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Savvy’s Awesome Unicorn and Prince Commission Leave a comment
Savvy’s Hot Keys 2 comments
For those of you followers of the Allar’s Awesome Blog, you are in for a treat with a Savvy created hot key tutorial. The hot keys I cover in this tutorial are ones that I use on a regular basis, but there are many more hot keys that you could find useful for yourself. Using hot keys might be a bit foreign for you at first, but I suggest writing down the short cuts you think you’d use the most and make yourself use them until it’s second nature. Using these keys help cut down on time, and promotes focus on your illustration, concept, or texture.
How to Make Bad-Ass Sexy Leather Part 1 Leave a comment
So folks, this video pertains to leather. Painting leather, especially different types of leather, can be difficult and confusing. To make it easier for you humans to master, I have a two-parter to help fellow artists learn ways to create a nice leather look. In this video I cover sexy shiny leather. Cat Woman’s tight fitting, very snug leather suite might come to mind. The soon to come 2nd leather video will be a way to do a flat leather.
These styles of painting can also be crossed over into texturing characters, or even prop models, so give this video a go even if you’r not a 2D artist.
All of the ways of painting that I suggest in my tutorials are techniques that I go by, but you might find a way that works better for you, and by all means go for it. It’s about the final piece being AWESOME, not necessarily how you got there. As Tim Gunn says, “Make it work”.
Design3′s Game Development In One Word 2 comments
Ben Mears over at Design3 has been recently blowing up Twitter #gamedevinoneword about how game developers describe game development in one word and created a montage of their responses from interviews at GDC 2011 which I also happened to be at.
You can check out the original post on Design3 here, or view the montage embedded at the end of this post. Please hit up #gamedevinoneword on Twitter if you’re also a tweeter or whatever these newfangled kids are calling themselves now. Side note, this post is my high score for links-to-total-text-density, whooo.
Looking For Authors And People Who Like Writing Stuff About Things They Know 4 comments
New Site Features Implemented Leave a comment
So I was able to get some forums and a fancy new feature suggestion box thing that I’ve wanted to add for a while now, fix some formatting issues on some pages, and hacked a bunch of PHP to get WordPress plugins talking to each other so you friendly people can log in via a social network platform instead of being forced to create a new account (but you can still do that if you like on the left hand side bar). The site still has a way to go before I can start pushing my planned content out, but its taking shape.
Comments can still be made on articles without being logged in, but forums and feature suggestions need you logged in. I’m hoping to do some cool stuff with user accounts as time goes on, maybe even offer subversion hosting? We’ll see. In the mean time, suggestions are welcome on the feature suggestion page. Every account gets 10 votes a month that you can use to vote for something you want to see done on this site. Cool stuff abound.
Also, within a day of setting up the donation button on the People Who Are Awesome page that allows you guys to donate directly to my web hosting account as well as my personal microphone and pizza buying account, a Steven from StevenAshley.com donated $15, so here’s a shout out to him. I am greatly appreciative of those that help to make this possible and I thank you very much. I’m not really sure what this Steven does, but you should go click on his website anyway. If you’re feeling kind, feel free to give too!
How I’m Starting The New Year 3 comments
Right now I’m digging through some word press themes trying to find one that looks nice for reading code upon and that will support some new features I’m trying to implement. If you have any suggestions, whether good or bad, or links to word press themes you want me to check out, please leave a comment!
And here is me testing some LaTeX stuff.
Moving Servers Leave a comment
Some of the things I am developing along with this site itself are demanding more performance that my current hosting provider can not offer. Over the next few days I will be moving stuff to a new server to prepare for some new content and projects, as well as cleaning up a lot of the spam that my site has gotten on the backend of things. I don’t expect any down time, but user accounts might be affected, and download links will experience some turbulence among other things. Thanks for your patience.
Edit: The move seems complete, still might have a few web site issues to work out. If you run into any, please leave a comment. Also, THE NEW THINGS I CAN DO ARE AWESOME.
Lack of Updates And Stuff 1 comment
Yes, I’m aware I still haven’t posted new content in awhile, and for this I’m sorry. I’m working on something big that hopefully I can share with the rest of you in the future. Also, it appears that my site is some how allowing Russian spam articles to rarely post themselves onto my front page. I have temporarily resolved the issue but I’m sorry if they persist. A game I have worked on, Warm Gun, has also been shipped, so be sure to check that out. In the mean time, check out this Kinetic Typography video that a friend of mine, Francis Deguzman, has done for a Pogo song, just because I said so and its cool and he deserves more views for his work. You can check out his work at Francis James Design and he also has a blog thingy majiggy at Francis Does Stuff as well.
Google Translate is amazing. Leave a comment
Ok, so this isn’t my usual form of posting at all, but I found this to just be too great.
Click the following link which directs you to Google Translate with a phrase already written. Just click Listen, and you will have your socks blown off.