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Quote:Cause you make our work sound like it should be harder than it is. We learn by repetition of drawing things around us, and our "eye for anatomy" is not really about anatomy but for symmetry of shape and form, what little real anatomy we do study is mainly to know how body parts are joined and fold over others. I can't see how you can get a sense of that from someone with many many folds that cover that up. As for the classic approach, not many professional artist in the modern age I've met learned through the classic approach. Most of us learned by copying art we like.While i agree that you should use use new stuff for medium and taking the strain off the model. I don't see how any of that goes against why you should use models that are not all that pretty... in fact it somewhat goes to show why you should use live models that aren't "good looking" because you can't be certain that what you see in the picture is what you would see and also sense of space and such might be altered by using other references... ie tech can help with quick references, but for learning I think it is best to go with the classic approach.
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Quote:What do art teachers know? All the art teachers I had were always against using modern tech. I recall, arguing with one of my teachers way back who was trying to talk me into hiring a model for a day for an dynamic pose assignment. The model charged too much an hour for my pocketbook at the time to hire for the day. I told her can't I just hire the model for an hour, and take pictures of her with my digital camera and work from the pictures? She looked at me like I was crazy, and commented how I was always trying to save money with my new fangled ideas for doing the work like doing it with Photoshop, a Wacom tablet, and an offset printer instead of paint, brush, and canvas...it was talking to someone in the middle ages...lol!Research that is horrible for learning art. Life art teachers will tell you that you should use ugly/old/overweight models because more lines and creases and such are better to learn from.
Modern artists use every reference techniques we can get a hold of to get the job done, whether it be a model posing a few minutes for some pictures to reference from, or doing searches on the internet, and even using 3D model programs like Poser or Daz 3D to get what we need in order to get the job done. As a great professor I had once told me, our first priority as artists is to solve problems. -
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Quote:As a professional artist of over 10 years myself, I can vouch for one thing...we draw what we or our clients like period. Most often we draw them sexy because the client wants it this way, even the females, or we are given free reign and we like to draw sexy because...um...we're dudes...and sexy keeps us...well...interested, inspired, and internet references we find are usually pretty sexed up.Well, today's artist have the Internet to fill them in on such things, so, lack of firsthand experience is no excuse anymore.
A recent example comes to mind. I was commissioned to draw a 40's style pinup of the female lead singer of a band to be used for promotionals. I was given free reign at first, so I looked for references from other pinup artists, and by their example drew the early drafts very sexy. She loved it, however, she was vetoed by the male members of the band as they felt it would give the wrong impression of the group. I then came up with a compromise of a leggy pose with fairly-conservative attire. They all dug the result. -
The Government, congress...well they had their own agenda to cover...um...worry about. As for the Media, umm remember what I said about them. They found out that Tony sanctioned an assasination of dignitaries of Atlantis...and they themselves decide to let that go, and even agreed with it.
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Quote:Cap's shield has absorbed forces far more powerful than Cyclops's optic blast.Are you talking about the same Cyclops that assembled a killteam or that wants to use the probably most powerful mutant (who´s still a teen) as a soldier?
Please step in front of a speeding train (but only as a thought experiment of course) and then tell me how it went... if you have enough force, you don´t have to disintegrate your opponent to splatter him all over the next wall. -
Quote:To be fair, the majority of the side plots on Civil War was basically the other heroes debating the issues among themselves and/or becomming influenced to one side or another due to some event that swayed them, due to tragedy, family, or because they found a way to exploit it...I'm looking at you Howard T. Duck.Well, I was actually talking about the other heroes. Particularly the ones that knew them both.
Quote:I also wondered why Steve didn't go to the government with his story. Maria Hill took it upon herself to order agents to fire guns at him, using lethal force on an unarmed man (his shield is not generally considered a weapon in the legal sense) because he vocally disagreed with a proposed bill that was not a law yet. How is she still in power? :/ -
Quote:Cap's relationship with the Government had typically been shaky at best. They were always glad when their viewpoints matched as they were able to use Cap's influence to bolster support. However Steve's ideals often also conflicted with individual political agendas causing them to backlash against him, even going to calls for replacing him as the symbol for America.You guys are all assuming that the writers of modern Marvel comics are basing brand new stories on any of the stories that came before. (Particularly Bendis.) Did Cap and Iron Man seem different to anyone during Civil War?
