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technoguyx wrote:

DIY wrote:

P.S. Who played the acoustic solo at the end of WIBY?

hpotter134.

DIY wrote:

Here is the album art I did for WIBY with GIMP. Hope it's OK, technoguyx:

http://i1082.photobucket.com/albums/j37 … enCoco.jpg

What do you guys think of it?

I was actually expecting a whole redraw from Scratch, but this one is still an improvement - looks less MSPainted. Maybe you could make the "Frozen Coco" text a bit clearer, less blurry, and maybe make the art look more like a painting, the sun and clouds kinda remind me of something Van Gogh would make. You could also apply a texture to the hair of the people, it looks a bit plain.

I thought the same about the "Frozen Coco" text the first time I exported it as a whole picture, but the more you observe the details in the painting, the more it seems to blend in with the drawing.

Also, could you clarify what you mean by 'make the art look more like a painting'? It looks like a painting to me, but tell me what you meant and I'll see about it.

I know it does kind of look like something Van Gogh would make, but that was my intention so don't worry, it was meant to be that style. I used certain GIMP tools to get the right gradient and texture, so it's completely intentional. 

About the hair, if you look closely enough or adjust the brightness levels of your screen, you can see there indeed is a texture on their hairs. That was carefully looked into when doing the editing.

Lastly, editing this finished picture again is going to be a tedious task as I spent nearly three hours trying to get the right effects to it. I would suggest that since we now have a final cover, that we organise the song for a grand release on Christmas Day! 

http://scratch.mit.edu/projects/Lellowsfuzz/2231742
Click it for a better quality version of my sketch for the cover art.

DIY wrote:

I thought the same about the "Frozen Coco" text the first time I exported it as a whole picture, but the more you observe the details in the painting, the more it seems to blend in with the drawing.

Also, could you clarify what you mean by 'make the art look more like a painting'? It looks like a painting to me, but tell me what you meant and I'll see about it.

I know it does kind of look like something Van Gogh would make, but that was my intention so don't worry, it was meant to be that style. I used certain GIMP tools to get the right gradient and texture, so it's completely intentional. 

About the hair, if you look closely enough or adjust the brightness levels of your screen, you can see there indeed is a texture on their hairs. That was carefully looked into when doing the editing.

Lastly, editing this finished picture again is going to be a tedious task as I spent nearly three hours trying to get the right effects to it. I would suggest that since we now have a final cover, that we organise the song for a grand release on Christmas Day! 

Hmmm actually I think it looks enough like a painting by now, nevermind that. I have no problem with the Van Gogh thing, it looks great that way.

The blurred text doesn't seem to blend with the rest imo, but even if it did, the main problem is that it's difficult to read that. It's the only thing that really should be fixed apart from some pixels left over (I'll try to fix that in Paint.NET).

Can't GIMP save multi-layer pictures? You should've kept one just in case    Yes, a release on Christmas Day (Christmas Eve would be good too) would be great, never thought of that 

Lellowsfuzz's cover looks pretty good too, but if we're releasing this in Christmas then we might not have enough time to digitize an polish it... I say we use DIY's cover, crediting him and shiguy for the "draft" it was based in.

EDIT: Here a slight edit of the cover. Since I have to make the cover a square image, here's a cropped version, which I will use on Soundcloud and Bandcamp if you don't mind. Maybe we can use the full cover for promotional art, or on Scratch since a project's dimensions are rectangular.

I made the people less pixely and applied some Sharpen effect to the Frozen Coco text, it's clearer now. I forgot to remove white space from the first one, ignore that 

Last edited by technoguyx (2011-12-21 11:50:29)

I have some questions for you guys.
1. What song are we doing next?
2. Will we take all of our songs and put them into an album?
3. If #2 is true, can I burn it to CDs and give them to my friends?

technoguyx wrote:

Lellowsfuzz wrote:

I have some questions for you guys.
1. What song are we doing next?
2. Will we take all of our songs and put them into an album?
3. If #2 is true, can I burn it to CDs and give them to my friends?

