trenowdenj (![[info]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif){kind=small} trenowdenj) wrote,@ 2009-01-20 22:26:00 |
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The Web Planet
Yes, another revamp of an older colourisation. Don't blame me! The colourisation competition keeps throwing them up and I feel obliged to do them!
However, you can blame me for the lack of updates. That one's purely down to laziness.
I've already gotten a bit rusty, and this certainly wasn't the easiest of pictures to get back into form with (the Menoptera was a hassle to get looking halfway decent). Anyway, I might tweak it further later on. Can't be bothered right now.
It's an improvement over the 2005 version in my eyes, but that's hopefully to be expected.
On a bit of a tangent, the news regarding Planet of the Daleks episode 3 being colourised is very good to hear. It sounds as though the quality is impressive, and hopefully the combined techniques will allow something as close to the original as possible. If only we weren't in the middle of this "credit crunch" (gah, hate that phrase) then the prospect of more would seem a lot more likely. As it is, I think that unless the Dalek War box-set sells more than expected we probably won't be seeing any more colourised episodes in the near future. Of course, my business sense stinks, so with any luck I'm completely wrong.
On another tangent (I'm swerving all over the place here), you may have seen this link before. It's an interesting process, and one that is available via a program called Recolored (yeah, sounds American to me too). I've been dabbling with the trial and, while it can take a few attempts to get acceptable looking pictures, it does produce some interesting results. Here's one of the sample pictures supplied with the program that I've tried the process on:
I chose the image because it had skin tones, which is one of the things I wasn't convinced it would be able to pull off successfully. Of course the results aren't perfect, and I don't know what advantages the full program would have (if any) over the trial. For an experiment though, it doesn't work too badly.
Yes, another revamp of an older colourisation. Don't blame me! The colourisation competition keeps throwing them up and I feel obliged to do them!
However, you can blame me for the lack of updates. That one's purely down to laziness.
I've already gotten a bit rusty, and this certainly wasn't the easiest of pictures to get back into form with (the Menoptera was a hassle to get looking halfway decent). Anyway, I might tweak it further later on. Can't be bothered right now.
It's an improvement over the 2005 version in my eyes, but that's hopefully to be expected.
On a bit of a tangent, the news regarding Planet of the Daleks episode 3 being colourised is very good to hear. It sounds as though the quality is impressive, and hopefully the combined techniques will allow something as close to the original as possible. If only we weren't in the middle of this "credit crunch" (gah, hate that phrase) then the prospect of more would seem a lot more likely. As it is, I think that unless the Dalek War box-set sells more than expected we probably won't be seeing any more colourised episodes in the near future. Of course, my business sense stinks, so with any luck I'm completely wrong.
On another tangent (I'm swerving all over the place here), you may have seen this link before. It's an interesting process, and one that is available via a program called Recolored (yeah, sounds American to me too). I've been dabbling with the trial and, while it can take a few attempts to get acceptable looking pictures, it does produce some interesting results. Here's one of the sample pictures supplied with the program that I've tried the process on:
I chose the image because it had skin tones, which is one of the things I wasn't convinced it would be able to pull off successfully. Of course the results aren't perfect, and I don't know what advantages the full program would have (if any) over the trial. For an experiment though, it doesn't work too badly.
