Studio Ghibli

At 1/4/07 10:28 AM, The-Super-Flash-Bros wrote: I'm a complete Ghibli freak . I own all the films -ever-, and loads of Totoro models.

I bet you(s) you've it when Film4 showed most theri movies that one time ;)

i've seen alot of their mvoies, but not all :(

RE: Art Request

At 1/4/07 10:31 AM, Peturo wrote:

look up dali's stuff he does some really strange shit like this and everyone knows the persistence of memory here

Dali's stuff is too obvious. As much as I dislike the theme of this project, I still want to be original.

also andy warhol is worth looking into... (not too close)

It'd be hard to explain how a can of soup is "unconventional". ;)

At 1/4/07 12:18 PM, MethodMinus wrote:

If you're looking for abstract take a look at Jackson Pollock.

I'm already using No. 5! =P I'm using in a different section, as an example of how art no long represents the ideology of the ruling classes.

look at Roy Lichtenstein's work

Will do.

Keith Haring drew a lots of homoerotic stick figures.

Erm.... I think I'll pass on him.

At 1/4/07 10:38 AM, MRat wrote:

Look up Henri Moore's stuff.

Will do.

Thanks for the input guys, keep it coming.

art

erm..
John K

hey i'm not sure whats going on :D

Animated Films
@SFB - why is tortoro your favourite? I watched it the other day and although it's really nice, it is essentially a kids film.

I really want to see Iron Giant. When it came out, I heard it was crap so I didn't bother seeing it but more recently I've heard loads of god stuff about it. Also I really love the Incredibles, also directed by Brad Bird.

Some cool animated films I have seen-
The Man Who Planted Trees really nice story and really beautiful animation. If you get a chance to see it, do.
Dad's Dead One of the most disturbing animated films I've seen. It's really not fun to watch but has some really great stuff in it. The mix of animation and live action is flawless. Directed by Chris Shepherd of Slinky pictures.
Who I am and What I Want Also Directed (jointly) by Chris Shepherd but this time really funny. I didn't really like it the first time I saw it a couple years ago but I saw it in October last year with others and found it brilliant and funny. Still retains the same wierd feel of Dad's Dead and is pretty gross in areas but much more lighthearted.
Anything by Michaël Dudok De Wit We watched three shorts by this guy. Wow! I really loved them all, the animation is just spot on. Seriously beautiful work. immense amount of atmosphere and clear story.
Jan Švankmajer Like the origal surrealist stop-motion film maker. More metaphorical meanings here than with the others but some great work. We are always watching his stuff in uni and I'm pretty sure at least one of my lecturers is in love with him.

Just a few things I've seen at uni or at animation events that I thought were pretty decent. If you get a chance, take a look. There are many more but I can't think of them now.
If anyone has see any of these, let me know what you thought. you might be able to find some on youtube.

animation

http://www.itsartmag.com/news
a rather large blog about animation and such, may be interesitng to you's :P

the john k blog i posted justr before also has ALOT of animaiton techniques and such, also has john k moaning baout how much newer cartoons are pretty crap graphic wise, no textures and all rubbery and such.

;)

Bans

At 1/4/07 11:47 AM, fuzz wrote: Haha, thats not what luis said, he decided to look at my records, found i only had a couple of bans over the last 2 years. I asked him to look at yours and said youve had 6 (last year)
He also said most of them are maximum length bans i.e 30 days.

P

Oh nooes! I've only been banned for 30 days once, evil evil neg :(

Btw, luis's moderating panel is brokenzored.

RE: Animation
Eh..? I didn't understand that site you gave us, Sonx

RE: Ultimate bannage
Oh yes...now I understand why you are constantly banned...

RE: Bans

At 1/4/07 01:39 PM, Toast wrote: Oh nooes! I've only been banned for 30 days once, evil evil neg :(

Btw, luis's moderating panel is brokenzored.

Yeah, I can vouch for that. It keeps banning people for minor offences, and locking random threads. Like my 5K post party :(

It's weird, because normally Luis wouldn't ban a fly.

I saw some cool youtube news thing on banksy.. its kind of old because he made those pieces ages ago but still worth a look see.. its like the first time hes ever been filmed while he was workin

http://buzzworthy.buzznet.com/user/video/play /?p=2

There was an artist a few years ago who made a stir in the art world with a piece called piss christ. i dont remember his name but if you google that you'll probably run into him. i really like artists that twist the nipples of the normally snobby art scene.

RE: Art Request

At 1/4/07 02:07 PM, Luis wrote:

i really like artists that twist the nipples of the normally snobby art scene.

Amen to that. Snobbery and pretentiousness seems to be a central part of the art world.

Kirk's Art Request

Kirk, I find Jacek Yerka's work fascinating and I'm hoping it's exactly what you're looking for. You can find some examples here and here but that's not even close to the amount of stuff he's created, poke around and find something you like.

