My favorite excuse from them was when they told me that the reason it was slower was due to a matter of distance.  Because that really makes a difference when you consider that the flow of electrons through the network happens at the speed of light.

AT&T

If their plans change resulting in higher speeds for less $ per month, they won't tell you despite the fact that the plan you're on doesn't exist anymore.  They'll keep you at 400kbps for $40/month until you complete their customer service obstacle court.

The hardware didn't need drivers so there was no incompatibility or instability.

Am I the only one who remembers having to configure the sound card every time I started up a game that used it, and if it was a card that the game's developers didn't include a driver for I couldn't have sound?

   

I don't know whether to laugh or cry.

I am currently using this 9x12 http://www.dickblick.com/products/canson-xl-mix-media-pads/
The best $5 tablet I have ever purchased!

Thanks for the link, now I don't have to buy them for $12 each at the art store!

For cheaper alternatives, you could also buy a few $1 ringed folders for a few cheap "sketchbooks," and many colleges and universities have a printing center where you can have them spiral bound an entire ream of blank copy paper.


I actually haven't used a pencil for sketchbooking in years.  I've just been using rollerball pens and a package of colored Sharpie ultra-fine-point markers, and occasionally a Faber Castell PITT brush pen.  Using pens can help you learn better line economy (doing more with fewer lines), getting you away from the habit of making "hairy lines" since you can't slowly form long lines with small ones without making a mess of your drawing.  Ink also scans better than pencil graphite does.

I find roller-ball-type pens (I've been using the Uni-ball Vision Micro) work the best, since you always get a solid line unlike ball-point, and it dries much faster than a gel-pen does so it's not as likely to smudge.  Markers are good too, they just run out of ink faster.


Though with concern of derailing the thread, should we split this off into a sketch-booking thread, or just keep going on in here?

Torrenting old cartoons that will never be/aren't currently out on DVD.
I feel like I've said this somewhere before.
Deja vu, perhaps?

You can find quite a few DVD collections if you know where to look.


Not related to cartoons, but still awesome: TF2 Moms

An animation method used to give explosions extra punch is to have the first frame be a mediumish shock blast, the second frame tiny, and then animate the explosion after that.

An example of this I can think of offhand would be in this animation, which contains a dynamite explosion done by ex-Disney effects animator Adam Phillips.  Right click and stop the Flash animation to see individual frames (you can then change the frame by holding B or F while right clicking).

I was wondering how they were going to make that into a movie.  I'm still wondering, though. 

Looking through a box of old computer parts.  Found a bunch of old processors with their price tags still on them.  The Advanced Micro Devices 5x86 once cost $715.96.  The 75mhz AMD-K5 cost $1213.96, $8 cheaper than the Pentium chips of the same speed that I also have.  The 486 IBM Blue Lightning DX2 doesn't have a price tag on it.

Notch should just rename his other game as "Scroll's Edge."  Trademark crisis averted.

guess what guys:

all browsers are the same

If it were true, I wouldn't have to make different versions of my web page for people using MSIE 6, 7, 8, Firefox <4, and then one for everything else.

I keep forgetting what "spoiler tags" actually are. 

I can't tell if it was awesome or utter shit. Or both.

It's Chinese cinema.  They (as in the country's citizens) love this kind of stuff.  IMO, their directors have a better understanding of the "rule of cool" than most US directors, such as Michael Bay.

guess what guys:

all browsers are the same

If it were true, I wouldn't have to make different versions of my web page for people using MSIE 6, 7, 8, Firefox <4, and then one for everything else.

Maybe it is?  All the lineart I've seen come out of it is incredibly smooth like it was done in Flash, and I've seen other comments elsewhere that claimed it was vector-based. 

I've just loaded all three at once, and did a few tests with 500px brushes.  SAI appears to be raster-based, and the largest canvas is restricted to 5606px.  SAI and Photoshop perform the quickest, with Photoshop lagging a bit on certain brushes.  Photoshop's "Soft Round" functions noticeably different than SAI's, as it's doing some extra stuff when you cross stuff already on the canvas.  Corel Painter X was the slowest with the large brushes, due to it calculating simulated traditional mediums being painted on a simulated paper grain.  A 500px-watercolor-brush-stroke was enough to freeze the program for 30 seconds.

In all three, short quick strokes with the large brush were more responsive, while quick long strokes caused the brush to lag behind the cursor.

I've been accepted into my University's animation program.   

Endermen are creepy, but

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The latest story arc of Dr. McNinja can be summarized as this:  A time-traveling astronaut takes a doctor, who is also a ninja, to a dystopian future ruled by dinosaurs from space who are armed with laser guns, and must lead an army of humans (some of which are capable of transforming into giant lumberjacks) to overthrow their dinosaur oppressors.

I never thought the Jurassic Park sequels could be any less disappointing, but compered to that...

It also helps that SAI is a vector-based painting program instead of raster-based ones like Photoshop, Painter, and GIMP.