Author Topic: HEXQUISITE CORPSE COLLAB II - DONE! (Read 72168 times)

adcrusher524 · « **Reply #300 on:** November 09, 2009, 12:29:13 am »

Wow this is awesome! just pure awesomeness! And do I see a tiny hexquisite collab near the middle?

pgil · « **Reply #301 on:** November 09, 2009, 02:30:06 am »

it's beautiful

A side note, where did the palette come from? Something ptoing made up? It was challenging to work with, but fun. Looks like it was used to its full advantage

Mathias · « **Reply #302 on:** November 09, 2009, 05:17:32 am »

Shocking - the improvement in overall quality compared to the first one.

The conceptual and technical effort put forth is insane. No one artist could ever complete something so random, yet so cohesive and flowing and diverse. The word gestalt certainly jumps to mind. What fun to inspect!

It's always educational to look at work that is superior to yours (a painfully common phenomenon for me), but especially so when you're now 'rubbing shoulders' with the authors of such work while using the same contraints; palette - how they make choices, how they use the palette is very revealing and a poignant lesson if you pay attention.

@Carnivac: Setz's 41's upper left region reminded me of Samurai Jack, hence the Aku - glad you like it! Hopefully most recognize him, it's one of the best cartoon series out there, IMO.
Setz, you really switched it up for this collab, I was agonizing over how to unite things until the Aku idea occurred to me. Your 41: At first I wanted to dock some points for going the abstract swirl route . . . but, it looks pretty cool actually.

Veirbit, your method of wielding the pixel consistently amazes, love the unsuspectedly mundane and dissonant yet awesome Swiss building with sidewalk . ilkke, that skull takes the cake. Big Bro, t he hand is very appropriately surreal, great choice. Conceit, your style is interestingly chaotic. For some reason Helm, I really appreciate your mini wheelbarrow, yus I do, all the details are pleasant, glad you made time for a tile. Lackey, what are you summoning? Jad, the upsidedown world is great. pgil, #43 - a reference to the first collab's bottom-most tile? The comments go on and on . .

-There are a few neglectful uses of space and a few tile transition "mistakes", but nothing major really.

-Love the way the hex grid obfuscates and denies that this was ever set up on any sort of grid at all. The seams must be undetectable to uninvolved viewers.

Rosse · « **Reply #303 on:** November 09, 2009, 08:50:34 am »

This is incredible in so many ways... perfect example of how the result is greater than the sum of it's parts. Huge compliment to everybody which was brave enough and took his time to contribute to this unique experience.
There are so many different approaches and styles - the restricted palette really is capable of making it look coherent. It's very interesting to see how small regions tells their own stories.

ilkke · « **Reply #304 on:** November 09, 2009, 08:52:21 am »

Congrats to everyone for pulling this off. We rule! Especially mr.Ptoing.
A couple of people have really surprised me with the quality of their tiles. I'll have to add them to my little book of big names

Conceit · « **Reply #305 on:** November 09, 2009, 11:13:00 am »

Quote from: Mathias on November 09, 2009, 05:17:32 am

Conceit, your style is interestingly chaotic.

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-There are a few neglectful uses of space and a few tile transition "mistakes", but nothing major really.

haha, dankeshen Mr.Math! indeed it is quite chaoitic, as is my process for making things.....I never know what form to give the wild ideas cursing trough my head, or just how much of it to try and harness in the picture, it seems the pixels are never enough

...ask Ptoing! XD

I was amazed at how off-place #33, my second tile seems when compared to the surrounding ones, I was trying to do a black hole effect like what Setz pulls off at 41, except I wanted an evil edifice like that of Goodbye Blue Sky ( http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_0v07InoFiU ) to be the one sucking everything in...it failed spectacularly O_O (how didnt I pick up that I was cutting off Ptoing's tentacle from #1??? )

The other tile, #21 since it isnt surrounded by as many things...I felt was rendered less beautifully but actually comes out far far more acceptably, it links everywhere exactly the way I would want it to! I love how Pgil linked to it, we made two little magnificent dust brothers erupt out of the earth

besides the way my guy's spit becomes the sky couldnt have come off any better!, also #18 is a tile I gave up and it comes amazingly close to what I would have done, except it meshes with the Zog's style there far far more than anything I could've done =D kudos!.

