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TooMuchAbstraction posted:With the absolutely massive caveat that my experience is in indie game development, not indie art production: Thanks for this effort post. I'm pretty drat worn out from work this past week, but these are some helpful and salient points to ponder.
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Hi all! does anyone have any recommendations for resources on working with colour? Ive been getting into drawing and I bought myself a graphic tablet which has been pretty cool but im still only working in line and hatching really. I found the book the keys to drawing by bert dodson really helpful because it was split up into simple exercises which built on the previous ones, ideally im looking for something like that except on colouring instead of line drawing. Something that clearly goes through the fundamentals in detail but also has lots of directed exercises instead of 'heres some tips, now go do something on your own'. thinking up my own ideas makes the whole thing even harder  I dont mind paying for a book, but free resources are a plus. Something I can read though, I am incapable of learning from videos! thanks for any ideas!
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AFistfulOfBitcoins posted:Hi all! does anyone have any recommendations for resources on working with colour? I suggest the cubebrush guy, he has a few videos on colour. This is one of them. https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=A218Xy42_Ps
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AFistfulOfBitcoins posted:Hi all! does anyone have any recommendations for resources on working with colour? James Gurney's Color and Light is the best resource I've found. It's broken up into easy sections that take the ideas and put them simply, with lots of examples and explanations. Not really built around exercises, but you can absolutely apply each section to a project and practice that way. He also has a YouTube channel, and while he mainly works in gouache and watercolors, he has videos on colors that can be applied to any medium. The other one that comes to mind is Making Color Sing by Jeanne Dobie. edit: Debunking Color Myths with Tiffanie Mang. Saw this after my post and thought it would also help. Franchescanado fucked around with this message at 17:48 on Jul 6, 2021 |
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Jul 6, 2021 12:34
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many thanks for the recs! making colours sing arrived today and i'll check out those youtube videos too! ty pals
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I haven't really thought this through, but does anybody have any places that have networking potential with other creative types focusing on game development? Obviously there's SA which isn't nothing but it's a bit labyrinthian. There's also just flat out paying people on places like fiverr. I'm just wondering if there are any obvious hubs or even discords that I'm missing. Ideally it would be some kind of small discord with like 50 talented people in it looking to collab but it's rare you stumble into that.
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roomtone posted:I haven't really thought this through, but does anybody have any places that have networking potential with other creative types focusing on game development? Obviously there's SA which isn't nothing but it's a bit labyrinthian. There's also just flat out paying people on places like fiverr. I'm just wondering if there are any obvious hubs or even discords that I'm missing. Ideally it would be some kind of small discord with like 50 talented people in it looking to collab but it's rare you stumble into that. SA has several spinoff discords; the two I'm most aware of are Dogpit and Awful Jams. If you want to collaborate, the usual advice I see is to join game jams. There's usually an associated community with the jam, where you can go to form a team. Dogpit is just about to wrap up a jam right now, so unfortunately you missed the bus on that one.
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yeah that's probably a good idea. i'll join those and take a look, even if i've just missed a jam there i can at least get a feel for what goes on in them and look around for jams elsewhere until the next ones. but thanks - that's basically what i was hoping for when i asked.
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Definitely post in the Making Games thread in Games if you don't already.
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Oh yeah, threads: https://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?goto=lastpost&threadid=3506853 https://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=2692947&goto=newpost https://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=3834228&goto=newpost https://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=3415662&goto=newpost The first two are pretty interchangeable, with the first getting the most traffic. The latter two are more about industry.
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What would folks here recommend for a print-on-demand service? I have a non-goon friend asking for recommendations.
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TooMuchAbstraction posted:What would folks here recommend for a print-on-demand service? I have a non-goon friend asking for recommendations. https://www.gicleetoday.com/
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Thanks, I'll pass that along. Though I have a sneaking suspicion that the goal here is for a "nice budget option". Aren't giclee prints the "super high quality with a price to match" option?
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Compared to lovely run-of-the-mill printing yeah. These are archival inks and papers, so they'll cost more depending on print size and paper choice. I got prints made of a painting on 11x17 paper and it cost me $20/print from a local printer. My local options are fairly limited, and the other (cheaper) printer still hasn't resumed business due to covid. If your friend's just looking for cheap a print on demand service and doesn't care about the quality of the product the buyer receives, then an intermediate service like redbubble or society6 is probably more than adequate.
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How come my voice sounds crappy on my iphone while on speaker, but good when headphones with no mic are connected?
