Hi, below is something interesting for you deep thinkers. It's a problem of logic with applications. I also have a good lesson down there if you can mine it. This picture is a mess, isn't it? How did I make it? Linear motion blur and radial motion blur together using Gimp. Gimp is sweet. First I tried to make a movie of it and then use VirtualDub's motion blur. It looks really ugly. It goes up and down and makes me ill. So I tried taking two frames and blending them together. That didn't work at all. It didn't look as good as the blending I did for... Scene 1 Page 3 look at the second row and it looks like ghosting. If I made those bigger (which I will do for JF Final), they'd look pretty cool. While writing this, I came up with a better idea. I could take the two images and then motion blur them! <goes into GIMP> Okay, I think the first one looks better, but the second one is more correct. Which should I go for? The first one I tried only used one picture. That means that any motion is completely faked. The other one uses two motion blurred images combined and the later one without motion blur combined afterwards. It gives a sense of blurriness and ghosting. I'll have to work on it, I guess. It definately isn't going to find its way into the Anime. I might not even put any motion blur into JF Anime. There's a bit done in real anime, but no actual blurring. Maybe I can make a 3d motion accentuation thingamajig. I don't like what I see with vertex shaders and they're still too advanced for me. But what about JF Final? Motion blur might be an effect that is both possible and very cool. But I should probably stick to my idea of adding motion lines. You see, I've gotten this idea that I can make 3d Motion lines using my knowledge of 3d and stuff. I'll just Have a 1x64 with dots on it. I'll then put the texture onto a curved 3d surface. Then I'll add it to models that need it and it'll be sweet. I might even add that as a function of AS3DMD3, but it's pretty complex. Hmm, who knows, eh? The art lesson is: get to know your paint program's functions. Filters are sweet when used correctly. There are few images on the professional side of the net that don't go through at least four filters. I remember back at my job, my boss wanted the website to look like the NYSE. "Exactly?" I asked. "In style, yes. In function, different," he replied. Uh huh. Okay, it's made of stripes. So I made a striped texture and stretched it across a picture. "No, it isn't stripes, it's something completely different, see. It has these funny variations that correspond to the original picture." He paid twenty dollars and plenty of my co-worker's time to figure it out that it could be duped using semi-transparent stripes. Oh, of course. A few weeks ago I was going through my filters and found the filter, it's called video noise. You know how video is made of RGB, so if you look really close, it has stripes, right? Uh huh. So the NYSE's nice looking web site was just some artist complaining about how grainy their monitors are. ^-^ Okay, I'm babbling, I need sleep or some such. G'nite.
Link to me if you would like. http://javantea.com/ is the main address. Verdana font is fine. Or use this nifty little standard size button.
Nothing really to say today. This is what I drew to go with yesterday's essay. This is a UN boot on a peace symbol. There are UN boots in real life. There are peace signs in real life. So... I can't really think of anything else. I'm watching hackers. I'm listening to it right now.
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I got my CPU and mobo, hooray! It works like a dream! I copied my stuff from my Windows 2000 backup computer using NTFS 4 DOS, a sweet little program that you can get from Winternals Software. You probably don't know that Windows 98 can only read FAT16 and FAT32, and not NTFS, which is the file system for Windows NT, 2000, and XP. So anyone who has problems like I do and has a Win 98 and a Win NT/2000/XP computer, get the NTFS for DOS. It works just like good ol' DOS. ^_^ Read what I wrote last night below. But I'll tell you a bit about this image... Or not, I kinda forget. I think I was just trying to draw something rather than nothing. So I threw this and that together, really. The jpeg version is a low quality version from the actual scan. The PNG version has all the grainyiness of the paper deleted out using a simple magic wand tool. Don't leave home without it. ^_^ The trick is to mess with the tolerance. If you put the tolerance around 5, it won't get enough garbage. If you put it up at 25, you'll delete half of the lightly drawn image (like the knees there). So if you do it right, it'll be just perfect and you'll get this. It's small and it detailed. What else can I say? It's a fair drawing, but it has my normal traits: no consistency, no realism, hair is messy, and body looks abnormal. Since my computer is back online, I'm going to phase out the drawings and replace with sweet computer renderings. ^_^
