Here's a wee video I drew of how to fold an origami water bomb, also known as an origami cube or play-cube.
Showing posts with label animation. Show all posts
Showing posts with label animation. Show all posts
Tuesday, 7 April 2009
Tuesday, 24 February 2009
Origami Crane - A step by step animated guide
Following on from last week's thrillingly instructive guide and animation for folding an origami flapping bird, this is an animation showing how to fold an origami crane.
The crane is a little bit different to the flapping bird, it looks better, but it doesn't flap its wings when you pull the tail.
This one only took a day to draw, well, I used bits of last week's animation, and also added some more frames to make it smoother and flow more pleasingly.
Is anyone following these animations and making their own birds?
The crane is a little bit different to the flapping bird, it looks better, but it doesn't flap its wings when you pull the tail.
This one only took a day to draw, well, I used bits of last week's animation, and also added some more frames to make it smoother and flow more pleasingly.
Is anyone following these animations and making their own birds?
Wednesday, 18 February 2009
Origami Flapping Bird - A step by step animated guide
Following on from yesterday's thrillingly instructive guide to folding an origami flapping bird, here it is again, but as an animation over on YouTube.
Only took a day and a half to draw and colour in. As usual, I used my Wacom tablet, Photoshop and Windows Movie Maker.
Only took a day and a half to draw and colour in. As usual, I used my Wacom tablet, Photoshop and Windows Movie Maker.
Tuesday, 17 February 2009
Origami Flapping Bird - A step by step guide
Here's how to make an origami flapping bird.
Start off with a square of paper, I use post-it notes cos I hope one day they'll pay me lots of money or hire me to be some kind of brand person.
You're going to want to fold it in half to make a big old rectangular shape, try to make sure the corners line up proper.
Then fold down one of the folded corners so you get a diagonal crease from the flappy corner to the middle of the top ridge.
And do the same thing on the other side to make a big triangle with lots of paper edges on the bottom.
This bit's kind of complicated, you're going to want to open up the bottom and squash the whole thing into a square. I have faith in your intelligence dear reader, and faith in your spacial awareness and dexterity. Good luck.
Now fold up the two lower edges to make a kind of kite shape.
Turn it over and do the same thing again.
You now want to undo those kiteish folds so we're back to that square thing again. If you want to pursue a career in origami in the 80s and 90s then you'll need to know that this fold is called the 'Preliminary base'
Now some more pre-creasing, can you fold down the top triangle so that its like the cross bar of the kite-like fold we did earlier.
God knows how to explain this next operation, we're just using all thse pre-creases to open up the Preliminary base and make a bit old diamond shape.
If you managed that without any problems, turn the paper over and do the same thing again. Again if you were to pursue a career in origami in the last century, you'll need to know that this diamond thing is called a 'Bird base'.
You're doing well, with this level of expertise you could probably pass for a children's entertainer or a classroom assistant. Lets pretend what you have before you is an open book, with pages on the left and right, what we want to do is turn to the previous page. And then turn over the whole piece and do the same thing.
The two sticking up bits will become the neck and the tail of the bird, lets gently pull them apart a wee bit, this will cause the body to open up a bit, that's fine, just squash it flat again.
Almost finished, what you need to do now is fold down the head part. Again the neck will open up a wee bit, no worries, just squash it flat when you've got enough of a head.
That's you done, you just need to spread the wings a wee bit to make it more like a bird in flight.
Now, a few important things to note.
Start off with a square of paper, I use post-it notes cos I hope one day they'll pay me lots of money or hire me to be some kind of brand person.
- Its not a crane, its a flapping bird, the crane is something a tiny bit different
- This is probably your first attempt, so it'll look crap, try it again and be more precise with the creases
- Also, it probably isn't going to flap, it takes some degree in engineering to get these things to flap like they're supposed to, it'll probably just tear if you try to make it flap
- If you really want to try to make you 'flapping bird' flap it's wings, hold its 'breast' (the bottom of the neck, pinching just a little of the wing) and pull the tail outwards
Monday, 16 February 2009
Animation with Windows Movie Maker: a step by step guide
Aw man, Windows Movie Maker, the video software that comes bundled with Window XP is really annoying for doing animations with, but for some reason I soldier on.
