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Ah man, this one was SO HARD with all of Sunset's little dots, but you wanna know the worst part of it? I worked on the last few days (22-28) out of order cause I was getting impatient with myself for not having finished these yet. I mean it's two months past the deadline c'mon man!! To give a little context for my future frustration, let me also dive into how my workflow PREVIOUSLY went ...

Step 1: Find screenshot
Step 2: Vector the hell out of it in Adobe Illustrator. Always vector in random colors that are not on the subject I'm vectoring (Rainbow Dash is the biggest pain for this, heccin multi-colored mini-horse)
Step 3: Open the Vector in Adobe Photoshop with anti-aliasing on
Step 4: Select Color Range of different outline parts (usually start with body outline, then hair, then outfits) and fill them in as pixels using magic wand and paint bucket to until I've got all my outines done on a new layer.
Now, because aliasing is on that meant when I did "select color range" that always meant there was a tiny iddle biddle gap between the different outlines. This means I could not use paint bucket to just fill in the lines for the "fill" color without that fill color leaking everywhere. This means I need to:
Step 5: Create a layer behind the Outline layer to fill in the missing Outline gaps
Step 6: Merge Outline layer with Outline Gap layer
Step 7: Now do color fills
Step 8: Adjust for transparencies
Step 9: Final touches in case I missed something. Typically repeating parts of Step 5 which had me toss out steps 7 + 8 and made me cry all over again lol

Now, because of this method I was using Steps 4 and 5 would take HOURS because at first, after using the paint bucket tool, I would use my mouse to point and click to fill in smaller parts. Step 5 especially took ages. I was doing so much work for so long over and over, I'm lie 90% positive that contributed to my carpal tunnel so 🙃 that's gr8

Fast forward and I literally have all but three of the projects done. I'm almost finished with 27, 22 will have to be free-handed and 26 I just need to find a good couple of bases to use or a screengrab ... but wait, as I'm finishing the final touches of 27, what is this?? As I open the .ai doc in photoshop, an option menu pops up! Verily, this is handy and I always just systematically click "open" without changing anything. But boy this sure is tough, surely there's a way to *suddenly noticies checkbox for anti-aliasing* ... wait ... wait hol up wait ... wait r u telling me I wasted two goddamn MONTHS copying over USELESS CRAP FOR STEPS 4 AND 5 BC MY DUMBASS COULDN'T FIGURE HOW TO TURN OFF ANI-ALIASING??????

Yes. Yes I did waste two months not figuring that out. But the good news is I figured it out nonetheless!! Friendly reminder to myself and all others that anti-aliasing is without-pixels AKA SOFT N FUZZY. I've been playing with pixels since 2008 you'd think I'd learn after 14 years 😅

But SleepyMoss, you ask, what about the screen grab? Why Forgotten Friendship? Ah yes the entire point of this post lol. Honestly I was far more into pony than the EQG series, it always seemed to fall flat to me. Needs more consistent storyline, whydonttheyhavehornswhentheyponyupimsomaaaaaaaaadlol. I liked pretty much all of it, honestly, just that the show proper held more love in my heart ^^ I think part of what made this movie my pick was the beautiful costumes (yes Hasbro, I hear you, buy the toys, etc), and beautiful editing of when Sunset's memories were being ripped from her. Like, that was brutal. I totally get why Wallflower was doing it, certainly not okay under any circumstance, but I really got her. I understand that despairing feeling of loneliness, and getting that jealousy when being ignored or watching others have fun without you ... but I didn't do anything like finding a magical artifact to tear down someone's reputation bc they happened to be popular and also a main character I just mostly stood there feeling sorry for myself lol. I'm mostly better at the whole friendship thing, it's a lot of work for me to say in contact just because my brain is hard-wired to shut down and not stay with anyone. But it's definitely worth it to keep the friendships I have.

I will likely debuting the last bit of Februpony, Draw Whatever! later today. It's a screen grab from an episode that I'd really, really love to talk about. If I don't post it tonight, I'll post it tomorrow!!

