Coro faces on Matrix display - newbie question

[murraycentral]

Hello all, I am new to the xlights family this year.  I grew tired of the LOR limitations and after researching many displays i really liked, discovered they too were using xlights.  so after 7 years of LOR....out with the old, in with the new. 

This year i will be running all RGB pixels and have planned and purchased some of my pixel matrix panels for the display.  Last night I was working on my Coro faces within those Matrix elements and while I have the method down, the image is very pixelated. 

Here is where the question comes in.   the matrix is 600 pixels, 25x24.  now i realize that isnt very high res, however, is it so low res that it cant even display a Holiday Coro image well?  do i need to switch to something else for this?  looking for recommendations from the community.  i see some are using p10 panels, i am not sure i have enough time to aquire, assemble and learn these for halloween but i am open to suggestion.

I have used the original 8 channel faces for several years now and would really like to take it to the next level.

i have attached an image of what the preview is showing it will look like. 

thanks in advance for the feedback.

[Gilrock]

That should be enough pixels to display faces like that but unfortunately you will need to draw them.  Resampling larger images isn't always going to produce the best result.  You could do that to get a baseline and then manually edit it.  Or ask if others have drawn them at low res.

[DrNeutron]

For best results draw it out in Piskel: http://www.piskelapp.com/
1. make the canvas the size of your matrix (resize drawing area to 25X24 pixels).
2. Draw Skull outline and at rest Phoneme, click save to file.
3. Click duplicate frame and change Phoneme for O face, save file.
4. Repeat process for all phonemes used (usually 5).
5. Now in Xlights with your matrix assign the pictures for the face definition.
I haven't found an easy way to take a simple 7 channel singing sequence and import into Xlights using pictures within a matrix, but doing it on a singing element using sub models is easy.

[murraycentral]

Thanks for the feedback... i am going to give it a shot this weekend.  if i cannot redraw it to look suitable (halloween is the Mrs. big holiday so ...) then i may just splurge and buy the setup for P10 panels and create 4 displays that way.  I would just need to figure out how to get 4 octoscrollers in an assembled state ( I am really bad at soldering).