examples but too busy at work today so this will have to do. I believe these are taken from...  [Read More]
Posted in: MI: Special Edition - A comparison study
  parabolee
06-26-2009, 12:51 PM
#106
OK so I am going to do some comparison work to show this but I have just made an interesting discovery regarding the sliding Guybrush's walking animation does in game. I was looking at some of the video's and trying to find the cause. And he does do...  [Read More]
Posted in: MI: Special Edition - A comparison study
  parabolee
06-25-2009, 5:21 PM
#103
I don't know, I don't really have anything nice to say, so I probably shouldn't say it at all. I really hate the comic industry and which artists and writers sell the most blah blah blah, so I'll have nothing but vitriol to spit at the topic and para...  [Read More]
Posted in: MI: Special Edition - A comparison study
  parabolee
06-25-2009, 1:16 PM
#101
Ok So I fixed (EDIT: IMPROVED, lol. Probably still not how it should be) my Guybrush walk animation, I think it was a little off before. And rather than just post the same thing again, I added a background for reference. I also resized this to be mo...  [Read More]
Posted in: MI: Special Edition - A comparison study
  parabolee
06-25-2009, 12:38 PM
#100
Those aren't the same deformed proportions though, are they? That's a really well done drawing with the proportions being exaggerated with a much more masterful intention and appeal. Here's another good example of doing it right: http://www.animatio...  [Read More]
Posted in: MI: Special Edition - A comparison study
  parabolee
06-25-2009, 11:51 AM
#97
Well, you should still get appealing ratios in check. Agreed, I said as much in my post. I seriously wouldn't use any top ten modern comic book artists, especially the popular ones who no doubt work for the big two bull**** comic corps, as any kind...  [Read More]
Posted in: MI: Special Edition - A comparison study
  parabolee
06-25-2009, 10:36 AM
#96
Her left arm is completely messed up, it looks like it's just extremely short. They really should have made it as long as they other one with a bend in it. Her other arm isn't much better really, it's more noticeable from the side but her arms reall...  [Read More]
Posted in: MI: Special Edition - A comparison study
  parabolee
06-24-2009, 8:54 PM
#84
You know on closer examination, after slowing that Guybrush animation down. I see I have not done it right, he seems to lunge forward after the apex of his stride. That's what happens when you do this stuff at work. I'll fix it tomorrow. He doesn't d...  [Read More]
Posted in: MI: Special Edition - A comparison study
  parabolee
06-24-2009, 6:24 PM
#79
I dunno, none of you guys will prolly care but... I made a Cobb comparison, in Loom he had bumps on his face cuz he was the "hideous Cob" and in SMI he still had some bumps on his face, but in the SE he has no bumps on his face... he must h...  [Read More]
Posted in: MI: Special Edition - A comparison study
  parabolee
06-24-2009, 5:02 PM
#75
Different version of Guybrush walk to show him walking further. http://amphomepage.com/temp/lee/Guybrush-walk2.gif http://amphomepage.com/temp/lee/Guybrush-walk2-low-res.gif...  [Read More]
Posted in: MI: Special Edition - A comparison study
  parabolee
06-24-2009, 4:32 PM
#74
Here we go, Guybrush SE walking animation.It's also worth noting that I had to fix this too, had the same distant leg perspective issue as the Elaine one. Pretty confident it's just the flash animator that sucks, not whoever did the in-game version....  [Read More]
Posted in: MI: Special Edition - A comparison study
  parabolee
06-24-2009, 2:48 PM
#72
Here's a good test. I converted the new Elaine to the same amount of pixels as the original sprite! http://amphomepage.com/temp/lee/Elaine-walk-low-res.gif No doubt this one is a little stiff when seen at this resolution. But again I have to say, i...  [Read More]
Posted in: MI: Special Edition - A comparison study
  parabolee
06-24-2009, 2:42 PM
#71
Another comparison shot a grabbed from somewhere else - http://www.rockpapershotgun.com/images/09/june/monkeynew2.jpg...  [Read More]
Posted in: MI: Special Edition - A comparison study
  parabolee
06-24-2009, 1:54 PM
#70
Parabolee! You're throwing your life away. :p LOL, don't know about that but I'm certainly wasting too much time at work :-D...  [Read More]