THE CRAPPER SPEAKS
Thursday, July 13, 2006
I've officially been a guitarist in CG today! Not worship guitarist yet, but that's a start! I mean, the whole group of us started off learning at the same time, but we all petered out one after another. Thank God for the lack of a guitarist in my CG, kind of like a motivation for me!
And I've started to appreciate harmonising music. Think "Penny & Me" by Hanson. I still remember listening to that song on the radio in sec4, when I was studying for my O lvls in school at night. Man it was cool! Nostalgia, nostalgia!
Next up, I want to learn how to cook! I also want to brush up on my photoshop skills! Today's animation class was cool; forced to learn a new editing style by PBL. Fruitful though; I still remember the commands by heart, after having replicated the same commands over 10 times, and using the action buttons over 40 times!
Command:
Open picture. Ctrl-J (copy background). Ctrl-Shift-U (Halftone pattern on background copy). Ctrl-J (copy background). Ctrl-I (Invert background copy 2). Change background copy 2 overlay to color dodge. Gaussian blur (I used 10.0 units for this particular project) to finish.
To make use of the action buttons, open the History window and go to the Action tab. Create new Action and follow the commands above. End action record. Now each time you load a picture, all you have to do is click play Action and everything gets does just the way you set it. Pretty neat; good for mass-production, especially for our stop-motion-esque animation. :D
Psychedelic;
9:50 AM
CRAPPY
The Poem
A poem is a feeling,
A heartfelt longing,
What makes it good,
Depends on your mood.
A tingling in your heart,
A quick flash of a dart.
A fragment of your life,
The rhythms of YOUR jive.
So ask not from without,
But seek to show out loud,
For this is truly you,
Done beautifully too.