Description
Want the base? Find it here!

Ah man, this one was SO HARD with all of Sunset's little dots, but you wanna know the worst part of it? I worked on the last few days (22-28) out of order cause I was getting impatient with myself for not having finished these yet. I mean it's two months past the deadline c'mon man!! To give a little context for my future frustration, let me also dive into how my workflow PREVIOUSLY went ...

Step 1: Find screenshot
Step 2: Vector the hell out of it in Adobe Illustrator. Always vector in random colors that are not on the subject I'm vectoring (Rainbow Dash is the biggest pain for this, heccin multi-colored mini-horse)
Step 3: Open the Vector in Adobe Photoshop with anti-aliasing on
Step 4: Select Color Range of different outline parts (usually start with body outline, then hair, then outfits) and fill them in as pixels using magic wand and paint bucket to until I've got all my outines done on a new layer.
Now, because aliasing is on that meant when I did "select color range" that always meant there was a tiny iddle biddle gap between the different outlines. This means I could not use paint bucket to just fill in the lines for the "fill" color without that fill color leaking everywhere. This means I need to:
Step 5: Create a layer behind the Outline layer to fill in the missing Outline gaps
Step 6: Merge Outline layer with Outline Gap layer
Step 7: Now do color fills
Step 8: Adjust for transparencies
Step 9: Final touches in case I missed something. Typically repeating parts of Step 5 which had me toss out steps 7 + 8 and made me cry all over again lol

Now, because of this method I was using Steps 4 and 5 would take HOURS because at first, after using the paint bucket tool, I would use my mouse to point and click to fill in smaller parts. Step 5 especially took ages. I was doing so much work for so long over and over, I'm lie 90% positive that contributed to my carpal tunnel so 🙃 that's gr8

Fast forward and I literally have all but three of the projects done. I'm almost finished with 27, 22 will have to be free-handed and 26 I just need to find a good couple of bases to use or a screengrab ... but wait, as I'm finishing the final touches of 27, what is this?? As I open the .ai doc in photoshop, an option menu pops up! Verily, this is handy and I always just systematically click "open" without changing anything. But boy this sure is tough, surely there's a way to *suddenly noticies checkbox for anti-aliasing* ... wait ... wait hol up wait ... wait r u telling me I wasted two goddamn MONTHS copying over USELESS CRAP FOR STEPS 4 AND 5 BC MY DUMBASS COULDN'T FIGURE HOW TO TURN OFF ANI-ALIASING??????

Yes. Yes I did waste two months not figuring that out. But the good news is I figured it out nonetheless!! Friendly reminder to myself and all others that anti-aliasing is without-pixels AKA SOFT N FUZZY. I've been playing with pixels since 2008 you'd think I'd learn after 14 years 😅

But SleepyMoss, you ask, what about the screen grab? Why Forgotten Friendship? Ah yes the entire point of this post lol. Honestly I was far more into pony than the EQG series, it always seemed to fall flat to me. Needs more consistent storyline, whydonttheyhavehornswhentheyponyupimsomaaaaaaaaadlol. I liked pretty much all of it, honestly, just that the show proper held more love in my heart ^^ I think part of what made this movie my pick was the beautiful costumes (yes Hasbro, I hear you, buy the toys, etc), and beautiful editing of when Sunset's memories were being ripped from her. Like, that was brutal. I totally get why Wallflower was doing it, certainly not okay under any circumstance, but I really got her. I understand that despairing feeling of loneliness, and getting that jealousy when being ignored or watching others have fun without you ... but I didn't do anything like finding a magical artifact to tear down someone's reputation bc they happened to be popular and also a main character I just mostly stood there feeling sorry for myself lol. I'm mostly better at the whole friendship thing, it's a lot of work for me to say in contact just because my brain is hard-wired to shut down and not stay with anyone. But it's definitely worth it to keep the friendships I have.

I will likely debuting the last bit of Februpony, Draw Whatever! later today. It's a screen grab from an episode that I'd really, really love to talk about. If I don't post it tonight, I'll post it tomorrow!!