#ghostproject

No solo existe buscadores como DuckDuckGo o Google (cuando no está caído) que nos sirve para buscar imágenes de gatitos tocando el piano. También existen buscadores que indexa una gran información de dispositivos, redes, correos, etc que peligrosamente esta al alcance de todo.

Hoy quería traeros varios de estos buscadores que he recopilado y que para investigar puede estar bastante interesante.

Shodan

Se trata de un buscador de direcciones HTTP conectadas a Internet. Puede definirse como un buscador del Internet de las Cosas, ya que es capaz de localizar frigoríficos, alarmas, cámaras de seguridad, webcams, wearables, y cualquier otro dispositivo conectado.

Sin duda este es el más conocido, tanto que incluso ya le dediqué un post en el que podréis ver lo en plena acción.

 Hunter

Se trata de un buscador web que permite encontrar los emails de personas que trabajan en una empresa con solo introducir el dominio de la empresa. Imaginad que gran ayuda puede ser en un proceso de OSINT.

Wigle.net

Este motor de búsqueda nos hará geolocalizar una determinada red inalámbrica Wi-Fi. Podremos saber exactamente donde esta una SSID o una BSSID (MAC Inalámbrica).

Podremos desde buscar por países hasta comprobar la densidad de redes inalámbrica en determinadas regiones todo con un plano muy detallado.

 GhostProject

Se trata de un buscador de credenciales filtradas, es decir, poniendo cualquier correo podrás ver si se ha filtrado su contraseña. Una herramienta similar a la popular have i been pwned?.

Este tipo de web aparte de para realizar ataque no nos viene mal para obligarnos a cambiar nuestra contraseña cada poco.

Publicwww

Es una web que mediante un buscador nos permite buscar código HTML, JS y CSS en cualquier página web. Su uso es muy sencillo, pero puede llegar a ser muy útil. Tras introducir el dominio en el cuadro de búsqueda y darle a “search” nos destripara lo que esconde el código de la web.

Esto de los motores de búsquedas son herramientas como puedes ver rápidas y fáciles de usar que para consultas puntuales puede proporcionarnos gran información. Esta información cabe recalcar que es publica y que también hay herramientas que te lo puede proporcionar todo bastante más claro, pero eso ya dará para otro post.

Esto es como montar una tienda de Vapeo en 2020.

I think I’ll just have to accept that I’m going to fall behind schedule with the writing. It’s annoying but the time investment neems to be worth it. I’ve been getting a little cranky with my artistic and writing ability as it often feels like nothing is really coming together how I hoped. I did 3 hours of writing on the weekend, changed a few things and suddenly felt like I had no idea what I was doing and wanted to start again. Then when I came in this morning and looked at everything it seemed salvageable. Then after an hour of adding/removing ideas, it seems fine again. The project is looking more and more manageable. The treatment for Part I has gone from 5 pages to 3 pages and the story has become much more streamlined and simple.

But I’m now about 5 days behind schedule which stinks but if I just focus on writing I can probably get back on track. On a positive note I am 50% through writing and 10% through the entire project (apparently!) so that’s kind of exciting!

It turns out that writing a story is hard because you move things around and come up with more efficient ways to conveying things and then you have to cut other things so you aren’t doubling up. You put in little placeholder ideas that don’t work and you put in ideas that seem good at the time and then are bad later. In short  Bleughhh! I’m behind schedule.

Behind by 0.17% of the schedule which is about half a day. NOT GREAT! I decided that I’m going to write 2 drafts instead of 3 because I’m being so careful with this treatment that when it’s locked down it’s mostly going to be writing dialogue and if I do that it keeps me on track (Otherwise I’m a full week behind.)

Last Week:

I printed off the first draft of the treatment and wrote notes all over it. Finishing Part III meant going back to Part I and making the series arc work better. I’m kind of adjusting the characters to match the Arcs which means they are coming across differently to how I imagined but I’m seeing more of myself in both of them which is kind of interesting.

This week:

- FINISH V02 TREATMENTS FOREVER!

- Design Harriet as a kid.

Unfinished Business from last week (and the week before):

Lou’s Character Design

That will put me a little ahead again. Good luck to us all.

Other Thoughts:

I spoke to a friend who teaches English at a university about what Ghosts represent in literature and she said that they are often used as a metaphor for; repression, the shadow our selves, regret, guilt. I wonder if I should read a book or essay about this.

Well, last week was a little less constructive than I hoped. I am still figuring out exactly what is going to happen in Part III. I’ve got some good ideas that are coming together but the arc I mapped out for it was a little vague and that’s caused me some problems on this step. It also means I have to go back to Part I and probably Part II and adjust things. So I guess this week I’ll be doing some after-hours writing to keep the schedule.

