I've [CHAT] you for a thousand years, a thousand years

Mangoes

I didn't know that, but it totally makes sense now!

The only 'trick' I can think of is to reduce spacing to 1 and squish down and rotate the circle a bit on a hard round brush for better linework with a bit more character.

PROX

check this out dudes and dudettes

http://new.livestream.com/g4c/janemcgonigal

PROX

NightDragon wrote: »

I probably have mono. And maybe strep, too. Apparently they can happen together.

Dear Universe: are you even serious

NOooooo. ARe you still waiting for test results?

PierceNeck

ND's been kissin it up.


The only thing I remember about the time I had mono, was that I had to rest every 20 feet when I was trying to move around the house.

Siegfried

I got mono after my first kiss. What luckkkkk

Nappuccino

Never had the chance to get mono. Do I count my blessings or go cry in the corner?

Angel_of_Bacon

Hope you get feelin' better, ND!

Nappuccino wrote: »

Never had the chance to get mono. Do I count my blessings or go cry in the corner?

Well, now's your chance I guess...I'm sure you could arrange for her to spit in your eye or something.



I've been playing a lot of Just Cause 2 recently (it's fun), and I think I actually appreciate the fact that it doesn't seem to make any attempt to conceal the fact that the plot is anything other than stupid, half-assed nonsense and decided to not put any effort into making their cutscenes seem well-produced or that they put more than $15 towards their voice acting budget. It gives it more of a lovable stupid B-movie feel than a lot of action games that take the Michael Bay strategy of trying to dress up their absurdly dumb/basic plot in a ton of production value.

Nappuccino

Angel_of_Bacon wrote: »

Hope you get feelin' better, ND!

Nappuccino wrote: »

Never had the chance to get mono. Do I count my blessings or go cry in the corner?

Well, now's your chance I guess...I'm sure you could arrange for her to spit in your eye or something.

That sounds super hot.

And I never quite got into JC2- the missions were a bit too... blah for me. And once I drove a monstertruck down a mountain side, I kinda felt like my job was done.

Angel_of_Bacon

I haven't been doing many of the missions so far, I've mainly just been
A) Finding military bases
B) Finding assault helicopters
C) Destroying military bases with assault helicopters

m3nace

Just Cause is sorta like playing GTA with cheats... it's extremely fun to begin with but eventually it becomes monotonous. Flying an extremely fast jet into pedestrians just isn't that fun when you've already been using propane tanks to fly your car...

Prospicience

Well geeze if you can do that, then you should be able to transfix chainsaws as the plane's propellers. Problem solved.

NightDragon

Iruka wrote: »

Assume all you dudes are all on tumblr all the time, but just encase you missed it:


If you all knew about this, I demand to know what other PS tricks you are hoarding.

FFFFFFFFF this is awesome!! I actually use the smudge tool haha...there's a way you can use it that blends things pretty easily, though it can be hard to get right if you've never done it before. This looks waaaay easier and faster. I just tried it out!

Nineteen Hundred

Quick poll: How long do you have to wait for a response to a text before it's appropriate to get really annoyed?

Angel_of_Bacon

Does anyone have any experience with using noise-cancelling headphones or earmuffs, especially using them for long periods of time? A recent office move put me closer to some noisier areas and I need to figure out how to get some silence so I can get my concentration-on...if I just blast Buckethead tunes to try to block everything else out I'm going to go deaf pretty quick.

Fugitive

Noise-cancelling headphones + music/podcasts will probably do the trick. I don't think I've ever used a pair that completely block out sound, but the ones I have used seem to cut out a good amount, IIRC.

Nappuccino

How loud is the noise? There are concert type ear plugs that just take off 10-20db from what is going on outside. They're also like 10 bucks so they're way cheaper than any noise canceling headphone will be.

TheExAm

Nineteen Hundred wrote: »

Quick poll: How long do you have to wait for a response to a text before it's appropriate to get really annoyed?

Skip the getting annoyed and assume they've got a good reason. Much less stressful, and if you find out there was a real reason to be annoyed later, you'll have that much more credibility if you call them on it.

PierceNeck

Nineteen Hundred wrote: »

Quick poll: How long do you have to wait for a response to a text before it's appropriate to get really annoyed?

Depends on the text I would think.

If it's "Yo I got cancer and could use some help with junk" then I would like a prompt reply.
If it's "Yo butts lol!" then I wouldn't really expect a response at all.

And then if it was to someone like my brother, chances are his phone is lost/dead, or he didn't pay his bill. So it's a crapshoot.

Angel_of_Bacon

I think I'll just get some big dorky industrial strength earmuffs and cram my earbuds in there underneath if I want music. The thing that's most important to me is being able to get to as close to silence as possible when I need to concentrate on shit (as I've said before (and other people here have shit on this opinion before despite name dropping* some grade A sources), is that even soft music can offer up too much distraction if you're really having to work out a tricky drawing problem). Unfortunately this is difficult to do when your open plan-office places you effectively in a busy hallway, several feet from the entrance to the most heavily used conference room on the floor.

