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Full Chess Set by ~GibbyGibson:iconGibbyGibson:

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©2005-2009 ~GibbyGibson
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:D This one took some time to make, but I enjoyed it nonetheless. I think that I will take the next few days off from making stuff too recollect my mind and rest up.

Anyway, I got this idea after a small conversation with a friend about statues. We were talking about statues, and for some reason, my friend said that statues (if they are on a piller) remind him of chess pieces. I am not sure why, but that sparked my interest into attepting this piece. Of course, I had no idea it would take this long either. :giggle: It is not animated, but if I want too, I can animate it for I fixed it so that I could, at some other point in time; maybe.

programs
:pointr: PhotoShop 7.0
:pointr: ImageReady 7.0

Time: 8 hours (around)

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Given 2005-11-25

Full Chess Set by =GibbyGibson. (Suggested by ~mazka and Featured by `rocksicle)

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=Zethara Nov 21, 2005, 8:06:15 PM
Very cool..and so tiny! =D :clap:

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“If all my friends were to jump off a bridge, I wouldn't follow. I'd be at the bottom to catch them when they fall.”
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!camelhijackation Nov 21, 2005, 8:19:11 PM
Oh, this is really nice...


one thing though...this isn't an emoticon, this is art that has emoticons in it, I know I probally have a reputation for pointing this out to everyone, but it really doesn't fit in the emoticon gallery, in a sense it's like take a photograph of your painting, and putting it in the photography category.

If the emotes were pixel created ( not made in fireworks or gradient shading programs) you could put this in pixel art, if not a digital art or maybe a icons category.

I hope I don't soon rude, I really do like it :)
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~GibbyGibson Nov 21, 2005, 8:35:50 PM
:D Tiny, yes, for that is the whole idea beyind it.
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~GibbyGibson Nov 21, 2005, 8:39:23 PM
Oh, alright. :blush: Sorry about that. I will fix it.

One quick quetsion though, just for clarification:

When you say If the emotes were pixel created ( not made in fireworks or gradient shading programs) you can put these in pixel art, what do you mean by gradient shading programs?

I have taken it that PhotoShop was a gradient shading program, but I do not really like too use the gradient feature of it, so I draw each line myself. I do use the power of the layers though to help speed things up for when they repeat over and over again, but other then that I draw almost each pixel (other then when I am animating it). :giggle:

Anyway, thank you for the heads up.
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`zacthetoad Nov 21, 2005, 8:47:28 PM
This is really cool, I can't wait for the animated version ;P. I do think that the black and white on the board seem to clash.. maybe you could dull those a little.. but you still need the contrast between the pieces and the board. Over, I still like.. very nice :nod:

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Zac
Emoticonist

Pigs Don't Fly | I Don't Speak German
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~razzie27 Nov 21, 2005, 8:50:57 PM
love chess! ^^ This is so frikken swwet!

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"We are what we are Scott,wishing wont change a blessed thing,nor will feeling sorry for ourselves".
-Kurt Wagner (Uncanny X-Men#109)
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!camelhijackation Nov 21, 2005, 8:51:03 PM
oh, so you hand shaded it ? gradient is just filling a circle with one colour and using a gradient brush to stimulate depth, where pixel shading is putting each pixel hand by hand to form the shading, and if you just used layers it doesn't matter if you still hand shaded.
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~GibbyGibson Nov 21, 2005, 8:55:44 PM
:giggle: Missunderstanding there. The layers part is for the animation of my emoticons. That has no relevance too the shading at all.

For example, I have the left hand in a layer, the body in a layer, the eyes in a layer, the left hand in a layer, etc. That way, when I want too animate it, I just have to move the layer some, and not redraw each thing again, and again.
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