I did start doing some character re-designs though. Not totally happy with them but they need to be simple because I’m going to be drawing them a LOT. I’ll probably do a few other versions.

I am BARELY ahead of this chart which is annoying. I really need to catch up on the writing aspect. I think if I spend an additional hour working from home I’ll probably be able to get back on track this week. I can't believe it’s already been almost 10% of the intended schedule.

Unfinished Business from Last Week:

Finish Part III treatment

Re-Read all complete treatments and make them flow better.

Lou’s Character Design

This Week:

Complete the unfinished things from last week 

make a good start (maybe finish?) the First Draft of Part I. If I can do that I’ll be just narrowly ahead of the curve.

Week #3 is done. My current housemate Chris is moving out and I had to empty a drawer that he let me keep some art stuff in. In it, I found cards with plot points for this comic from 2 or 3 years ago. I didn’t want to look at them because they are likely awful but I will when I finish writing.

Last Week:

Speaking of! Last week I managed to; get: 

Part III plotted out. 

Write the treatments for Part I and Part II.

I still need to re-read them and fix some small things but for the most part, they are finished. I actually thought I had to finish Part III’s treatment too (but according to last weeks blog I don’t have to so I am on schedule, just barely.)

Those assets I made a year ago are REALLY keeping me afloat. I didn’t have time to do any real character turnarounds but I did start sketching one of the characters again because I’ve gotten slightly better at drawing since I designed these characters. (All the images in this blog entry were found in sketchbooks that are 1-3 years old).

There are the most recent character designs. The one of Lou (the ghost) It probably 3 years old. The one of Harriet (the woman) is probably a little less than 2 years old. I still kind of like them but I need to re-design them SLIGHTLY.

This Week:

I would love to get back on schedule for the writing side of things. I have about 5 weeks to write 3 drafts of 3 scripts which is likely not going to happen unless I start getting up REALLY early (It’s not going to happen. I’m going to have to allow myself more time). So this week I want to:

Write the rough treatment for Part III.

Re-Read and polish the treatment for Parts I, II and hopefully III.

Maybe show someone the intended story and get some feedback.

Create 2 final Character Designs for Part I.

That won’t get me on schedule sadly but it means I’ll have a good month for writing scripts and I may have to change my daily routine to meet the deadline.

Other Things:

I didn’t track down the book about writing Dialogue because I couldn’t remember what it was called. But it was called The Art of Dramatic Writing and I have ordered a copy today. 

I started listening to The Demonologist (See the previous post) for some general guides on how Ghost and Demons work (both which feature in the story). The first chapter was VERY useful.

I’m apparently almost 50% through the writing process which is exciting. It’s exciting having this thing gradually come together. 

Week 2! Above is one of the concept frames I created last year. I am eventually going to have to start drawing new pannels again because blogs are  VISUAL medium and text is boring. Also, this pre-vis is tentatively keeping me above the progress bar that my life is now going to be a constant race against. I can feel it closing in on me and lord knows how the actual drawing part is going to go later when I am working FULL TIME and have to get UP EARLY to work on this thing.

Somehow 4-5% of a year has already passed in 2-3 weeks. I’m hoping next week I’ll be able to shoot ahead because I basically managed to achieve everything I wanted to achieve last week. 

Last Week:

- I Used Dan Harmon’s story breaking method (see previous entry) to tighten up the event’s in all 3 parts. The characters have clearer direction now.

- Came up with an interesting plot for Part II that matches everything thematically.

- Kind of figured out Part III’s plot but it’s not as tight as Part II. It still needs a bit of TLC and also needs No Scrubs.

- I basically already have a treatment for Part I but there’s a not of ideas still floating around that I need to trim down. This is a dumb thing to say about a 3 part comic that currently seems impossibly ambitious but I want to make it manageable and the story itself was getting a bit complicated when it can be very simple if I leave certain things as subtext and don’t try to force them into the text.

This Week:

- I want to start drawing some character turnarounds. They kind of already exist because I’ve been doodling the characters for a while but I want clean fresh ones. There are 2 main characters (1 as a kid and as an adult), 2 other characters and I’m sure I’ll have to design a TON of extras. For now, I’d like to get the 2 mains. Basically, I just want to draw something.

- BUT if I actually want to catch up to the schedule I need to have Part III mapped out and have drafts of the treatments for Parts I and II. This probably has to be the priority.

- I am a little worried about my ability to write good scenes and good dialogue. I have heard of some good books about writing dialogue from the Art of the Screenplay Youtube Channel. I can’t remember what it was called.

- Also, I think I just have to accept that I have limitations as a writer and it doesn't have to be perfect.