RE: Art Request

At 1/4/07 02:16 PM, ConAir wrote:

Kirk, I find Jacek Yerka's work fascinating

The 2nd link didn't work, but that first pic was pretty cool. I check out some more of his stuff. Cheers.

lol, when I tried to posts this I got a cheeky error message: "Uh-oh! An error occurred."

RE: Art Request

The 2nd link didn't work, but that first pic was pretty cool. I check out some more of his stuff. Cheers.

lol, when I tried to posts this I got a cheeky error message: "Uh-oh! An error occurred."

Haha, yeah that second link should've been this, sorry about that. He's got loads more paintings that are even cooler, those were'nt even the better ones.

Studio Ghibli

I love those films. I get lots of animating inspiration from them(although, none of it has been manipulated yet), like the fantasy and the landscapes.

A few of my favorites are Howl's Moving Castle, Spirited Away, The Valley of the Wind, Castle in the Sky, and robably My Neighbor Tortoro. Note: Some may or may not be made by Studio Ghibli.

Jeff Jordan did all the artwork for the new Mars Votla CD. You can find a couple examples of his work here andhere, and there's lots more on his site.

At 1/4/07 03:18 AM, TheHappySheep wrote: Studio Ghibli
I watched Princess Mononoke recently and that is fucking awesome. I really like studio ghibli films and other decent anime films like akira but there is definately a cultural difference present from here in the west. I find that some elements I really really enjoy and some bits dont appeal to me at all. Specifically I find that much of the anime stuff I've seen has scrappy endings where it doesnt make much sense and just feels rushed. Princess Mononoke is a prime example fo that.
I enjoy watching miyazaki's stuff mostly for the beautiful animation and try to just let the story flow. I find if I involve myself too much in the story, I end up being dissapointed so now I just settle into the aesthetic and try to suspend disbelief as far as possible.

well i have to say that princes mononoke is by far the best we have alot of is films but we
princes mononoke for a lt of years i enjoid it beafor i culd understand the english
subtitels ohand i also loved thery much spirted away and the one with the thif which i can't
remembr is name right now by the way we alot of his movies on dvd he is so awasome
and the art and animaion is incredible.

Re: Studio Ghibli

I hate to ask, because I'm sure somebody's going to kill me, what what exactly is it? I understand it's an animation... studio, but what comes out of it?

Shirt Turtle's 'retarded' view on everything=CANCELLED???
Do me? I'm thinking of making a new sig. I'm too lazy to make 'em with the frequency that Luis or some others do.

Maybe I'll put in a preview of my big, big, big project (beta coming summer 2007) to get you excited...

But I do wanna know what impression I give and get vague, amusing inspiration for what I should put in the sig.

I'll do you if you do me. Or I can do you another way if that floats your boat more.

Space and Time's city

it's awesome. I'll have to work this out.

At 1/1/07 10:57 PM, Johnny wrote: I can't. I can let go of the rest ("argument" for example)

"Problem" is another one. Problem always sounds negative...

I can't let go of Irony though. I think it has to do with the connotation of intellegence... and when people use it wrong...

Irony
Johnny incorrectly using an adjective instead of the adverb form? How ironic.

By the by, why do folk misuse 'argument'?

Also: I honestly think all of the things in Morissette's song are somewhat ironic.

I mean, we would expect chardonnay to be better served than to have a fly in it. Likewise, most, if not all of her statements are against expectations and contain humour.

At 1/2/07 12:39 AM, PinkSkull wrote: Oops.. the size is actually 500x350
o yeah ill explain what happened:
the guy was walkin gon a dark corridor and he had a vision of his camera.. he was stupid and turned the camer atowards him.. it looked the same as in his vision so bam!
this part its supposed to take place somewhere in the middle.. when they are aware of what is happening..

Pink Skull's Visiontastic Flash
Seems like a good plot. I honestly think it's a kick-ass premise.

regarding shading: what I do is lower brightness, increase saturation and also lower the hue. I sorta use yellow as the brightest colour, going through red, blue, then finishing on green as the darkest colour.

I just find you can get richer results changing all aspects.

If you see colours you like, try eyedroppering them.

'Hacked' accounts

At 1/2/07 07:00 AM, Depredation wrote: Wonchops is teh hackzord

At 1/2/07 06:26 AM, CitricSquid wrote: Once more than 5k views i think, they can't edit, so wonchop should be safe, but they submitted shit, and have deleted his lesser known flash :(

Bummer, I'm guessing they changed his password so he can't access his account now? I managed to get into bigexplosions purely by accident somehow :D, but i not a bastard, so i changed nothing. Anyone else accidentally got into someone else's account?

How the hell did you get into another account, 'purely by accident'?

My heart goes out to Wonchop.

