Hey, let me drunkenly animate your photos in about 25 to 60 days!

here's mx computer guy with the unhelpful difficult suggestions that cost money

haha, no that sounds legit! i think it all depends on what you want to do with the images.

personally, for anything that is shared online, i just use a simple easy host (imgur) with the understanding that like any other company on the internet, it'll probably be bought out by some group of jerks and ruined, then shut down. i always keep the originals on my own hard drive - well, NOW i do, after the tinypic disaster of whatever year that was - and figure that at some point in the next 5-10 years everything online will be broken yet again

ah okay thanks Karl and silby !!

i posted this on the 77 depresso thread (while i was nearly passing out, whoops). i need to change a few things but it's generally done. the 2 personal milestones for me on this were that it was the first thing i've painted without a reference image, and that i was able to do it just a couple hours. i definitely don't think that less time spent on something is better, in and of itself, but i had been spending waaaaaay too long on them recently, which is cool but seems ill-advised for early-stage amateur efforts. at an early stage of learning something it seems more valuable to spend that time working on different aspects of the discipline, rather than endlessly refining your 6th painting ever (or whatever)

https://i.imgur.com/srY0tZ1.jpg

that's a very large image, so feel free to open in a new tab if you want to see every ill-advised brush stroke, zoom into a nearly empty glass of whiskey, or admire my ohio-shaped coaster

https://i.imgur.com/RhhMFrB.gif

COVID descending a staircase

i'm not sure why i posted that, but in the cold morning light i do like the stickman's form! i gotta remember that, next time i'm doing late-night stickmen.

i'm pretty excited about my next self-commission: a portrait of my Cyberpunk 2020 character I made last night. I'm playing Ten Ton Heat, a Fixer that also plays drums for an up-and-coming band that has a gig on a pirate radio station barge near Seattle in a couple weeks. I'm not quite sure what i look like, other than my Attractiveness level is 6 (making me the third hottest member of the band; we have a pair of identical twins from Chechnya that are incredibly hot and charismatic, with very low intelligence), and I've purchased a set of SmartGoggles with 3 CyberOptic modules: Teleoptics (20x zoom), MicroVideo Optic (I can record up to 20 minutes of video), and Infrared.

i should move that discussion to the tabletop RPG thread, but i'm also going to either paint it, sketch it up digitally, or both. i've only painted one figure before (about an inch tall on the canvas) so i'm nervous and excited to try to do a large one

we rolled most of our character's backstories and "Life Events", although we did manually adjust a few things for more fun. here's what the other crew ended up like:

Rockerboy (one of the twins, and the one that is pretty much the band's "leader", even though we're agreed that we're a group of equals, and i've demanded that we share any band income equally. he put everything into Cool and Attractiveness, and the Rockerboy Special Ability: Charismatic Leadership, which allows him to sway an audience up to his level (10) squared, x 200. which is 20,000 people! in a strange twist of random rolling luck, he has the most starting money out of all of us - $24,000 Eurodollars, compared to my $3000 and the Nomad's $1000), but he also just lost his job, so he has no more monthly income coming in. since he's the rich guy in the group, i made him buy me top of the line electronic drums ($800).)

Techie (the other hot twin, more of a multi-instrumentalist. He and the identical twin Rockerboy grew up with a family that "vanished", which is funny because my family also "vanished", separately, in Vietnam. normally the Techie will be visually distinguishable from the Rockerboy because he'll always have lots of hologram related gear on. but we've also established that if the situation demands it, the twins can truly seem identical to other people, so there will definitely be fun shenanigans.)

Nomad (the bass player. also an orphan or abandoned earlier in life. all four of us are like that, and generally we have no money (except for the Rockerboy's previous windfall of cash from his previous gig).

i'm going to work on my character portrait later this week. can't wait to get started for real!

DAMMIT

that was supposed to be on the Tabletop RPGs/story-building games - beyond D&D thread, sorry

<3

this image is huge!

https://i.imgur.com/W8Tvc2A.jpg

i'm doing a lil mini-fundraiser thing tonight by selling some of my recent paintings. I'm donating whatever people are willing to pay to Chicago Community Bond Fund (CCBF), and matching the contributions.

just a head's up for anyone who may be interested. i'll be posting about it on instagram (where i know almost all of my followers) and here (where i feel like i know many of you!) in just a bit. if you're interested in getting one of the paintings, you can either email me or send me a DM on instagram.

oh shit, CCBF has been flooded by donations! their website actually suggests sending it to other organizations who need it more right now. glad i checked that first!

https://i.imgur.com/iVPW7RD.jpg
https://i.imgur.com/usMQev3.jpg
https://i.imgur.com/KtoJhsv.jpg
https://i.imgur.com/a6eSd9Z.jpg
https://i.imgur.com/bqkQeeK.jpg
https://i.imgur.com/shcRArK.jpg
https://i.imgur.com/3Q9cj8A.jpg

I’d like to raise some money for community bail funds, which provide money to pay off unaffordable bonds for people charged with crimes. These organizations could always use support, and never so more than at this critical moment. In Chicago, for example, police are targeting peaceful protest organizers, and 700 people were arrested on Sunday alone.

To help spur some donations from others, Blair and I are selling some recent paintings (name your price). All proceeds will go to an ActBlue fundraiser that goes toward 38 community bail funds across the country, and I’ll match your contribution as well. https://secure.actblue.com/donate/bail_funds_george_floyd

Just DM me with the painting you’d like and the amount you’d like to donate, and we can work out the details (address, payment stuff).

