Canvas is a yearly Fediverse event similar to Reddit’s Place - it’s a collaborative art project where any Fediverse user can place colored pixels on a shared canvas over a period of a few days. It has a dedicated community at !canvas@toast.ooo - the canvas itself is here.

This will be its third year; the first time, there were some minor furry drawings, and last year, we were a bit more organized, with a bit of collaboration between Pawb and Yiffit. The full canvas from last year can be seen here - we had a small spot carved out in the lower left corner, as well as a few scattered things all around.

I’d be great to actually start organized this year, and create something substantial together.

Anyone else interested in participating? Any thoughts on what we might make? Anyone with artistic skill want to sketch something out? If we can get a few ideas, maybe we vote on them prior to the event itself?

Edit: Template Here

    • tblFlip@pawb.socialEnglish
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      2 days ago

      yeah, it is a lot easier to create a template once and be done with it. that said, i don’t think that making a template for a more scattered approach is the hard part. organizing and communicating to everyone what the latest revision of that template is would be

      with one big image (where everything is collected in one place) we would also have to quickly set a boundary around the entire design before anyone else starts to claim parts of it. focusing on one or two smaller designs instead could make the initial rush a good bit more survivable, while also allowing us to utilize space left in between other projects as the event progresses

      • green_copper@kbin.earth
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        2 days ago

        Both approaches have valid arguments and honestly I can’t say which would be better for our group.

        Regarding organization: I think with a central and fast communication it would be doable. Other groups use Matrix. We (I) could also create a group. This would add the benefit that we could get a number on how many people have how much time to pixel and so plan our resources.

        @KoboldCoterie@pawb.social @OmegaMouse@pawb.social @Ethanol@pawb.social @l_b_i@pawb.social

        • tblFlip@pawb.socialEnglish
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          2 days ago

          agreed. +1 vote for matrix. would make organization easier and we do not have to rely on lemmy sending notifications…

          • KoboldCoterie@pawb.socialOPEnglish
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            2 days ago

            I’m all for using Matrix. Re: the design, we could potentially put together something akin to the paw from last year that we start with (something that clearly says ‘There’s furries working on this’ as a sort of rallying flag to anyone else who wanted to join in), then coordinate satellite drawings via Matrix. If we post the initial design in the coordination thread, with a link to the matrix chat, we could potentially get some other folks to help, too (and contribute their own smaller things).

            Having a “furry corner” was nice last year, but given that our designs aren’t really integrated into one thing that has to be kept together, it probably makes sense to take this approach.