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Jul 26, 2021 23:33
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Mescal posted:How come my voice sounds crappy on my iphone while on speaker, but good when headphones with no mic are connected? Headphones have better sound repro than tiny speakers
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I've been working a lot with gouache lately and am interested in sealing my finished work with a varnish of some variety. I live in Louisiana, so it's super humid here and I'm worried about potential damage to my work. Anyone have any experience varnishing watercolor or gouache? I know I'd need to work with an isolation layer before brushing anything on. Aerosols are probably a better overall choice than anything involving brushes, especially for the isolation layer. I read about Dorland's Wax Medium on an artists blog as way of protecting the paint, but it more seems to be used for oil paints. The blog claims it can be applied directly to the surface of a water color painting without damaging the paint. Gouache is a slightly thicker coat in my experience an I have concerns about potentially abrading some the paint off. I know I could easily work with oils or acrylics instead, but I love the workability and totally matte finish of gouache.
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I have a self portrait my mom painted in college, around 50x40 inches, and it sat in my basement for years rolled up and squished until recently, and I want to hang it up. I laid it flat for a few weeks and fortunately there were no creases. I have the original frame the canvas was (just rectangular, no diagonal braces) but I figured I should ask for advice from people who know more. I've build frames and stretched fresh canvas before, but I'm mostly used to doing custom projection screens and I'm sure that both are more forgiving than an old canvas. It's almost 50 years old and both the canvas and paint are in good shape and still flexible with no cracking. Can I restretch it like I would a new canvas but more delicately or is this strictly a professional job? Of course I know I can't ask that and not share a picture of it, so  This was 12-15 years before I was born, so the model in the foreground is a child she was babysitting. Fortunately my family is still in touch with her college roommate and her family, otherwise I wouldn't even have known that she painted it. edit: there's a bit of basement mold on the canvas in the bottom right corner that fortunately doesn't touch the paint. Is gently wiping with hydrogen peroxide a safe way to get rid of it? GWBBQ fucked around with this message at 22:10 on Aug 15, 2021 |
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Aug 15, 2021 22:07
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Can anyone recommend me a free drawing tool/shape generator either online of for Mac, that can generate shapes when I give it the specific dimensions. I have a bunch of trapezoids I need to generate, I know the length of each side and the interior angles on each. I thought this would be quite simple but everything I've tried only lets me set the width and height of the shape, or lets me adjust the angle but non-specifically.
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There might be some sort of online vector or CAD tool that would let you specify angles and side lengths, but you could use a tool like this https://www.mathepower.com/en/trapezoid.php to get the dimensions you need from what you have. It'd be pretty easy to set up an excel sheet with the proper formula if you don't want to enter everything in to the calculator individually.
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My sister took a cellphone picture of her kid that she loves, except something went wrong with the lighting I guess, here's a cropped version: Is this something that could be fixed, and if so, maybe a goon could do it? I'm willing to throw a couple of bucks someone's way if it's a relatively easy fix, but if it would be a lot of work then it's no great loss either. How would I go about this? Is there a dedicated thread for small requests like this?
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Does she still have the kid? Its a thousand times easier to retake the photo at the same time of day in the same room etc. That can be photoshopped (make an SA mart thread offering 40 bucks or so) but it doesn't seem worth it unless they can't take another photo.
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Thanks but yeah, that's not worth it. It's a great picture where he has a great laugh and a twinkle in his eyes but otherwise not special. There'll be hundreds more just like it but I figured maybe it's a minute or two fix for someone that knows what they're doing. Definitely not worth 40 bucks, though.
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Does anyone have any resources for font identification from an old-timey label? I'm reconditioning some old (circa 1930s) lamps and part of that process is recreating the original labels which were damaged beyond repair and got removed with the paint. I'm counting at least three fonts here but I have no idea where to start identifying what they are or close-enough analogues. 
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There's a typography/font thread that should be able to help.
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Oh cool I didn't see that one. Thanks!
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Maybe not so little a question, but is there a good resource/tactic for finding literary agents/publishers that are interested (or even open to) novellas? I have a completed work that's just under the 50k word mark and it seems that most agents start at works that are half-again that long.
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FreshFeesh posted:Maybe not so little a question, but is there a good resource/tactic for finding literary agents/publishers that are interested (or even open to) novellas? I looked at similar genre books and who made those for this. Like if your thing is military sci-fi, find someone that imprints that and see if they have a contact form or a submission form. Also check us out in the self publishing thread. I have one publisher that I’m going to give the first crack at my novel(but I know the guy) and then a reach publisher/international rights one.
