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Hi, below is something interesting for you deep thinkers. It's a problem of logic with applications. I also have a good lesson down there if you can mine it. This picture is a mess, isn't it? How did I make it? Linear motion blur and radial motion blur together using Gimp. Gimp is sweet. First I tried to make a movie of it and then use VirtualDub's motion blur. It looks really ugly. It goes up and down and makes me ill. So I tried taking two frames and blending them together. That didn't work at all. It didn't look as good as the blending I did for... Scene 1 Page 3 look at the second row and it looks like ghosting. If I made those bigger (which I will do for JF Final), they'd look pretty cool. While writing this, I came up with a better idea. I could take the two images and then motion blur them! <goes into GIMP> Okay, I think the first one looks better, but the second one is more correct. Which should I go for? The first one I tried only used one picture. That means that any motion is completely faked. The other one uses two motion blurred images combined and the later one without motion blur combined afterwards. It gives a sense of blurriness and ghosting. I'll have to work on it, I guess. It definately isn't going to find its way into the Anime. I might not even put any motion blur into JF Anime. There's a bit done in real anime, but no actual blurring. Maybe I can make a 3d motion accentuation thingamajig. I don't like what I see with vertex shaders and they're still too advanced for me. But what about JF Final? Motion blur might be an effect that is both possible and very cool. But I should probably stick to my idea of adding motion lines. You see, I've gotten this idea that I can make 3d Motion lines using my knowledge of 3d and stuff. I'll just Have a 1x64 with dots on it. I'll then put the texture onto a curved 3d surface. Then I'll add it to models that need it and it'll be sweet. I might even add that as a function of AS3DMD3, but it's pretty complex. Hmm, who knows, eh? The art lesson is: get to know your paint program's functions. Filters are sweet when used correctly. There are few images on the professional side of the net that don't go through at least four filters. I remember back at my job, my boss wanted the website to look like the NYSE. "Exactly?" I asked. "In style, yes. In function, different," he replied. Uh huh. Okay, it's made of stripes. So I made a striped texture and stretched it across a picture. "No, it isn't stripes, it's something completely different, see. It has these funny variations that correspond to the original picture." He paid twenty dollars and plenty of my co-worker's time to figure it out that it could be duped using semi-transparent stripes. Oh, of course. A few weeks ago I was going through my filters and found the filter, it's called video noise. You know how video is made of RGB, so if you look really close, it has stripes, right? Uh huh. So the NYSE's nice looking web site was just some artist complaining about how grainy their monitors are. ^-^ Okay, I'm babbling, I need sleep or some such. G'nite.

Monday morning rolls along and I still have no job. I'm going to look for a job right after this short rant. This pic I drew that is so-so. It shows how amateur I am at drawing. I will list the ways that I lack in drawing:

• Characters do not look like real people.
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So, we have another Making Of JF. The computer lab that I'm working in is very close to empty. How nice. I can work on a very contraversial and erotic piece and not get any flak. ^_^ Okay, maybe it's not all that erotic, but it certainly is a woman type anime character. And anime is always rated 'NR-Mature', so it must be pr0n, right? Right. I drew this a long, long time ago. I think it was either one or two years ago. You see how the hair is not very good. This was drawn before I understood how to draw the back side of hair. Hehehe. A bit of history, I drew it on top of a mountain, Mount Si near Seattle, Washington, USA. It's a one day hike (8 hours there and back, I think) and it's very popular. The trails are maintained by a very committed group of hikers. A few guys in my dorm house decided to hike it. I brought along my pad and pencil and drew this. When we got to the very top, it was snowing, a bit windy, and it was a great view. Although it doesn't show it, there was a 360 panorama and it was pretty sweet. No city in the distance, no freeways that I remember. We cooked something or another and ate a feast. I ate a bunch of ramen, I remember that my friends ate a whole pound of cheese or something like that. Hilarious. "Good times" is the phrase my roommate used for nearly everything good or bad and it really characterized our trip and really our whole year of fun together. We played ultimate frisbee, Counter-Strike, Black and White, and Diablo 2. That was part of the reason that that year was the most fun year of my life. But also because I started AltSci3D Manga Director.