Did Cap resign in protest during the Registration? And why was everyone so eager to take Iron Man's word that Cap was wrong? The same Cap that was correct in EVERY SINGLE THING previously. Meanwhile, Iron Man is always being mind controlled, or the traitor for Kang or being drunk, or wants to kill the Supreme intelligence, or oh yeah tried to take out heroes during the Armor Wars cause no one can ever have his technology. But sure, let's believe him over Steve. :P
Tony Stark in the comics (not the movies), in spite of his idiosyncrasies, is a trained political lobbyist machine that spoke to government officials in ways they can relate to. So, Tony tended to have more pull on them then Steve.
As for the general populous, Steve generally has more pull, except in this case as the media was already biased toward the Government agenda because of the destruction of the school which started it all. Hell, there was one arc in which the media supported Tony's descision to release the Green Goblin so he can assassinate Atlantian dignitaries in order to pull Atlantis into the Civil War. I mean like WTH? But that's just the craziness of it all. -
Quote:Cap has beaten Spidey in pretty much every encounter they've had. Cap's tactics exploits Spider-Man's reliance on his Spider Sense by basically tricking it to think an attack is comming one way when instead its comes from another. For instance Cap would throw his shield at Spidey in a way which would make him leap in one direction, then the shield would instead hit a lever on a crane behind him causing it to drop several tons of bricks it had been holding exactly where Spidey would land after the attack.I'd put Spidey up against any Avenger, one-on-one. He'd be an underdog against Hulk and Thor but he'd pretty easily handle almost anyone else.
Cap has done this kind of tactical outmaneuvering to Spider-Man so many times to count over the years, even the Marvel PnP RPG highlighted the tactic on one of the strips illustrating combat between the two. -
Quote:I'd wear a banana hammock to the beach if I could keep people from gouging out their own eyes as I walk by. 8) :I'm trying, but I can't see any insult towards men. Most guys I know, including myself, would indeed take the attitude 'if you've got it, flaunt it'. It's why some men lift weights on beaches: It's a brutally impractical and uncomfortable place to lift (I've done it). It serves no other purpose, at all, than to show off your muscles or strength - to intimidate smaller men, gain the respect of larger ones, and (ideally) infatuate women. Captain Caveman impulses at their purest.
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Quote:I'm currently working on an art commision for a pinup of a female customer, of which I got back the critique "Can I get cuter shoes?" of which I replied, "Um.. I'm a guy. How about you pick out some shoes, and I'll draw them?"I know women that practically dress their husbands when they go out because they simply don't trust them not to wear something wrong, then turn to these same people they think are walking fashion lobotomies and say "does this top look good with this skirt?" That's how crazy women's fashion makes women, they'll ask the brain dead for second opinions.
Some women do this just because they like hearing they look good of course, but others genuinely aren't sure. -
Spider-Man once had almost beaten all the X-Men by himself, only stopped by Professor X. Also, Cap has beaten Spidey pretty much consistently in every encounter. So I'm giving my Edge to the Avengers.
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Quote:I disagree, I thought Rooney Mara made a better Lisbeth... I'm sorry for the sacrilege I'm making for all the people who are hardcore fans of the Swedish version, but I have to admit I liked the American version better in all respects.*I think it's being compared subconsciously to the original Swedish film. Noomi Rapace IS the definitive Lisbeth Salander, sorry Rooney Mara. Now if the original wasn't as well received back in 2009 when it did the rounds over here, this version might have gotten more recognition.
*I also felt the same for Let Me In when I compared with Let the Right One In. -
If I thought the Resident Evil game storylines were worth it I'd agree with you. But really, Resident Evil plots were always pretty cheesy. I'll definately see this movie, and collect the blueray to add to my collection.