I am loving how Vierbit used the browns! you just continue to stand out in any Collab you get into

you magnificent basterd! Ptoing's #1 tile reveal had me LMAO WTF and BBQ all at once

as did Dex's little mud monsters at #8 AND Lackey's awesome little homage to the Zogs at #74

Another one that takes the cake is Big Brother and Lackey's #55,#54 HandDragon, Morgy's dragon at #31. Opacus'es crazy little skull...it looks like something I would've liked to do, painterly as St0ven would've put it

I bet I'll found many other little things to pick apart and be amazed at the more I look at it

does anybody feel like this second one came out a little bit more self conscious? I feel like the first one is more relaxed and has more empty spaces, while in this one everyone is trying to fit as many stuff in as possible

pmprog · « **Reply #306 on:** November 09, 2009, 12:59:34 pm »

Quote from: ilkke on November 09, 2009, 08:52:21 am

Congrats to everyone for pulling this off. We rule! Especially mr.Ptoing.

I second that.

Looking at my tile now, I'm thinking I could have done some things a little bit different (and a lot better)... I look forward to the next one

Mathias · « **Reply #307 on:** November 09, 2009, 03:53:35 pm »

Quote from: Conceit on November 09, 2009, 11:13:00 am

. . . does anybody feel like this second one came out a little bit more self conscious? I feel like the first one is more relaxed and has more empty spaces, while in this one everyone is trying to fit as many stuff in as possible

Yes. I assume the participants all saw the last one, and noted the things they felt could improve, namely density of detail. Hence the hex2 collab has more crammed into it. It's true that an established fact per design principles is that some "white space", or any area more sparse than surrounding areas, creates a resting place for the eye and is pleasant because of that -BUT- it's also true that there are no design rule constants, meaning that no one rule always applies.

In my opionion, this is an example of an exception to the white space "rule". Do you not find yourself wishing there was something more to see in such tiles as: 35, 53 and 59? (zero offense to the authors; just a subjective observation)

As I start to feel that I've taken in all the details, I do find myself wishing there was more to find in the stingier tiles. Compact detail is what makes this collab concept strong. I'm just a detail oriented person I guess.

Zoggles · « **Reply #308 on:** November 09, 2009, 04:12:54 pm »

I thought I'd upload these images which show all the individual tiles and the borders they had to work with to make the tile.
(Green indicates an empty tile at that time. The absence of a border on any edge is because it is at the edge of the board)

Hopefully I got the actual creation order correct enough that the given borders are as they were - sorry if there are any errors in that.

I love the fact that the whole things appears to emminate from the brain in the center as a weird and wacky collection of its bizarre imagination. Also (nice one Lackey) anything with a little iso-wizard doing his magic somewhere in it gets a big thumbs up from me

-Z-

ilkke · « **Reply #309 on:** November 09, 2009, 04:38:02 pm »

Well, ain't that nice and useful

vierbit · « **Reply #310 on:** November 09, 2009, 04:59:37 pm »

Great result

Some neat stuff in there.
I especially like the variety in styles. Everyone used the same colors and had only a small canvas to work with,
but it still shows everyone has a different approach.

heh, looks like I was right by guessing tile 6.

@Zoggles
Thanks for taking your time, great compilation.

Kren · « **Reply #311 on:** November 10, 2009, 04:53:04 am »

Looks amazing

, now we need more mockups frenzies

!

CrazyMLC · « **Reply #312 on:** November 10, 2009, 05:33:57 am »

Personal favorites:
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7
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18
21
44
45
46
54
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60
67
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78
87

xhunterko · « **Reply #313 on:** November 10, 2009, 07:11:17 am »

Awesome everyone! Hopefully I won't have to work so much next time (ha ha). I'm glad the way this turned out. My trashy tile couldn't hold a candle to this level of skill. Awesomesauce, just awesomesauce.

Lackey · « **Reply #314 on:** November 10, 2009, 03:41:05 pm »

This turned out great. Outstanding work everyone!

Manupix · « **Reply #315 on:** November 10, 2009, 09:09:21 pm »

This is just too good.
I'm way pissed I couldn't grab myself a tile - too much work at the beginning, then just no way to get any near the end. Grrrrr.
Huge congrats to everybody involved, mainly to Ptoing for making it be, and Zoggles for the analysis: quite useful!

