Out of Pod Experience

Steamy pixxx s'il vous plaît.

"1 file has saved to your 'horses' folder successfully"

Duuh! Now I walked up the whole ramp to see steamy pix...and there are none?!
Givv meee! Naaaoooo!

edit:
*bump*

silence, slave!

POSTERS. FREAKING HUGE POSTERS.

so earlier tonight, 10PM, I'm at Kinko's (a US 24-hour print services franchise)... when I happen to notice in the back of the building is a set of huge printers and oversize scanning equipment, as well as laminating machines. and then I notice the signs for banners 3 feet in width, up to 8 feet in length, using vinyl for outdoor, polypropylene for indoor... for around 8$ per square foot. (paper prints are much cheaper, at less than 1$ per square foot)

they prefer 300 ppi in CMYK, and while I'm not working in CMYK, the full-res ppi of zoe and chloe happens to be...

5 feet tall. <-download it to view in full res

the other great news is, their oversize print capability will save me a lot of time in the future. but as for POSTERS

just in case you so desire, this is an example of a (roughly) 3' by 5' jpg. the file is less than 2MB so you can take it to your local Kinko's or other oversize print shop for your own fanboy vertical life-size poster

I will continue to use this res... I'm very excited by the thought of it. with the retina screen array that will be "rainfleet mk3", I can screencap necessary resolutions directly from the client and work from it.

Graygor, I'll revisit Gray-Snake to upsize it, followed by the rains' beauty and beast unit group pic.

I considered that for a bit, too.

art takes time, and it's static. add that to the fact the ability is relatively uncommon and it costs money.

second, the value of the art is more technically significant than people realize. the way I imagine it, he's taken someone's verbal description and conveyed it visually, which allows the bigger group of programmers and designers to get the graphics effects just right (in terms of how things look at a distance, how the light should bounce off things, atmospheric effects [yes, even in space--which is a lie for our viewing pleasure])

there are barriers to volume + quality that you can probably imagine. they're mitigated to an extent by workflow improvements, assistant artists, and an effective method (techniques and such), and experience. but the bottom line is volume of good handmade art is low.

there's a reason why comic book art tends to lack that visual appeal, depending on how often the issues are published.

in contrast, a graphics engine such as Carbon (used by CCP for EVE character modeling) is so useful. when they get the lighting and colors (and everything) in a 3D graphics engine just right, it becomes a "live" moving thing of beauty.

I've noticed some artistic ability in different parts of the fanbase, outside of EVE-O forums, with various levels of participation in EVE with their skills... but I figure they have careers or a life that outweighs EVE, understandably.

It would take a special brand of EVE fanatic to first devote their life to art, and then to EVE. It makes sense in my mind, that this person is Borkur Eriksson, an Icelander.

the way I see it, for an Icelander to work for CCP borders on patriotic duty.

//he's fast and has been doing it for years. I just noticed this. "Illustration done for a EVE Cronicle. Was always quite happy with the fact that it took me only around 2-3 hours."

he's three years older than me, and at the time of that drawing he was 25. I'm nowhere near capable of that and I'm 30. I have nothing but admiration for someone with such focused, purposely developed skill.

I have no proper method--I skip around all over the place, to different stages of a drawing due to ADD, or I don't know exactly where I'm planning to go with it, and just lack of the things that mean the difference between a dabbler and a professional I continue to do it because I'm shameless.

also. you're looking rather cute Eevee

i take no issue wiht he player made content. in fact that's the only thing that keeps it even remotely interesting to me. like i read about this rubicon thing coming up and how "the empires are losing power" i laughed to myself a little...that phrase suggests they had some to begin with. the names on the screen ruled us all this time.



thanks! i actually went to the effort to brush my hair this morning.

Maybe you're just getting old.

I went go cart racing the other night, the kind where you can go fast enough to drift if you do it right. Shook the hell out of me but my fingers recovered within maybe 10-15 min and the rest of my arms a couple hours later.

Similarly I attempted a rock climbing wall that had some moderate difficulty to angle and handholds when I hadn't touched one in over 3 years. THAT one had my fingers sore for most of the night for sure.

But never had that sorta problem with a xbox controller unless I was often clicking and holding the thumb sticks while moving them around a lot. But then that was more of a thumb than finger problem.

As for a mouse I only get sore when I have to hold at such an angle that my wrist is bent all the time, and then my tendon on the back of my hand hurt, not the fingers themselves.

I could see how extensive work with an xacto could **** you up though. A lot of pressure on the same few fingers will definitely hurt after a while.

Now that I think about it if you're on the younger side and you been taxing your fingers a lot it might be worth it to look into preparing for or trying to prevent arthritis when you really do get older.

specifically the hands. and tendons. yeah and the wrist as well. the condition known as trigger finger, basically. tend to become inflamed. but... my art sessions are extended... 5, 6, 8 or sometimes 12 hours in a sitting. a little extreme

But that would not be M.e.a.n.i.n.g.f.u.l G.a.m.e.p.l.a.y.!