After effects RAM preview error

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where when you RAM Preview, this message pops and preview won’t continue.
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Thank GOD for google. :P

Reference: horse falling

Never seen so many horses falling... Good reference.

Converting closet to pro recording studio

Pretty good tutorial. Quite a budget still. That's what my sound director is trying to do currently.

Robert McKee: 10 Problems To Avoid With Dialogue In Screenplays

Yes, i might have made a few of those along the lines... oh well better late than never knowing these things.
You know... I have an urge to take that 10 problems and turn them into character flaws. lol

flash game scripting tutorial

http://www.newgrounds.com/portal/view/348660

Saved for myself and my student. :P

maya dynamics tutorials

chinese: http://twdesign.net/design/viewtopic.php?f=34&t=28663
chinese (clouds): http://bbs.cgpower.com.cn/post/view?bid=17&id=266481&sty=1&tpg=1&age=0

churches and museum 3D view port

http://www.vatican.va/various/basiliche/san_giovanni/vr_tour/index-en.html

CD's fun Artistic copy Ninja training guide. Based on my own experience in copying... (I might color a few if i feel like it)

My own style falls somewhere in level 40-50, in the normal anime range. My copy skill is pretty high at this point if i want to spend the time for it...


How to use:
Use the chart to compare the level where you are at in terms of your own style, and your ability to copy other people's style.

+ When to move up: If you have been copying simpler style, and can do them well, move up.

+ When to move down: When you have trouble with more complex styles, try some really simple lower level ones, you might get a few lessons you have never learned before to apply to more complex styles!



+ Sharing: You are allowed to print this, to use this chart to show anyone who need to know where they are on practice level. As long as it's non-commercial.


+ Benefit of copying: It forces you to get rid of your usual habits and learn to adapt something new, and learn the observation skill of the artist at higher level than you.

William-Adolphe Bouguereau

William-Adolphe Bouguereau
Why have i learned to remember your name so late?

This guy shall be one of my favorite painter from now on.

His range of subjects, composition, painting subtitles are just my taste. He's awesome!

Learning about video subbing

http://www.anime-planet.com/forum/faq-tutorials/15052-fansubbing-2.html

http://www.videohelp.com/guides/category/how-to-add-subtitles-to-a-video-5;20#5;20

http://www.free-codecs.com/download/vobsub.htm

Saving this link for later.

I'm doing some hard subbing for my aunt's charity video project right now, but soft subbing on mkv file sounds good to me too. 

Director's Anxiety

Since Roxanne is starting her game project, she starts to experience the Director's Anxiety. Yes I just made a name for it. lol

It's something I have gone through before, and still have it occasionally, the worry of "what if it fails? After all of these efforts? All of these time, all of the time of the teammates and everyone else who pour their souls and heart into the project?" 

For Roxie's game, it's a demo currently... maybe it will need 100 hours... for my Edepth anime, it's something that would take up at least 1000 hours of all of our combine efforts... it's that costly.

Eventually I got tired of worrying about the unknown, if it has not happened... it has not happened.
The good thing is... the US... or somewhere around the world, is big enough to accept our projects, someone, somewhere out there might like it. 2Master's short film, being where it was won us some money, I am sure the next one will do better because it's a lot more effort going into it.

As for effort...
Zeiva , Mirage, once mentioned how she felt about her games not doing as well as she wanted after working on it for 3 years... I do fully understand effort does not equal to success... I feel for her on that part...some of the most popular stuff out there are not things that took too much effort... it's about the trend.

However... it is also suggested by Fred from Frederator, who made many kids show possible: "Do something you love. Don't care about the times. You never can predict the trend 3 years later."

Doing this kind of stuff is just a risk. You never know. You can guess all you want but trends in popular media change every year or two... while some part of it is ever lasting similarity (like shonen shojo) others are completely up in the air... it's like stock market right now, unpredictable. So all that's left is just enjoy what you do... If I must dance in the rain, I might as well enjoy being soaked. It's the path I chose.
It's not like I haven't been soaked before... If my stuff is out there, I will get negative comments. I view them as a form of baptism. lol~ Being showered by the market itself.

It's not your friends cheering you on, it's not your mom saying "good job." it's not your family who support you... but it's a bunch of people nit-picking praising, loving, supporting, stealing, hating your work, tearing it up, ignoring or worshiping it, I have one thing to say:
Welcome to the real market, where everything goes.Welcome to the pro world, this is just a norm.

If my project is only good enough for a small handful of people to like it, that's where I am. I have to level up, push it farther. Or just stick with what I have.

If my project is good enough for a lot of people to like it, then it's a success, and we don't have to talk more about this anxiety. 


As for my team, everyone who put time into it... I have obligation to them to sell this project as much as I can, to do my best, exhaust all resources I can to push it out there. I may not have the best personality for it, but that's not an excuse for me to just make stuff and not promote.

I am doing everything I can... I hope I will be joined by my teammates in the future to help make the project a success.... as for how big of a success... we will have to wait and see.

For now, just making it happen is enough work for us.

Creative entertainment projects is a form of self-torture for others' enjoyment... one really have to be a little crazy to keep doing this.

