Got a Wacom Bamboo Pen & Touch
You may not know it, but I fancy myself a bit of a part-time doodler and inventor. Well, no inventing in this post, but I do plan on using this new interface to sketch some groundbreaking Noble Prize award winning kind of stuff. That’s hush-hush right now though, so don’t go telling all your friends about me just yet.
Meanwhile, I’m just experimenting and trying to get used to this entirely new way to turn hand motion into graphical output on the screen. Like I keep telling people: the initial experience is akin to trying to paint on a canvas which is one mile away with a paint brush that is one mile-minus-one-millimeter long. That is to say, it’s a challenge, and presents a grand learning curve.
Still, I think that I’ve done okay for my first couple of break-in days. My only fear is that my talents won’t much progress from here… but that remains to be seen. So, without further ado, here are some of my “accomplishments”:
First, my most complex piece. It began as a visual sketch of one of my cement skulls, and turned into an “alien skull”. It’s okay. And obviously missing an entire section of “rest of the teeth”, but I was pretty drunk by that part and couldn’t think of a good way to finish the mouth.
Here’s a panda. it’s actually a pretty popular online image, and here’s something else you didn’t know: my nickname at work is Panda! Why? Long story. Well pretty short, but still very very boring. Anyway, here’s the stock image. I can’t credit it because I don’t know the author. If you’re the author, contact me and I’ll credit you. I take copyright and accreditation very seriously.
My sketchy take:
the cleaned up version:
my abstract take on MAN:
I decided to see what I could accomplish in under 60 seconds. It’s essentially “clip art” but y’know what? I’ve always wanted to make some clip art and always failed, so as simple and basic as it is, it’s still pretty neat.
Speaking of which, Shannon Larratt from Zentastic introduced me to “Pencil.exe“, which is a really nice and user-friendly piece of shareware animation software. I suck at it, and he’s awesome at it, but regardless… here’s the base model for my first animation ever. I plan to add cartoony “heat waves” on the sun that move, as well as adjust the lighting for each frame (there are 45 in this animation), as well as bring out some twinkling stars and extend the animation by probably 20 frames to include some night. I’ll also probably bring a moon in. Who knows?
I don’t know how to embed this kind of file so just click this link. I swear it’s neither porn nor a Rick Roll:
http://jofaba.com/sharefiles/sunset.swf
Okay you can thank me for that. It’s pure Russian awesomeness. It’s crazy and you’re welcome for being introduced to that bizzare, insane, terrifying song. I didn’t lie though. Neither porn nor a Rick Roll. Okay, here’s the real thing. (Such a build up for such a horribly boring animation, but here goes:
http://jofaba.com/sharefiles/sunset.swf
- Joshua Frank Bartalomy