Newgrounds City Ransom

Sounds like a great idea, and like most folk, I'd love to be involved and would certainly try and make the time to edit a few sprites for it.

I'm a bit confused as to why we're beating everyone up 'for respect' though.

Maybe I'm too much of a pacifist to be involved.

Misc

At 1/2/07 07:01 PM, ImpendingRiot wrote: I'm just wondering if my decision to not depict the soldiers as American in this and future films is a cop out.

Well, if it's not relevant to the movie, then it's not a cop-out to leave it out. If your movie has no political agenda at all and the only aim is to get folk to chuckle, Saddam's presence only being there to make it relevant, then leaving details out can help focus folk on what actually matters to your 'agenda' (the chuckle).

At 1/2/07 07:03 PM, HandsomeJake wrote: kenney mentions that he had tried to stay in a walmart for 24 hours while completing an online list of 69 things to do in walmart. we (minus trevor) decide to go for it.

so that was it. hopefully someone can find this ammusing. i'll post pics and maybe a link to the video if you guys would like

Sounds like a laugh. Post video when it's edited and shows the funny parts.

At 1/4/07 04:31 PM, spare-jello wrote: Re: Studio Ghibli

I hate to ask, because I'm sure somebody's going to kill me, what what exactly is it? I understand it's an animation... studio, but what comes out of it?

Studio Ghibili makes awesome films

It does.

Hacking

At 1/4/07 04:33 PM, Bezman wrote: How the hell did you get into another account, 'purely by accident'?

I don't know, i signed in, then when i went onto my account, i was bigexplosions :P. Weird Eh?

Blur?

Is the blur effect only availiable in Flash 8? Or is it in other Flash versions too?

RE: Blur, Other Filters

All the filters found in Flash are new to Flash 8 or Flash Professional 8, there were none in past versions. Hopefully they'll be a little better and cause less lag when Flash 9 rolls around.

Blur is Flash 8

It came about after Macromedia was bought by Adobe and they started adopting features from photoshop to use in flash.

Tattoo Appointment

I made a 50 dollar deposit for a tattoo(which may cost me around 250 altogether) for one week from today. The image is something I took from the Pink Floyd album Wish You Were Here. Though I originally wanted wanted the man shaking the other man's hand while on fire I changed my mind when I realized that would cost me a ton and take forever. So I decided to get the robotic arms shaking hands. Still not cheap. Gonna be in the chair for two hours for my very first tattoo, hope I don't get all whiny. Heres an a copy of the image for those who care:
http://www.geocities.com/backmasking_2000/PF3 .jpg

Blur

At 1/4/07 04:53 PM, MethodMinus wrote: Blur is Flash 8
It came about after Macromedia was bought by Adobe and they started adopting features from photoshop to use in flash.

Not true at all, Adobe bought Macromedia a week or 2 after the release of Flash 8, they had nothing to do with its development from my knowledge. They will put loads of effects in Flash 9 though, according to a few sites :P.

Somehow when it was "Macromedia Flash" it sounded more exciting than "Adobe Flash" Adobe kinda sounds retarded. And I have flash 8 and I've never used the filter, mostly because no matter how many times someone tells me here on the bbs I can't find it.

At 1/4/07 05:31 PM, Shmelo wrote: . And I have flash 8 and I've never used the filter, mostly because no matter how many times someone tells me here on the bbs I can't find it.

I dont care wheter its Adobe or Macromedia... as long as its useful

Does this help you find the filters?

Flash 9

Is it just me that thinks thta Flash 9 will just be like photoshop with animation added in? Aswell as so expencive that only the 3 richest people in the universe will be able to afford it.

When it comes out i wont get it, i probs wont ever update mainly due to flash 6 ( version i use) having all that i need. i don't use all that AS nonsence like V-cams and i don't need to blur everything to the point where flash crashes horribly. if i wanna blru seomthgin, i'll use a jpg or a workaround method.

also i cna't afford the £600 or so it'll probs cost.

Will you guys upgrade?

Re: Flash 9

If Adobe wanted a combination of photoshop and flash then they would do with Illustrator. Its hardly possible in the first place considering one is vector based and the other is raster based.

WOOHOO I GOT A WII
AND A DAILY FEATURE
AND A HAIRCUT
AND I KICKED MYSELF IN THE NUTS IN GYM CLASS
WOOHOO

BEST DAY EVER

except the nut kick

Re: Best Day Ever

At 1/4/07 07:33 PM, Glaiel-Gamer wrote: WOOHOO I GOT A WII
AND A DAILY FEATURE
AND A HAIRCUT
AND I KICKED MYSELF IN THE NUTS IN GYM CLASS
WOOHOO

BEST DAY EVER

except the nut kick

I have a wii... it broke though, so I'm sending it back. And about the daily feature... congrats. I found the game really challenging, but it was also fun at the same time.