(Rev. Jesse.broke his ankle,
Sat 30 Jul 2011, 11:52,
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He needs to be framed.
(Enzymeis powered by sunlight,
Sat 30 Jul 2011, 11:42,
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haha
:)
(Rev. Jesse.broke his ankle,
Sat 30 Jul 2011, 11:52,
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ARF!
(HairyTwattercertified eel and sodium salesman,
Sat 30 Jul 2011, 14:20,
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As it's slow at the moment - here's a snapshot of a Dragon's head I'm presently modelling
Still lots of work to do, Ears, Sculpting, Textures etc.
(maidenis filmed before a live studio audience,
Sat 30 Jul 2011, 11:17,
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wow
amazing - whats that made in??
(Rev. Jesse.broke his ankle,
Sat 30 Jul 2011, 11:20,
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Blender 2.5
absolutely amazing program and all open source and not too difficult to learn.
(maidenis filmed before a live studio audience,
Sat 30 Jul 2011, 11:21,
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looks great!
may have to give it a go one day :D i tried bender before and couldnt get into it (so to speak) :D
(Rev. Jesse.broke his ankle,
Sat 30 Jul 2011, 11:24,
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The interface and navigation has really improved over the years of development
and now it looks really professional and giving some of the massively overpriced 3D apps a run for their money after all you can't beat 'free'
(maidenis filmed before a live studio audience,
Sat 30 Jul 2011, 11:28,
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I got 2.57 and I really hate it, and I've gone back to using 2.48
The new version slows me down by about a factor of two and makes the whole experience no fun. Some things work a lot better (booleans are fast, for instance), but half of everything doesn't work at all. The indirect lighting is buggered. The new menus are stupid and confusing. Things have been moved around for no reason and are harder to get at, whereas it's very easy with a mere flick of the wrist to create a dozen new panels that you didn't want. (I don't even know if panels are the right thing to call them. The interface is full of new concepts that I haven't seen in any other program, which would be alright if they were any good, but they aren't.) I hope they fix everything they broke soon.
(_Felix's school of dance and occult sciences,
Sat 30 Jul 2011, 11:58,
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Did he keep extolling the virtues of your biting his shiny metal ass?
haha I had to re-read to understand that - I shan't edit that typo now :D
(maidenis filmed before a live studio audience,
Sat 30 Jul 2011, 14:16,
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Lully
(Yo 'Ho of Charliemass-market saucetrepreneur,
Sat 30 Jul 2011, 11:21,
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Thanks :D
still a base model will have to work hard to give it some good detail
(maidenis filmed before a live studio audience,
Sat 30 Jul 2011, 11:30,
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Very impressive indeedy!
(Lord KronosGo Team Pachyderm,
Sat 30 Jul 2011, 11:25,
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I aim to impress unfortunately I often dissappoint ;)
(maidenis filmed before a live studio audience,
Sat 30 Jul 2011, 11:30,
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day-am!
wonderful detail.
(thwartis just not feeling it with you,
Sat 30 Jul 2011, 11:42,
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I'm presently sculting some detail you should see it now
(maidenis filmed before a live studio audience,
Sat 30 Jul 2011, 11:51,
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Very nice.
It's probably going to need slicing up into different bits so you can put different textures and materials on them. Look out for that, it's annoying.
(_Felix's school of dance and occult sciences,
Sat 30 Jul 2011, 11:53,
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Indeed the UV mapping is a skill all of it's own
luckily the sculpt tools can take the hard work out of getting a perfect map as the deatil can be model directly on the mesh. I've kept a low poly mesh for the mapping and working on the detail in high-poly.
(maidenis filmed before a live studio audience,
Sat 30 Jul 2011, 12:01,
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It's the materials that are the worst bit
like if you want a shiny eyeball, but happen to have made the eyeball part of the same mesh as the face. (Or for the horns, maybe.) Then you have to split them into two meshes again somehow. Booleans are handy for that, because you can just make a cube (or more precise shape) and use it like a cutting tool.
Then again maybe I'm thinking about it all wrong and the right way to go is to use masses of textures for the whole model with funny settings like affecting reflectivity and so on.
(_Felix's school of dance and occult sciences,
Sat 30 Jul 2011, 12:04,
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That's cool.
Maybe accentuate his brow and narrow his eyeball as he looks quite friendly at the mo! Unless he's a friendly dragon of course! :) I'd keep the eyeball separate as it will require a stronger specular map compared to the scaly skin texture. Mapping the head as well - in the industry what we would do is model HALF the head and planar map it all from the side, get your UV's all neat and tidy then export the UV map into Photoshop to then creat the facial texture perfectly knowing where your UV's lay in relation to the texture. You might get some UV stretching as well which is why artists use a checker map initially to see where you're getting skew-whiffy mapping. If you're going to render it fully then consider losing some 3D detail but make up for it with a Normal / Bump map. 1 diffuse, specular and normal map will be adequate.
thanks to Kitty Fantastico for suggesting Photoscape
even tough i couldn't find any option to reduce colours like I can in PS but just loading pictures into PS is annoying as fuck even in CS5.
