What you did today v1.0

[HFR]

I'm feeling christmas-y.

 

[PROXY]

Went shopping \m/

 

[The_wand_mirror]

History class, talked about the games history (cardgames, to chess, to Amiga, to current game industry) and how the gaming industry in 2005 actually made more money than the film industry. Space Invaders! <3

We also had a class like that, but seriously who cares? I'm not interested in the history of it when it's only the future i have to worry about. Writing code and stuff...

 

[Deleted member 157129]

We also had a class like that, but seriously who cares? I'm not interested in the history of it when it's only the future i have to worry about. Writing code and stuff...

Learning the techniques and discoveries from long ago is useful for appliance later. I think it's nice to know how some of the techniques I use came to life, and how people in the past worked around stuff that we never think about when working digitally. Perhaps the most essential class I had this semester, to be honest. But that's maybe because Flash coding was easy to learn, Flash art isn't judged and art class has just been about web design - which I already know, having had it for my previous major. Still, art class has been what the majority of my time has been spent on. It is the class for my major, after all, while Flash coding and animation is mainly for the other two majors. History applies to all three majors.

 

[Dynamiczx]

Learning the techniques and discoveries from long ago is useful for appliance later. I think it's nice to know how some of the techniques I use came to life, and how people in the past worked around stuff that we never think about when working digitally. Perhaps the most essential class I had this semester, to be honest. But that's maybe because Flash coding was easy to learn, Flash art isn't judged and art class has just been about web design - which I already know, having had it for my previous major. Still, art class has been what the majority of my time has been spent on. It is the class for my major, after all, while Flash coding and animation is mainly for the other two majors. History applies to all three majors.

Dude, where exactly do you study lol?

 

[Deleted member 157129]

Norway? University level art school.

 

[Dynamiczx]

Norway? University level art school.

And you make flash at art school?That's kinda unexpected

 

[Deleted member 157129]

There's three majors. Virtual Art & Design (ie Concept Art, 3D Modelling, Graphical Design, Web Design, Storyboarding and, generally, art), Animation (ie 2D Animation [Flash], 3D Animation [3DS Max/Maya], 3D Modelling) and Visual Simulation (ActionScript 3.0, Java, C++, and other programming related subjects). The first year, all three majors have the same subjects. Two reasons, one being that it allows for people to get a better idea of what each major has and making it possible to switch major, the other reason being that the university doesn't have the resources to hold three different sets of lectures the first year (because there are many students).

So in effect, that means I, as an artist, need to learn programming and 2D animation in addition to art and design. Likewise, the programmers have to paint, design and animate, and the animators need to paint, design and program. Luckily, I already have a (nearly complete) major in informatics (computer science?) - that is, I already know programming. I'm mostly having trouble with vector art.

 

[Dynamiczx]

I understand...Well what can i say...it's pretty interesting...still, i thought that animation belonged to computer programming, not art...and same for C++, or they count as art too?How come that happens?

 

[Deleted member 157129]

Visual Simulation is a major in computer programming. Nobody else is learning the C++ and Java. The other two majors only have to learn ActionScrip 3.0. Why would animation be programming? It's about making a art move, I can't see how it shouldn't be it's own class.

Anyway, updated my gallery with a bunch of sketches and whatnot: http://www.hiveworkshop.com/forums/...5/doodle-here-doodle-there-180610/index2.html

 

[RakEnRoL]

Me and my friends were just playing then I came home, playing my guitar, took my girlfriend out in a date, then sleep.

 

[Ken-E]

I'm feeling christmas-y.

Me too!
Played video games all day long.

 

[Xian]

Edited FrIky's emotes to fit the christmas feel,had fun making these XD

 

[Orcnet]

There's three majors. Virtual Art & Design (ie Concept Art, 3D Modelling, Graphical Design, Web Design, Storyboarding and, generally, art), Animation (ie 2D Animation [Flash], 3D Animation [3DS Max/Maya], 3D Modelling) and Visual Simulation (ActionScript 3.0, Java, C++, and other programming related subjects). The first year, all three majors have the same subjects. Two reasons, one being that it allows for people to get a better idea of what each major has and making it possible to switch major, the other reason being that the university doesn't have the resources to hold three different sets of lectures the first year (because there are many students).

So in effect, that means I, as an artist, need to learn programming and 2D animation in addition to art and design. Likewise, the programmers have to paint, design and animate, and the animators need to paint, design and program. Luckily, I already have a (nearly complete) major in informatics (computer science?) - that is, I already know programming. I'm mostly having trouble with vector art.

same with I.T but the majority in my university is programming and less art oriented stuffs D:

 

[RED BARON]

I slept, I played, I worked and I drove my car to make some cookies.

