You still need to take the stuff out of a PODS to get it into your house, no?
They don't just Kool-Aid Man that thing right through a wall of your living room, do they?
Has anyone ever seen Colargol? It's originally a Polish kids show from way back. I'd never seen this and my husband showed it to me the other week because it aired in Canada and UK as well. The style of the set design is so up my alley, look how designy it is! There's even bits of cell animation too, painted backgrounds, there was so much love and detail put into this show. I just wonder throughout the whole thing what it was like to work on this show? What was the budget and deadlines like? Each intro is different and is blended in with the story, the pacing of the story is very unhurried, the humor is fun, just nice little touches. There's a few episodes on youtube, but sadly the song he sings is embroiled in some kind of ongoing copyright battle with the author and the rest of the episodes are locked up in a vault somewhere and will probly never see the light of day.
You still need to take the stuff out of a PODS to get it into your house, no?
They don't just Kool-Aid Man that thing right through a wall of your living room, do they?
it is surprisingly challenging to draw hearts inside of hearts in a radial pattern properly. You can't just take a heart-shape vector and shrink or grow it.
I've encountered that sort of thing before. It's fiddly work. Using the Offset Path tool in Illustrator does a better job than just transforming your vector, but even then offsetting too far will deform the shape in unpleasant ways.
Part of my problem was starting with the outside heart and then modifying it as it went further in. Starting in the center then working out goes better.
Funny thing is I've had the exact same problem when just doodling this kind of thing on paper. It's one of those things that reminds me to sketch things out on paper or in Photoshop before diving into Illustrator. I get too sucked into how to make it work in the program before settling on what exactly I'm trying to make.
On a totally unrelated note, I was suddenly reminded there used to be a guy in this forum years back who didn't have a colon. I don't remember his username, but I felt like it was rodent- or beaver-related, and I think he may have been a moderator at some point. Does this ring any bells for anyone?
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Yup, that's me! Used to post here all the time. I am even in the hospital now! So what's up?
Humor can be dissected as a frog can, but dies in the process.
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They had to do surgery on a fistulous tract and the cavity it emptied into or was where the gunk was coming from. I am currently a cyborg with a machine that drains the tract to facilitate healing.
I rarely draw nowadays, I am not very good at it >.<
Humor can be dissected as a frog can, but dies in the process.
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Well, I heard my name and came a runnin'. Didja miss me? Also: happy birthday Tam!
Humor can be dissected as a frog can, but dies in the process.
Do you guys ever use Photoshop filters as an analytical tool to help figure things out? Like, looking at how it would poster-edge a painting that you're working on to sort of find stronger shape designs for edges, or using a sharpening filter to figure out if something would look better with more contrast?
I'm a bit torn on it. On the one hand, if I've taken a painting 95% of the way there and then use an algorithm to help me see a way to punch it up, intellectually that shouldn't feel like "cheating". On the other hand, it's frustrating to feel like the damn program found a better solution for my wobbly edgework than I could. Even knowing that I'm the one tinkering with the filter settings and sifting through the permutations to find the best result (and some of them certainly produce bad results at all but a particular tuning) and that I'm ultimately the arbiter, it still feels bad.
I don't think I would allow myself to just punch up a painting with a strong sharpen filter at the end and save it out, but at the same time I'm currently looking at something nearing completion which I have put a heavy sharpening filter on and I'm stunned by how much more striking it is. With some of these filters I'm literally having the sensation of "wow, that looks like a really good painting, I wish I could do that... wait, that IS my painting..."
@Wassermelone Im glad you've successfully moved. Did you figure out your electronics and such? When do you actually start work?
We actually haven't bought any of the voltage converters yet. Nearly everything we brought with us in suitcases/bags was 120/240 capable so we are charging everything off just a single plug converter we bought ages ago! We also didn't want to buy that stuff in the US because we were not going to have it in our suitcases (they are heavy) and we didn't want them shipped over with the rest of our stuff (its going to take forever for our stuff to get here because the LA port was all sorts of backed up)
So for now we are good but we will probably try and get some voltage converters and more plugs ordered this week.
As for when I start work... actually this next week. They asked me if I could start earlier and I was ok completely ok with that.
@Scosglen - Honestly, I use a sharpen filter to some degree in pretty much every single one of my paintings. Maybe its an over reliance, but it certainly cuts out a lot of time crisping that stuff up manually. Think of it as a replacement for the actual literal shadow left by a paint stroke along its edge? But seriously, I don't think anyone but goobers would give you guff over using the tools at your disposal. I think theres even a painting by jasonchan that literally uses the Plastic Wrap filter well.
Huh, I had never thought of an analogue between the textural quality of a physical brushstroke and a sharpen pass, but that's an interesting way to see it.
I guess I'm not that worried about being a "cheater" or protecting the "purity" of my art or whatever, it's more of a concern for my personal development. I feel If I can't achieve a certain level of execution without the filter then I'd be stunting myself by using it. I don't think it would bother me much at all if the filters weren't showing me solutions that I had not previously been able to see.
I found out today the head of my new course is a UFO conspiracy theorist.
He still knows his shit and he's a great guy, but man I was not prepared when he claimed that the US government admitted that UFOs exist but everyone forgot about it because of 9/11.
Definitely, I was just surprised. If anything I like him more now, because I find that stuff fascinating. Also he loves talking about sciency space junk, which is cool.
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I once worked with an English professor that was a self-professed blacksmith. Not in the "have a forge and literally make stuff" kind of way but in the "I buy replica swords and hit them with his home depot hammer" every day. He was eventually let go for continuing to do so in his office.
Outside of that quirk? Great professor and nice guy. Man just had to hit swords with hammers to be happy though.
I had a crazy elaborate dream this morning, but somewhere along the way I was able to start dreaming lucidly when I realized something wasn't working the way it normally would in real life, like a cigarette that never finishes. I was in a hotel and wrote on a pad of paper 'you are dreaming.'
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That's a simile
Pods are definitely the way of the future.
Has anyone ever seen Colargol? It's originally a Polish kids show from way back. I'd never seen this and my husband showed it to me the other week because it aired in Canada and UK as well. The style of the set design is so up my alley, look how designy it is! There's even bits of cell animation too, painted backgrounds, there was so much love and detail put into this show. I just wonder throughout the whole thing what it was like to work on this show? What was the budget and deadlines like? Each intro is different and is blended in with the story, the pacing of the story is very unhurried, the humor is fun, just nice little touches. There's a few episodes on youtube, but sadly the song he sings is embroiled in some kind of ongoing copyright battle with the author and the rest of the episodes are locked up in a vault somewhere and will probly never see the light of day.
Russia has some great animation, stop motion particularly.
Exactly.
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Funny thing is I've had the exact same problem when just doodling this kind of thing on paper. It's one of those things that reminds me to sketch things out on paper or in Photoshop before diving into Illustrator. I get too sucked into how to make it work in the program before settling on what exactly I'm trying to make.
On a totally unrelated note, I was suddenly reminded there used to be a guy in this forum years back who didn't have a colon. I don't remember his username, but I felt like it was rodent- or beaver-related, and I think he may have been a moderator at some point. Does this ring any bells for anyone?
edit: Munkus Beaver, I mean.
I always thought you were younger than me. (I'm 25.)
Sup dude! Why are you in the hospital? ;/ Do you still draw?
YOU OLD
I rarely draw nowadays, I am not very good at it >.<
I'm actually 26
So where's my cane
Because sometimes I need to photograph my hands gripping sturdy shafts for reference.
Happy Birthday Tamsalad. Welcome to the 30's, it's really the cool place to be right now.
E: munkus! Dang, haven't seen you around these parts in ages.
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Weird.
Also Im in Hamburg now! I've been here for only 3 full days so far... feels like some sort of weird surreal holiday so far.
I'm a bit torn on it. On the one hand, if I've taken a painting 95% of the way there and then use an algorithm to help me see a way to punch it up, intellectually that shouldn't feel like "cheating". On the other hand, it's frustrating to feel like the damn program found a better solution for my wobbly edgework than I could. Even knowing that I'm the one tinkering with the filter settings and sifting through the permutations to find the best result (and some of them certainly produce bad results at all but a particular tuning) and that I'm ultimately the arbiter, it still feels bad.
I don't think I would allow myself to just punch up a painting with a strong sharpen filter at the end and save it out, but at the same time I'm currently looking at something nearing completion which I have put a heavy sharpening filter on and I'm stunned by how much more striking it is. With some of these filters I'm literally having the sensation of "wow, that looks like a really good painting, I wish I could do that... wait, that IS my painting..."
We actually haven't bought any of the voltage converters yet. Nearly everything we brought with us in suitcases/bags was 120/240 capable so we are charging everything off just a single plug converter we bought ages ago! We also didn't want to buy that stuff in the US because we were not going to have it in our suitcases (they are heavy) and we didn't want them shipped over with the rest of our stuff (its going to take forever for our stuff to get here because the LA port was all sorts of backed up)
So for now we are good but we will probably try and get some voltage converters and more plugs ordered this week.
As for when I start work... actually this next week. They asked me if I could start earlier and I was ok completely ok with that.
@Scosglen - Honestly, I use a sharpen filter to some degree in pretty much every single one of my paintings. Maybe its an over reliance, but it certainly cuts out a lot of time crisping that stuff up manually. Think of it as a replacement for the actual literal shadow left by a paint stroke along its edge? But seriously, I don't think anyone but goobers would give you guff over using the tools at your disposal. I think theres even a painting by jasonchan that literally uses the Plastic Wrap filter well.
I guess I'm not that worried about being a "cheater" or protecting the "purity" of my art or whatever, it's more of a concern for my personal development. I feel If I can't achieve a certain level of execution without the filter then I'd be stunting myself by using it. I don't think it would bother me much at all if the filters weren't showing me solutions that I had not previously been able to see.
I don't understand how the forum works anymore. :C
I hope you recover quickly! Drawing is a nice way to kill the time.
Cause I feel like this has all been a Trial By Fire way of learning things, good god!
He still knows his shit and he's a great guy, but man I was not prepared when he claimed that the US government admitted that UFOs exist but everyone forgot about it because of 9/11.
The US government does sometimes use the designation UFO for objects that are flying and have not been identified.
He had some other claims that made it was pretty clear he was talking about extraterrestrial life.
Outside of that quirk? Great professor and nice guy. Man just had to hit swords with hammers to be happy though.
Also, I wanna be a blacksmith. Probably the manliest profession.