This is my latest effort:-
Here's a step-by-step guide for how to do this sort of thing.
1. I sit at my computer, with my Wacom tablet and I draw what I can see around my desk, mostly my bedroom.
Just two or three pictures, what's behind, what's to my left, what I can see out the door. I draw them in an old old copy of Photoshop in black and white, then adjust the threshold to give me a line drawing.
2. I like to think of these drawings as key frames, for I then work on doing several frames of animation between them, I set them up as layers in photoshop so I can see two images at the same time, and then figure out and draw the image between them. Its a tedious process, but I nuture a high threshold for boredom.
3. Once I've got a few frames I colour them in. Years back, I did an animationy thing drawing on paper then scanning in each frame, it was so time consumed I could hardly be bothered colouring, but it looks kind of better and stops you getting headaches. Anyhoo, this is the hand-drawn and scanned thing I did in 2005 with almost no colouring.
Now in the later years of this decade I feel colouring is the way forward, no shading mind, just plain, almost cartoony colours.
4. Each frame I save as a jpeg, with the same dimensions and PAL widescreen DVD, that's 1024 x 576 I like to think that in the future people will come to worship my works and release them on DVD or something.
5. Then we fire up Windows Movie Maker and drag in all the jpegs. At this point its vital that you save the animation project in Windows Movie Maker cos its crashes every few seconds and its a real bitch to lose any changes you've made.
6. In order to use still images as anything like animation you're going to have to select
Its not the most flexible, you can only set it to 0.125 seconds or 0.25 seconds. That's 8 frames per second or 4 frames per second Einstein, which in animation terms is as jerky as hell.
And here's a kick in the balls when you render the movie to make a video file thing, it converts it to 25 frames per second. God knows how, neither 8 nor 4 go into 25 without leaving some frame there for longer or less time than the others, there's no escape from jerkiness. Thats what you get for using the free bundled video software.
Christ, I don't know, at 25fps each frame is up for 0.04 seconds, so if you've chosen 0.125 seconds per image, it probably squishes it into 0.12 seconds per image for the first seven frames then 0.16 seconds for the eighth. Its going to look odd.
Anyhoo, I'm getting ahead of myself, there's not much we can do about this, what we can do is select 0.125 seconds per image, 8fps, and then draw loads and loads of pictures. You want ten seconds of animation, thats eight pictures. Say it takes you three minutes to draw each picture, and then another two to colour it in, five minutes per picture, that ten seconds of footage is going to take the best part of day. Luckily, I'm unemployed.
7. Or you can cheat a little and use loops and stationary bits.
I dunno if they're called 'loops' in proper animationy class, and they're definitely not called 'stationary bits', but hey ho, what they are are sequences of three or more frames that you can repeat for a few seconds without any viewer really caring.
Here, check out the weird morphing thing in this animation to kill a bit of time.
The loop has got to be at least three frames otherwise you're just going 121212121 and it gives viewers a headache and make sure it goes 123123123 instead of 123212321 cos viewers can see right through that a mile away.
8. Oh, I hope you remembered to save that a few times in case it crashes.
9. When you get bored, you can render the movie. That'll be
And then just accept the defaults. Once its all done and you've watched you masterpiece a few times, called your girlfriend round, forced her to watch it, put up with her slightly patronising adulation, kind of like when your Down's Syndrome son has managed to tie his shoelaces for the first time, you know he'll never be a lawyer or a brain surgeon, but there's still hope for a career in banking. At this point just upload the damned thing to YouTube, and get your friends to watch it.
10. Watch it yourself a few more times, with pen and paper handy and scribble down everything you don't like about it, every unexpected jerk or bit that seem to go too quickly, or when you missed out colouring a section. Scribble these down and get back into Photoshop and fix it.