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Being Human was what I turned on SyFy for. Lost Girl is kinda reminisent of The Nine Lives of Chloe King, without its charm, so I was going to give it a pass. Also the story felt off, and too simplistic and contrived, but what ended up getting me interested in this one is the main character really having no qualms about killing people or fae. So I'll give it a shot for a bit and see where they take this.
As for Being Human. I'm glad they pretty much condenced the BBC second season in one episode. I wouldn't have been able to stand a full season of Aiden showing his ineptitude as the vampire leader (which they did with Mitchell), and the prolonging of Nora's secret (which they did with Nina). -
Quote:Hmm...that should work, I'll see if that's possible to code (I'm using Cocoa Touch's CoreGraphics framework for this).Honestly, if it was me, I would transform the target point to a normalized one as if there was no roll (basically, undo the roll), do your calculations as you currently do them, and then transform the results back to the rolled frame of reference.
In most coordinate and graphics systems I've seen, most of the nitty gritty stuff is done in a simple frame of reference, and transforms are applied to it. So lets say your screen is currently rolled 40 degrees counter-clockwise. That means the y-plane is now more at 4 o-clock rather than 6 o-clock (aligned with the bottom of the screen). Rather than make more complex formulas to calculate what's going on, I would take the target point, rotate that 40 degrees *clockwise* and compute where it *would have been* if the screen wasn't rolled. That would tell me what the x,y,z of the target would have been. Then I roll that x,y,z target 40 degrees back counterclockwise, and that's where the puck goes. Calculating rotation about the z axis shouldn't be difficult by itself. -
Here's a question (which relates to this one). Someone suggested for my project I barrel roll the view some degrees (fViewRoll). The visual part was easy to accomplish with a transform, but I'm unsure how to adjust the targeting to the roll? Any ideas?
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I'm tempted as well (I'm sure I qualify), but this year is a bit busy for me.
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Quote:If you want to try out go for it! There's already been at least a couple of CoH forumites that have appeared on a Reality TV show.If the words "From the masterminds behind Jersey Shore" don't scare you, I think some of the questions show this potential monstrosity has set phasers to "mock"...
http://www.fandomcasting.com/
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Other than Best Buy cards, I didn't get any geek swag for Christmas. In my family, I'm the major geek so its always up to me to gift others geek swag, while I get the benefit of their non-geek taste for clothes. So with that I gave my brother this:
You're all jealous, I'm sure
To be fair, I do tend to collect a lot of geek swag throughout the year, so nobody really knows what to get me that I don't already have. -
Quote:I think she was trying to say that robots will only ever make preprogrammed responses. Which is a fair assumption if thought about in the broader sense, and if you are only looking at what is available commericially currently. But I have more faith in the future, considering much of the stuff we have available now was only science fiction just 20 years ago (some only 10 years ago).To say that such technology will never improve from now until the end of time (or at least until humans go extinct, technological singularities notwithstanding) is a rather bold statement to make. No credible scientist or engineer would tell you that, because they know better than to make such absolute statements with such sweeping judgments. That is, they actually use their brains to reason these things out. I'd like to know what makes her think she's such an absolute authority on the subject to be able to tell us that in no uncertain terms, this is never going to happen. Perhaps she was hit by some divine revelation?
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Quote:And if in Paris, they will undoubtedly charge you an arm and a leg for it. One thing I learned about travelling to big cities in any country (even in the US), unless you like to waist money, eat at a fast food restaurant with set prices on the Menus displayed on the walls or find some small out of the way back-alley bistro that locals go to. Restaurants on main streets of big cities are notorious for feeding tourists crap and charging them duckets for it. There's a saying in San Francisico, "You should never go to Chinatown if you're looking for Chinese food."In the eternal battle of Jedi vs Food... food won.
Quick-burgers are pretty hideous in any case (think White Castle, minus any final vestiges of flavour), and frankly food is NOT supposed to be that unpleasant dark-blue colour. Yick.
Oh, and if you're in France and eating burgers, even the indigenous variety... WHAT THE HECK ARE YOU THINKING?? Heave a brick and you'll at least hit two friteries and a crepe van...