New loading screens by Andy Green
New loading screens by Andy Green
I hope I'm posting in the right forum, we don't have specialized forum about graphics/art here.
If you don't visit Facebook or ZxArt (a really cool site with Spectrum graphics and music), you could miss that a new talented and very active man emerged recently in out little community. His name is Andy Green and he's doing new loading screens for games that missed them or had very poor ones.
Check them here:
http://zxart.ee/eng/authors/a/andy-green1/
Really good in my opinion.
There was also some work done to include these screens into proper tzx files with custom loaders but I can't find links at the moment.
If you don't visit Facebook or ZxArt (a really cool site with Spectrum graphics and music), you could miss that a new talented and very active man emerged recently in out little community. His name is Andy Green and he's doing new loading screens for games that missed them or had very poor ones.
Check them here:
http://zxart.ee/eng/authors/a/andy-green1/
Really good in my opinion.
There was also some work done to include these screens into proper tzx files with custom loaders but I can't find links at the moment.
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Haven't succumbed to it yet.
Oh yes.
All fantastic SCREEN$, if push came to shove I'd say Kong was my favourite.
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Great screens, MAC finally got competition.
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Thanks for the link. Really impressive stuff!
Jumping Jack or River Raid screens are amazing! I think both games needed improved ones...
Jumping Jack or River Raid screens are amazing! I think both games needed improved ones...
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Although I think MAC´s level is impossible to reach, Andy´s screen are also unbelievable and a pleasure to see in the original load of the games. Top Notch!
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He's fair churning them out, isn't he? A great body of work for his portfolio, that's for sure.
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Hey up all! Thank you very much for the very kind comments. I really appreciate it!
I use to do pixel art (both on Spectrum 48K and Commodore Amiga), all purely for own amusement. Sadly, the stuff I did on the Speccy are long gone. I had used OCP Art Studio and The Artist. With the Amiga, it was DPaint III.
Fast-forward several years and I wanted to have another go at pixel art again re-trying Art Studio/The Artist, but found them a tad slow going. So looked for an alternative. ZX Paintbrush is great but I found the wealth of options a bit too much (it's an age thing.... lol). So I settled on Multipaint, which has several 8-bit home computer modes. It's very basic and has a limited number of tools and all I require to draw pics is geometry shapes, a grid and a magnify mode. Stop the Express was the first I did. It gave me a real buzz seeing the end result and receiving positive comments from various Facebook groups so I continued to do more, trying different styles and basically improving with each one. I would never consider to be a "pro" (as I've been called a few times!) as I do these because I enjoy doing them. I've seen other artist's work at the ZX Art website and they are absolutely fantastic.
All I set out to do really, is create loading screens for games that never had one, or had little on them. It's never my intention to "better" those that already do have a decent loading screen as to me, that's discrediting the original artist.
Anyhow, the feedback certainly has been fantastic and it's been a privilage and honour for people to message me requesting pics for their new homebrew ZX Spectrum games as well!
Ralf is correct in saying that my loading screens had been integrated into the game files. These are all in tzx format that includes a turbo loader and "screen reveal" (this has been done by a talented guy called jp). If there's enough interest, I'd be more than happy to upload these somewhere (I think there's around 18 so far).
Thanks again for the kind comments.
I use to do pixel art (both on Spectrum 48K and Commodore Amiga), all purely for own amusement. Sadly, the stuff I did on the Speccy are long gone. I had used OCP Art Studio and The Artist. With the Amiga, it was DPaint III.
Fast-forward several years and I wanted to have another go at pixel art again re-trying Art Studio/The Artist, but found them a tad slow going. So looked for an alternative. ZX Paintbrush is great but I found the wealth of options a bit too much (it's an age thing.... lol). So I settled on Multipaint, which has several 8-bit home computer modes. It's very basic and has a limited number of tools and all I require to draw pics is geometry shapes, a grid and a magnify mode. Stop the Express was the first I did. It gave me a real buzz seeing the end result and receiving positive comments from various Facebook groups so I continued to do more, trying different styles and basically improving with each one. I would never consider to be a "pro" (as I've been called a few times!) as I do these because I enjoy doing them. I've seen other artist's work at the ZX Art website and they are absolutely fantastic.
