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Archive for November, 2002

Stone Texture

Went ahead and made a quick texture just for the fun of it. Click the thumbnail to get a 512×512 JPEG version.

Stone Texture

More Freeserve & Flash

Well, we’ve quit our Freeserve account now via a letter. So there’s really no telling how my Internet connectivity is going to look over the next couple of weeks. But I will of course try and throw in a few updates whenever I can.

I’m going back to Denmark on the 10th of December, and I probably won’t update anything while I’m back there.

Also, I hate Flash. Like really really hate it. I guess it might have something to do with the fact that I’m being forced to create an animation in it, but I really think it’s not only a bad program (what ever happened to intuitive user interfaces?), I also can’t come up with more than a very few and select examples of justified use of it. Damn I hate that program!

Freeserve Broadband in the UK

If you ever consider getting broadband from Freeserve in the UK, here’s a piece of advice for you: DON’T!

Level Design Screenshots Online

Uploaded some screenshots for the computer games level section.

The Poseidon Incident

Movie Lore

I decided today, based on various discussions on- and offline that the ability to identify a good movie is pretty much the same as being able to look at a painting and be able to identify it as a good painting for one reason or another.

It goes much deeper than the ‘what I think’ that most the ‘average’ joe usually bursts out with. The understanding of acting, cinematography, lighting, framing, editing, effects, art direction and so on, are all needed to be able to understand and rate (so to speak) a movie. It’s a skill that can be honed like any other appraising skill.

So why am I saying this? Because I think Lord of the Rings the Special Extended DVD Edition is one of the best movies ever made, and the more I see of it, the more I entrench that opinion. A lot of people would obviously agree with me on this, but I’ve met a few of the people that just don’t get it. And I know I’ll get flamed for saying this because it’s so self-indulgent, but I truly believe that they’re wrong.

Wrong as in they just don’t understand what they’re talking about. They don’t have a clue. I haven’t talked a lot about movies on this site, which is actually quite unlike me, as movies is one of those things that permeate my life and somehow finds itself most of the things I do. So yeah, you can probably expect more stuff about movies on here in the future.

Anatomy

Drawing ThumbnailJust a minor update here, I’ve started polishing up on my anatomy knowledge and skill. Got a great new book called The Human Figure by David K. Rubins. If you interested in learning how to draw anatomy, you should really consider getting this book, it’s much better than any other book I’ve seen so far.

Back to work… irch!

Well it’s back to normal again, Rikke’s back in Denmark, and it’s time to get back to work.

I’ve got one of my uni projects (Moving Images) down pat, I just need to get it done. I’m more worried about my animation project. I mean… Flash… Why Flash? I hate flash. Ah well, I guess we’ll see what happens. I have to present the idea on Tuesday, we’ll see if it gets ‘approved’ or not.

Terribly sorry that the last many updates haven’t had any accompanying eye candy, but I’ve just been busy with a lot of things. I promise to get new stuff up here ASAP :)