 

[Deleted member 157129]

Woke up 8:57AM. Teleported to campus. Exam at 9:00AM. No shower, no breakfast. And I had intended to do all the reading this morning, so I came completely unprepared - I haven't read a single page of what I ought to read. Produced mediocre answers to 24 out of 26 questions. I might just pass. What a comfortable way to cruise through an entire class. I especially liked #24 "What are FPS, RPG and MMORPG?" - free points? Yes, please.

 

[Deolrin]

What kind of a question is that...?

What's the exam about? :X

 

[Deleted member 157129]

Animation and Game History. Shitty question, nonetheless.

 

[Bugz]

Got maggy pwned :S

 

[The World Is Flat]

And how are the classes/professors?
to shiik

 

[HFR]

Had one of the most boring days ever.

 

[PROXY]

I played Brotherhood Multiplayer, worked on some models, hang out with my mates after school.

Now I'm gonna go to a dissertation about secondary schools.

 

[HFR]

Got myself a locked thread after 5 minutes.

I'm awesome.

 

[Dynamiczx]

I played Brotherhood Multiplayer, worked on some models, hang out with my mates after school.

Now I'm gonna go to a dissertation about secondary schools.

How is the gameplay in the multiplayer?Just asking

And, today, it was the first day of school for me after a week of staying at home because I was sick
I had to take the exam at maths today too, because I could not have it the previous monday as they sent me back home :|
So I waited anxiously for the math teacher to give me the exam...but when I asked her, she told me that she expected that I would have stayed in bed this week also, and so she didn't prepared an exam for me and so I will have it in the next days, I do not know for sure...
At first, this was cool as I had extra time for studying, but now it started to get frustrating, as I study, and prepare for the exam, just to find out, that I will give it next week :|

Other than that, I just talked with my mom, 5 minutes ago on the phone, as she has a job in Italy...Damn I miss her so much

 

[Deleted member 157129]

And how are the classes/professors?
to shiik

Well, so far we've only had Flash Animation, Web Design, Colour Theory and History. The lecturer in history is old and knows what he's doing, nothing to complain about on him. In Flash, we have one lecturer that takes animation, and one that takes programming. The guy teaching animation sucks, so I've learnt all of that from the books (How To Cheat in Adobe Flash and The Animator's Survival Kit). Programming has been a breeze seeing as I already learned all these basics principles, so I merely needed to learn the syntax and what Flash requires of an object. We had a guy in the beginning talking about colour theory and composition, that kind of stuff, but he kept repeating himself - guy loves to listen to himself talk - so I'm not particularly happy with him, hope we won't have him next semester. Web Design was primarily taught by an "outside entity", that is, a firm made up of former students. HTML and CSS classes consisted of guy showing up, guy pumping various HTML and CSS examples onto big screen, guy leaving. The design part of it was slightly better, but the whole thing just oozed of amateur. In short, a little of both.

I feel that history class has been the most rewarding, because the lecturer spent a lot of time showing good stuff from old, and he had a detailed lecture in taking photography (or rather, composing photography) when we had about cameras and stuff. I felt it gave me some insight in composing images in general. Animation class has given me a lot of help in gesture drawing, though, and Art class (Web Design and Colour Theory) has the assignments that matter the most in terms of improving my art - character design, etc.

 

[Joe-black-5]

Well, so far we've only had Flash Animation, Web Design, Colour Theory and History. The lecturer in history is old and knows what he's doing, nothing to complain about on him. In Flash, we have one lecturer that takes animation, and one that takes programming. The guy teaching animation sucks, so I've learnt all of that from the books (How To Cheat in Adobe Flash and The Animator's Survival Kit). Programming has been a breeze seeing as I already learned all these basics principles, so I merely needed to learn the syntax and what Flash requires of an object. We had a guy in the beginning talking about colour theory and composition, that kind of stuff, but he kept repeating himself - guy loves to listen to himself talk - so I'm not particularly happy with him, hope we won't have him next semester. Web Design was primarily taught by an "outside entity", that is, a firm made up of former students. HTML and CSS classes consisted of guy showing up, guy pumping various HTML and CSS examples onto big screen, guy leaving. The design part of it was slightly better, but the whole thing just oozed of amateur. In short, a little of both.

