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More painter playing around
December 8, 2008
Spend some time doing more of the simple illustration type work that seems easy to do for me. Decided to work it all the way out to the end and add a gaudy faux frame etc etc..
I reccommend looking at the full size version so you can see all the details.
Playing with Painter (take 2)
December 6, 2008
OOPs deelted this accidentally earlier. Lets see if this works.
Finally got around to watching some of my painter tutorials and just getting comfortable with the basic tools of painter. Its way different from Adobe’s suite of tools but its finally starting to feel comfortable.
Eventually I took this into photoshop to do some final tweaky bits and immediately it was noticeable how much extra work it is to introduce the texture in painting with photoshop.
Playing Around With Painter
December 5, 2008
OOPs deelted this accidentally earlier.
Finally got around to watching some of my painter tutorials and just getting comfortable with the basic tools of painter. Its way different from Adobe’s suite of tools but its finally starting to feel comfortable.
Eventually I took this into photoshop to do some final tweaky bits and immediately it was noticeable how much extra work it is to introduce the texture in painting with photoshop.
Joomla seems like a good thing to know
September 26, 2008
Bought a book about Joomla a lil bit ago and just reading over it makes it seem like a wonderful platform for doing a whole bunch of really really neat things. It kinda makes me want to redo the custom CMS i’ve been making at work for the last 3 months for fuddruckers. Well ok there’s some pretty significant things that aren’t in there for that particular job. Nonetheless it looks like a very robust foundation to know and be able to expand upon. So I’m goind to get started on the Drakkheim.com lan planning / management site just to get more comfortable with the ins and outs of the system.
Hopefully once I knock it out I’ll have the knowledge to use Joomla as a base platform for many many other things that I’ve got planned both at home and at work.
In completely unrelated news Robert Asprin and Lody Lynn Nye have released another book in the wonderful MYTH series called Myth-Chief.. Jeez come to think of it I’ve been following those for close to 15 years now.. Well here’s to another 15.
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Tags: books, CMS, computer, Joomla, MYTH, php, programming | 
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Witcher – first impression
September 17, 2008
Ok, so the initial download is 14gb… ouchy… so that took most of a day.
Wow.. this does not feel like the old Neverwinter Aurora engine. (or look like it for that matter)
Just about an hour into it, the first 15 minutes were intro videos and cutscenes and some in-game cutscenes. I didn’t skip any of them, very well done and felt like either a solid introduction to things or tied into the game seamlessly. Combat is more diablo than NWN but then again I’m not all the way throught the tutorial part so that may change.
Its pretty, very pretty, and architectually things feel more authentic than most western rpgs’ attempts at a ruined castle.
If the story is half as good as the reviews make it out to be the enhanced edition is going to put up on hell of a fight for RPG of the year. (Fallout 3 has got it’s work cut out for it.)