Some suggestions for the (*hopes hard*) next one:
- have a loose theme, not necessarily imposed;
- impose a more or less restricted palette on some tiles (like 8,4, 2 colors, all from the main palette);
...
- and selfishly, give priority to pple not having had tiles yet? Hahaha.

Btw, 1^st post here, so hi everybody!

ptoing · « **Reply #316 on:** November 10, 2009, 10:37:56 pm »

Hey Manupix, there will be more of these next year. I am having fun doing these, so I will keep doing them

I am having some ideas for some further rules, like there must be at least 2 tiles distance in a straight line between tiles of the same person and such, which would eliminate tiles having multiple borders from the same person as well as limiting tilegrabbing a bit.

But first I have to get the Secret Santa activity ready

skamocore · « **Reply #317 on:** November 11, 2009, 12:33:06 pm »

Zoggles, that is awesome! Anyway, I don't think the rules need to be more complicated; personally, I think joining your tile to adjacent tiles and working with the palette is challenge enough. Also, as much as I like seeing 5 Setz tiles, I do think that the amount of tiles per person should be in some way restricted. Maybe Arne's palette next time, or even this palette taken from the Easter Island challenge over at PJ

I thought Secret Santa was Panda's thing.

Looking forward to it anyway.

(Hi Manu

)

Fool · « **Reply #318 on:** November 14, 2009, 02:02:07 pm »

Holy Testicle Tuesday! Thats one mighty piece, totally awesome. Palette is worth of special words I can't find.=)
Wasn't be able to grab one for me this time, but i'll be waiting.=)

RadiationGloves.Drugs · « **Reply #319 on:** November 14, 2009, 04:11:47 pm »

Soooo... What's next

Mathias · « **Reply #320 on:** November 14, 2009, 06:21:28 pm »

Quote from: Fool on November 14, 2009, 02:02:07 pm

Holy Testicle Tuesday! Thats one mighty piece, totally awesome. Palette is worth of special words I can't find.=)
Wasn't be able to grab one for me this time, but i'll be waiting.=)

First yoni's and now testicles huh Fool? ehhhhrm . . . So lemme get this straight - next hexquisite collab, you're in? Good. Me too, as usual. All are interested in seeing what's cooking up at the correct thread for future Hexquisite collab talkin'.

moket · « **Reply #321 on:** November 15, 2009, 02:07:20 am »

truly beautiful and exciting piece

thanks Zoggles !

McClaneGames · « **Reply #322 on:** November 23, 2009, 01:18:01 am »

This is epic awesomeness.
We need to do another one.

Offtopic: I found out what Ptoing's avatar says! wo0t

ui · « **Reply #323 on:** November 30, 2009, 06:23:51 am »

hey guys!

i made this CLICK ME
Is a mouse over with the INFO of who made each tile. Hope you guys enjoy.
(DOWNLOAD HERE)

skamocore · « **Reply #324 on:** November 30, 2009, 08:05:36 am »

That is pure awesomeness <3

I was thinking of making something like that but I never got around to it

Perhaps when you click a tile it should show it in isolation. Also, Zoggles 85 is spelt incorrectly.

Indigo · « **Reply #325 on:** November 30, 2009, 08:22:59 am »

itd also be great if the hex tiles had a hex clickable area rather then square. (like so: http://danfessler.com/websites/pixcollab/ ) I was working on an automated system to handle the hex collabs some time ago and thats what as far as I got.

ui · « **Reply #326 on:** December 01, 2009, 12:11:03 am »

hey guys

Indigo :OOOO, amazing!!.. gogogog and finish it. looks awesome :PP

Skamocore, thx, i fixed it...

also if any of you download the files... i include a txt, here is the text

-----------------------------------------------------------------------
Hola ppl!...
-----------------------------------------------------------------------
If you wanna "add" a reticle, rename the "hexborDELETE.png" file to "hexbor.png", and done

TODO LIST
- Add link/e-mail of each person who participe on this collab.
- Add the info on the Legend.
Example: Setz: #5, #68, #41... etc etc

P.

if you guys can help me with the LEGEND, plz write me a mail with the info, or just add to the HTML and Send the HTML to me
mailto:uimail[A]gmail.com
-----------------------------------------------------------------------

Argyle · « **Reply #327 on:** December 01, 2009, 01:51:17 am »

Just wanted to point out I think you're referring to a LEGEND instead of a LEYEND? Love what you've done otherwise, wish I could offer some assistance with what you need on the HTML front but I'm not very well-versed with it, sorry!