I feel that history class has been the most rewarding, because the lecturer spent a lot of time showing good stuff from old, and he had a detailed lecture in taking photography (or rather, composing photography) when we had about cameras and stuff. I felt it gave me some insight in composing images in general. Animation class has given me a lot of help in gesture drawing, though, and Art class (Web Design and Colour Theory) has the assignments that matter the most in terms of improving my art - character design, etc.

I want to change major! NOW!

 

[Saken]

Woke up on my day off and had a nice wake'n'bake session. Took a shower, and now creepin' back on THW since I haven't paid too much attention to it in the last couple years.

Plans for the rest of the day?

Laundry, terrain, call over mah lady friend, and then go to a friend's party.

 

[Vengeancekael]

Mostly worked on my newest montage, http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WtmT3ktONDI
Current WiP, GIEF FEEDBACK. I still need to find something better for the transition in the end.
Also wrote some homework and watched boring youtube videos.

Oh and also got more rep than Rui!
Yay first page of members list.

 

[The_wand_mirror]

Bought an upgrade for my PC for only 276 euros.

Socket 775 Motherboard >> Socket 1156 Motherboard Crossfire

4 GB DDR2 400 Mhz(?) >> 8 GB DDR 1600 Mhz

Intel E8400 Dual Core @ 3 Ghz >> Intel i7 Quad Core @ 2.8 Ghz (3,64 Turboboost)

After a long wait i decided to strike when i saw this cheapass upgrade...

 

[Bugz]

I saw that dragon's request list was open and posted one!

 

[Arcisal]

I watched these videos on youtube

I need to get a life.

 

[Pyritie]

slid on some ice (that looked just like a puddle) on my bike, broke my two front teeth and had to get stitches for my upper lip

went home (4h away) because my family wanted me to use their dentist since they've known him for ages and apparently he's really good

 

[TwistedImage]

Oh my God Pyritie. I am... not at all sorry, actually, but your story inflicted pain upon me. Damaging teeth is the worst thing that can ever happen to anyone :C

 

[Deleted member 157129]

I broke a tooth once (intentionally, with a hammer! What, it's true!) so that half of it fell off. Now I have some sort of replacement for the lost half that occasionally tastes like plastic or something. And it's slightly yellow (I have flawless, white teeth by the way!), so when I grin, it really shows.

On the bright side, by breaking both front teeth you will at least maintain some form of symmetry, Pyritie! And you should get yourself studded tires.

I've been reworking old icons today, so feel free to check out the icon section and comment (so I can boost my ego and e-peen!). I've also been working on my character, Mya, for art class: http://fav.me/d4idg6h

Slither, Beowulf & Grendel (Gerard Butler version), Hellboy and Hellboy II arrived, they are films, in the mail. Ordered after recommendations from chat, so I'm looking forward to bash the heck out of other people's taste. Not really.

All in all, fairly uneventful day. I continue to be inefficient, too. I bet my other character for art class will be significantly more rushed. Not to mention the CD cover and poster... and the website! Oh, horrible prospects for the future, horrible.

And before I forget, I'm sure there are some proper web design geeks folks in here, and I'd like to know if it's possible for a website to load images from a folder without it being hard coded. To put it in context, I need to make a portfolio website for design class, and in it there will obviously be a gallery. What I'm wanting to do is for the gallery to simply refer to a specific folder, and then add all images (prefixed tn_) as clickable thumbnails, clicking it will preview the full image (that is, same filename without the tn_ prefix). Then, by adding images to this folder, the gallery grows larger, without having to hard code every single entry. Oh, and this website has to be made with HTML5, JavaScript and CSS exclusively. No fancy PHP.

 

[TwistedImage]

I have a broken tooth with a replacement. When the replacement falls off I panic. I can't stand having a half tooth.

Incidentally, my replacement thingy, while yellow, isn't that yellow. Maybe you should replace yours.

 

[Deleted member 157129]

I guess mine is not that yellow either, I'm probably overreacting. Anyway, falls off?!

 

[TwistedImage]

Yeah, it falls off every few years. Saliva isn't too nice to fake teeth.

 

[Brambleclaw]

Neko Ni Naritai

 

[The Reborn Devil]

I trololol'd when I saw this:

Poor doggeh.

@shiiK, afaik you need a listfile. Every time you add a new image you must add the name of the image in this list. Then you load this listfile with an XMLHttpRequest (JavaScript) and then acquire the names of each file, which can then be loaded easily by inserting <img> tags into the document (JavaScript again). This will only work if the site is on the web though, as XMLHttpRequest doesn't work on your local files. Dropbox should, afaik, work fine, and if you don't feel like manually editing the listfile, then just write a simple program that you just run which then updates the listfile.

