The bit where he talks about class grades being completely pointless compared to your portfolio is dead-on. It's far more important to do good work that you're proud of than worrying about whether you got an A or a B in a class.
Sometimes you run into instructors who have a boner for a certain style medium or whatever and trying to change your work just to please them is a complete waste of time.
The bit where he talks about class grades being completely pointless compared to your portfolio is dead-on. It's far more important to do good work that you're proud of than worrying about whether you got an A or a B in a class.
Sometimes you run into instructors who have a boner for a certain style medium or whatever and trying to change your work just to please them is a complete waste of time.
It is kinda funny though that the grades apparently didn't even matter within the school itself.
Probably a better system that way, though- most people seemingly don't figure that out until after getting their degree and finding they can't get work anywhere for any price.
I'm ok with instructors having a penchant for one thing or another, just not in requisite college classes. If I want to learn that thing, it's great to have an instructor that's passionate about it and has a lot of experience, rather than somebody just teaching random shit from a set curriculum that they may or may not give a damn about or be any good at. The problem is in a college if you wind up with teachers that are real passionate about worthless bullshit in required courses, you're pretty much fucked into wasting a bunch of time and money.
Watching the latest spider-man movie...the spider-manny bits are pretty entertaining, but man it sure reminded me how much I hate high school bullshit.
Also super-fake movie science bullshit. I mean I know the whole movie is based on bullshit science, but still. Just because the avengers did it doesn't mean every superhero movie needs bullshit hologram technology in it just to make it extra sciencey.
The bit where he talks about class grades being completely pointless compared to your portfolio is dead-on. It's far more important to do good work that you're proud of than worrying about whether you got an A or a B in a class.
Sometimes you run into instructors who have a boner for a certain style medium or whatever and trying to change your work just to please them is a complete waste of time.
It is kinda funny though that the grades apparently didn't even matter within the school itself.
Probably a better system that way, though- most people seemingly don't figure that out until after getting their degree and finding they can't get work anywhere for any price.
I'm ok with instructors having a penchant for one thing or another, just not in requisite college classes. If I want to learn that thing, it's great to have an instructor that's passionate about it and has a lot of experience, rather than somebody just teaching random shit from a set curriculum that they may or may not give a damn about or be any good at. The problem is in a college if you wind up with teachers that are real passionate about worthless bullshit in required courses, you're pretty much fucked into wasting a bunch of time and money.
I was mostly referring to being able to distinguish between your instructors' legitimate feedback on projects and their own personal preferences/bias. Everyone has their own aesthetic likes and dislikes and it's hard sometimes to ignore that and do your own thing, especially when it's coming from the person who grades your work.
My first industrial design class was taught by two very different designers: one was a more buttoned-down practical guy and the other was a little more... flamboyant. If you asked each of them individually for their opinions on what you were doing, you got two completely different opinions on aesthetics. One would suggest simplifying and streamlining the shapes, the other would suggest adding more color and making it more "delicious". The important stuff though was when they would tell us to fix a problem with the angle a handle on something attached at to make it more comfortable to hold or change the shape of the legs on a chair because they would be much easier to manufacture, actual problems with the design.
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Watched Argo and Searching for Sugarman on the weekend. The later was by far my favourite, that it took 30 odd years and a South African documentary for the world to get around to telling me about a really kick ass album is one of lifes little tragedies.
I just had the realization that I keep seeing people drawing on tablets while wearing fingerless gloves because they want to prevent their hands from freezing.
I've always had abnormaly cold extremities, but I just IR thermometer'd my hand and it was 59 degrees. Gloves are probably a good idea.
Going along with the new Challenge theme, I'd like to donate my latest late-night-procrastinating-in-the-mirror discovery: I think I have a huge tongue.
If anyone wants to make the amazing tongue-boy the inspiration for your entry, by all means, flatter me.
I just had the realization that I keep seeing people drawing on tablets while wearing fingerless gloves because they want to prevent their hands from freezing.
