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Spent 11 days trying to make the butter robot look sad in a meme, turns out the answer was 2 pixels
I make butter robot memes pretty much every night after work, and I got stuck on one where he is staring at a stick of butter with this crushed look on his little face. I kept redrawing the eyes in GIMP and every single version looked angry instead of sad. I tried bigger pupils, tilted the eye down, added a tiny shadow under him, nothing worked. After 11 days of messing with it I zoomed in way too far and saw his eyes were sitting 2 pixels too high in the frame. I nudged them down and suddenly he looked like a guy who just found out the point of everything. Any of you run into the same thing where the fix was so small you felt dumb for missing it?
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fionap709d ago
The "2 pixels too high" thing got me, because I did almost the same dumb dance with a cupcake sticker last month. I spent four nights nudging the mouth around, redrawing the whole thing twice, then moved the eyes down one notch and it finally looked like a sad little pastry instead of a smug one. My husband asked why I was yelling at the laptop and I couldn't even explain it without sounding nuts. Eleven days is rough but at least you got there, and now I want to go zoom in on all my old files to see what else is off by a hair.
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