Thursday, September 18, 2008

My Color Pallete Collection o.O

A Bug on Pink Flower


White Stork


Sea Weed


Ocean Fishes


Polar Bear


Pigeon in Flowers


Mouse


Lazy Fly ~~


Kitty


Frog


Butterfly


Wildlife Floral


Colorful Ocean



Dog


Cows



Shy Clown Fish


Cardinal after Rain


Colorful Pallete



Bee Bird


Bee




Thursday, September 11, 2008

Story2: White Snake Legend

Once upon a time, a white snake and a green snake who had magical power in the Mountain Er-Mei and had transformed into two beautiful young ladies, on white, one green. They met a man named Hsu Sheng at the West Lake of Hang-Zhou city. The white snake fell in love with Hsu Sheng at first sight. They got married soon after.

The Lady White helped her husband to open an herbal medicine store by writing the prescriptions. Patients unable to pay were given free treatment and medicine. The store quickly became well known and popular. One day a monk called Fa Hai saw the couples and warned Hsu Sheng that his wife was a white snake.

It was during the Dragon Boat Festival, when Chinese families like to decorate with calamus and Chinese mugwort around the house and drink wine to drive away spirits. This was dangerous to Lady White and Lady Green, since they were spirits after all. Lady White was pregnant at that time and her magical power had weakened a lot. She tried to drink wine to please her husband. Unfortunately, she could not control herself and turned into her snake body in her bedroom. Hsu Sheng saw the white snake and was literally scared to death.

In order to save her husband's life, Lady White went to steal the resurrection plant on the Kunlun Mountain. She failed. But her true love won the resurrection plant and the life of Hsu Sheng was restored.

Hsu Sheng remembered Fa Hai and went to the Golden Mountain Temple to see him. Fa Hai suggested Hsu Sheng become a monk to forget his wife. Fa Hai could take care the spirits. Lady White asked a great army of underwater creatures for help and brought forth a flood over the Golden Mountain Temple to fight with Fa Hai. Fa Hai had the magical power too and asked the heavenly soldiers to save his temple. Since the Lady White was pregnant, she was too weak to fight harder, She gave up the battle and waited for the time after giving birth.

Hsu Sheng went to see his son and carried a magical hat from Fa Hai for his son. The magical hat captured the White Snake. Fa Hai imprisoned the White Snake inside the Thunder Pagoda.

The Green Snake was unable to fight Fa Hai alone, escaped and practiced in her magical power even harder. After the son of Lady White grew up. She took revenge by destroying the Thunder Pagoda and rescued White Snake. White Snake reunited with her husband and her son. The story ended here.

Story1: The Princess And The Pea

Once upon time… there was a prince who, after wandering the searching for a wife, returned to his castle and told his unhappy parents that he had been unable to find a bride.

Now, this young man was difficult to please, and he had not been greatly taken with any of the noble young ladies he had met on his travels. He was looking for a bride who was not only beautiful, but also well-born, with the elegance and manners found only in those of noble birth and background.

One evening, during a fierce hurricane that had suddenly blown up, a persistent knocking was heard at the castle door. The prince’s father sent a servant to find out who was there. Standing on the steps, lit by flashes of lightning, in the driving rain, was a young lady, “I’m a princess,” she said, “ Seeking shelter for myself and my page. My carriage has broken down and the coachman can’t repair it till tomorrow.”

In the meantime, the prince’s mother had appeared to welcome the guest. She stared disapprovingly at the girl’s muddy wet garments, and decided to find out if she really was of gentle birth.

“Prepare a soft soft bed in the Blue Room,” she said, “I’ll come myself and make sure everything is in order.” She told the servants to lay a pile of soft quilts on top of the mattress, and under the mattress she hid a pea. Then she showed the girl to her room. The rain beat down all night and lightning streaked the sky. In the morning, the prince’s mother asked her guest: “Did you sleep well? Was the bed comfortable?” The girl politely replied: “It was a lovely soft bed, so soft that I could feel something hard under the mattress. This morning, I discovered it was a pea. It kept me awake all night!” The prince’s mother offered her apologies, before rushing off her son.

“A real princess at last! Just think! She could feel the pea I hid under the mattress! Now, only a well-born lady could do that!”

The prince had finally found the bride of his dreams. After the wedding, the pea was placed inside a gold and crystal box and exhibited in the castle museum.

Monday, September 8, 2008

What is Isometric Pixel Art?

Finding
IPA is consider to a digital art. Every images can edit to pixel level, which is constructing by each same size square. Although the images will become simplistic, it can still express the detail when we see it in small view. The color of pixel art is playing a important role. It can make the pixel image become more detail, more interesting, more realistic. For example, the dark area, the highlight and the shadow.

Where it can be found?
Normally it can be found in old computer and video games, and mobile phone games.

History
The term pixel art was first published by Adele Goldberg and Robert Flegal of Xerox Palo Alto Research Center in 1982.

Some traditional art forms, such as cross-stitch, mosaic and beadwork, bear some similarity to pixel art by constructing pictures out of small colored units same as the pixels of modern digital computing. A similar concept on a much bigger scale can be seen in the mass games.

Example of Pixel Art: