I drink earl gray with milk

I drink Chai with milk and sugar or honey in winter

I add honey to my tea when I feel the need to

I like green tea, as is. But not from bags, that stuff just doesn't taste right

Well, I generally don't drink tea made from those bag things, the taste doesn't work right

This info is relevant for all!

New portrait! White crayonpenthing on black paper!

I love this one because it's so fucking true. Not that the games ever get more than concepted

but they would be so motherfucking good

I drew a portrait in school

Almost done with 8 damn watercolor environment paintings

FUCK YEAH

Sadly the puppets are about to fall apart * A * and I'm not really a stop motion-guy.

So I don't know if I'll make it longer. Although I do have a story for those characters. But the robot would have to be repainted and repaired and the dog would have to be ... completely remade.

The robot is metal wire with cheap felt-tip pens that I slaughtered and mended with epoxy paste around the metal wire core for arms and legs, a body made of a salt ... container thing that I also slaughtered, and a head made of a little cylindric container for the epoxy.

I made this in school so we had a lot of materials to just play around with ' u ' and I ransacked the our little school building for things I could slaughter and paste onto the robot, haha.

The dog is a milk carton around a core of ... I don't know what it's called. Hard foam substance. Like extra-foamy styrofoam? Or something. : D the legs are just felt-tip pen cylinders stuck into the core, so they kept coming off. You can see some of the residue from the core in the video, even, haha.

The thing that makes these dolls look good is the paint job, which I got a lot of practise in painting warhammer figures as a 12-year old : D

I sprayed them black, then LIGHTLY with bronze and then chrome spray, then I drybrushed certain parts with silver paint, and painted other parts black (mostly with drybrushing technique too) to make the right things stand out. Since it's a small puppet you wanna overemphasize how the light falls on it so it looks bigger than it is : D

aaaand that's it!

I'm the most proud of:

How posable my robot is. Seriously, he was such a joy to work with. Thanks, Robo

How well the dog works even though it's just a box. If you're ever in doubt with a stop motion puppet, add movable tail and ears. : D seriously, the dog is just a box with tails, ears and a hinge to open its mouth. But it works. That inspired me.

Thank you! ' U ' I made it in school. It's my first attempt at the stuff and I made the dolls myself too ' 3 ' meticulous planning made me pull it off so I'm glad I did that.

Superthanks for the praise * u *

DOUBLEPOST because this is on a completely different subject:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CtpVb-WBloE&feature=feedf

I guess animation counts as art? I made stopmotion '  U  '

I made the dolls myself too. Of course.

COUNTERATTACK

I ALSO made a stopmotion clip! MUHAHA.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CtpVb-WBloE&feature=feedf

' u ' is my first attempt at the stuff.

Shade with value and hue AND saturation. Or you'll get stuck in the 'shadewithblack' thing or 'shadewithblue' thing or 'shadewithgrey' thing, neither of which is optimal.

the 'shadewiththecoloroftheskywhichislikelytobetheambientcolorbutkeepingcoloridentityintact' thing is the best, though. :D

But yes these pictures all suffer from the shade with black-syndrome. They also suffer from being in love with the smooth brush since it has such a 'smooth and nice-looking look to it' which might be true for a single brush stroke or a big surface, but get it all over the place in your painting and it starts hurting more than helping. The eye wants clear distinction between color surfaces to be able to read the image, and the more smoothness you get in there, the dirtier your picture tends to look. '  u  '

But it's wonderful that you're actually getting into color. Keep doing that.



I've got one tip for you: force yourself to use more desaturated colors. (haha, just realized GILBERtimmy said the same) The color picker lies. The colors you will find in that little preview window will almost ALWAYS occupy more space in the real painting, and the bigger the color field, the more saturated it looks.

' 0 ' also contrast between colors will help reinforce color identity. So desaturate without fear, the more colors you get in there, the more colorful everything will seem. Also picking skin colors might be easier if you work with more desaturated colors. So you won't have to draw white spectregirls.

Well, walloftext, I'll stop here *  D  *

Dude, get some animations posted and I'll show you what principles you're not getting and make you get them <3 When you start getting timing and spacing right it suddenly becomes hard to do bad animation. ' u ' So put some animations up for feedback and feedback you'll get.

It's by putting lotsa small blobs of more or less uniform shape into bigger blobs of uniform shape so you make big readable shapes and not noise.

Note how all the pixel clusters are almost always composed of more than 1 pixel. You go smaller and shit gets noisy and messy.

if you're not gonna use both, I'd say the darker one too. The thing is that the brighter one actually looks super cool but somehow gives off a feeling of .. like I've seen it before. Same goes for the dark one, but ... It's got a better sense of .. space, depth. It's more inviting to look at, and explore.

I think that makes it a winner.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LdAvjnk3wT0

Judging from the reactions of the people in the background, this is completely normal in Japan.

More the fact that you'll be considered less normal if you actually pay attention to the guy and have an expressed reaction.

You wanna fit in, just pretend like it's nothing. That's normal in japan.

Edit: I say as though I knew anything. this is what I think. I'm no expert.

Put them in a directory before zipping them, you've just further polluted my messy downloads folder 

Holy crap, I'm sorry * ___ * good feedback.

Thanks, everyone, feels great knowing I've been able to offer you something you like <3.

Nix: I don't know about the USB in/out sounds, they sound nice to me. There's a noisy sound in there, though, so I guess they're fine? I don't know what noisiness you're referring to. It's supposed to have some kind of BWAP 'insert' kind of sound, as well as a fluttery twinkly kirby-star sound. '  U  '; I dunno

SO I'VE WENT TO AN ANIMATION SCHOOL FOR ALMOST A YEAR NOW AND EVERYTIME SOMEONE ASKS ME IF I CAN SHOW THEM SOMETHING

MY ANSWER IS NO

WHY DON'T I FINISH _ANYTHING_

Do something before the self-hatred reaches critical mass.

You are a nice dude! ' U '

I don't have hatred for myself, just frustration on caps-level

And yes, I'm gonna do something, why not like, today.

I posted about these in the post-if-not-worth-new-thread and they seemed to be well-recieved! So I figured I'd post them here cause it's appropriate. Making a whole thread about it in general still seems a bit much cause there's not much to discuss @ n @;

http://lemming.ceri.se/bombboy.se/randam/windowsljud%20-%20pico.rar

Iii I made sounds to replace standard windows sounds! They work for both 7 and XP but 7 and vista users can't replace the startup sound! ' 0 '

Maybe I should make a thread about it somewhere? In general here or Audio? If you like them enough, I mean.

Oh and yeah I gotta buzz-word

THEY'RE 8-BIT NINTENDO STYLE

[sounds to replace standard windows sounds]

http://lemming.ceri.se/bombboy.se/randam/windowsljud%20-%20pico.rar

Iii I made sounds to replace standard windows sounds! They work for both 7 and XP but 7 and vista users can't replace the startup sound! ' 0 '

Maybe I should make a thread about it somewhere? In general here or Audio? If you like them enough, I mean.

Oh and yeah I gotta buzz-word

THEY'RE 8-BIT NINTENDO STYLE

Hitting ctrl + s every time I make a minor change in something I am working on.

I was going to type this exactly, and it's something to be proud of, cause it doesn't really come naturally. But automatically saving all the time is like the best super mundane habit to have.

I have an intuos medium size and it is the best thing. It just is the best thing.

Buy a tablet.