*It's a little depressing that the idea of having a workspace with an actual door you can close if you need to seems like such a quaint, old-timey notion. The closest I've ever had to having an office was having a cubicle with actual, head-high walls...but even that I was sharing with 3 other people.

Mangoes

I would totally draw in silence if I wouldn't get so bored and lonely without music/podcasts. I need something besides arting to keep my short-spanned attention focused.

Angel_of_Bacon

Mangoes wrote: »

I would totally draw in silence if I wouldn't get so bored and lonely without music/podcasts. I need something besides arting to keep my short-spanned attention focused.

That's when you draw harder.

Mangoes

But that would mean that I would have to apply myself to anything ever. I have a problem with doing anything that takes commitment.

Angel_of_Bacon

You have to draw so hard that your brain doesn't have any neurons left to dedicate to thinking about your shitty work ethic.

Mangoes

I tried drawing hard. I just put a big tear in the paper and my pencil is broken.

NOW WHAT

Angel_of_Bacon

ARE YOU STILL TYPING SHIT ON HERE? HOW CAN YOU EXPECT TO DRAW AT MAXIMUM HARDNESS IF YOU'RE INTERNETTING AND SHIT?!

Mangoes

My big problem is I love environment paintings but I have no imagination so I always default back to my terrible child memory of ideas from this dvd:
http://www.thegnomonworkshop.com/store/product/269/The-Techniques-of-Ryan-Church-3
So I draw way too many really tall buildings and then give up.

PROX

mango. the magic was inside you all along.

Mangoes

Flay

One of my favourite tricks in photoshop is to create a new brush and tick colour dynamics in the brush window. Set foreground/background, hue, saturation and brightness jitter and roundness jitter all to 0, and switch control to 'fade' and the value to whatever is appropriate for your document size. Have your foreground colour as a nice dark green and your background colour as a lighter more yellow green. Combine this with pen pressure, you have instant realistic grass.

Faded_Sneakers

There be a reckoning coming.

It will smell of pumpkin and catfish.

And the living will dance among us.

Prospicience

Mmmmm mango pulp.

NightDragon

I am allergic to da mangoes.

NightDragon

I really wish I had done more personal work in the past year...I'm realizing how many problems I still have in creating good-looking pieces. :\

I really need a few lessons in composition.

Godfather

So I am surprised that i'm not really excited about Brave's release tomorrow, and I don't know why!

This is strange, seeing as i've been jazzed about any PIXAR product coming out for years (save Cars and its sequel).

Mangoes

Cars 2 made me sad about the state of Pixar. The things I've heard and seen about Brave is making me more sad, and Monsters University is one of the more upsetting things I've seen.

Godfather

I can accept that PIXAR made Cars 2 to help pay the bills; that's what many people involved with the picture stated upfront, and it's what helps support and keep the other projects alive (take BRAVE for example). I mean it was something we had to deal with during the Disney renaissance in the 90's (though probably not as immediate and obvious as Cars 2 was). I'm sure if I were a kid in my single digits during its release I would have ate that stuff up.

I also wouldn't be surprised if PIXAR began to hit a bit more of a lull with their track record on movies; nobody can stay on top forever, no matter how productive or powerful a studio becomes. Sometimes it's the sleepers that disrupt the safe bets, kinda like how the Lion King was an unexpected monumental success while their top-tier AAA project Pocahontas is somewhat forgettable in today's eyes.

I will however reserve any further judgement on PIXAR until I at least see BRAVE and some more of their upcoming future projects!

squidbunny

The Brave trailers seem specifically cut to make it look as dull and run-of-the-mill coming-of-age/kid vs. apparently stupid parents as possible. At least, I hope it's mostly the cutting of the trailers. I haven't really read early reviews but I did see Onion AV gave it a B, which is about as good as it gets over there unless something is amazing as all get out.

I'm gonna see it and reserve judgment until I do.

Nappuccino

the impressions I've been hearing are that Brave is ok, but rather bland. Which... to be honest, isn't something I expected to hear about a Pixar movie.

Wassermelone

NightDragon wrote: »

I really wish I had done more personal work in the past year...I'm realizing how many problems I still have in creating good-looking pieces. :\

I really need a few lessons in composition.

If you need any help, I would be more than happy to laugh derisively at you

But seriously, I'm here to help

NightDragon

Hahaha...Wasser I'm pretty sure I broke myself after not doing anything involving a scene for the past year and a half. I've forgotten how to art! TEXTURES?? Hell yeah, got that in the bag. What's a composition, though? :C

eff-town and sauce. Mayhap I will PM you.