All I set out to do really, is create loading screens for games that never had one, or had little on them. It's never my intention to "better" those that already do have a decent loading screen as to me, that's discrediting the original artist.
Anyhow, the feedback certainly has been fantastic and it's been a privilage and honour for people to message me requesting pics for their new homebrew ZX Spectrum games as well!
Ralf is correct in saying that my loading screens had been integrated into the game files. These are all in tzx format that includes a turbo loader and "screen reveal" (this has been done by a talented guy called jp). If there's enough interest, I'd be more than happy to upload these somewhere (I think there's around 18 so far).
Thanks again for the kind comments.
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Hello Andy, great to see you here !
You are making these screens at astonishing speed but please don't stop. Give us more, it's top quality
You are making these screens at astonishing speed but please don't stop. Give us more, it's top quality
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A couple more I've done recently...
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It's always interesting to see the original
heres Kane:
quite an improvement Sir!
I like that Styx one on yer profile page too
heres Kane:
quite an improvement Sir!
I like that Styx one on yer profile page too
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This guy is incredible!
I don't remember ever, since 2003 when I started using Internet and browsing Spectrum news that anybody produced so much and so good quality loading screens for Spectrum games. What else can I say, waiting for even more
I don't remember ever, since 2003 when I started using Internet and browsing Spectrum news that anybody produced so much and so good quality loading screens for Spectrum games. What else can I say, waiting for even more
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Oh I don't know, the original has a minimalist perfection to it, with a conjunctive practicality that perturbs the negative space within the the realm of discourse the distinctive formal juxtapositions.
(modified from an online art critic generator :-p)
It's weird that so many of the top graphic guys, Andy, MACBG, redballoon, Rorthron don't use the (IMO) best ZX graphics package out there!
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The original is informative too!
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It's very kind of you to include me in this list, but I'm really not in the others' league. And if my graphics manage to look half-decent, it's probably in spite of my methods, not because of them!
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Nice screens, I like the way that some are for games that didn't have loading screens originally.
My favourites are probably 3D Tunnel and Styx. The Pyramid looks pretty cool too.
My favourites are probably 3D Tunnel and Styx. The Pyramid looks pretty cool too.
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Do you take requests? Not that I wish to lower the tone at all but... I always thought Soho Sex Quest deserved a decent loading screen
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Here's a new one. This time not an alternative loading screen. I use to do scenic pics on the Amiga and wanted to prove to myself I could do the same on the Spectrum. So settled for a wintry scene, added a few Spectrum game characters and named the pic, Horace & Friends Ski Lodge. See if you can find them all.
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FANTASTIC! please consider doing one for next year's Xmas tape mag.
Thrust at the top of the LH tree.
Thrust at the top of the LH tree.
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Great stuff! Green Beret has his winter camouflage on to help him blend into the trunk of the left most tree. And I'm really hoping Robbie the robot is skating on top of the lake and not frozen solid underneath it.
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This winter picture is great. On ZxArt there is also a version without Speccy characters.
I don't remeber if anybody before on Spectrum draw trees with combination of navy and white colours. They are most contrasting colours non black in Spectrum palette and it's looks really good.
I don't remeber if anybody before on Spectrum draw trees with combination of navy and white colours. They are most contrasting colours non black in Spectrum palette and it's looks really good.
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Yep^ I wish I could do a scene like this. For once the speccy palette has all it needs for a landscape - 5,1,7 for the icy exterior and 2,6 for the glowing warm shalet.
Here are the easy ones, are there any craftily hidden ones?
Here are the easy ones, are there any craftily hidden ones?
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You've got 'em all! Well done! Nope, no hidden ones although one person did pick up on what looks like a face directly above Monty Mole. Wasn't the intention LOL.
Thank you all for your very kind comments on my pic though. Really appreciate it!
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I wondered about that one, in fact there were a few that I looked at twice or thrice.
From left: sad mutant pig thing, nasty Tyrannosaurus, Maureen Tucker, vomiting Otter.
In fact the chimney's started looking at me funny....Nurse!
From left: sad mutant pig thing, nasty Tyrannosaurus, Maureen Tucker, vomiting Otter.
In fact the chimney's started looking at me funny....Nurse!
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Stoppppppp! Your mind is playing tricks on you now lol.