(MarkP0rteris an annoying faggot,
Sat 30 Jul 2011, 9:43,
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Funkeh time!
(Lord KronosGo Team Pachyderm,
Sat 30 Jul 2011, 11:24,
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Sappy Haturday B3ta!
Yesterday RedHouse suggested I research, Jaime Pressly (she is absolutely gorgeous, thanks for that one RH) and Monique Gabrielle (You were right about the NSFW search but very few pictures that I could use). Kitty Fantastico followed this up with Jean Reno and Victor Wong and not to be beaten, Mrs Trellis asked for Kate Bush for the birthday and Joe Shuster for the deathday (I hope you like my meam tribute).
(Wobbly BlokeHello, did I miss anything on,
Sat 30 Jul 2011, 8:49,
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(Wobbly BlokeHello, did I miss anything on,
Sat 30 Jul 2011, 8:49,
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three tit lady also why the fuck are we already up? its saturday.
(MarkP0rteris an annoying faggot,
Sat 30 Jul 2011, 9:03,
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doing gifs in photoshop still sucks. i wish there was a proper gif editor. i just want to LOAD a set of pictures into PS and turn those into a gif instead of opening every picture file, copy and paste into the main document and then hide all the layers and argh. its so unnecessarily complicated.
(MarkP0rteris an annoying faggot,
Sat 30 Jul 2011, 9:12,
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Mark, have you tried Photoscape?
Its free and has the most basic gif editor/creator ever. Its great.
(Kitty Fantastico"Dwarf, Anorexic and In a Fight ",
Sat 30 Jul 2011, 9:21,
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Yeah I knew about that I just didn't wanna use it!
Was up early yesterday and spent 2 hours on it but had to rush to work
Hope it is ok?
(Michael Elliscontributes nothing,
Sat 30 Jul 2011, 12:16,
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It's mazeballs!
Oooh tomorrow can you do the Thai Airways Flight 311 crash in 1992, in which the plane crashed into a mountain north of Kathmandu, Nepal killing all 113 people on board? Thanks!
Would you mind posting a link to a bigger version, so I can steal it? :) What did you use, ink on plain paper?
(QuadratischPraktischGutThere was coffee. Life would go on.,
Sat 30 Jul 2011, 9:16,
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I used an online source for the .jpg (which you could find by googling Blood Spatter) but you might do better with this .png version, which has no white background. www.aviary.com/creation?fguid=5201c05e-01c3-102d-80b9-0030488e168c You might have to join up that site to get it, but it could be worth it for other reasons.
(cowcatBituminous squeegee,
Sat 30 Jul 2011, 4:25,
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it's nothing I like or would listen to, no
my point is that loud, dissonant and repetitious three-chord progressions whose sole purpose is to disrupt the senses and reflect choas is anything but art--similar to slapping together a random seam-horse in three minutes. It may get laffs, but it's not art
I've been the principal trumpet in a symphony. Played in chamber orchestras. And love three chord screaming punk. It took me years to gain a respect for it.
Although, Count Basie live was also a great evening, as was Art Blakey.
I love it all.
(cowcatBituminous squeegee,
Sat 30 Jul 2011, 4:47,
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I haven't said that what I described ^ doesn't have a place, or reason to exist
it's just that calling it music or art is unfortunate.
Edit: your comment about taking years to appreciate^ merely indicates a change in you--not in the subject matter, which remains what it is.
Isn't art not necessarily something to "like" but something that makes you feel or react. You're clip shows a very talented guitarist, which i appreciate and do actually like. these guys could not be classed as partcularly talented, but i 'kin love this tune and i love hearing it www.youtube.com/watch?v=t-u2U9iekjQ
oh, and aren't seam horses known better as collages in the art world? ;)
(reali'm not happy 'til you're not happy,
Sat 30 Jul 2011, 6:40,
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with such a broad concepts as feeling or reacting,
virtually anything might qualify--including the sound of a fart in church. I think the only resolution to this is to identify what characteristics of the work itself would qualify it as art--and not define it in terms of the people observing or listening to it.
but this is probably not the time/place to do all that
Screeching "I wanna kill my mom" in the name of music? Puh-leeze. Calling that a lame-brained novelty act would be generous. If you love that sort of thing--power to you :D
rather than feeling, or reacting, can we say emotional response? i don't see how a fart in a church is so wildly different to some of recent art, such as Damien Hirst's animals in formaldehyde, or the unmade bed. Not my cuppa tea, but people that claim to know something about art, claim this to be art
(reali'm not happy 'til you're not happy,
Sat 30 Jul 2011, 8:29,
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I think in recent history
people who are not artists have moved to redefine "art" so that they can then become "artists," rather than taking the effort to develop skills. I think a good rule of thumb is that however art is defined, the work must be borne out of a certain level of prowess, and be of more than ordinary significance. Without those requirements, anyone can do anything and call it art, and you might as well toss the label aside as meaningless.