How to create a favicon

http://www.dailyblogtips.com/how-to-create-a-favicon/

Not sure how to get it to wordpress though. We have favicon for the main site, not the wordpress ones.

How to animate using SAI

How to animate using Sai
And YES.... I think i know how to solve inconsistent drawing issues with different animators with this tutorial now...SMART animator, and hardcore, he would check the drawings like that... that's literally flipping 1 page at the time.... eek!

3D for 2D using 3D max

This person gave me a tip on how to generate his results from 3D max: http://icephei.deviantart.com/

"In my case it is VrayToon/MentalRay contours for lineart; Cell Shaders, hand painted textures for 2d look; and overpaint for 2d effect enhancement (;"

http://www.kxcad.net/autodesk/3ds_max/Autodesk_3ds_Max_9_Reference/mental_ray_contour_shading.html

1. Choose Customize > Preferences. Go to the mental ray panel, and turn on Enable Mental Ray Extensions.

2. On the Render toolbar, click Render Scene.

   If the active renderer is not already the mental ray renderer, go to the Common panel, and on the Assign Renderer rollout, click the “...” button for the Production renderer. A Choose Renderer dialog is displayed. Highlight “mental ray Renderer” in the list, and then click OK.

   Leave the Render Scene dialog open, or minimize it.

3. Open the Material Editor. For the materials of objects you want to render with contours, use the mental ray Connection rollout to assign a shader to the Contour component.

   Another technique would be to use the mental ray material, and assign shaders to both the Surface and Contour components.

   Tip: The Simple contour shader renders uniform lines whose color and width you can control. The other contour shaders provide variant contour styles with more direct user controls.

4. On the Render Scene dialog, go to the Renderer panel. On the Camera Effects rollout, turn on Enable in the Contours group.

   To simply add contour lines to a rendering, leave the shaders in the Camera Effects rollout set to their defaults. For other options, see Camera Effects Rollout (mental ray Renderer).

Note for maya user, for maya render post: http://altarstudio.blogspot.com/2011/05/maya-vector-render.html

Maya vector render

Nuke by =zoomzoom on deviantART

http://wiki.bk.tudelft.nl/toi-pedia/Maya_Vector_Render_to_Illustrator


I wish I learned about this earlier. This is exactly what I am looking for in Maya.

Set setting for the line art on hard edge and external edge only, then you get to control where you want edges to show and where you don't.

I'm excited.

 Going to model another gun, I'm about memorized CX4 storm model by now, so I will do that one, since they are the easiest to test things with.
Next will be a whole mech model for edepth's pages. :)

3D max: Final Toon 3.5

VNI-HL Thuphap, a good english brush font

http://www.hifonts.net/en/hiFont.8683

Download there. :) Good stuff.

Tokyopop closing in US, and webcomic stuff

http://and-babel-fell.deviantart.com/journal/39905518/


http://speedking.deviantart.com/journal/39894563/

http://inkandthunder.blogspot.com/2011/04/tokyopop-etc.html

Book sales info: http://www.comicbookresources.com/?page=article&id=30752

How webcomic makes money: (he's doing pretty well)
http://www.remindblog.com/2010/10/07/how-to-make-money-webcomic/

ipad expansion tips: http://danidraws.com/2010/09/27/digital-comics/#m 

Flattr: https://flattr.com/ 


Yen press raising: http://manga.about.com/od/mangaartistswriters/a/KurtHassler.htm

10 sure fire ways to ruin your child's future

(original article: http://montanahan.blogspot.com/2011/04/blog-post_9878.html )
By some angry/frustrated Taiwan teacher.

First of all, buy the children all the best, latest, endless material, clothes, shoes and stationery, mobile computer, etc., etc., or give him a credit card, is the most effective method.


In this way, the child will take everything for granted, and if anyone did not give him what he wants is someone else's fault, and it is a serious fault! You will inevitably hear, "Why not give me money to buy the latest mobile phone? I hate you" 
Very sharp, isn't he?
If you do not so much budget execution method of the preceding paragraph, do not worry, there are many alternatives

Second, remember to let kids eat lots of snacks, ice cream is best burgers fries and other fried chicken, we must develop a child to drink pearl milk tea and other beverage habits.In this way, children can not only fat and stay, and never will be a healthy body, to ensure that there will be cardiovascular disease and joint disease.

If you can make a child before puberty is more accustomed to drinking coffee cola.
Well, you can develop addiction since childhood, while the physical training of osteoporosis.

If you do not believe that the effect of eating out, you can own cooking at home, remember to seek the most cost-effective ingredients, cook a lot of food, so that the ingredients in pesticides can do antibiotics nitrate accumulation of animal hormones in vivo in children, to ensure will be cancer or liver disease, in order to receive health insurance benefits, and can consume a large number of health care resources to pay the premiums earned back, one and two consultants, Getting the underwear.
The next method is even more low-cost, can even increase your income. Let us read on.

Third, we must remember to use the things you can not do as an intimidation. For example, "cry and I'll kill you."

