[CHAT]sgiving is over; onward to [CHAT]smas!

earthwormadam

using texture brushes makes my PS slow to a crawl, but otherwise that'd be swell

Stupid Mr Whoopsie Name

I wish I were more proficient (read: had any clue) in making my own. So as it were, I'll stick with standing on the shoulders of people who can.

Iruka

Stupid Mister Whoopsie Name wrote: »

AlyceInWonderland wrote: »

Iruka wrote: »

So I was thinking that I could maybe get a PA:AC fund going for us to have a forum collective subscription to the gnomon dvds, but they dont take paypal, which is unfortunate. Still, you all trusted me with a little money for the AC: DA group, so I wonder. I don't have a ton of money atm, but just to test the water, would anyone be interested in this?

Basically it'd be like, 10 people throw down 50 bucks, and we all get the account info and the full library of Gnomon for a year.

I don't want this post to be overlooked. I think this is a great idea. Right now, I don't have the money to put into it, but soon I will, when I get my next paycheck. Anyway, I think everyone should think about this. It would be super beneficial to all of us!

Oh, hey, yeah I'd be down for this later than sooner (when I have a little extra to toss at it).

Before doing this, however, have you looked into their TOS regarding such a collective? They may not say anything against it outright, but they may also have a policy in place regarding sharing accounts, or too many unique IPs logging in to one account, etc etc.

Just something to ponder.

Well, If I have a few people into it, I will study the specifics harder. People at my school did this alot (I'm currently sharing a Lynda.com account.) I'll look into it on the gnomon side.


But mars, I plan to work on some textures actually, so I could be up for that. Have you looked through the AC: DA groups favorites? There are many there and most brushes are simply free to use http://pa-artistcorner.deviantart.com/favourites/?38652889

NightDragon

Stupid Mister Whoopsie Name wrote: »

I wish I were more proficient (read: had any clue) in making my own. So as it were, I'll stick with standing on the shoulders of people who can.

It's really simple! I usually make a new document - a square of about 300-500 pixels, white background...and just experiment with different pictures or textures you find online...make them greyscale...whiten the space around the edges so the texture is just a circle in the middle...and open another document to test the brush and make any changes (like, if one part of the texture brush is too dark or too light or too bold, and makes the brush stroke too obvious with the repeating bit).

That's just for the textures that I plan on using with the "angle jitter", so the texture doesn't repeat.

It can also be fun to just make graphic shapes and see what happens...either with "angle jitter" on, or "angle jitter - direction" on, so it flows like a paintbrush.

Also playing with the spacing can be fun, or combining two brushes in the "dual brush" tab.

You can also do cool things if you make a black chain-link, upright...and fiddle with the spacing, and set it to "angle direction"....and you can make instant chains! Pretty cool.


But yeah...some people just come up with really great brushes. I need more variety...I have a handful of brushes I really like and have used over and over again, but it would be good to get some new ones in there too.

DirtyDirtyVagrant

Stupid Mister Whoopsie Name wrote: »

DirtyDirtyVagrant wrote: »

A website start-up. Hmm. That's a really good idea. Have you done that? What business did you use?

I have. At the time I used a hobby website--which was in no way intended to be a replacement or supplant any actual income--and described it as a "joint-effort that ultimately fell through but taught me a great deal about managing a process and working on a team with others."

When do I start?

DirtyDirtyVagrant wrote: »

I say carmel.

I say "Golden-brown blocks of torment that pull the fillings out of teeth like light lost to a black hole and should be prejudiced with the highest degree of severity."

I had bad teeth as a kid. I would say that I lost a majority of my baby teeth to these:



So I can sympathize.

Stupid Mr Whoopsie Name

Holy Cats, ND! Thanks for the info dump--that one small post alone is a good starting point. I think I'll probably set up an FTP on my site in the coming weeks and put stuff up there that I make.

Likewise, 'Rook. I didn't realize the PA:DA thing was more that just people's work represented, thanks.


DDV, just looking at that made my mouth sore.

NightDragon

Welcomes

Tam

DirtyDirtyVagrant wrote: »

Stupid Mister Whoopsie Name wrote: »

DirtyDirtyVagrant wrote: »

A website start-up. Hmm. That's a really good idea. Have you done that? What business did you use?