Just came back from a week of total remoteness, and it's a pity I missed I FUCKING LOVE MARS, cos I'm sure i could've chipped in with an amusing contribution or two.
But it seems everyone was able to function perfectly well in my absence. Plenty of laffs to catch up with.
I was away too, went to sunny/stormy Florida. Where were you?
(mofaha┐( ˘_˘)┌ ʅ(́◡◝)ʃ,
Sat 30 Jul 2011, 2:18,
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A blisteringly hot and sunny mountainside in mid-Wales.
Did very little but eat, drink, read, and play DS Mario Kart with various children. It was a lovely, lazy week. Typified by this tune, which starts off silly, becomes very silly, and ends up extremely silly: www.youtube.com/watch?v=uM12Rd0udXI
part family visit; lots of visits to wildlife preserves, lazy days of eating, swimming, scrabble, backgammon, cooking, photos. It was fantastic. A lovely relaxing time with a 1300 mile road-trip either side of it. To be honest I'm already thinking about the next trip we can do.
(mofaha┐( ˘_˘)┌ ʅ(́◡◝)ʃ,
Sat 30 Jul 2011, 2:59,
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(Lord KronosGo Team Pachyderm,
Sat 30 Jul 2011, 0:31,
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THE GAYSHIFT IS ANNOUNCED
(MonocromaticoLady Godiva's horse,
Sat 30 Jul 2011, 0:35,
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It's been the Gayshift, pretty much all day. XD
(Bourbon FoxBourbon is a moron,
Sat 30 Jul 2011, 0:36,
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I remember when B3ta was 24hrs of gayshift.
(Lord KronosGo Team Pachyderm,
Sat 30 Jul 2011, 0:44,
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What brought about the Gayshift anyway?
Was some sort of rule made up or something?
(Bourbon FoxBourbon is a moron,
Sat 30 Jul 2011, 0:46,
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I've been here for 8 1/2 years
and there always existed a Gayshift.
(MonocromaticoLady Godiva's horse,
Sat 30 Jul 2011, 0:50,
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Not sure,
I stopped posting here for a few years and when I came back it seemed a bit more cliquey, people saying what you should or shouldn't post at any given time.
(Lord KronosGo Team Pachyderm,
Sat 30 Jul 2011, 0:51,
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Interesting.
Must be something to do with the people who post mainly at this time, then after a while it just caught on.
(Bourbon FoxBourbon is a moron,
Sat 30 Jul 2011, 1:00,
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In the time I've been here
gayshift/nightshift/superhappyfuntime has fluctuated between busy and very quiet, but has never completely gone away. In all of that time it's always had a somewhat different character to the dayshift. I've always posted on both, and that didn't seem to be a problem for most people until fairly recently. Personally I don't take any notice of the time when I post stuff, I just make what I make and post it. Having said that, I think there's generally more of a playful feeling on the gayshift which encourages lots of quick-and-dirty responses and one-night-only themes, so perhaps there is (or was) such a thing as a gayshift-type pic.
(mofaha┐( ˘_˘)┌ ʅ(́◡◝)ʃ,
Sat 30 Jul 2011, 1:51,
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I think there is actually a blurb in FAQ about that (or maybe the dictionary of terms)
Google translate gives "snot" for the first two characters and "shit" for the last four.
Though those last four seem to be the hiragana "ta wa go to". Putting that through this dictionary: www.eudict.com/?lang=japeng&word=tawagoto it looks like you've said "snot nonsense".
(_Felix's school of dance and occult sciences,
Fri 29 Jul 2011, 23:12,
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And everybody enjoys a spot of snot nonsense when nobody else is looking.
Me, I enjoy my own snot nonsense in public, despite/because of the long moustache/beard.
I had enough trouble on FaceBook regarding the Sharon Osbourne joke regarding the man who had is penis chopped off and pushed down a waste disposal unit. Men hate irony when it involves dicks. ;)
(maidenis filmed before a live studio audience,
Fri 29 Jul 2011, 22:05,
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Damn it! I was gonna delete it. After reading it over I realized it doesn't make much sense.
But the ranty video bloke (which was linked on FB) who called Sharon Osbourne and the other women on the talk show "cunts" he was ranting about made a dick of himself and in doing so fucked up his entire debate - but it seems being anti-feminist is cool but making an ironic joke about a bloke's dick in a disposal unit is beyond the line! All my point was about was the hypocrisy and if we are to be truly equal then we should all have the same rights to take the piss out of each other.
(maidenis filmed before a live studio audience,
Fri 29 Jul 2011, 23:21,
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Yup.
Nob gags are funny until someone loses an eye. Or gets their winky macerated.