Perhaps a 2x magnification loupe box would be a great addition to this, maybe upon mouseover just that tile would appear as a 2x magnification much like the HTML script that allows us to click to zoom in on these boards. Though I don't know how easy that would be to accomplish without uploading each tile as its each image so it could be too much trouble with how you are currently doing this. I'm assuming it's a hotspot grid mask?

ui · « **Reply #328 on:** December 04, 2009, 08:00:40 am »

Argyle, yah i was meaning "Legend", jeje, sorry my english is pretty bad! XD...

the x2 zoom is possible. I can suggest/preffer, each tile Scaled x2... with the double size. Since all the browser now have that HORRIBLE smooth that totally broken the pixels. Actually this is pure CSS+HTML, so its not really complex. But the hard part will be scale and name each tile! XDDD. I can made an script to scale the tiles to the double size, but not to rename each tile, since they need a name like... ""tile02NAME.png""... i can do that manually but not now XDDD im really busy right nwo!

((

about the legend, well you jut have to TYPE, who made what in a TXT file, i will do the rest :DDD

thx thx... hope somebody helps :PPP

tomic · « **Reply #329 on:** February 02, 2010, 08:18:57 pm »

Quote from: ptoing on November 08, 2009, 08:22:38 pm

I don't think there will be another one this year, tho, but early next year for sure.

next, bitte!

Doppleganger · « **Reply #330 on:** April 03, 2010, 06:35:04 pm »

wow! I just saw this, incredible work on this one! It goes together so well. that brain is perfect for the center!

VDX · « **Reply #331 on:** May 12, 2010, 11:48:44 pm »

Wow indeed. So crazy so weird so ....so whatever it is!

Masterpiece of madness and creativity.

Don risotto · « **Reply #332 on:** May 31, 2010, 01:39:27 am »

Quote from: tomic on February 02, 2010, 08:18:57 pm

Quote from: ptoing on November 08, 2009, 08:22:38 pm
I don't think there will be another one this year, tho, but early next year for sure.

next, bitte!

yes plox

ptoing · « **Reply #333 on:** June 19, 2010, 01:41:05 pm »

Life and work is holding back a new hex collab, but I am SERIOUSLY planning to get one going this year... sometime... promise...

Mathias · « **Reply #334 on:** June 30, 2010, 11:42:55 pm »

Well that's cool to hear. Will you work with us on a concept or just spring something on us when the time is right? I really think we can make the infinite hex quilt idea work with a little more development.

ptoing · « **Reply #335 on:** July 01, 2010, 09:33:58 am »

I have an idea for something smaller, so I will probably do that one first. But please feel free to chip away at the infinite concept.

Don risotto · « **Reply #336 on:** July 11, 2010, 06:51:26 am »

I've notified this thread so when ptoing unveils the next hexsquasit thingy I'll know.

ptoing · « **Reply #337 on:** July 11, 2010, 07:12:21 am »

Who says I will announce the next hex collab in here? I will just make a new thread and news box banner.

Don risotto · « **Reply #338 on:** July 11, 2010, 08:20:40 am »

That was a hint

Mathias · « **Reply #339 on:** September 07, 2010, 12:15:55 am »

Now that your cranium has been properly modified, the people demand mas HEX!

Mckinstry · « **Reply #340 on:** September 15, 2010, 03:11:57 pm »

I cant believe how this came together so well, immense!

Looking forward to seeing another collab.

Dr D · « **Reply #341 on:** October 16, 2010, 07:52:43 pm »

Wow, has it been a year already?

I still marvel at this from time to time.

varis · « **Reply #342 on:** October 17, 2010, 09:55:23 am »

When is the next collab happening?

Myfault · « **Reply #343 on:** April 13, 2011, 01:36:12 pm »

good ideia

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