I've always had abnormaly cold extremities, but I just IR thermometer'd my hand and it was 59 degrees. Gloves are probably a good idea.
I think people wear gloves while drawing on tablets so that their oily/sweaty palms don't stick and smear on the surface of the device
If I'm honest, the designs for both of these characters feel a little... lifted from a long dead webcomic Ever After. Everything down to the scar over whites eye.
If you haven't read it, it only made it 50 or so pages, worth it for some of the artwork.
So I'm considering making some cutting boards and selling them on etsy. Do any of you have much experience with selling stuff there and could give me an expectation of if/when I might expect my first sale? I'm concerned that when you search for "cutting board" you come up with ~9,800 items and I'm wondering if anyone will even run across one if I put it up. The main concern is cost of materials for these things is relatively high and I don't want to spend $150-$200 on materials to make a few boards and not end up selling any of them.
I'm not trying to turn this into a business or make a huge profit, I'm just trying to make a little extra money here and there that will offset the cost of some of my wood working tools.
It has always amused me how there is a Black marker, and if that black isn't black enough there's Extra Black, and if Extra Black just wasn't black enough then for you, my friend, we have something special- SUPER BLACK.
Watched Argo and Searching for Sugarman on the weekend. The later was by far my favourite, that it took 30 odd years and a South African documentary for the world to get around to telling me about a really kick ass album is one of lifes little tragedies.
Wow, the trailer for that doc looks really good, I need to check that out.
Speaking of a similar story of a band being lost and secretly popular for decades before being rediscovered (and also has a doc coming out about it...albeit one that looks less interesting and well produced than Searching for Sugarman does when comparing trailers), I've been listening to Death- a band of three brothers that basically invented punk rock in the mid-70's before anyone else really had, but had only ever put out 500 records before giving up and moving on with their lives...and then they never really thought about it again for 30 years, when they found out they had became an underground cult punk legend, with those few copies achieving a kind of holy grail status in the punk world.
I watched both of those trailers and I still don't know. Is it a game? A movie? A series? Is there more to it than random fight scenes with 3d anime girls? Seems like marketing failure to me.
It could also be marketing failure that for all the impressive aspects of it, I still don't really give a shit about it since they don't present any reason/stakes/purpose to the action.
Maybe if I were like 12 this would be exciting, but come on. I'm so sick of flashy invincible super-fighters in movies that never ever get hurt or feel any sort of emotion during fighting...anger, helplessness, fear, basic registering of the sensation of pain reaching their central nervous system...give me some kind of reason to give two shits about this situation. I've already seen Ultraviolet and a Resident Evil movie or three and the Matrix sequels and Equilibrium and Underworld and the last 2 Die Hards and Ballistic: Ecks vs. Sever and Ninja Assassin and whatever the hell else peddling that schlock. This shit has gotten really, really dreadfully boring.
Just give me a film where at least once the main character gets punched in the face, staggers a bit and says "ow" before proceeding with the rest of their action scene. Just give me that. Just show me one character that is not a soulless robot.
I watched both of those trailers and I still don't know. Is it a game? A movie? A series? Is there more to it than random fight scenes with 3d anime girls? Seems like marketing failure to me.
I think Rooster Teeth was counting on their "household" name to let everyone know what it was, because rooster teeth does animated series (as in Red vs Blue, P.A.N.I.C.S. etc). But according to the video description "...trailer for the new animated show RWBY from Rooster Teeth." So yeah, marketing failure. It looked like a fighting game to me.
Ugh, really? Man fuck that guy and the horse he rode in on.
It's like watching the imagination of a thirteen year old.
Admittedly they're fun to watch for a minute or two, but past that it's kind of like, "I get it, fast punches and nothing has any weight and the characters are invulnerable".
For anyone that wants to support me and my classmates with $$$cash money$$$ we've got a page up to raise some funds for our final show as undergrads.
I know there are forum rules against posting things from a certain fundraising website so I didn't post the video. However if there are no exceptions I'll understand.
EDIT: Maaaaaaaannnnnn. I removed the link. But if you want to look it up just google GRCD 2013. Should be the first one, for DAAPworks.