I have. At the time I used a hobby website--which was in no way intended to be a replacement or supplant any actual income--and described it as a "joint-effort that ultimately fell through but taught me a great deal about managing a process and working on a team with others."

When do I start?

DirtyDirtyVagrant wrote: »

I say carmel.

I say "Golden-brown blocks of torment that pull the fillings out of teeth like light lost to a black hole and should be prejudiced with the highest degree of severity."

I had bad teeth as a kid. I would say that I lost a majority of my baby teeth to these:



So I can sympathize.

oh god my tract

but they're so good!

AlyceInWonderland

In other news, I'm feeling a bit better about the whole...art career thing. A professor of mine was a colorist at Marvel for 13 years, and she's helping me with my resume and coverletter for an internship there. I've always been nervous about those two things, and how to write them, so I'm overjoyed about her helping me out!

Paradise

• Those Riesen things are fucking delicious.
  
• Good for you, and good luck, Alyce.
  
• Batman: Under the Red Hood is a pretty good animated movie.

NightDragon

Ugh I thought I had a short shift at work tomorrow, and I just checked and it's a long shift that I have to get up early for.

Boooooo

MagicToaster

Does anyone wanna do the sketch book send-around?

NightDragon

I remember we tried that on the MSPA forums...I can't remember how far it got

earthwormadam

not very far

AlyceInWonderland

Not very far at all. Bummer.

earthwormadam

but yay a new trailer from shawn of the dead dudes

Angel_of_Bacon

Buying more art books!

Take THAT, disposable income!

D-Robe

AoB:
disposing of income since 1985.

mensch-o-matic

holy shit holy shit holy shit



mantas!!!!!

Iruka

Is that real? They look like a miasma of poison blobs.

mensch-o-matic

its a migration! man i love mantas



manta i love mantas

Red Raevyn

Hey guys,

I came in here to share my pumpkin because I didn't actually carve it until today. Hopefully most of you can guess at what I used as a reference, if not I hope you can figure out to click on the hyperlink several words back.



However, I have to add... what the manta? This is going to lead to some serious wikipedia time. (thanks, mensch-o-manta).

Iruka

That pumpkin....

Its perfect.

You should have done it for the contest!

bombardier

Holy shit that is awesome. I knew what it was right away!

AlyceInWonderland

This is my first time reading those comics, and I'm blubbering like a little girl at the flash back. :C

DirtyDirtyVagrant

I recognize that art style. Dude that drew that went to SCAD, didn't he? I remember someone posting an animation he did here.

This is cool stuff.

This character vaguely reminds me of the character in Polkout somehow.

Flay

I haven't read any of boxer hockey but I think I have to now, because that walk cycle is possible the most adorable thing I have ever seen.

DirtyDirtyVagrant

Ahahahaha.

PierceNeck

I'm completely disgusted with my art ability. DISGUSTED!

Time to move on to things I'm good at. Like punching children, or taming walruses. There's a career in both of those, I think.

Flay

Iruka wrote: »

Stupid Mister Whoopsie Name wrote: »

AlyceInWonderland wrote: »

Iruka wrote: »

So I was thinking that I could maybe get a PA:AC fund going for us to have a forum collective subscription to the gnomon dvds, but they dont take paypal, which is unfortunate. Still, you all trusted me with a little money for the AC: DA group, so I wonder. I don't have a ton of money atm, but just to test the water, would anyone be interested in this?

Basically it'd be like, 10 people throw down 50 bucks, and we all get the account info and the full library of Gnomon for a year.

I don't want this post to be overlooked. I think this is a great idea. Right now, I don't have the money to put into it, but soon I will, when I get my next paycheck. Anyway, I think everyone should think about this. It would be super beneficial to all of us!

Oh, hey, yeah I'd be down for this later than sooner (when I have a little extra to toss at it).

Before doing this, however, have you looked into their TOS regarding such a collective? They may not say anything against it outright, but they may also have a policy in place regarding sharing accounts, or too many unique IPs logging in to one account, etc etc.

Just something to ponder.

Well, If I have a few people into it, I will study the specifics harder. People at my school did this alot (I'm currently sharing a Lynda.com account.) I'll look into it on the gnomon side.