Edit: In fact, I can just alter the thumbnail generator I made for you and instead make it update the listfile, instead of writing the image detection thing again for something this easy.

Edit once more:

Here bro, a very, very derpy test page (not even truly XHTML-Strict yet. Couldn't be arsed): http://dl.dropbox.com/u/37583747/derpy test page/Index.html
It loads 4 images (screenshots from LoL). It gets the files from a listfile that looks like this:
"tooeasy.png|trololol.png|waymoarstats.png|wootwoot.png" (awesome names for images, yes?)

I have confirmed that the test page works for Firefox, Chrome and Internet Explorer.

 

[-Kobas-]

I trolololol'd when I saw this:

Anyway I study math whole day. grrrrr

 

[RakEnRoL]

Me and my Girlfriend dated. It's her birthday today and we enjoyed a lot.

 

[Deleted member 157129]

A parking lot? That's hot.

Yeah, it falls off every few years. Saliva isn't too nice to fake teeth.

I've had mine for soon to be eight years, it hasn't fell off yet. Maybe that's why mine's particularly yellow? D:

@shiiK, afaik you need a listfile. Every time you add a new image you must add the name of the image in this list. Then you load this listfile with an XMLHttpRequest (JavaScript) and then acquire the names of each file, which can then be loaded easily by inserting <img> tags into the document (JavaScript again). This will only work if the site is on the web though, as XMLHttpRequest doesn't work on your local files. Dropbox should, afaik, work fine, and if you don't feel like manually editing the listfile, then just write a simple program that you just run which then updates the listfile.

Edit: In fact, I can just alter the thumbnail generator I made for you and instead make it update the listfile, instead of writing the image detection thing again for something this easy.

Edit once more:

Here bro, a very, very derpy test page (not even truly XHTML-Strict yet. Couldn't be arsed): http://dl.dropbox.com/u/37583747/derpy test page/Index.html
It loads 4 images (screenshots from LoL). It gets the files from a listfile that looks like this:
"tooeasy.png|trololol.png|waymoarstats.png|wootwoot.png" (awesome names for images, yes?)

I have confirmed that the test page works for Firefox, Chrome and Internet Explorer.

Much obliged. Why don't you make me a functioning video playback as well. I think the idea is that I can't use the embedding provided by YouTube, but it doesn't really say anything else than "implement a working video player" .. so yeah. Why I need a bloody video player on a portfolio website for 2D art is a clouded mystery. It's not like I record myself painting. That'd be awkward because then everybody would see how shitty my workflow is. No, that wouldn't be good.

I like how I just hijacked this thread for own my personal use/request thread.

Overslept with style today, went to bed around 5AM and woke up 2PM because it was starting to get dark outside. Yeah. So I've been sketching some ideas for the CD cover and poster today. And I've taken TRD's example apart and back together to suit my own needs. Suppose I should come up with an overall design for the website soon. Finally, I intend to update my dA journal by the end of the day (my day, anyway) with a few more characters, another faction, and a rough overview of a religion. If you have no idea what that means, I suggest you either let it go and ignore it, or go to my dA (link in signature) and read the two previous journal entries. You'll understand.

 

[The Reborn Devil]

@shiiK, assuming you're going to use HTML5, and compatibility with older browsers isn't required then it's quite easy. Just use the <video></video> tags, like so: http://dl.dropbox.com/u/37583747/derpy test page/VideoPlayer.html

Sadly you need two versions of the video though. One in .mp4 and one in .ogg format.

 

[Deleted member 157129]

Finally, I intend to update my dA journal by the end of the day (my day, anyway) with a few more characters, another faction, and a rough overview of a religion. If you have no idea what that means, I suggest you either let it go and ignore it, or go to my dA (link in signature) and read the two previous journal entries. You'll understand.

So anyway, I did at least write a journal about those characters. I left the faction and religion part out for now, it's not the appropriate time to introduce it yet.

 

[PROXY]

My cat dissapeard two days ago and I looked for it the whole day now. Even more demotivating is that the last two days a huge wind/storm was in my region

 

[The World Is Flat]

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16824236174

Bought two of these.

 

[HFR]

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16824236174

Bought two of these.

They're twice the price here. Yay.

 

[Vengeancekael]

I got 59/60 in a german test today, so that's kind of cool! Although it's kind of frustrating that I didn't get 100% D:

Also worked a bit more on my new warcraft montage and played 2 Dota 2 matches, one as Crystal Maiden => lost and the second one as Lich => Won like hell

 

[The World Is Flat]

Changed my Sig and Profile Pic.

 

[HFR]

Needs more choco.