As long as we're recommending music. These guys are a mix of mastadon, dream theater, pink floyd, and various 60's psychedelic rock. Please listen to the whole song before formulating an opinion.
Man, I'm really diggin' Death. And that is a wicked cool story.
While we're on music things, Sapient from the Seattle hip hop crew Sandpeople just came out with a new album, which is... not your classic hip hop. Anyways, listen and decide for yourself, but I personally haven't been able to stop listening to it. I see it being one of my favorite albums of 2013 easily. Very quirky and dry humor mixed in the lyrics (see the song Gladys). https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FiZ323DpnhM
I walked through one of those rotating tunnels at a carnival a while back. Those are a pretty effective yet cheaply designed illusions. As soon as you step on the platform and start to walk, you feel like your body is rotating counter to the spin of the tunnel. It's quite an odd experience.
Remember the days when internet humor stayed on the internet?
Man I miss those times...
EDIT: This isn't supposed to be a snarky reply to a post or anything, i'm just really tired of constantly being surrounded by the web that is the internet with no way to escape
Remember the days when internet humor stayed on the internet?
Man I miss those times...
EDIT: This isn't supposed to be a snarky reply to a post or anything, i'm just really tired of constantly being surrounded by the web that is the internet with no way to escape
The Microsoft Surface Pro is reaaaaaally nice. It had a super solid build quality and the screen is awesome. The pen is full sized and has pressure sensitivity and an eraser as well. The keyboard/cover is pretty cool too, but it's a pricey add-on.
So, assume I'm someone who is too lazy to check reviews or navigate away from this page at all
How does the Surface Pro stack up against a dedicated tablet? And is it just a nice way to sketch on the go or could you actually use it as your bread and butter?
There is a slight offset between stylus and actual pixels, but it is smaller than what I've seen on Cintiqs.
The total drawable area is larger than my Bamboo Fun, but is still not really enough for me to be comfortable with shoulder-led swooshiness. Of course the benefit of any on-screen-drawing platform is that you can zoom out to achieve those strokes and then zoom in to get smooth strokes even on tiny details.
The stylus is, essentially, one of those mechanical pencils you buy in 10-packs. Eraser tip doesn't have much feel to it at all. For someone with smallish hands it is a refreshing change from the white-board marker that is a Cintiq stylus, and only a few of the pens I carry in my pockets are slimmer than the Surface stylus. It is worth noting that you cannot have the charging cable plugged in to the Surface while the stylus is stored on it, since they both occupy the same magnetic recess on the side. Weird design choice. I've heard the thing is too top-heavy to be a really comfortable lap-drawing platform, but didn't try that myself. The kickstand seems fairly robust for a wafer-thin plastic part; I was comfortable drawing, at least, though I have a history of being a very light touch in every medium ever.
Sketchbook Express (or whatever the App version is called) was snappy and fluid, if underwhelming compared to the desktop version. The Surface Pro can, of course, run the full version, but it took me and the non-artist Microsoft team member about ten minutes to figure out that features were missing because we had clicked on the App and not the full program. Cannot comment on how Adobe stuff runs, which is the biggest sticking point for me and one I probably won't be able to solve in-store.
Pressure sensitivity was at least a match for my Bamboo, I felt.
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Sometimes you run into instructors who have a boner for a certain style medium or whatever and trying to change your work just to please them is a complete waste of time.
It is kinda funny though that the grades apparently didn't even matter within the school itself.
Probably a better system that way, though- most people seemingly don't figure that out until after getting their degree and finding they can't get work anywhere for any price.
I'm ok with instructors having a penchant for one thing or another, just not in requisite college classes. If I want to learn that thing, it's great to have an instructor that's passionate about it and has a lot of experience, rather than somebody just teaching random shit from a set curriculum that they may or may not give a damn about or be any good at. The problem is in a college if you wind up with teachers that are real passionate about worthless bullshit in required courses, you're pretty much fucked into wasting a bunch of time and money.