Repeat until satisfied.
Then dream about how one day a bored advertising executive will see your feeble scribblings on the internet, and then email you about doing a thirty second commercial for a well-known brand of dishwasher tablets for thousands of pounds.
Then be rudely awakened from the dream as you realise that that shit was easy, and the advertising executive will probably just get his creative bloke to knock up something identical in a fraction of the time, and do it all using fancy computer software, and charge at his usual rate.
The best you can hope for is a post on Boing Boing before being cast back into your cell once more.
More
Things to remember when you're fixing all the bits you messed up first time round
This is my latest effort:-
Here's a step-by-step guide for how to do this sort of thing.
1. I sit at my computer, with my Wacom tablet and I draw what I can see around my desk, mostly my bedroom.
Just two or three pictures, what's behind, what's to my left, what I can see out the door. I draw them in an old old copy of Photoshop in black and white, then adjust the threshold to give me a line drawing.
2. I like to think of these drawings as key frames, for I then work on doing several frames of animation between them, I set them up as layers in photoshop so I can see two images at the same time, and then figure out and draw the image between them. Its a tedious process, but I nuture a high threshold for boredom.
3. Once I've got a few frames I colour them in. Years back, I did an animationy thing drawing on paper then scanning in each frame, it was so time consumed I could hardly be bothered colouring, but it looks kind of better and stops you getting headaches. Anyhoo, this is the hand-drawn and scanned thing I did in 2005 with almost no colouring.
Now in the later years of this decade I feel colouring is the way forward, no shading mind, just plain, almost cartoony colours.
4. Each frame I save as a jpeg, with the same dimensions and PAL widescreen DVD, that's 1024 x 576 I like to think that in the future people will come to worship my works and release them on DVD or something.
5. Then we fire up Windows Movie Maker and drag in all the jpegs. At this point its vital that you save the animation project in Windows Movie Maker cos its crashes every few seconds and its a real bitch to lose any changes you've made.
6. In order to use still images as anything like animation you're going to have to select
Tools -> Options -> Picture Duration
Its not the most flexible, you can only set it to 0.125 seconds or 0.25 seconds. That's 8 frames per second or 4 frames per second Einstein, which in animation terms is as jerky as hell.
And here's a kick in the balls when you render the movie to make a video file thing, it converts it to 25 frames per second. God knows how, neither 8 nor 4 go into 25 without leaving some frame there for longer or less time than the others, there's no escape from jerkiness. Thats what you get for using the free bundled video software.
Christ, I don't know, at 25fps each frame is up for 0.04 seconds, so if you've chosen 0.125 seconds per image, it probably squishes it into 0.12 seconds per image for the first seven frames then 0.16 seconds for the eighth. Its going to look odd.
Anyhoo, I'm getting ahead of myself, there's not much we can do about this, what we can do is select 0.125 seconds per image, 8fps, and then draw loads and loads of pictures. You want ten seconds of animation, thats eight pictures. Say it takes you three minutes to draw each picture, and then another two to colour it in, five minutes per picture, that ten seconds of footage is going to take the best part of day. Luckily, I'm unemployed.
7. Or you can cheat a little and use loops and stationary bits.
I dunno if they're called 'loops' in proper animationy class, and they're definitely not called 'stationary bits', but hey ho, what they are are sequences of three or more frames that you can repeat for a few seconds without any viewer really caring.
Here, check out the weird morphing thing in this animation to kill a bit of time.
The loop has got to be at least three frames otherwise you're just going 121212121 and it gives viewers a headache and make sure it goes 123123123 instead of 123212321 cos viewers can see right through that a mile away.
8. Oh, I hope you remembered to save that a few times in case it crashes.
9. When you get bored, you can render the movie. That'll be
File -> Save Movie File -> My Computer
And then just accept the defaults. Once its all done and you've watched you masterpiece a few times, called your girlfriend round, forced her to watch it, put up with her slightly patronising adulation, kind of like when your Down's Syndrome son has managed to tie his shoelaces for the first time, you know he'll never be a lawyer or a brain surgeon, but there's still hope for a career in banking. At this point just upload the damned thing to YouTube, and get your friends to watch it.