But mars, I plan to work on some textures actually, so I could be up for that. Have you looked through the AC: DA groups favorites? There are many there and most brushes are simply free to use http://pa-artistcorner.deviantart.com/favourites/?38652889

I'm unfamiliar with these DVDs, but this interests me and I thought it should be on this page too.

AlyceInWonderland

Flay wrote: »

I haven't read any of boxer hockey but I think I have to now, because that walk cycle is possible the most adorable thing I have ever seen.

Isn't it? I'm going to be walking like that all day with that song stuck in my head.

Godfather

I finally got a nice frame for this one piece I did

Agent Coleman

*Returns to the world of the living*

So how much awesome have I missed?

Red Raevyn

Oh man. I am glad you guys like my pumpkin, but I'm SUPER glad I exposed new people to Boxer Hockey. It is the best; I've never seen facial expression's like his. I came across it when he did a guest strip for PvP online.

Iruka

Flay wrote: »

Iruka wrote: »

Stupid Mister Whoopsie Name wrote: »

AlyceInWonderland wrote: »

Iruka wrote: »

So I was thinking that I could maybe get a PA:AC fund going for us to have a forum collective subscription to the gnomon dvds, but they dont take paypal, which is unfortunate. Still, you all trusted me with a little money for the AC: DA group, so I wonder. I don't have a ton of money atm, but just to test the water, would anyone be interested in this?

Basically it'd be like, 10 people throw down 50 bucks, and we all get the account info and the full library of Gnomon for a year.

I don't want this post to be overlooked. I think this is a great idea. Right now, I don't have the money to put into it, but soon I will, when I get my next paycheck. Anyway, I think everyone should think about this. It would be super beneficial to all of us!

Oh, hey, yeah I'd be down for this later than sooner (when I have a little extra to toss at it).

Before doing this, however, have you looked into their TOS regarding such a collective? They may not say anything against it outright, but they may also have a policy in place regarding sharing accounts, or too many unique IPs logging in to one account, etc etc.

Just something to ponder.

Well, If I have a few people into it, I will study the specifics harder. People at my school did this alot (I'm currently sharing a Lynda.com account.) I'll look into it on the gnomon side.


But mars, I plan to work on some textures actually, so I could be up for that. Have you looked through the AC: DA groups favorites? There are many there and most brushes are simply free to use http://pa-artistcorner.deviantart.com/favourites/?38652889

I'm unfamiliar with these DVDs, but this interests me and I thought it should be on this page too.

Well, It looks like they have multi-user licencing for over ten people for studios and schools. There are "no restrictions for normal use" On the regular account. So unless all 10 of us were logged in all the time, I dont think this would be an issue. Its the same with the lynda account I use, which is a normal account and that is split among about 15 people.

On monday, I'll call them, and see what would be the best option.

Stupid Mr Whoopsie Name

Because I know you are all so concerned about my stability, I am happy to report taking a more proactive approach to my time-off-work dilemma and fucked off out of town anyhow. I was only 3 hours late to work this morning!

In my defense though, I would have made it back in time if it were just me, but having to coordinate with 5 other people in the morning to adhere to a decent schedule for hitting the road is a fool's errand.

I had a good time; really needed to get out of the city like that.

Mustang

Went and saw Social Network yesterday, it was pretty good, a thousand times better than the movie they advertised in the trailer. Strip out the naff pop culture of facebook and it's a Machiavellian character study with a history that most people (nerds) will relate too. It's almost like a soft-core version of There Will Be Blood, without any actual murders, and online members instead of barrels of oil. Though Timberlake was a little too cool to be playing Sean Parker.

Angel_of_Bacon

Mustang wrote: »

like a soft-core version of There Will Be Blood.

"The Social Network: Come stare at Daniel Day Louis' towering oil derrick for 2 and a half hours."


Shit, that still makes for better ad material than that initial teaser trailer.

Aumni

DirtyDirtyVagrant wrote: »

Ahahahaha.

Thank you for introducing me to this wonderful, wonderful comic.

D-Robe

Angel_of_Bacon wrote: »

"The Social Network: Come stare at Daniel Day Louis' towering oil derrick for 2 and a half hours."

Do you mean that as some sort of euphemism or are you talking about an actual oil derrick?