1. Peony (by Blair and Zach)
2. Seed Tray
3. Swiss Cheese
4. Doorway sold
5. Embers
6. Seabed
7. New Home
8. Fuck the Police (by Blair, Ink Drawing on 9”x11.5” drawing paper)

Most of these are acrylic on 9”x11.5” drawing paper. The one Blair and I painted together (Peony) is acrylic on 9”x12” canvas.

You can either send me money (via Venmo?) and I’ll donate it for you along with my donation, or you can just donate it yourself and let me know the amount so I can match it. Again, just DM me and we can work it out. :)

I guess the main Q might be “uhhh…so how much should I donate?” A: Donate as much as you’re comfortable donating. It would be great if it were at least $25 per painting, I guess? On the other end, if you want to donate a bunch (like TRIPLE DIGITS) I’m happy to match you there, at least to an extent (I’m using my $1200 coronavirus check as my donation fund, as I’ve been lucky enough to hold onto my job so far).

Let me know if you have any other Q’s and I will try to A them! Also, please, someone buy at least one of these so I don’t have to confront Total Failure. Seriously, if nothing else please do it for the people on the ground who really need financial support right now.

down to just these three:

2. Seed Tray
5. Embers
6. Seabed

might you consider the pittsburgh penguins a subject worthy of art

oh hell yeah

if you're interested in something i can make it though! i still have three left but i'd like to do a round two in another month or two

$600+ raised so far, 3 left

(seed tray, embers, and seabed)

just sent $1320 to https://secure.actblue.com/donate/bail_funds_george_floyd

many thanks to those who donated!

good on you man

nah, definitely good on the people who donated. one friend chipped in $250!

my partner's mom just purchased the last 2 for $500! :)

(i'm 90% sure she thought my partner painted them)

so $2320 total! i feel pretty good about that!

I'll venmo you $100 to change your username so that it's not making fun of a real black man.

? i love karl malone

i'd gladly take your $100 but i don't really feel like sharing my venmo with you

are you a friend of the guy who is anti-braggadocio

no way! that guy's a dork. I've already got your venmo and was trying to send the moneys a minute ago but my bank account's not verified but I'm working on it.

I don't mean it as any sort of a personal challenge, you're a good poster, I'm just wondering if there's more for sale here than paintings cause I did find myself pondering the irony of Karl's name showing up in racially-charged threads.

i hope i bring only good fortune to karl malone. i just like the idea of people encountering posts by a famous awesome guy

no one else has ever mentioned that, and i haven't thought of it, but if others are bothered i change it tonight

^would

you should just send the $100 directly here and save me a step: https://secure.actblue.com/donate/bail_funds_george_floyd

I hear ya. but I'll be honest... I'm actually the real Karl Anthony Malone. and although I stay very busy with my successful Utah-based car dealerships and my Louisiana-based Arby's restaurant franchise, I've just been sort of sensitive about people making fun of me ever since Jimmy Kimmel repeatedly did that whole blackface bit thing on national TV.

you've been posting under that name since february. who were you before that?

https://i.imgur.com/PvKOWkH.gif

sorry. much smaller version

https://i.imgur.com/zp2Hlzp.gif

i like this more than most of what i've made in the last year or so. gif wize

i'm depressed yall

i'm pumped as fuck too

all hitting at once

boing
boing

oh shit, i forgot to do the step that would make it look good

eh, this wasn't it but whatever

https://i.imgur.com/2FV5uTa.gif

have you thought about making a 100-gif magnum opus where each gif is its own individual animation, but when placed in a specific order on a 10 x 10 grid so that they form a mega-gif?

― Philip Nunez, Monday, November 1, 2010 7:21 PM (nine years ago) bookmarkflaglink

I have! Not 100 (10x10) gifs, exactly, but I've wanted to do a really big one with dozens of different pieces that fit together. The problem has just been hosting. Tumblr can't handle animated images wider than 500 pixels, let alone a megasaur gif combo. And my old barrylutz space wouldn't accommodate it well, either. And of course on ILX it wouldn't work (I think on some stylesheets it might look ok but I'm not sure, and in any case most people wouldn't be using the correct stylesheet and it would look different on everyone's monitors, etc)

― Z S, Monday, November 1, 2010 7:34 PM (nine years ago) bookmarkflaglink

hm.. how's about the next 9 requests you get, try to configure it so that you can put them into a 3x3 brady-bunch style one?
you could do it as a table like:

<table>
<tr><td>1.gif</td><td>2.gif</td><td>3.gif</td></tr>
<tr><td>4.gif</td><td>5.gif</td><td>6.gif</td></tr>
<tr><td>7.gif</td><td>8.gif</td><td>9.gif</td></tr>
</table>

with the img src etc...
i guess that would mean each gif would have to have the same proportions and same number of frames.
haha sorry this would probably be much more work than fun.
― Philip Nunez, Monday, November 1, 2010 7:42 PM (nine years ago) bookmarkflaglink

i never did this! fuck!

finalboing.gif

https://i.imgur.com/iRnKlgd.gif

boing

putting the triangle in subtriangle

boing

boing

man, now i'm reminded of fucking boingboing. my day is ruined

... boing

warning: the images in this thread are 993MB. god knows (OUR GOD IS A MIGHT GOD!) what it would be if all the old tinypic and photobucket images still worked. so warning: do not load the complete thread. i should probably post this every 40 posts or so, right?

super cool km