1. Not sure. We'll have to talk about that I guess.
2. I actually planned to release WIBY and 3~ other songs in a EP, but since we're a bit slow that'll have to wait    But yes, an album or EP would be great.
3. I'm fine with that - free advertising. I've told some friends about our stuff too :3

(now that I think about it... Check out that "Lazy Sunday Jam" song on the first post. I have the bass for that done I think, and it only has guitar and drums apart from that. Should be easy to record.)

DIY wrote:

Now for that grand Christmas Day/Eve release! 

Yeaaaah.    I'm preparing everything advertising related now. So far I have a deal with a magazine and an OS's music store, I'll make banners and stuff tomorrow. Try looking for other ways to advertise too, everyone 

EDIT: Achievement get! Edit same post 5 times in less than 5 minutes.

Sounds cool! I'm willing to contribute musically to 'Lazy Sunday Jam' if you start it anytime soon. I'll do my best to advertise WIBY! 

Last edited by DIY (2011-12-22 02:12:20)

jslomba wrote:

Are we still going to do my song, Lazy Sunday Jam?

Most likely yes. I'm pretty sure I have the bass track somewhere, you should record the drums on the meantime.

hpotter134 hasn't been online in a while I think, anyone has ever seen him around recently, or knows how to contact him?

Nice!

technoguyx wrote:

jslomba wrote:

Are we still going to do my song, Lazy Sunday Jam?

Most likely yes. I'm pretty sure I have the bass track somewhere, you should record the drums on the meantime.

hpotter134 hasn't been online in a while I think, anyone has ever seen him around recently, or knows how to contact him?

Can someone write some kind of piano part for LSJ? Maybe in the improv section or something 

hpotter134 wrote:

technoguyx wrote:

hpotter134 hasn't been online in a while I think, anyone has ever seen him around recently, or knows how to contact him?

We're back as a band?! Whoohoo!

Yeah, I haven't been on Scratch lately, but I'm willing to get back to recording stuff if you guys want 

WIBY sounds awesome    did jslomba get around to recording the drums, or are we using addictive drums?

EDIT: if ever you guys want to contact me and I'm not on scratch, feel free to email me at

your not supposed to give emails 

hpotter134 wrote:

shiguy101 wrote:

hpotter134 wrote:

We're back as a band?! Whoohoo!

Yeah, I haven't been on Scratch lately, but I'm willing to get back to recording stuff if you guys want 

WIBY sounds awesome    did jslomba get around to recording the drums, or are we using addictive drums?

EDIT: if ever you guys want to contact me and I'm not on scratch, feel free to email me at hpotter134@gmail.com

you're not supposed to give emails 

yeah, but that's not my main email address, it's an email address I made specifically so people on scratch (or anyone else who knows me as "hpotter134") can email me 

it dose not mater i did the same thing and it got removed

technoguyx wrote:

Here's a banner we can use on the meantime. Update your sigs 

http://i42.tinypic.com/2pt8m0o.png

Code:

[url=http://scratch.mit.edu/forums/viewtopic.php?id=76155][url]http://i42.tinypic.com/2pt8m0o.png[/url][/url]

Very cool! Well, I updated my own signature! 

Just wondering, is 'Lazy Sunday Jam' an instrumental, or will lyrics later be added to it?

@designer45: I'll take up the slot of definite graphic designer, so you can update the first post on this thread now. 

designer45 wrote:

@rabbit1131: You can mix? You are needed greatly!
@DIY: Awesome!

I might not be the greatest person... If you mean like, mix the tracks together, I can do it just so/so. I'm no pro.

@rabbit1131: If you can mix, I want you to mix. Or at least give it a try.
@jslomba: Could you at least put in a small vocals part? I don't want to waste time on something I'm not reall involved in...