Deluxe Paint Pictures

I've been rummaging through some old floppy disks on my Commodore Amiga recently and have been looking at some old pixel art drawings I did years ago.  They're pretty naff compared to some of the work I've seen done on the Amiga, but these are my very own dating all the way back to 1993 and I remember being rather proud of them.  I still am.

 

All were created on my Commodore Amiga 500 and hand drawn pixel by pixel using the excellent Deluxe Paint III and IV between 1993 and 1996. Remember, I only had a screen resolution of 320x256 and 32 colours, or 640x512 and 16 colours to work with.

 

Just click on the pictures to enlarge and view them in all their full blockiness.

 

Aft Stations - 1993

 

Aliens (based on a pencil drawing I did) - 20th May 1995

 

The TNG Bridge - 29th October 1995

 

The TNG Bridge - 31st December 1993 to 1st January 1994 (I remember doing this on New Years Eve)

 

The TOS Bridge - 2nd December 1994

 

Control Room - 5th March 1994 (Based on a picture I saw in a Commodore magazine)

 

Docking - 1993 to 1994.  This was the first proper picture I started working on using D-Paint.  It took me awhile to get it perfect.

 

Galileo Shuttlcraft - 16th April 1995

 

Country House - 24th July 1995

 

Star Trek/Wars - 31st March 1996

 

Lt. Jadzia Dax by me and Steve Ready - 28th July 1994.  I was never happy with the face, but the rest was good.

 

Engineering - 1993

 

Deep Space Nine and Runabout - 20th to 26th June 1994.  Gosh, I needed some tips from JJ Abrams on how to do decent lens flares.

 

Star Trek Generations - 2nd February 1995.  The Enterprise was scanned from the TNG Technical Manual if my memory serves me correctly.

 

Star Trek Generations - 30th January 1995.  Simple but effective use of colour gradiants in D-Paint.

 

Stargate - 1995 - Another simple picture that didn't take me long to do, but I think it came out really well.

 

The Flintstones - 3rd October 1993

 

AND finally a couple of stills from a video I did years ago with some early green-screen effects on my Amiga, featuring a rather young (and thin) me.  Blimey these are 20 years old.  I feeeeeeel old.

 

Stuart on Eminiar VII - 1996

 

Stuart on Delta Vega - 1996

 

 

New Year, New Beginnings

Those who know me know that New Year is usually a depressing time for me.  Another year older, and the start of another year where anything can happen (usually bad).

 

Well, I can honestly say 2015 will be remembered as being the year things started to look up for me. It's been a great year, and it's so nice that it's ended on a high.  I'll always go in to each new year as a pessimist (that's just me, expecting the worst), but at least (at last) I've gone in to 2016 happy, with my wonderful family and some wonderful memories from 2015.

 

For me, the big event of the year was us moving to a much larger house.  It's surprising how much happier we all are with the extra room.  Of course, that's not the only good thing to happen in 2015.  I've been able to manage my work/life balance a little better, and all in all I'm feeling a lot better and happier in myself.  Still some way to go, but at least I'm on the right track.

 

Anyway, have a fantastic and happy new year everyone and I hope 2016 is 'your' year.

 

Stu

 

 

Stuart's Panoramic World 15 - Evesham, December 2015

 

Blimey.  My 360° panoramas are like buses - None for ages, and then two come along together!  This one is an aerial view of Evesham, showing the river Avon, the town centre, Bell Tower (with lots of scaffolding), Waterside and Bengeworth. 

 

Use your mouse (or cursor keys) to look.  Your mouse wheel allows you to zoom in and out.

Location : Evesham Date : 24rd December 2015 Camera : DJI Phantom 3 Advanced Drone Built-in Camera Download/Enlarge : Click here to enlarge

 

Stuart's Panoramic World 14 - Elmley Castle, 2015

 

It's been awhile since my last 360 panorama.  Having had the chance to play with a DJI Phantom 3 Advanced Drone, I've been doing some aerial views.  This one was taken yesterday at Elmley Castle, a small village near to Evesham and at the base of Bredon Hill.

 

Use your mouse (or cursor keys) to look.  Your mouse wheel allows you to zoom in and out.

Location : Elmley Castle Date : 23rd December 2015 Camera : DJI Phantom 3 Advanced Drone Built-in Camera Download/Enlarge : Click here to enlarge

 

Retro Game Boys Episode 4 - Goldeneye 007 (Nintendo 64)

After a slight break (blasted real life getting in the way), the boys return.  This time they look at Goldeneye on the Nintendo 64, and also look at a couple of retro computer books currently available to buy.

 

Pointless Post

Its a quiet night, so I thought I'd do some maths.

Sophie and Kayleigh are exactly 2298 days old today.
 Kieran is exactly 3939 days old today.
 I am exactly 14187 days old.

When I was the girls age (as they are now at this very minute), the date was Friday 29th April 1983. When I was Kieran's age, the date was Monday 26th October 1987 (the time of the great storm of 87).

Yep, some useless information for a Monday evening. Nothing like a bit of maths to make me feel older than I already do.