Christmas Gif 2021-WIP

[spikeyxxx]

Re-made my Santa and tried to make a walk cycle; he is running to collect all the presents before Christmas:

[Sébastien Lenaerts]

oh oh oh … soooo coool @spikeyxxx , love this!

[spikeyxxx]

Some more testing:

Wanted to create a ‘screen distortion’ effect as well, but I don’t think I can do that, because that would bend the scanlines and even the pixels, so that would mean a crazy high resolution (and thus also filesize) and it would look horrible on a phone, for instance…

[spikeyxxx]

And for those interested, here are the Nodes for the scanline effect:

The Value Node contains the frame number and the Modulo 2 makes the odd numbers 1 and the even numbers 0.

The Y of the Generated Texture Coordinates goes from 0 to 1, so the multiplied version goes from 0 to 240 and the fraction (what comes after the decimal point) is half the time greater (or less) than 0.5 so this gives 240 white lines and 240 black lines, which corresponds with the vertical 480 pixels (the resolution I use is 640 x 480).

[spikeyxxx]

Made it a bit brighter and started adding some border decoration and HUD:

[spikeyxxx]

Small update:

[Adrian Bellworthy]

Excellent @spikeyxxx 

I love the retro game design.

The pixel art with the scanline effect, brings back so many great memories.

[spikeyxxx]

I think I am already getting close to the final result:

Probably some ‘Level 0″ text at the top, where the Merry X-mas message comes…and do some polishing and fixing the transparancy issue and do some optimizations to keep the filesize in check, without to much loss of quality.

[jammingammon]

Wow. This is awesome! I love the amount of details you’ve given everything: the timer, health meter, package counter, and of course the scanline. I could totally see this running on one of those little homebrew arcade cabs that are so popular these days. Great job!

[tanya]

This is great fun, love all the detail.

[spikeyxxx]

Latest version:

GIF size is about 1.7 MiB and it is made from 90 PNG’s with a file size of about 195KiB each. Only optimization I did of the GIF, to get the file size below 2MiB, was to reduce the color palette to 50 colors (which is more than I used in the .blend).

Fun fact, that I learned today is that the PNG’s as RGB, with compression set to 100% (is lossless anyway), are smaller than JPEG’s with the default settings! The JPEGs were about 280 KiB each. I don’t know if that is always the case, but for these images that is a huge difference.

I will stop working on this now for a few days and then take another look at it to see if I want to add or change something, but I am quite pleased with this result as it is now and if time was running out, I’d be more than happy to post it like this….

[Adrian Bellworthy]

It looks great @spikeyxxx 

[turtlelearns3d]

Holy crap this came together super well! I loved seeing the wips of the pixel art. I’ve always wanted to see how those are planned. The glitchy effect is so good too!

[odunov]

Man, this looks really interesting 😀 Great job!

[spikeyxxx]

Thanks a lot @adrian2301 !

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