10. Watch it yourself a few more times, with pen and paper handy and scribble down everything you don't like about it, every unexpected jerk or bit that seem to go too quickly, or when you missed out colouring a section. Scribble these down and get back into Photoshop and fix it.
Repeat until satisfied.
Then dream about how one day a bored advertising executive will see your feeble scribblings on the internet, and then email you about doing a thirty second commercial for a well-known brand of dishwasher tablets for thousands of pounds.
Then be rudely awakened from the dream as you realise that that shit was easy, and the advertising executive will probably just get his creative bloke to knock up something identical in a fraction of the time, and do it all using fancy computer software, and charge at his usual rate.
The best you can hope for is a post on Boing Boing before being cast back into your cell once more.
More
Things to remember when you're fixing all the bits you messed up first time round
- Add more frames to slow down sequences
- Take out frames to speed up sequences
- Don't be tempted to adjust the duration of each frame to slow down or speed up
- Trace trajectories if you're not convinced elements are in the right place.
Thursday, 5 February 2009
The view from my desk
I sit with my Wacom tablet, scribbling what I can see around me, then string together an animation.
Saturday, 27 December 2008
3D Post-It Maze
This one was buzzing through my head for a while I guess, its like the embodiment of the limitless possibilities of post-it notes, how you can get lost drawing on them, lose yourself, lose yourself.
Peppa Pig in action
Aye, so yesterday I was moaning about not being able to animate these pics I'd taken of the wean's Peppa Pig classroom playset, and today I figured out how to do it, by shifting them onto my knackered old desktop, and using the various video and animation software there, then cos it doesnae have the internet, I shift the video back onto my wee netbook in order to sling online.
Your ears do not deceive you, there is no audio, cos well, its still a work in progress I guess, proof of concept rather than making a finished piece.
Was it worth all the hassle?
Probably not, but its done now, and can cease playing on my mind.
Hmm, is it just a half-arsed job to be self-defeating, to shoot myself in the foot, so I can limp back and claim failure, I should never have bothered?
Your ears do not deceive you, there is no audio, cos well, its still a work in progress I guess, proof of concept rather than making a finished piece.
Was it worth all the hassle?
Probably not, but its done now, and can cease playing on my mind.
Hmm, is it just a half-arsed job to be self-defeating, to shoot myself in the foot, so I can limp back and claim failure, I should never have bothered?
Monday, 22 December 2008
Inspi
Incredibly frustrated by this netbook now, I thought that I could just install loads of neat and useful software to my Acer Aspire One wot I bought the other week as a replacement for my regular laptop when it died.
But alas, its not so simple.
I wanna do a really neat post-it note animation, I've been having 3D Monster Chase dreams it was this Doom-like game for the Amstrad CPC 464 twenty-five years ago, and my boredom tolerance has reached the point where I could draw the maze and animate running around it, but alas, my scanner doesnae work with this operating system, and besides I have no animation software or out that can stitch jpgs into mpgs.
I've got half a dozen songs in ma heid which I need to record and sling up, but there's no pre-loaded software to do it and I can't find owt that works with this variety of Linux. There's mic socket on the side, but thats no use, and the built in mic only seems to work for the webcam. Christ, it lets you record video from the webcam, but its impossible to do anything with the video.
I was talking to some musicy chap last night about the various music scenes and promoters around London, and after my mind boggled for a while I figured it would be neat to do some kind of hookup network diagram, linking bands to promoters, but its not to be with this OS.
Its been ages since I did any ill theatre drawings, my graphics tablet doesn't have drivers for this machine, and I can't just draw stuff on paper and scan it. I guess I could draw with biro, then take a photie then dick around with the gimp, but thats just too convoluted.