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Also super-fake movie science bullshit. I mean I know the whole movie is based on bullshit science, but still. Just because the avengers did it doesn't mean every superhero movie needs bullshit hologram technology in it just to make it extra sciencey.
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I was mostly referring to being able to distinguish between your instructors' legitimate feedback on projects and their own personal preferences/bias. Everyone has their own aesthetic likes and dislikes and it's hard sometimes to ignore that and do your own thing, especially when it's coming from the person who grades your work.
My first industrial design class was taught by two very different designers: one was a more buttoned-down practical guy and the other was a little more... flamboyant. If you asked each of them individually for their opinions on what you were doing, you got two completely different opinions on aesthetics. One would suggest simplifying and streamlining the shapes, the other would suggest adding more color and making it more "delicious". The important stuff though was when they would tell us to fix a problem with the angle a handle on something attached at to make it more comfortable to hold or change the shape of the legs on a chair because they would be much easier to manufacture, actual problems with the design.
March enrichment is a bit late, but a really easy month to participate for everyone! EVERYONE.
Argo was pretty good too, but this really grabbed me.
I've always had abnormaly cold extremities, but I just IR thermometer'd my hand and it was 59 degrees. Gloves are probably a good idea.
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If anyone wants to make the amazing tongue-boy the inspiration for your entry, by all means, flatter me.
I think people wear gloves while drawing on tablets so that their oily/sweaty palms don't stick and smear on the surface of the device
Now, here's one that I hadn't seen before.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=fvwp&v=Vt9vl8iAN5Q&NR=1
If you haven't read it, it only made it 50 or so pages, worth it for some of the artwork.
So I'm considering making some cutting boards and selling them on etsy. Do any of you have much experience with selling stuff there and could give me an expectation of if/when I might expect my first sale? I'm concerned that when you search for "cutting board" you come up with ~9,800 items and I'm wondering if anyone will even run across one if I put it up. The main concern is cost of materials for these things is relatively high and I don't want to spend $150-$200 on materials to make a few boards and not end up selling any of them.
I'm not trying to turn this into a business or make a huge profit, I'm just trying to make a little extra money here and there that will offset the cost of some of my wood working tools.
Edit: This reddit comments thread doesn't sound too promising on the topic: http://www.reddit.com/r/Etsy/comments/11ow2x/makers_son_cutting_boards_my_dad_is_depressed/
If these commenters are to be believed then it A) takes a ton of work to market yourself and
It has always amused me how there is a Black marker, and if that black isn't black enough there's Extra Black, and if Extra Black just wasn't black enough then for you, my friend, we have something special- SUPER BLACK.
3DS: 0447-9966-6178
Wow, the trailer for that doc looks really good, I need to check that out.
Speaking of a similar story of a band being lost and secretly popular for decades before being rediscovered (and also has a doc coming out about it...albeit one that looks less interesting and well produced than Searching for Sugarman does when comparing trailers), I've been listening to Death- a band of three brothers that basically invented punk rock in the mid-70's before anyone else really had, but had only ever put out 500 records before giving up and moving on with their lives...and then they never really thought about it again for 30 years, when they found out they had became an underground cult punk legend, with those few copies achieving a kind of holy grail status in the punk world.
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/03/15/arts/music/15rubi.html?pagewanted=all&_r=0
Which is a kind of amazing story, but I wouldn't really care if their music actually sucked, but it actually fucking rocks. (At least I think so.)
I watched both of those trailers and I still don't know. Is it a game? A movie? A series? Is there more to it than random fight scenes with 3d anime girls? Seems like marketing failure to me.
It could also be marketing failure that for all the impressive aspects of it, I still don't really give a shit about it since they don't present any reason/stakes/purpose to the action.
Maybe if I were like 12 this would be exciting, but come on. I'm so sick of flashy invincible super-fighters in movies that never ever get hurt or feel any sort of emotion during fighting...anger, helplessness, fear, basic registering of the sensation of pain reaching their central nervous system...give me some kind of reason to give two shits about this situation. I've already seen Ultraviolet and a Resident Evil movie or three and the Matrix sequels and Equilibrium and Underworld and the last 2 Die Hards and Ballistic: Ecks vs. Sever and Ninja Assassin and whatever the hell else peddling that schlock. This shit has gotten really, really dreadfully boring.
