And here’s what I made in class today! It started out as some random character with a headband, but somewhere in the middle I just decided to give it blonde hair, so now I guess it’s Unnamed Character. I also have a strange habit of drawing cats now, whenever I have flash open and have no ideas for what to draw. I decided to stick this cat in a tree, because that’s usually where cats are found. Well I’ve never actually seen a cat in a tree before, but they always have them there in cartoons and stuff.
And here’s what I made in class today! It started out as some random character with a headband, but somewhere in the middle I just decided to give it blonde hair, so now I guess it’s Unnamed Character. I also have a strange habit of drawing cats now, whenever I have flash open and have no ideas for what to draw. I decided to stick this cat in a tree, because that’s usually where cats are found. Well I’ve never actually seen a cat in a tree before, but they always have them there in cartoons and stuff.
Well, today was the first day of the art class. I guess this post will be more like an actual blog entry (like the kind you would find on an actual blog), and the next two weeks will probably be full of these. I’ll scan the stuff I drew during the classes, even if they’re not particularly well-drawn or interesting.
Anyway, the email they sent said to come at 8:30, so I woke up at like 7:15, ate breakfast and all that stuff, and took the subway to the nearest stop (to my surprise, it was only one stop away). Got to the station at about 8:05, and thought “Oh wow, I still have 25 minutes,” and began looking for the building I was supposed to go to. It actually took 20 minutes to get there, because I managed to get lost, even though I had a map with me.
(Prepare a huge wall of text in the full blog post. Anyway, if you don’t feel like reading the post, at least watch the video in the middle. It’s super awesome.)
=New Features
– Arrow Keys can now be used to position stuff on the stage.
– Shift Up/Down are shortcuts for Bring Forward/Send Backwards.
– Ctrl Up/Down are shortcuts for Bring to Front/Send to Back.
– Shift Left/Right are shortcuts for Rotate.
– Ctrl Left/Right are shortcuts for Scale.
– You can now toggle whether clicking the heads of characters rotates or drags them by default. Ctrl+drag will rotate characters if this is turned off.
– You can now set the X/Y speeds of rain drops, as well as their twirl speed.=Fixes
– Changed the way power works in pong game, so that you should properly gain options at every 1.00 mark.
– Fixed rain scaling so that shift scaling will also only affect the drops rather than the entire thing.
– Snapshots are now actually named Snapshots to avoid confusion with terminology.
– Character options menu is now properly keylocked.
Also, this may be of interest to people who know foreign languages and would like to help translate the create.swf manual.
Found this earlier today and thought it was interesting. Here’s a Touhou parody of the opening themes of Full House and Friends, using the Touhou character models in GTA.
In other news, today was my last day volunteering at the computer center. Overall, I guess it was pretty fun. I got to help out a bunch of people with their computer-related issues, and when there was nothing to do, I could just browse the web. Anyway, this doesn’t mean I’ll have nothing to do until school starts, because I’ll be taking an two-week (or at least I think it’s two weeks) animation class starting Monday.
I don’t remember if I’ve explained it here before, but basically, one of the things I painted in art class was chosen as one of the winners of some art contest. The winning pieces were displayed in some office building somewhere. It’s a weird place to put artwork, but apparently it’s so the workers can appreciate the artwork made by New York City school kids. Anyway, as a prize, I was given the choice of a $125 gift certificate to an art supplies store or an art class to take over the summer. I decided to go with the art class, and saw that one of the classes was an animation class, and I was like “Oh hey look at that, it’s animation” and yeah. Interestingly, the art class would’ve cost almost $1000 if paid normally, so I guess I chose the better option (I don’t really need art supplies anyway, since most of the artwork I do is on the computer).
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