Playing MP3s is a bitch, the pre-loaded MP3 player is an ass, it takes forever to look at my removeable hard disc cos there's a few thousand more files than it can handle. I installed VLC which is some kind of free media player, but from the Acer website it appears to not have any codecs loaded, so its no good to anyone. What was the name of that open source media player, Songbird?
There's not IRC client easily available. I fear I may never enter the Bowlie chatroom again, my friends there long gone, lost into the ether. Truly this is the time Bowlie finally died.
Oh, and fucking hell, I have no CD burning facilities no more.
What happened? When did computers suddenly stop working? Its like we're back to 1993 technology where you never know if whatever you've bought, or downloaded is going to work, and you have to scrabble around for days trying to plug everything together and set ever thing up.
I have less than no money, can some PC company send me a computer that works, I promise I'll sing its praises from all of my websites and everything I can use it to create.
**UPDATE**
Oh and fucking hellski, I can't even watch The IT Crowd on Channel 4's catch up service cos it only supports Windows PCs. It's kind of like both of my legs and one of my arms have been tied behind my back and three of the fingers on my remaining hand are taped together, and my eyes, like I'm wearing some steampunk Cyberdog glasses with horns coming out.
But alas, its not so simple.
I wanna do a really neat post-it note animation, I've been having 3D Monster Chase dreams it was this Doom-like game for the Amstrad CPC 464 twenty-five years ago, and my boredom tolerance has reached the point where I could draw the maze and animate running around it, but alas, my scanner doesnae work with this operating system, and besides I have no animation software or out that can stitch jpgs into mpgs.
I've got half a dozen songs in ma heid which I need to record and sling up, but there's no pre-loaded software to do it and I can't find owt that works with this variety of Linux. There's mic socket on the side, but thats no use, and the built in mic only seems to work for the webcam. Christ, it lets you record video from the webcam, but its impossible to do anything with the video.
I was talking to some musicy chap last night about the various music scenes and promoters around London, and after my mind boggled for a while I figured it would be neat to do some kind of hookup network diagram, linking bands to promoters, but its not to be with this OS.
Its been ages since I did any ill theatre drawings, my graphics tablet doesn't have drivers for this machine, and I can't just draw stuff on paper and scan it. I guess I could draw with biro, then take a photie then dick around with the gimp, but thats just too convoluted.
Playing MP3s is a bitch, the pre-loaded MP3 player is an ass, it takes forever to look at my removeable hard disc cos there's a few thousand more files than it can handle. I installed VLC which is some kind of free media player, but from the Acer website it appears to not have any codecs loaded, so its no good to anyone. What was the name of that open source media player, Songbird?
There's not IRC client easily available. I fear I may never enter the Bowlie chatroom again, my friends there long gone, lost into the ether. Truly this is the time Bowlie finally died.
Oh, and fucking hell, I have no CD burning facilities no more.
What happened? When did computers suddenly stop working? Its like we're back to 1993 technology where you never know if whatever you've bought, or downloaded is going to work, and you have to scrabble around for days trying to plug everything together and set ever thing up.
I have less than no money, can some PC company send me a computer that works, I promise I'll sing its praises from all of my websites and everything I can use it to create.
**UPDATE**
Oh and fucking hellski, I can't even watch The IT Crowd on Channel 4's catch up service cos it only supports Windows PCs. It's kind of like both of my legs and one of my arms have been tied behind my back and three of the fingers on my remaining hand are taped together, and my eyes, like I'm wearing some steampunk Cyberdog glasses with horns coming out.
Tuesday, 9 December 2008
Animations
Hi, this is my page collecting together all the animations I've done over the past few years.
Plimptons videos
Semi-naked chicks
Misc
Ones with nakedness
Postamble
I've always been kind of interested in drawing, and my high tolerance for boredom is great for drawing animations. For the past few years I've been using the medium of post-it notes, but before that it was a matter of drawing on A4 and cropping.
Sometimes I'm not very good at drawing so some animations are based on someone else's sketches and storyboard and some animation are rotoscoped.
