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@diogostuart
Maybe itâs just my soup-loving instincts, but food in a bowl is so much better than food on a plate. Why eat a salad on a plate when I can eat it in a bowl? Why eat pasta on a plate when I can eat it in a bowl? Mashed potatoes and gravy! Pie and ice cream! Curry! Soups and stews! Beans! Bowls are Round and Good and shaped for your hands! Hold bowl close and feel warmth!! Heck yeah!!
Bowls are awesome! đ˛ đ đĽŁ
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I think the last time I tried to draw something with intention was in 2007 (time indeed flies), so it felt really good to try and draw something again this week. It looks terrible but Iâm really proud of it. đ 1st and 2nd pic is my drawing and model used, the 3rd pic is the most recent drawing I remember doing. (at Lisbon, Portugal) https://www.instagram.com/p/BpevTJSgsP9/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=1fdbjmz4t7l2a
Old blog is old
I wonder if I should get back to this old, neglected blog or if I should do a fresh start... hmm...
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Wassabiiiiii!
This semester I assigned myself to draw Portugal in the Steven Universe style! Tbh I canât even believe they all done SMH! Steven Universe and @rebeccasugar is a huge inspiration to me
Well! Hereâs some of my faves! Enjoy!
Look at this gorgeous images of Lisbon in the style of Steven Universe, aren't they lovely? đ
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lets make a videogame how hard can it be
nevermind you have to know shit about computers
hey!! sorry to hijack this post, but there are a bunch of ways you can make videogames without knowing shit about computers!!Â
for starters, thereâs Twine, which is fucking great for making all kinds of interactive experiences (itâs what Crystal Warrior Ke$ha was made in so you KNOW itâs good) at all skill levels (i picked it up and made a game in two minutes a few nights ago)
if you want a bit more involved experience thereâs Inform 7Â which is a simple language for text-based adventure games that reads like slightly-weird English and also relatively easy to learn
you can do some pretty fucking cool stuff with Unity (my personal engine of choice) but you may need to dig a bit farther to get at the good stuff. thereâs lots of really good presets though (i made an entire game just mixing and matching pre-existing templates and adding in my own art, won an award at a game jam for that one) and if you want help the communityâs pretty dang friendly from what iâve seen!
this is just a taste of whatâs out there from what iâve seen, but thereâs so many cool resources out there. if anyone wants help getting started, iâm around to give you a leg up on making something in the coolest, most unexplored art medium around!
Iâm addinâ to this post because lowering the barrier to entry for making games is super important to me!!!! If yâall have any questions about making games, youâre welcome to come and ask! I made this list a while back with some friends, so it has some of the programs John already mentioned.
2D Editors:
GameMaker : Potential for pure drag-and-drop âprogrammingâ. It is recommended to read-up on the programâs functions to make good use of it. Good for prototyping. Uses its own language called Game Maker Language (GML) that is similar to a C language (e.g. C++ or C#). For both Mac and PC; free version available.
Construct2 : Drag and drop level editor that uses an âIf-Thenâ event sheet structure for programming. Good for prototyping and for beginners. For PC; free version available.
GameSalad : Drag and drop with no code requirement. Good for programming. For both Mac and PC; free version available.
Solpeo : HTML5 based game engine for 2D and isometric game development. Some programming knowledge needed. Platforms supported: Chrome, Firefox, Internet Explorer 9+. Free version available.
Stencyl : Drag and Drop âprogramming,â templates you can edit the variables/values for.
Scratch : Lego-block-style coding platform by MIT; totally free and a great intro to thinking in code. Very kid-friendly and comes with a community site. Browser version available.
3D Editors:
Unity : 3D editor that creates 3D games. Can build games for browser, as an app, or for mobile devices (iOS and Android). For both Mac and PC; free version available.
UDK (Unreal Development Kit) : Full-fledged, highly advanced editor. Features a complete set of tools that go from level design to visual scripting to cut-scene creation. Uses itâs own programming language called Unreal Script that can be arranged with Kismet, a visual code editor. For Mac and PC; free.
2D Art/Animation Software:
GIMP : Free photo editing and digital painting software.
Easy Paint Tool SAI : Free digital painting software with a UI similar to Photoshop.
Mischief : Free digital painting software with an endless canvas.
