At 1/8/07 06:07 AM, Depredation wrote: RE: Voting... MEH.
stuff

RE Voting... MEH.

That's the same way I vote, unless it's unbelievably crappy or I know that they are bullshitting.

And Toast, I remember when my flash team first started you wanted to join :3

At 1/8/07 01:42 PM, Luis wrote: Toast Spam, Stop it

Can you guys stop contributing to spam and or encouraging Toast to spam. Does you alls discussion of his posting really need to extend through two pages??

Sorry dad, I didn't start it :( Evil uncle depredation criticized my posts and it made lil toast sad. I know it looks like I spam a lot, but it's actually never me :o

RE: Voting... MEH.

At 1/8/07 02:27 PM, Trunks wrote: And Toast, I remember when my flash team first started you wanted to join :3

Really? I don't remember. If I wanted to join a team and didn't join it, it either means I wasn't accepted (doesn't happen, everyone wants me :p) or I thought you were nubbhesh. I conclude from those facts that you are noobish, go away.

Note: Talk more about me and you'll make Luis happy. Not enough people talk about me in this thread :/

At 1/8/07 10:50 AM, ArthurGhostly wrote: RE: Legendary Frog

He became popular, so naturally, you'll get people who'll start picking at faults to stand out.
Then others join in so they can be part of the clique.
It just spiraled downward from there....

RE: Legendary Frog

I honestly don't like about 90% of his flashes, he isn't a very skilled animator and overuses gradients and off-colored outlines. That's just my opinion, so, yeah.

yagsitsaot backwards

Interesting Conversation?

Enough about what you think about LF's flashes, and let's talk about something worthwhile?

Interesting conversations

I'm learning php :D
www.truedarkness.phrozenflame.com/Age.html
Horrah!

At 1/8/07 04:11 PM, ArthurGhostly wrote:
Why do I have to be over 18 to learn maths?

because 22+47

lols, i guess its just testing his code.

Collab idea
I was thinking for a collab you could have a game collab. But more specifically games designed for the Wii. I think it would be cool and could become well known. Ive played on a wii so i know what would work and what wouldnt. For example curve ball works like a charm, its perfect and very entertaining.

Just an idea.

At 1/8/07 04:11 PM, ArthurGhostly wrote: Why do I have to be over 18 to learn maths?

RE: TD's PHP

He's most likely testing if statements, if they have those in PHP.

dunno much about PHP...

RE: PHP

At 1/8/07 04:32 PM, Trunks wrote: He's most likely testing if statements, if they have those in PHP.

dunno much about PHP...

They do, yeah.

It wouldn't be much of a scripting language if they didn't have basic conditions.

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I'm taking a break

I haven't been on the BBS lately because I have some pressing issues and I need to get some things settled and straightned out, both business and personal and don't really have the time to be a regular anymore. Its been happening over the past few weeks, so I've been posting less and less as a direct result.

Anyway, I'm taking a break from posting for awhile. It eats up time that I need to spend doing other things if I have any hope of getting shit together.

It might be a week, it might be a few months. I really don't know right now. I may hop on from time to time, if I can find a few extra minutes.

See you guys later.

RE: Legendaryfrog
To be honest I'm a fan only really for Kerrigans big invention and all your pie, they had nice style and pace and were funny, BUT his latest work lacks the style and uses a rather petty style, and I did not like it that much.

RE: LF

I actually enjoyed a lot of his earlier stuff. I stopped watching them after that one on R:E or something which sucked horribly.

At 1/8/07 04:32 PM, Trunks wrote:

At 1/8/07 04:11 PM, ArthurGhostly wrote: Why do I have to be over 18 to learn maths?

RE: TD's PHP

He's most likely testing if statements, if they have those in PHP.

dunno much about PHP...

Yep. I was testing the if statement with forms which DFox taught me how to do since I didn't know. You actually have to open your php, write the if statement, close the php without closing the if statement yet, type in your html, then reopen the php, then end the if statement, then close the php.

It's weird, but it works. I was also testing $_POST which sends information to .php pages! Super awesome.

I'm also redesigning my site.

Banner preview :D
www.truedarkness.phrozenflame.com/New%20Site. html

RE: TD site design

looking good, hope all goes well. Look's like it's gonna be awesome.

RE: Johnny

Johnny's gone? Damn, man. This is like that time IWSC left :S

Storyboarding

For the first time, I'm developing an animation that has a coherent pre-extensively-brainstormed plot, and I'm trying to make a storyboard for it.

Now, I've seen a bunch of different methods for this...

Some involve having the pictures in flash for a certain amount of time (sometimes corresponding to the amount of time the shot will actually be on for)... though I'm not sure if that's necessary since I'm making the animation in 3D anyways so I'm not going to just be drawing on top of the storyboard.

others just have a bunch of drawings in comicbook kind of format .

How do you guys think I should go about doing this?

Re: 3d Story Boarding
if your using a program like maya i actually storyboard IN the program as if i was storyboarding in 2d in flash, but turn the computer generated inbetweens off and really just set up the general idea of expressions along maybe drawing it out on paper different expressions so you get an idea what blend shapes you'll need, its a pain to go back in and add new ones and impossible to add them after you've started animating.

Once you have your 3d story board keep the inbetweens off and just add every other semi important frame.

