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Haha, yeah the missus cornered me with the clippers the other day and off the hair went. She told me to just tell people I molted into my summer coat a little early XD
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The RMN Comic Collaboration!
Some SERIOUS thoughts on my art and its future...
I say go for it. Drunk Duck seems to be a good place to host a comic, though it can and probably will get lost in the thousands of other comics there.
One.com offer pretty good hosting, I pay £10 a year (yes, per year) for my domain name and hosting. Their on site utilities suck arse but I do everything via FTP anyway - hooray for sites built in NotePad and PhotoShop.
One.com offer pretty good hosting, I pay £10 a year (yes, per year) for my domain name and hosting. Their on site utilities suck arse but I do everything via FTP anyway - hooray for sites built in NotePad and PhotoShop.
So, I got "Pokemon: SoulSilver"
I got Pokemon Soul Silver today now that it's finally out in the UK. Only beaten Falkner so far but I am absolutely loving it =)
Looking for a New tablet
Looking for a New tablet
Well, seeing as the pen for my tablet has mysteriously vanished and shows no signs of turning up (I wouldn't be suprised if someone tried to use it as a normal pen and chucked it out thinking it didn't work), I'm looking to buy a new tablet.
I would love to get a Cintiq or something similar that has a display you can draw directly on to, or one of those laptops where the monitor acts as a giant tablet, but they're a little out of my price range.
My budget is between £50 and £250, my old tablet was quite small so I wouldn't mind upgrading to one that's about A4 size. I'm avoiding Trust and Genius tablets like the plague due to having issues with hardware from both companies before and the number of horror stories that circulate their products in general (I once had a Trust USB keyboard that seemingly thought it was a printer). I would like a Wacom again, but honestly, Wacoms are damned expensive and there are cheaper alternatives that are just as good.
Right now I'm looking at these two:
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Aiptek-SlimTablet-600U-Premium-II/dp/B001IX3YUQ/ref=sr_1_7?ie=UTF8&s=electronics&qid=1268584190&sr=8-7
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Aiptek-14000U-Media-Tablet/dp/B000TGMI5A/ref=sr_1_16?ie=UTF8&s=electronics&qid=1268584289&sr=8-16
I was wondering if the latter has a display due to it's price and the fact it says it supports 4:3 and 16:9 aspect ratios. If anyone has more info on either of these tablets or has some good suggestions for other tablets I should look at, I'd really appreciate it.
I would love to get a Cintiq or something similar that has a display you can draw directly on to, or one of those laptops where the monitor acts as a giant tablet, but they're a little out of my price range.
My budget is between £50 and £250, my old tablet was quite small so I wouldn't mind upgrading to one that's about A4 size. I'm avoiding Trust and Genius tablets like the plague due to having issues with hardware from both companies before and the number of horror stories that circulate their products in general (I once had a Trust USB keyboard that seemingly thought it was a printer). I would like a Wacom again, but honestly, Wacoms are damned expensive and there are cheaper alternatives that are just as good.
Right now I'm looking at these two:
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Aiptek-SlimTablet-600U-Premium-II/dp/B001IX3YUQ/ref=sr_1_7?ie=UTF8&s=electronics&qid=1268584190&sr=8-7
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Aiptek-14000U-Media-Tablet/dp/B000TGMI5A/ref=sr_1_16?ie=UTF8&s=electronics&qid=1268584289&sr=8-16
I was wondering if the latter has a display due to it's price and the fact it says it supports 4:3 and 16:9 aspect ratios. If anyone has more info on either of these tablets or has some good suggestions for other tablets I should look at, I'd really appreciate it.
RMN Festival?
Kentona's thread about possibly reviving the Release Somethings got me thinkign that instead of having an RS over 5 days, we could have an online festival over a week period where we have events such as a themed Make a Game in a Week and mini 3 Hour Game events and art collaborations and maybe make an RMN quilt and stuff. What do you guys reckon?
Drawings and the Like
Yeah it's incredibly easy to learn and use, called Silo and there are a bunch of really good tutorials on it here
http://nevercenter.com/silo/videos/tutorials/
It's really easy to extrude, cut and merge in it too, which are probably the three tools I use most.
http://nevercenter.com/silo/videos/tutorials/
It's really easy to extrude, cut and merge in it too, which are probably the three tools I use most.
















