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The day we can no longer interface with a video games via means of controller/mouse/keyboard will be the day that the world ceases to create productive and creative content.  Everything made and perceived will be an endless novelty that requires little more then static neuron activity.

Yeah, I had to learn it quite the hard way when my drawings appeared ridicilously blurry and shite with the soft brush :(


Jazz, do you ever use a keyboard when you draw with your tablet or hardly ever?

Yeah, all the time.  Not necessarily when I'm painting.
But if I'm selecting or skewing, using affects etc.
I always use keyboard shortcuts.

...some of the most important, Ctrl + S, Ctrl + Z, and Ctrl + Alt + Z :D

[Intuos4]

Intuos4


Never touch anything else.


Drawing Manga/Anime is pretty fun.
I use to draw it a lot more, but nowadays I find myself doing a lot of requests and doing specific styles for my assignments and such.

Most recently I've been trying to perfect high contrast lighting.

This was a request I did for someone at the Ubi forumz.

One of the many good tips to nice painting in Photoshop is to not use soft brushes.

@ OP:

I can see you're a beginner,  But no problem, I only wish to share a couple tips:
Until you're practiced and confident enough to draw out of your head, use photo's as reference, for either character posing or perspective drawing.  It helps a lot, see you'll find that drawing something from a photo will build your knowledge base, so when you want/need to draw from nothing, you'll have a much better idea.

Trying to do the last lap first and just expect skills to appear from nowhere isn't very efficient.
So yeah, experiment with photo reference.


Look here:


I based the angle off an ad I found in a magazine.
Once I had the structure and perspective right it's a simple matter of evolving it with your imagination.

no problem

Progressive scan.
Here, check this out, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Progressive_scan

1920 X 1080 = a bit over 2 million.
Basic math in action, just with big numbers.  ;)

Regardless of it's practical uses, I like the "Press Start" screen for atmospheric building.  It's a great opportunity to show of some cool art and set a mood.

1920 x 1080 is full HD video.

Say, if a pixel wan an inch, then your video would be 1080 inches high.
The "1920" is how many pixels across.

The 'p' as in '720p' just mean progressive, as appose to interlaced, which is indicated by an 'i' like "1080i"

Different resolutions are depicted by how many pixels high, so:

"1080p"  is "1920 by 1080 progressive"  (Full HD)
"720p" is "1280 by 720 progressive"  (Standard HD)

A "megapixel" is simply one million pixels.
So "1080p" is like 2 megapixel.

...Well, I assume that's what you wanted to know. :-\

I generally don't play DA.  And if I ever do, I'd opt for the X360 version.
Though it is fun to use the cheats and FRAPS to make stuff. :D

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gVuW2VYCr7o

Conviction, hmm...
Let me see if I can summarize it quickly.
- Coop it good
- Single player story is atrocious
- Gameplay has potential but lacked and/or failed most things
I still play occasionally, but something so linear get's really old really fast.


As far as the mod for R6 is concerned.
Well, when I found out about it a few weeks ago I was very disappointed .
Ah well, lucky I got to it before it was removed.

I played Doom 3... once I think.
Got so damn boring after the first 30 minutes.
Just finishing the game felt like a chore.
Just not for me I guess.

Not really any interest in Doom 4.
Just gonna be another stale shooter with lame monster designs.


Oh, by the way, nice little drama you've got going here. :D  [sigh]

I wasn't going to tell you, but it seems that I am required to.
You never knew me.
We never met...
The person whom you thought was me was in fact a cover, a fake, acted profile to fool you.
You may be thinking. "What was the point, why go to all the trouble."
Well the answer is simple, they needed to get something from you, and I was the only option.
I can't guarantee your safety anymore.
We are not friends anymore... we never were.

Sounds like the end of a cliche mystery/crime movie ending :p

Yeah, twaz sorta the idea. :P

PS: I BUSTED THE WORLD-ENDS-IN-2012 THEORY! My musli bar expires in 2013 ^^

That reminds me of something:

Evolution must be incorrect, because snoring was designed to keep other people awake. :D

Would be nice if you could make somekind of a signature and a 1280x800 wallpaper of Archer and Kestrel on sides and Sam Fisher on the middle, and with shadownet spies, it might be tricky and shadownet spies can be very poor in graphic, but I guess you could make them somehow blurred or sketched and look like hand drawings, would be really awesome, oh and don't forget Argus PMC :) (And if you really want to impress me, Upsilon with DA Spies)

Hmm, sound like fun.
Will see what I can do...
In the near future.