3D Art/Animation Software:
Sculptris : From the company that created Zbrush, this free software is ideal for beginning 3D sculptors.
Maya : Animation, VFX, lighting, and rendering software.
Magical Voxel : Voxel Art (3D Pixel Art). Very intuitive and quick to pick up.
SketchUp : Â Architectural modeling software, great for creating 3D environments and buildings. Free version available.
Text-Based Games:
Twine : Create interactive text stories using Twineâs visual map system that links your game together. Easy to learn and use. End result is browser-based. For Mac and PC; free.
Quest : Interactive text stories that you can build in-browser.
RenâPy : Create visual novels using a modified version of Python that reads like a combination of stage directions and a CYOA novel. For PC, Mac, and Linux; free.
Audio Resources/Editors:
Indie Game Music : This site offers free indie music with no need to worry about royalties or licenses.
Audacity : A free, open-source, cross-platform sound editor that allows you to record and arrange sound.
Super Flash Bros. : This site allows you to record theremin-like (8bit) sounds and export them as .wav files for your games.
FL Studio : Free music composition software.
Miscellaneous Tools:
Donjon RPG Tools : Randomly generates maps, items, XP, etc.
W3Schools : Web-code tutorial database: HTML, CSS, Javascript+.
Debut Video Capture : Video screen capture to record Letâs Play videos, showcase your game on Youtube, etc.
Korsakow : Free tool for creating interactive and database films.
Processing : Flexible programming language used for visual and interactive artworks and simulations.
From Student to Designer, Part 2 : Tips for making a well-rounded, solid portfolio
Places to Publish/Share:
Itch.io : Platform for self-publishing games
Philome.la : Place to share Twine Games
@slimetony how does it feel to have your shitpost be turned into a helpful resource
It feels like a betrayal of every tenant of humor I subscribe to. Helping people is an alien concept to me. It makes me upset.
I still donât understand the perspective thatâs going on here.
It`s a railing.
This fucked with my head so hard.
WAIT I STILL DONT UNDERSTAND
ITS ON TOP OF A WALL NOT GRASS
oh my god itâs the edge of a cement wall jesus christ that fucked me up so bad it took so long for me to understand
I STILL DONT GET IT
hence why his arm has a shadow under it
Thank you for the tiny drawing omg my brain
That fucking drawin fixed it omg thank you
Wow đŽ
Remember in 1993 when Jurassic Park was likeâŚthe end all, be all of special effects?
not gonna lie that still looks intimately real
Iâm still somewhat convinced that someone sold their soul to create the special effects in Jurassic Park because that shit is over 20 years old and it still really, really holds up, better than the stuff in a lot of current movies, even.
Fucking witchcraft, man.Â
fucking look at this shit though
Literally see this post flying around with a few different responses added to the bottom each time so Iâll say it for this one myself:
THEY ACTUALLY BUILT A GIANT MASSIVELY DETAILED FUCKING ANIMATRONIC T-REX FOR ALL OF THIS THATâS WHY THE EFFECTS ARE SO GOOD. CAUSE IT AINâT CGI. AND IT AINâT GUY IN A COSTUME. ITâS A BIG FUCKING ROBOT DINOSAUR. AND EVERY PART IS DESIGNED TO MOVE. IT COST LIKE HALF THE BUDGET OF THE FILM.
amazing
And they had the film it in small increments, especially in the outdoor scenes, because the rain fall kept soaking into the âskinâ of the rex and would slow down and mess up its movements. So they would stop filming and have a crew out there drying off this massive, fake dinosaur, and then theyâd start filming again until it was too wet. Repeat until the end of the scene.
They used animatronics and detailed costumes for most if not all of the dinosaurs in the first movie.
The triceratops for instance, was also animatronic.
And the raptors were dudes in suits. I shit you not.
One of my favorite anecdotes Iâve read on tumblr is how the t-rex robot from Jurassic park would malfunction while it was drying out. How did it malfunction, you might wonder?
Motherfucker randomly started moving.
So apparently if you were on the jp set you would sometimes hear people screaming bloody murder even though they were all well aware that it was a giant animatronic puppet and wouldnât actually, you know, eat them.
(link to said post about malfunctioning t-rex)
Did not know this, had to reblog for awesome movie history insights.
