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    • mediamogulM
      mediamogul Global Moderator @Capeman
      last edited by mediamogul

      @capeman

      I'm a big fan of that original rubber band cartoon character style myself and have a pretty extensive collection of animation from that time. My two favorite creative forces are Ub Iwerks and anything out of the Fleischer animation studio. About fifteen years ago, I was lucky enough to work on animating a television commercial that parodied the "Let's all go to the lobby" characters and to this day it's still one of the most fun projects I've ever been involved with.

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      • CapemanC
        Capeman
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        That's rad! Just gave me an idea too, wouldn't a version of that specific animation, but done in pixel art, make one hell of a Retropie startup screen? Not that i'm volunteering, haha.

        Vector Artist, Designer and Maker of Stuff: Laser Cut Atari / Pixel Theme Bartop

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        • mediamogulM
          mediamogul Global Moderator @Capeman
          last edited by

          @capeman

          It would indeed. I'm always keen to avoid copyright and trademark issues, but imagine Pac-Man, Mario and a few other notable characters stylized in a merger of 16-bit pixel art and that classic rubber band style, confidently high-stepping in line to the jaunty tune.

          "Let's all go to the lobby and play ourselves some games"

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          • CapemanC
            Capeman @mediamogul
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            @mediamogul I literally cannot upvote that idea enough

            Vector Artist, Designer and Maker of Stuff: Laser Cut Atari / Pixel Theme Bartop

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            • lilbudL
              lilbud @UDb23
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              @udb23 said in [Theme Changes] Attention Theme Makers: Upcoming Game Collections in ES:

              Fully agree that inkscape lacks features and is quite unstable

              It does lack many features, chief among them would be a quick startup time.

              The 4 stages of opening Inkscape, the 1st picture is when you click the icon.
              0_1500917541673_5d2e805d-2257-409d-9a44-b0016895eeb1-image.png

              Creator of the Radiocade: https://retropie.org.uk/forum/topic/6077/radiocade

              Backlog: http://backloggery.com/lilbud

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              • UDb23U
                UDb23 @lilbud
                last edited by

                @lilbud lol!
                I saw Serif also does promos from time to time. We may get Affinity Designer at a even lower price. I'm downloading the trial right now.

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                • lilbudL
                  lilbud @UDb23
                  last edited by

                  @udb23 I really have no need for a vector software, I just have Inkscape because its free and I hate Adobe Illustrator.

                  Also, @mediamogul,

                  Hanna-Barbara > Fleischer

                  Creator of the Radiocade: https://retropie.org.uk/forum/topic/6077/radiocade

                  Backlog: http://backloggery.com/lilbud

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                  • UDb23U
                    UDb23 @Capeman
                    last edited by UDb23

                    @capeman Ended up directly buying it :-)
                    Will start playing with it over the next WE.
                    thanks again.

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                    • mediamogulM
                      mediamogul Global Moderator @lilbud
                      last edited by mediamogul

                      @lilbud

                      Hanna-Barbara > Fleischer

                      Ha! While I'll always personally prefer Fleischer's more classic character design and Art Deco background style, there's no arguing that Hanna-Barbara was more prolific in the long run. Their complete stable of characters, while lesser known, rivaled that of Warner Bros or even Disney. Cartoon Network's re-imagining of the characters in the early 2000s is one of the gutsiest and most exciting resurrections of aging intellectual properties that I've ever seen. My particular favorite was 'Harvey Birdman: Attorney at Law'.

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                      • lilbudL
                        lilbud @mediamogul
                        last edited by

                        @mediamogul said in [Theme Changes] Attention Theme Makers: Upcoming Game Collections in ES:

                        Harvey Birdman: Attorney at Law

                        My favorite Hanna-Barbara cartoon is Tom and Jerry, hands down the funniest of them all.

                        Creator of the Radiocade: https://retropie.org.uk/forum/topic/6077/radiocade

                        Backlog: http://backloggery.com/lilbud

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                        • mediamogulM
                          mediamogul Global Moderator @lilbud
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                          @lilbud

                          An excellent choice for classic HB. Unfortunately their various resurrections in more recent years have been hit or miss due to a constant effort to cater to younger, more sensitive modern audiences. Thank God for the originals though.

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                          • lilbudL
                            lilbud @mediamogul
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                            @mediamogul Tom and Jerry could never exist today in it's original form.

                            Creator of the Radiocade: https://retropie.org.uk/forum/topic/6077/radiocade

                            Backlog: http://backloggery.com/lilbud

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                            • CapemanC
                              Capeman @lilbud
                              last edited by

                              @lilbud I miss the old days of ultra violent cartoons. I sat around watching looney tunes all the time as a young child and I'm not running around shooting people point blank with double barrel shotguns. Sigh, better times.

                              Vector Artist, Designer and Maker of Stuff: Laser Cut Atari / Pixel Theme Bartop

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                              • pjftP
                                pjft @Capeman
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                                @capeman sure. But I love hearing you ever time you explain away the amount of anvils, TNT and ACME gizmos you store in your garage.

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                                • CapemanC
                                  Capeman @pjft
                                  last edited by

                                  @pjft A man's gotta have hobbies.

                                  Vector Artist, Designer and Maker of Stuff: Laser Cut Atari / Pixel Theme Bartop

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                                  • UDb23U
                                    UDb23
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                                    @pjft Here's the finalized Favorites text logo SVG.
                                    0_1501938088243_d_favorites.PNG
                                    Took a while to make "simulating" all those shadows.

                                    Did anybody test if now the size of folder icons and this logo are in line with size of other standard ES icons ?

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                                    • hansolo77H
                                      hansolo77
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                                      @pjft Has any further progress been made on the custom-collections bit?

                                      Who's Scruffy Looking?

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                                      • pjftP
                                        pjft @UDb23
                                        last edited by

                                        @udb23 thanks! I'll try it out on Tuesday when I have access to my dev pi.

                                        Looks great :)

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                                        • CapemanC
                                          Capeman @UDb23
                                          last edited by

                                          @udb23 Logo looks great! Did you end up giving Affinity a whirl?

                                          Vector Artist, Designer and Maker of Stuff: Laser Cut Atari / Pixel Theme Bartop

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                                          • UDb23U
                                            UDb23 @Capeman
                                            last edited by

                                            @capeman I installed it, watched some tutorials and played around a bit. Quite nice !
                                            Also I could appreciate how well it imports other vector formats. EPS has always been a headache but designer had no issues importing it.
                                            Logo was still finalized in inkspace as I'm used to it; will take a while to switch. Thanks again for the precious tips.

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