Just give me a film where at least once the main character gets punched in the face, staggers a bit and says "ow" before proceeding with the rest of their action scene. Just give me that. Just show me one character that is not a soulless robot.
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Then I realized it's by the same guy who did that bombastic Samus vs Master Chief video years ago and it all made sense.
Ugh, really? Man fuck that guy and the horse he rode in on.
It's like watching the imagination of a thirteen year old.
I think Rooster Teeth was counting on their "household" name to let everyone know what it was, because rooster teeth does animated series (as in Red vs Blue, P.A.N.I.C.S. etc). But according to the video description "...trailer for the new animated show RWBY from Rooster Teeth." So yeah, marketing failure. It looked like a fighting game to me.
Oh, and that song dude... That fucking rocks.
Admittedly they're fun to watch for a minute or two, but past that it's kind of like, "I get it, fast punches and nothing has any weight and the characters are invulnerable".
And as for bands you should check out...
Torche (stoner/sludge rock/metal)
and for metalheads...Nekrogoblikon
I know there are forum rules against posting things from a certain fundraising website so I didn't post the video. However if there are no exceptions I'll understand.
EDIT: Maaaaaaaannnnnn. I removed the link. But if you want to look it up just google GRCD 2013. Should be the first one, for DAAPworks.
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As long as we're not recommending music, here's the whole death album. It's been on repeat since I've been home, working on that school project
While we're on music things, Sapient from the Seattle hip hop crew Sandpeople just came out with a new album, which is... not your classic hip hop. Anyways, listen and decide for yourself, but I personally haven't been able to stop listening to it. I see it being one of my favorite albums of 2013 easily. Very quirky and dry humor mixed in the lyrics (see the song Gladys).
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edit: Sorry this is a weak response to your inquiry. That being said Ripley's Museums often have tons of these.
Man I miss those times...
EDIT: This isn't supposed to be a snarky reply to a post or anything, i'm just really tired of constantly being surrounded by the web that is the internet with no way to escape
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How does the Surface Pro stack up against a dedicated tablet? And is it just a nice way to sketch on the go or could you actually use it as your bread and butter?
That and it can do a bunch of things that a wacom can't.
With this an the Yiynova tablet, Wacom is losing ground fast.
Considering the Surface pro has a wacom digitizer in it, I think they are doing ok!
The total drawable area is larger than my Bamboo Fun, but is still not really enough for me to be comfortable with shoulder-led swooshiness. Of course the benefit of any on-screen-drawing platform is that you can zoom out to achieve those strokes and then zoom in to get smooth strokes even on tiny details.
The stylus is, essentially, one of those mechanical pencils you buy in 10-packs. Eraser tip doesn't have much feel to it at all. For someone with smallish hands it is a refreshing change from the white-board marker that is a Cintiq stylus, and only a few of the pens I carry in my pockets are slimmer than the Surface stylus. It is worth noting that you cannot have the charging cable plugged in to the Surface while the stylus is stored on it, since they both occupy the same magnetic recess on the side. Weird design choice. I've heard the thing is too top-heavy to be a really comfortable lap-drawing platform, but didn't try that myself. The kickstand seems fairly robust for a wafer-thin plastic part; I was comfortable drawing, at least, though I have a history of being a very light touch in every medium ever.
Sketchbook Express (or whatever the App version is called) was snappy and fluid, if underwhelming compared to the desktop version. The Surface Pro can, of course, run the full version, but it took me and the non-artist Microsoft team member about ten minutes to figure out that features were missing because we had clicked on the App and not the full program. Cannot comment on how Adobe stuff runs, which is the biggest sticking point for me and one I probably won't be able to solve in-store.
Pressure sensitivity was at least a match for my Bamboo, I felt.
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