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My stupid question is, I’m writing a web serial and should I make a thread for it here, where each chapter is a post? Or just have the majority of it in one google doc in the first two posts. This is for an incomplete project that’s probably ongoing for a while.
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Okay, so you know those EKG heartbeat lines, and how the same effect can be used for like... audio levels like a solid line until audio goes up and then it spikes and goes back down does anyone know of a program that can do that, specifically one that could be easily livestreamed? I'm wanting to take a swing at Twitch stuff but I'm also ugly as sin, but I would like to have some kind of representation of myself on screen for parasocial marketing connection reasons, but I also cannot afford to go full v-tuber. I've mostly narrowed my options down to "cool heartbeat voice thing" or "get a puppet." I don't even know if this is the best thread for this, but as you can see I'm real good at making bad decisions
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You want an audio waveform visualizer? Maybe something like this? Visualizers used to be a big art thing (like, WinAmp had a bunch of 'em), so I'm sure you can find a bunch if you do some research.
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TooMuchAbstraction posted:You want an audio waveform visualizer? Maybe something like this? Visualizers used to be a big art thing (like, WinAmp had a bunch of 'em), so I'm sure you can find a bunch if you do some research. I struggled for like ten minutes to google it without finding out the term was "visualizer," god drat thank you so much
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sound lines wiggly sound lines loving sound lines and they go up and down you know what I mean google the wiggly lines with the dot and it moves goigle I can't afford an anime work with me show me the goddam uppy downy scribble and its a sound wave
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sebmojo posted:sound lines that was basically how it went down, yeah, with the added bonus that now the algorithms are trying to sell me heart monitors I'd also like a simple dealio to animate a sprite's two-frame mouth when I talk, Starfox style, but that's going to have to wait until I figure out what the hell I'm doing with this part
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Oh hey, you're looking for http://veado.tube This wild dude on the internet has been workin' on a project that does exactly what you describe and a little more. The phrase to google is "PNGTuber" to find more like it. https://jiinh.com/discord-reactive-image-generator/ This other marvel of PNGtubing has figured out how to extend the benefit of having a little two-state avatar to all your friends by hijacking the Discord chat bubble overlay as well, so if you're particularly prolific all your friends can have little talky heads. I use these pretty frequently, as I do the V-Tubin' myself. [edit]: I like to set these things up with .gifs, so they do a little more than open their mouths when the PNGtuber features activate. 
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Wobbly Python posted:Oh hey, you're looking for http://veado.tube jesus christ this thread is MVP of SA, thank you
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I have a question about perspective. Will the horizon line/eye-level line that we place on the page change at all if we position the camera or viewpoint higher or lower? If we angle the camera upwards or downwards, the horizon line will shift down or up the page respectively, but what about height? Intuition tells me yes but in practice I don't think that's the case at all, which can throw me off sometimes.  At extreme heights, will the horizon line still move downwards because of the curvature of the earth? Like, if we observed a camera from a space shuttle being launched, after enough time the horizon line will eventually shift off the page, right?
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GenJoe posted:I have a question about perspective. Not really. The horizon line is an imaginary plane/line that things appear to be above or below of. It's always centered on your field of view. Basically, look around at any object. Things will appear to recede from the center of your vision. Now crouch down or stand up and notice how the vanishing points change as your perspective change. It's better to think about vanishing points rather than the horizon line. Because you can have a perspective where there is no "horizon" and still have a horizon line. It's a point where things recede and become unrecognizable, it doesn't have to be actual ground or anything tangible.
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If the camera has a fixed angle with respect to a line drawn through the center of the globe, then yes, as it ascends the horizon line will get lower on the page. That's your example at any rate - a camera looking perpendicular to the body of a rocketship taking a (unrealistic) straight shot straight up from the surface of the earth. Eventually the horizon will no longer be in the frame. On a smaller scale, such as standing up from sitting, any such effect is irrelevant. Also our natural view isn't a fixed angle like that. Edit: to the above poster's point, yes 100%. The horizon line and the vanishing point are only inherently related if you are looking at (or near enough in relative terms) the horizon! If you lie on your back and stare up at a skyscraper, the vanishing point has nothing to do with the horizon, for example. armorer fucked around with this message at 17:40 on Sep 18, 2021 |
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GenJoe posted:I have a question about perspective. If you get to extreme enough heights I tend to move to three point perspective. The Horizon line tends to just be the line drawn between your two vanishing points. I consider it a more a convenient verbal shorthand than a concrete idea a lot of the time.
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