Yeah, I quite like what we made this year. Wish we’d had more people getting involved - would have been neat to have like, 10 or so small things in there.

Obviously far too early to start planning something, but I think we should go with a collage of instantly recognizable furry gateway characters - Disney’s Robin Hood, Gadget Hackwrench, Nick Wilde / Judy Hopps, Lucario, Renamon, etc. - and prep the image a month or so in advance, then start posting it around a few furry subs to publicize it. If we can get any traction on the design ahead of time, it’d be easier to get people on board with making it.

We’re intending to get organized a bit earlier next year - love to have you then!

Well, it’s better than putting them in boxes, I suppose!

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.

That’s the intent, yeah - whatever we decide on, we just work on it as a group, via the template we’ll set up.

Definitely feel free to make any adjustments you want!

I kind of hate how restrictive the color palette is with regards to actual colors. Things with an excess of browns and greys are very easy to make work, but anything with an abundance of color ends up looking very basic. For example, this guy looks fine when converted to the palette, but trying to do it with a green (for example) character just looks like a mess.

Okay, new proposal: We trim some elements and omit others, leaving us with this:

We put it at (0,390), with the understanding that we’re going behind (rather than over) the tree that’s going up right beside us; that will also help box it in.

In the event that the canvas gets extended twice instead of only once (which will result in another 500 px below the initial square), we extend the two cut off pieces down into the new area, if we have time.

Total area here is 176x110, which is still ambitious, but plausible.

The other option is we design something that fits on the right edge of the canvas and plan to continue into the expanded area the first time it expands (which will probably happen, the second one is less likely.)

(It’s not really about being able to place all of the pixels over the course of the event so much as it is being able to command presence of our area. If we’re working slowly and filling things in a little at a time, other art will move into the area we’d planned to draw in, but we can take advantage of the expanding canvas to solve for this.)

The alternative is that we take all of the individual elements and place them around the canvas, and build them separately. We really do just have a collection of small things, so we could fit them in around other artworks rather than trying to capture an entire corner / area.

The right side will be in the middle on the final canvas (assuming it goes the same as last year, with the size doubling mid-way through). Not a bad thing necessarily but worth noting.

As noted above, though, this is too large - we’ll never get this much space to ourselves and we’ll simply never finish it.

This is a composite of the templates currently posted there - top right corner doesn’t work as we’d be competing with another group.

Compacted a few things, removed boykisser, and swapped Omega and the paw to make it a bit more compact; this is the most compact layout I can find. Total outline is 216x180, though, which is way too large. We’ll never get that much space to ourselves, and we’ll never actually be able to finish it.

That actually fits together pretty compactly. We could omit the boykisser, there’s been boykissers elsewhere on the canvas for the last two years, anyway, and it’s the only component that doesn’t fit in nicely.

Oh for sure, I’m not proposing that this is the design, just arranged everything spread out enough that they could be cut out and moved around if someone wanted to propose something. (The red kobold doesn’t need to be there in its entirety, either; it’s quite large. We also don’t need to use everything here, obviously.)

I don’t have a GIMP file; I’m working in Aseprite, but I can export a to-scale PNG. I can also share the Aseprite file (with layers set up and the color palette loaded) if anyone else is using it.

Just realized I didn’t have OmegaMouse’s pixel art version in there. This is what it looks like when reduced to the Canvas palette - it’s workable, but it’d need some work. Up to you which one you prefer.

Here’s all of the ones that’ve been posted, plus a few others that furries will probably find familiar. Some (like the Yiffit logo) will need to be cleaned up if we end up using them, and some are obviously too large as they are (and will need to either be behind other elements or be trimmed down), but they’re all using the right palette.

I’ve got them in separate layers in aseprite and I don’t mind making the final template / doing the cleanup, but I’d like to get some feedback from folks on arrangement. I’m a pretty shit artist.

Even if you want to just toss things in a rough position in MS Paint, that’s fine - input needed.

Ethanol, tblFlip, l_b_i: If you want to get your sonas or favorite character included, I’ll take care of pixelifying it for you, just give me a source image (ideally with high contrast).

@OmegaMouse@pawb.social @Ethanol@pawb.social @green_copper@kbin.earth @tblFlip@pawb.social @l_b_i@yiffit.net

Very helpful!

Have you got a fursona you’d potentially want to include? If you’ve got some non-pixel art art, I might be able to make it work. I’m not much of an artist, but I know my way around Aseprite, at least. Just don’t want you to be left out!

Here’s an attempt at conforming it to the Canvas color palette; could use some cleaning up, but it’s quite workable.

I’d like to get a kobold or two in there, too - still mucking with it, but something like

or

Do we want to include a paw or some text or something? Furries of the Fediverse! I don’t know.

We could do all of the headshots surrounding a central paw, maybe.

This is great; have you confirmed that your color palette is supported?

You’ve got about 4000-4500 colored pixels here, or 6650 if you’re thinking to have a solid background behind it; that’s a lot - you might need to trim it down to just a bust (for example) to cut the size down, unless you’re planning to be super active. (There’s a ~30 second cooldown between pixels you can place, so drawing something that big takes a long time. To put it in perspective, the entire area we were working on last year with 3 or 4 of us very active and a number of others popping in for shorter periods was about 7500 total pixels.

@tblFlip@pawb.social @Ethanol@pawb.social @l_b_i@pawb.social @OmegaMouse@pawb.social Do you all (and anyone else, but you all have replied here) want to supply some character images, too? We can put together a collage with all of them around a paw or a slogan or something to tie it together.

Hey, this is great!

It’d be awesome to have some cohesive (larger) design this year rather than just adding things as we think of them. :)

If nothing else, we could always make a little collage of everyone’s sonas or favorite characters. Would require everyone to supply their own image, though, and we’d have to get them all sized, arranged, and reduced to the available color palette.

There’s already services like Box.com that offer similar functionality for files.

As a suggestion, having an option to have the string deleted after it’s been accessed once would be nice as an extra layer of protection.