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Topic: #! Ninja Refinements

I'm still playing around with the ninja concept and decided to refine him a little bit. Mostly it's in the major proportions. He's shorter, stouter, a little cuter and more cartoonish and maybe even a little more menacing at the same time wink. I also changed his cap into a proper bandana. The eyes though are the most trouble for me. I like the shape and look of them, but it's the colour/treatment of the eyes that are still in a little doubt for me.

I think it looks better than the original, but I'd love to hear your opinions.

I've shown the base images large enough here so that if people want to play around with them in the Gimp they can. I've also posted the svg for people to use as well. You'll find a few wallpaper concepts I've made with the little guy too. wink

The original ninja concept is here: http://crunchbanglinux.org/forums/topic … ninjafied/


http://rfquerin.org/cbninja/cbninja_refined1_plain.png

http://rfquerin.org/cbninja/cbninja_refined1_withshadow.png

http://rfquerin.org/cbninja/cbninja_refined1_grey_withtagline_1680x1050.png

http://rfquerin.org/cbninja/cbninja_refined1_grey_1680x1050.png

http://rfquerin.org/cbninja/cbninja_refined1_sunset_1680x1050.png


Direct Links:

http://rfquerin.org/cbninja/ninjawork02.svg
http://rfquerin.org/cbninja/cbninja_ref … 0x1050.png
http://rfquerin.org/cbninja/cbninja_ref … 0x1050.png
http://rfquerin.org/cbninja/cbninja_ref … 0x1050.png

Last edited by rfquerin (2009-01-30 04:50:12)

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Re: #! Ninja Refinements

Just be glad he's on our side...

I say that about you! big_smile I am loving this Ninja meme, great stuff! I am really looking forward to seeing the first art pack, there have been some truly awesome wallpapers from lots of folks, cannot wait.

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Re: #! Ninja Refinements

corenominal wrote:

Just be glad he's on our side...

I say that about you! big_smile I am loving this Ninja meme, great stuff! I am really looking forward to seeing the first art pack, there have been some truly awesome wallpapers from lots of folks, cannot wait.

I completely agree on all accounts. smile

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Re: #! Ninja Refinements

looks even better. i'm making b/w-version.

Last edited by Shinkanzen (2009-01-30 15:29:11)

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Re: #! Ninja Refinements

Sweet smile

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Re: #! Ninja Refinements

i made the discovery that my graphical skills suck. i would greatly appreciate it if some skilled fella could make a B/W-version.

Last edited by Shinkanzen (2009-01-30 15:37:05)

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Re: #! Ninja Refinements

Shinkanzen wrote:

i made the discovery that my graphical skills suck. i would greatly appreciate it if some skilled fella could make a B/W-version.

lol. Were you thinking of a true black and white version or do you mean a greyscale version? The only coloured bit in there is the green bandana. Let me know and I'll likely create one pretty quickly.

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Re: #! Ninja Refinements

I have ninja-fied my twitter page. Not crazy about the color scheme, but I will work on that later. Wish that you could change identi.ca pages as well.

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Re: #! Ninja Refinements

michaelramm wrote:

I have ninja-fied my twitter page. Not crazy about the color scheme, but I will work on that later. Wish that you could change identi.ca pages as well.

Michael

Very cool. He's up there looking over the people looking over your posts. wink

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Re: #! Ninja Refinements

yeah i thought it was easy, but my slanted exclamtion mark looked like a staircase. just white paint on a black background, like the remix i did of your first sketch. thanks in advance.

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Re: #! Ninja Refinements

Sweet ! Got it on my background.


thanks for the hard work,

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Re: #! Ninja Refinements

i think it would be easy to transform the ninja into a pirate with a headscarf and an eye-patch

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Re: #! Ninja Refinements

It is really a great job. To be honest, when i saw it the first time the eyes didnt looked realy nice to me, and prefered the first one, even if i prefer the general form of this one. Now that i'm used to, i actually prefer this one. Big thanks for your work.

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Shinkanzen wrote:

yeah i thought it was easy, but my slanted exclamtion mark looked like a staircase. just white paint on a black background, like the remix i did of your first sketch. thanks in advance.

Not entirely sure if this is what you were looking for, but here it is:

http://rfquerin.org/cbninja/cbninja_bw_outline.png

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Re: #! Ninja Refinements

Here's a little reworking of the eyes to give him a little more of a lively (and maybe menacing) look. I think they look significantly better than the first go:

http://rfquerin.org/cbninja/cbninja_reworked_eyes.png

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Re: #! Ninja Refinements

sewmyheadon wrote:
corenominal wrote:

Just be glad he's on our side...

I say that about you! big_smile I am loving this Ninja meme, great stuff! I am really looking forward to seeing the first art pack, there have been some truly awesome wallpapers from lots of folks, cannot wait.

I completely agree on all accounts. smile

Killer ninja, Richard!

add me to the list big_smile


Shinkanzen wrote:

i think it would be easy to transform the ninja into a pirate with a headscarf and an eye-patch

i love the ninja, but it do have a little ninja-turtle-feel tongue  ..a pirate would at least make the spaghettimonster happy wink http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W1Uo5DQTtzc

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Re: #! Ninja Refinements

exactly wat i was lookin for thanxalot

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Re: #! Ninja Refinements

Make the bandana blue like the original big_smile

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Re: #! Ninja Refinements

anonymous wrote:

Make the bandana blue like the original big_smile

Okay here you go:
http://rfquerin.org/cbninja/cbninja_reworked_tartan.png

Oops.. sorry.. here it is. wink

http://rfquerin.org/cbninja/cbninja_reworked_blue.png

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Re: #! Ninja Refinements

Haha #! Ninja goes plaid lol

Anyways I like the blue version, thanks.

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These are all fantastic, Richard. When my financial situation stops kicking my ass, I'm definitely turning this into a shirt. big_smile

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sheri wrote:

These are all fantastic, Richard. When my financial situation stops kicking my ass, I'm definitely turning this into a shirt. big_smile

lol. Let me know how you make out. Mine's been kicking my arse for years now. smile

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I love these, especially the tartan one big_smile A scottish open source ninja lol

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Can I get it in a Douglas Tartan!?!? =PPP

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Re: #! Ninja Refinements

BTW whats the Ninja's name? We should name him after all.

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