Its not really professional standard, but hey, I enjoy doing it.
Plimptons Videos
Jolly Top Hat - FEB-2006
Hog - MAR-2006
System Error - APR-2007
Rock n Roll Part 3 - OCT-2007
Semi-Naked Chicks
Its Vicky - OCT-2007
Jiggling boobs - NOV-2007
All I wanna do - OCT-2007
Betty Page - NOV-2007
Misc
Duncan from Dananananaykroyd - OCT-2007
Like Aha - JUL-2008
Day 1 - NOV-2008
Ones with nakedness
15 seconds - AUG-2008
First 15 secs post-it music video from Chris Gilmour on Vimeo.
Final Five - NOV-2008
The Final Five - The funniest videos are a click away
Postamble
You may have noticed that the nakedness ones aren't on YouTube, you're not allowed nipples there. But its kind of strange, despite the ubiquity of YouTube, my videos get most viewers when they're on other video hosting sites. The last one there, on Metacafe, got ten thousand hits in about two weeks, compared to the most popular Plimptons video, Jolly Top Hat, on YouTube which has taken two years to get a third of that. Yeah, yeah, I know its the great crowd of porn surfers who'll watch anything, but I still got their eyeballs for a few moments. This one time I had an animation on mainstream porn video site, I don't remember if it was YouPorn or RedTube or something else, but the video clocked half a million hits in two days. Two days.
Plimptons videos
Semi-naked chicks
Misc
Ones with nakedness
Postamble
I've always been kind of interested in drawing, and my high tolerance for boredom is great for drawing animations. For the past few years I've been using the medium of post-it notes, but before that it was a matter of drawing on A4 and cropping.
Sometimes I'm not very good at drawing so some animations are based on someone else's sketches and storyboard and some animation are rotoscoped.
Its not really professional standard, but hey, I enjoy doing it.
Plimptons Videos
Jolly Top Hat - FEB-2006
Hog - MAR-2006
System Error - APR-2007
Rock n Roll Part 3 - OCT-2007
Semi-Naked Chicks
Its Vicky - OCT-2007
Jiggling boobs - NOV-2007
All I wanna do - OCT-2007
Betty Page - NOV-2007
Misc
Duncan from Dananananaykroyd - OCT-2007
Like Aha - JUL-2008
Day 1 - NOV-2008
Ones with nakedness
15 seconds - AUG-2008
First 15 secs post-it music video from Chris Gilmour on Vimeo.
Final Five - NOV-2008
The Final Five - The funniest videos are a click away
Postamble
You may have noticed that the nakedness ones aren't on YouTube, you're not allowed nipples there. But its kind of strange, despite the ubiquity of YouTube, my videos get most viewers when they're on other video hosting sites. The last one there, on Metacafe, got ten thousand hits in about two weeks, compared to the most popular Plimptons video, Jolly Top Hat, on YouTube which has taken two years to get a third of that. Yeah, yeah, I know its the great crowd of porn surfers who'll watch anything, but I still got their eyeballs for a few moments. This one time I had an animation on mainstream porn video site, I don't remember if it was YouPorn or RedTube or something else, but the video clocked half a million hits in two days. Two days.
Saturday, 21 June 2008
Boing
I just got a video covered on BoingBoing. I'm pretty sure it won't last long, someone's going to realise where the 'thanks Chris' hyperlink leads and then it'll be dropped like a rock.
But right now, right now, I'm right there at the top of the 5th most popular blog on the internet. Me, using my own talents and abilities, and a faint wiff of integrity.
But I can feel it, the ground is starting to tremble, that crushing feeling of anti-climax, of failure, of defeat. Of reaching the top, but still not getting the girl.
Still wandering to HDIF on my own, sitting in a corner surrounded by friends, on my own, drinking until I can drink no more, being prodded out to the dancefloor, doing the same as I've done for the past fifteen years, and then staggering home on my own.
This is why I even bother.
But right now, right now, I'm right there at the top of the 5th most popular blog on the internet. Me, using my own talents and abilities, and a faint wiff of integrity.