So, I knew about the animatronics bit but I did not know the raptors were guys in suits and the malfunctioning t-rex sounds terrifying.
And i just googled malfunctioning t-rex and was not disappointed. Apparently in order to put the skin on over the steel frame a guy had to crawl inside the t-rex while it was turned on and glue the skin down. And if somebody turned the t-rex off or the power went out the guy in the t-rex stood a very real chance of getting mangled and killed by the hydraulics.
So of course, the power goes out.
And this guy is still in there gluing the skin down.
Apparently the way to survive getting sheered to death by huge sheets of metal while youâre inside a giant t-rex robot is to curl into a ball and hope for the best.
And this guy hoped for the best and got it.
Some other people on stage pried open the t-rex jaws and glue guy crawled out of its mouth and was totally okay.
This is getting better and better.
I think they only had like 6 minutes of CGI
Iâm just waiting for the T-Rex to come to life and leave its stand.
@spinosaurus-the-fisher is this the kind of content you love?
Realism comes at a cost, it seems.
i mean ok but why has nobody posted this:
Itâs a three piece raptor suit.
Old movies had the best special effects
The thing about this that gets my special effects nerd going is the fact that EVERY single dinosaur was sculpted by artists based on the current existent archeological evidence of the time.
@jurassicparkandrecreation
@shepfax
Even better than that, this movie ADVANCED our best understanding of dinosaurs at the time. Â They were blowing out a budget bigger than anything Hollywood had ever seen, and along with employing almost the last hurrah of incredible physical FX, they had a bank of those newfangled digital SFX computers. Â Nobodyâd ever really created convincing dinosaurs in a movie before. Â Itâd all been stop-motion animation, and even when the models were exquisitely crafted, you could just tell there was something OFF about them. Â Spielberg wanted THE BEST DINOSAURS EVER, and he figured on using the cutting edge of digital modeling and animation technology to build them for him.
So they got hold of some of the best paleontologists they could find and said, âWe want you guys to take this tech that your labs could pretty much never afford and use it to build us the most realistic, accurate dinosaur models the world has ever seen.â
The paleontologists knew an opportunity when it bit them in the ass.  They plugged in everything they knew about dinosaurs, all the skeletons and their best guesses about soft tissue and all that.  And when theyâd created those dinosaur models, they had the computer start moving them as they realistically would with anatomy like that.  One guy took a look at those walking t-rexes and velociraptors (really utahraptors, but whatevs, fam), and he said, âWait a minute, Iâve seen movement like that before.â
He called up film of a chicken walking.  Everyone in the room said, âHoly shit.â
Prior to 1989, the idea that birds were descended from dinosaurs existedâwe knew about archaeopteryx, we knew there was some minor connection thereâbut the idea that DINOSAURS LIVE IN THE MODERN WORLD AND THEY ARE CALLED BIRDS was not pre-eminent. Â Jurassic Park changed our scientific understanding of dinosaurs.
That paleontologistsâd be Kevin Padian. Who is awesome.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kevin_Padian
This post just gets better and better with time
The cannon reason why Link doesnât speak
any npc: link why are you so quiet link: [dissociating] what
Quem ĂŠ que me enrabou?! Isto ĂŠ em resposta Ă malta que pergunta como ĂŠ trabalhar na Nerd Monkeys.
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i dont understand half of the words here but god if this isnât the funniest thing iâve ever read
im pretty sure red and blue werenât programmed but just sort of⌠mutated into cartridges
Red and blue are why QA teams were invented
Nerd Monkeys's HR call center is going bananas! We're currently hiring programmers. :D #gamedevjobs #gamedeveloper #gamedev #oldfashion #rotaryphone (at Lisbon, Portugal)
WOW, this is something else...
GREEDY GUNS is Metal Slug meets Metroid! Go back it on Kickstarter! #greedyguns http://thndr.me/MR5IcK
Seems legit... xD
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The original demo for Peace and Love! Played on a banjolele, very out of tune. Before do re mis I used numbers. Peridot, having just heard Steven play a scale, starts following the patterns he makes with those 8 notes. This song was originally intended to end as a round, but I got used to it this way, so I left it.
Finally got the opportunity to try out the Steam Controller! At First glance its a bit weird... but it grows on you after a while and it works fantastically well on Windows 10.