Or must be self-contradictory, not to implement their own set of penalties. For example, "next time there is no written job made no allowance," but we must forget it, as usual given pocket money.This trick is used to nurture a child is not blowing you off, tell him he must west east great way, super-effective, you must try.
Another trick for an additive effect, I'll tell you.

Fourth, when the share of chores your children do not want to do s such as homework, clean up around the house, to study, be sure to use real prizes to encourage him to avoid self-motivated to do his thing.Like "If you close the room is good, we buy toys"The best way is first to test a thousand and the like, this way, as long as you do not give money do not buy gifts, he would not do anything, he will not be responsible, you will be able to worry about his life your whole life, so wonderful.

Oh yes, we must develop from the very hour to buy toys for kids with the customary cry, this is the case, you will know exactly what the child wants, as long as he cries you will know, so much smoother and more effective communication channels.

Fifth, you must clean up after your child's mess, and others tell your children that others are wrong, because your child is absolutely the best, is cleverest, and school teachers, students are always the wrong one, so children will feel that you love him .

For example, when children break the rules to be a demerit, must go to school to protest by the desk, it's best if the child is present, your daughter will think you are a hero.

For example, when a child does not hand in papers that are out, be sure to find the instructor, blaming the teacher until the teacher admit his/her own incompetence, the effect doubled in the presence of your child, so that next time he scolds at his teacher, he will not trouble you to come.
Another example is the children forget to bring school supplies / homework, no matter how busy you are you must send to help a child / children to do work to help prevent a child from being punished, but do not blame the kids who  are not ready, after all, he is a kid.
If the materials or operations for a bit of trouble, do not blame the kids who say no as soon as possible, we must blame the bad work out what the teacher deliberately look for trouble and the like.

Sixth, the kite  method, you have respect for the child to do what he wants, the more he wants to stay up late more sleep at night, sleep is not enough to go to school to continue to make sleep.

In addition to reducing child sleep time, learned to avoid the formation of memories during the day, you can ensure that the children can have a good rest during the day in class.If he feels tired because did not want to work hard, it's okay, because life will always find the exit. So in the future because he will not want to work hard to stay by your side forever. 

Seventh, more time working to make money, not spend too much time with children, as long as you buy things to comfort him just fine.

Although the child does not feel loved because you gave gifts, but he won't mind it, I believe he will not have too many opinions. Anyway, you do not accompany the child as he grow.If it is difficult to achieve, you can have more children, and some can be reached. You can either increase production to serve the country and can ensure that the children break down, and kill two birds with one stone super-smart way.

Eighth, to help children get rid of all obstacles and setbacks, so that you can successfully form a happy personality.

Give gifts to bribe teachers, New Year greeting gifts essential to help children arrange all the details and the future way out.If the poor performance of a subject, they must not let the children learn this subject, and do not demand that children work more, after all, different for each person's expertise, so that children do what they naturally like to do like, such as dancing , read comics, play cube, those can still make them successful, can't they?

Ninth, when the child's best friend, to discuss all things related to him, all to give, not blame, it will not hamper the parent-child relationship.Give him money to buy something, so he can go to a concert, you went to help him line up for tickets. He was skipping classes and you have to cover for him, so kids will love you, will not grow up blind obedience to authority. When you hope she does not marry with the wanted man, not do drugs, do not drag racing, the children to learn as long as he insists, you will respect the concessions. Challenges of the future office can boss from time to time, to defend their dignity.

Tenth, to lead your child with loopholes, with advantage, only for his own plan. For example, if the requirement to wear helmets, must find ways to find out without actually wearing the method without penalty, so in the future if he had a car accident, skull fracture definitely, just for you to make claims to turn to your friends.  
Be sure to tell a child, when the police is present he has to respect the police and the regulations, when the police is not present, he can just respect himself. 
so no police and camera recording ban, the children will not follow that silly red light, if the other phase have a car to pass through, it will not hit your son or daughter.

This future, you politely ask him if he wanted to help out the money to buy a house, he will not live up to your hopes, you will paid in full.I believe that from an early age to take advantage of loopholes and the ability to not worry about the future he will forget loopholes will want you to eat a variety of methods will wipe dry and no support to you.


To uphold a conviction, the school teacher daughter to take full responsibility for your son, after all, education is the education of the school, parents are totally not responsible.  

When the teacher to advise you, be sure to argue back, because you know the best of your child, your quality control so well, can not give birth to children lying stealing beat, other students must be lying rogue, or else is in bad with bad, but people who teach the students in the school should bear the greatest responsibility.  

The implementation of moral education is the school project, so if your child has occupied love seat, stole money, compensated dating to purchase brand-name bags, all kinds of bullying,  undress in public places, spitting wiping booger, stuffed in garbage others lockers...... so on and so on motorcycles, you can just draw with the responsibility of cross-truth, and that is...

"What happened to our education system!!!"
Just 6 words, the report is completed.

Lakota dictionary online

http://www.lakotadictionary.org/nldo.php

for writing. (word search limited.)

http://www.sageandsweetgrass.com/dictionaries/dictionaryA.aspx

Practical self defense techniques

http://www.youtube.com/user/kidescape

Looks pretty practical and situational, but it does require practice... X_X

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