Can we talk about Titlescreen art?

[Samuel Slayer]

I'm debating whether this should be in the creative works section, since it's not really me showing off my stuff but rather inciting a discussion.

 

How does one go about creating Titlescreen in the quality of said picture? Like, what does it take to remove Doomguy's armor and adding a hairy torso and Romero's head and make it look like it would've shipped like that back in 1993? I've seen Adrian Carmack's art and know that some of that stuff is translated from pen and paper into digital pixels. I'm an artist (hobbyist) so I know that if I applied myself, I could try to replicate his penwork to be used as a titlescreen. I just need to know the workflow so I could replicate it. I just really think that this world needs more badass Doom Titlescreen art and it's something I've been thinking about often lately.

[Doomkid]

Well, the process would be as “simple” as drawing your art by hand, compressing it down to 320x200, then colorising it using Doom’s palette. Some examples of truly badass hand-drawn title screens include Requiem, Eviternity and JPCP, but there’s other approaches one could take such as screenshotting 3D models, as was done for zddl4.wad.

 

Also.. that shirtless Romero edit is goddamn hilarious!

[Samuel Slayer]

7 minutes ago, Doomkid said:

Well, the process would be as “simple” as drawing your art by hand, compressing it down to 320x200, then colorising it using Doom’s palette. Some examples of truly badass hand-drawn title screens include Requiem, Eviternity and JPCP, but there’s other approaches one could take such as screenshotting 3D models, as was done for zddl4.wad.

 

Also.. that shirtless Romero edit is goddamn hilarious!

So I literally just paint pixels over a drawn picture with photoshop? That's it?

[Lykanthrope]

1 hour ago, Samuel Slayer said:

So I literally just paint pixels over a drawn picture with photoshop? That's it?

Pretty much.

[Mr.Rocket]

Well you don't have to but yeah the easiest way is to use an existing title pic since it's already in the pallet color.

If you want to draw from scratch, flood fill with black and start over, heh. Or you could draw a high color image and then apply the doom pallet afterwards.

That is, if you want to stick with vanilla Doom.

Otherwise you could make a true color image and save it as .png which then could be used in a modern source port, if wanted.

So, you have options.

 

[Samuel Slayer]

1 minute ago, Mr.Rocket said:

Well you don't have to but yeah the easiest way is to use an existing title pic since it's already in the pallet color.

If you want to draw from scratch, flood fill with black and start over, heh. Or you could draw a high color image and then apply the doom pallet afterwards.

That is, if you want to stick with vanilla Doom.

Otherwise you could make a true color image and save it as .png which then could be used in a modern source port, if wanted.

 

What does true color mean in practical terms? That it doesn't belong to any palette?

[Devalaous]

The shirtless Romero titlescreen is fitting, as he was the one posing for that very picture

[Mr.Rocket]

6 minutes ago, Samuel Slayer said:

What does true color mean in practical terms? That it doesn't belong to any palette?

I suppose yeah, well at least 16 million colors. 

Colors that aren't allowed colors for a specific game engine, unless a color pallet of sorts isn't needed.

For example, the cyan blue in the Doom color pallet is its transparent alpha channel basically.

Otherwise a modern game engine can use all the colors.

[Samuel Slayer]

9 minutes ago, Devalaous said:

The shirtless Romero titlescreen is fitting, as he was the one posing for that very picture

That's one of the reasons I chose it.

[ZeroTheEro]

2 hours ago, Doomkid said:

Well, the process would be as “simple” as drawing your art by hand, compressing it down to 320x200, then colorising it using Doom’s palette. Some examples of truly badass hand-drawn title screens include Requiem, Eviternity and JPCP, but there’s other approaches one could take such as screenshotting 3D models, as was done for zddl4.wad.

 

Also.. that shirtless Romero edit is goddamn hilarious!

Pretty sure JPCP's artwork was just Nanka's artwork compressed.

[Gez]

The head should probably be tilted a bit to better align with the body. He's gonna get a torticollis.

[P41R47]

18 hours ago, Samuel Slayer said:

I'm debating whether this should be in the creative works section, since it's not really me showing off my stuff but rather inciting a discussion.

 

How does one go about creating Titlescreen in the quality of said picture? Like, what does it take to remove Doomguy's armor and adding a hairy torso and Romero's head and make it look like it would've shipped like that back in 1993? I've seen Adrian Carmack's art and know that some of that stuff is translated from pen and paper into digital pixels. I'm an artist (hobbyist) so I know that if I applied myself, I could try to replicate his penwork to be used as a titlescreen. I just need to know the workflow so I could replicate it. I just really think that this world needs more badass Doom Titlescreen art and it's something I've been thinking about often lately.

I was searching for an image like that, thanks Samuel Slayer!

That shirtless Doomguy will be use non stop from now on ;)