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[META] Canvas 2025 is starting July 12

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# July 12th, 2025 @ 4am UTC https://2025.canvas.fediverse.events/ [https://2025.canvas.fediverse.events/] ✨ just as it was last year, the entire Fediverse is invited ✨ follow via microblog @canvas@fediverse.events [/u/canvas@fediverse.events] [https://social.fediverse.events/@canvas] join the chat o...

The Fediverse's collaborative pixel art event is coming back. Last year we successfully put down this championship belt, designed by me.

If people are interested in participating again this year I'm willing to design something else. Of course, if someone else wants to design something I'm down for that too.

Last year I just put together the belt as a suggestion and we went with it. This year I figured we could get some more community input on what the design should be. Another belt? A wrestling ring? Should we go all in on a Mr. Iguana mural? The world sucks, lets detract ourselves with some pixel art.

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  • Made a post over on the Home community for .zip with our plans and seeing what everyone else is doing. I think demigodrick is on vacation so I wanna make sure people don't miss it since he may not know it's going on lol

    • Oh, nice. I thought about doing the same at one point but then forgot all about it lol.

  • I saw people were sharing their templates here so I went ahead and made one for us. Coordinates 316,316 seemed fitting for a wresting ring.

    • I would have also accepted any of the following wrestle numbers:

      619, 605, 420, 98, 0, 10.

      If you get all those references, you're probably cooler than me.

  • With Canvas a week away I tweaked the design more. I used blue ropes since there's already blue on the apron, but they're still subject to change depending on what's around us. The main change is I made Squared Circle bigger. The taller letters are giving me a Star Trek vibe but I figured I'd let you all take a look at both.

    I saved the 1:1 versions separately so the one people like can be used as a template without having to upload it again. (Edit: Turns out Lemmy compresses images so they won't work for templates. I'll just throw the one we want to use on Imgur.) I also included the old design to compare to the new ones. Which one looks the best to you?

    • Getting them Star Trek vibes from the text too so I can't not like it lmao! Ropes look good in blue, least for now like you said.

  • Man I have been checking for weeks rofl

    As usual, I'm good with whatever you all wanna go with! I love the design you whipped up for last year and we can def do it again (a lot of last year's we had at a max like 2 people working on it at a time and didn't take too long to complete, so size wise its good as well).

    Not opposed to other belt designs tho, or the idea of a ring! Mr Iguana..might be a bit too abstract for pro wrestling as a whole lol.

    Edit: How have I been checking for weeks and missed the announcement 12 days ago jfc I suck lol

    • I just happened to see a post about Canvas coming back last night so I looked into it this morning.

      And to be fair I didn't think anyone would actually go for Mr. Iguana, I just wanted to have the option of a wrestler.

  • I decided to test out the design by pasting it onto last year's Canvas. I also tested out outlining the the whole thing to see if it makes any difference, but I think I like the idea of other people drawing characters peeking though the ropes more than I like the ropes being easy to see from a distance.

    • but I think I like the idea of other people drawing characters peeking though the ropes more than I like the ropes being easy to see from a distance.

      Yeah you know what I'm sold!

  • Since people seem to like the idea of a ring I came up with this. At the top it's the actual size compared to what we did last year, and the big one is just zoomed in to see details better. I put our home instance, lemmy.zip's, logo on the canvas because it seemed empty otherwise. I'm also just now realizing we'd be putting a canvas on Canvas.

    The basic rectangular footprint is 149x75, compared to last year's 86x50. We also might need to outline the ropes in white or something, depending on what's going on around us. Judging from last year's timelapse, it looks like we finished around the half way point, so going bigger shouldn't be that much of an issue, as long as we can stake our claim early. I used the color palette from last year so we shouldn't run into it looking different when it's time to start drawing.

    I'm not super into the color of the ring ropes, but I thought I'd get people's opinions before doing to much more. What does everyone think?

    • I'm liking it! As for ring rope colour I'm good regardless. Worst case we can go with the R-B-R and swap colours later if the surrounding art blends in too much.

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