But I can feel it, the ground is starting to tremble, that crushing feeling of anti-climax, of failure, of defeat. Of reaching the top, but still not getting the girl.
Still wandering to HDIF on my own, sitting in a corner surrounded by friends, on my own, drinking until I can drink no more, being prodded out to the dancefloor, doing the same as I've done for the past fifteen years, and then staggering home on my own.
This is why I even bother.
Tuesday, 27 May 2008
Things and stuff
Wee a slightly unnatural yellow colour, and pain in my stomache where I think my liver or kidneys are. It could just all be in my head.
Got a mention on Sparky's Magic Piano's Facebook
One handed origami video that I haven't posted here before:-
Plimptons gig on the seventh, expect more spam closer to the time
Got a mention on Sparky's Magic Piano's Facebook
One handed origami video that I haven't posted here before:-
Plimptons gig on the seventh, expect more spam closer to the time
Saturday, 29 September 2007
The end of an era
Looks like my record label, Ivan Lendil Music, home of The Plimptons, manc_ill_kid and sometimes The Just Joans, will be shutting down.
I'm in the middle of a huge CD making job and my printer has stopped working with the message, "Some parts of this printer have reached the end of their service life, please refer to printer documentation".
Now this came just after I'd bought £40 worth of ink and supplies, and printed out about 40% of the job. Damn you Epson and your Photo R300!
The girlfriend is somewhere out there in London, and I'm bawsdeep in trying to sort this printing. On the other hand I've done about as much as I can of the latest Plimpie video (NSFW link) I just need to do the end credits.
The label started back in 2004 when my Gran died and I used the inheritance to buy kits and stock to churn out CDs. But now the printer's knackered, my CD burner is on its last legs and we sold about 5 copies of the last album we put out. It was a phase
I'm in the middle of a huge CD making job and my printer has stopped working with the message, "Some parts of this printer have reached the end of their service life, please refer to printer documentation".
Now this came just after I'd bought £40 worth of ink and supplies, and printed out about 40% of the job. Damn you Epson and your Photo R300!
The girlfriend is somewhere out there in London, and I'm bawsdeep in trying to sort this printing. On the other hand I've done about as much as I can of the latest Plimpie video (NSFW link) I just need to do the end credits.
The label started back in 2004 when my Gran died and I used the inheritance to buy kits and stock to churn out CDs. But now the printer's knackered, my CD burner is on its last legs and we sold about 5 copies of the last album we put out. It was a phase
Wednesday, 26 September 2007
Mood swings all over the place
So I had the closest I get to a nervous breakdown at the weekend, there's only just so much pointless driving can do before owning a Smart Car doesn't seem quite so environmentally friendly.
Luckily Fiona saved my life by asking me to house-sit for her while she's away on holiday. She as the nicest house, and it'll be all mine for the next week or so. Finally I'll be able to do my laundry and cook food without The Fear. And its closer to town so I can get back in the gig-going tracksuit.
Last night I got my arse in gear making CDs. My room turned into a right little production line.
Got about 10 frames of animation done too, its starting to get easier as I perfect my technique. Rather than tracking points on keyframes, I track blobs. It gives more fluid movement and better scaling.
Also this NSFW
I gotta get out more and see friends.
Luckily Fiona saved my life by asking me to house-sit for her while she's away on holiday. She as the nicest house, and it'll be all mine for the next week or so. Finally I'll be able to do my laundry and cook food without The Fear. And its closer to town so I can get back in the gig-going tracksuit.
Last night I got my arse in gear making CDs. My room turned into a right little production line.
- CD Burning on on PC
- CD printing on my laptop
- QC on my CD player
- Packaging on my bed
- Drawing pictures whilst waiting on bottlenecks
Got about 10 frames of animation done too, its starting to get easier as I perfect my technique. Rather than tracking points on keyframes, I track blobs. It gives more fluid movement and better scaling.
Also this NSFW
I gotta get out more and see friends.
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