I usually do that+ a traditional story board on blank flash cards with quick sketches t hat really only i can understand, flash cards pinned on a wall help me organize my thoughts better then mountains of paper you have to turn the page to get to,

just how i do it, there are so many ways it really depends on what makes you understand what

I believe for every hour you spend story boarding it saves 2 hours in the animation process

Storyboarding

Its a matter of personal style, some people like to really capture their ideas and vision on a storyboard so its important for them to make them fairly tight. I thought it may be helpful to show the storyboard for a gorillaz music video. They seem to use extensive 3d but the roots are still in the traditional storyboarding which i think is cool and cool that you are even considering it.

Storyboards

I never do too extensive of animating but if i did I probably wouldn't story board much. Its like thumbnails or doing sketches of something before you do the real thing. Its what you SHOULD do but I personally rarely do. I'm not very disciplined. I wish I had gone to school with a bunch of nuns around to beat some sense into me.

RE: PHP

At 1/9/07 12:27 AM, DarkMana wrote: Actually, you never really have to close the PHP tag, you can output all your HTML and everything with echo() or print().

I was going to say something along those lines. I've been doing .php for like a day, though, so I'm not exactly an expert.

Anyone willing to link to some helpful .php beginner turorials? (Outside from PHP: Main)

OSU loses to the GATORS?!

most of you probably don't watch american college football. But if you do you would have seen the BCS bowl last night, and that was a bunch of SHIT. I can't believe OSU lost to Florida, 41 to 14. Ted ginn sprained his ankle on the first offensive play of the game so he was out the whole time, and I think he subtracted a BUNCH from the team. (I was rooting for OSU, btw, I live in Ohio), the whole season we went undefeated until this game. AND we lost the championship (this game was the championship). bull-shit.

At 1/9/07 03:56 AM, Paranoia wrote: Anyone willing to link to some helpful .php beginner turorials? (Outside from PHP: Main)

I learnt most of what I know from here. Any I didn't learn from there was either from php main, AB, DFox or Khao.

Gone Johnny gone

At 1/8/07 04:40 PM, Johnny wrote: See you guys later.

aw, i'll miss you :(

TrueDarkness php tests
Well, i got to the maths part and on the next page this appeared.
sex + sex*sex = 0
which means that sex=-1 -.-
Johnny leaving
Hope you get your stuff worked out soon. You're a good reg =)

Johnny

Rather than sit and mope about it, i think that sometimes its healthy to step away from this place and go tend to other matters...life is about time management usually, especially as you get older and you find less and less time to really be bored out of your mind.
Anywho he'll be back, we're like a case of herpes.. we may appear to be gone but give it a few months and we're right back on your sack..... err or wherever the fuck herpes appears.

This is so sad, my dad is a doctor and i dont know these things :(

At 1/9/07 12:51 AM, orb wrote: Storyboarding
How do you guys think I should go about doing this?

Hello secret Santa. I think the key with story-boarding is just to do what is absolutley practical to you. I wouldn't go by technical aspect, so 'the drawing that is the shot for the longest' as it all gets technical then, just do what you see.

If you don't have an idea of what the shots will be, do it on the fly, meaning compensate for loss-of shot ideas by just doing a simple sketch from a basic angle to capture what's going on. It's not nessecary to draw out multiple action bits for the same shot - say for example a fight, no need to draw everyshot.

For pans, tracking, zooms, tilts - just draw arrows coming from the edge of the picture.

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Btw, there's this thing in planing called a 'Floor plan'. Basically what it is is a Birds eye view of the 'set', partially so that crew etc will no the map of the place, where to keep there cables etc, but also mainly so you no where the action is going on and have a clar plan of the place.

When you watch something you really pick up the layout of the setting (not set because that's the behind the camera side of it - you aren't watching the set your in the setting).

I thihnk a good example of this is Luis's movie the Perfect murder. You (or I atleast) get a feeling that the building is a sort of square shape made up of 4 corridors along each side. When you know the place like this you really feel more there as it gives you a sense of direction and all that.

Can I ask you guys a question? I was discussin with some other people from another forum I go to and I found out that you can get paid like $50 an hour for site development, even more.
A website like this fetched $2600.

My question is would you guys ever consider a full time career in website development? Looks like something I would like to get into.

Re: Re: Storyboards

Thanks for all the advice on storyboarding you guys :)

I see what (sorry I don't remember what your name was) that guy who was talking specifically about 3D and blend shapes, etc, was talking about, but I don't think it would fit my current animation as it all just takes place on one desk, and I don't really want to place the frames for things in that way like you do in 2DFBF. I might think about doing that once I'm done with my initial 2D storyboard though.

Re: Johnny

Sorry to see you have to go, you'll be missed by me and the whole forum. I hope all your problems work out :).

Re:TrueDarkness Header

Looks great, i really like the design, it's neat and well presented. Maybe add abit more flash like interactivity, like a AS'd fire effect or a bitmapData water effect, don't use those, there just examples :P.

At 1/9/07 11:08 AM, iAnimate wrote: Can I ask you guys a question? I was discussin with some other people from another forum I go to and I found out that you can get paid like $50 an hour for site development, even more.
A website like this fetched $2600.

My question is would you guys ever consider a full time career in website development? Looks like something I would like to get into.

If he's on talk to Luis about it. That's part of his job.. so he might be cool giving you some info about it :).

I think I would consider it although i'd rather be more on the graphical side of things. It's complicated and not for me in that sense.