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Thanks, Dagon! I don't deviate to heavily from Photoshop's default brushsets, but I will tweak them on occasion. Typically my brush prefrence has Pen Pressure enabled Shape Dynamics, Pen Pressure Enabled Transfer, and Dual brush enabled. The only custom brush I bring in ussually is I create a square brush and a diamond brush because I find they react more naturally. I also will use stenciled brushes of leaves and other things to speed up concept art paintings. Here's some new shtoof I've done... I'm trying to get more familiar with Color now.

Did a quick speedpainting inspired by bladerunner.

Thank you! Still working on digital painting feeling tactile, so I'm glad it reads. Oopdates: I have found a faster silohette process that feels more natural to me and provides me with better mechanic results. Here's the piece that I felt was transitionary in that: I've also been doing a number of other paintings for concept work shenanigans and other odd jobs.

*** Click here for English source*** I've seen a lot of people getting upset about this and I figure it will eventually make it's way over here so I thought I'd throw on my two cents, before it happened. I think this is pretty reasonable. While as a fan I am sad to see (rumor) that they might go, But Ghibli has been in search for replacement directors since the late 90's. Isao Takahata and Miyazaki are 78 and 73 respectively. Additionally, the Studio producer for almost the entire lifetime of studio, Toshio Suzuki has stepped down as well. Your big 3 are out of the picture largely. Most people as successful as they have been in their careers are long retired by this point. They've always said they'll close the studio if they don't feel they can leave it with a certain future. Takahata has directed a film for the first time in 10 years, and it was something of a risk. I'm not sure he's out to do anything again soon. Hiromasa Yonebayashi just put out When Marnie was there, which came out only two days ago. This was the first time Anyone other then Miyazaki or Takahata has directed a film unsupervised at Ghibli in over a decade. I imagine the future of the company Ghibli will be determined over the reception of this film. But consider these two things. 1: Ghibli may end, but It will then secure a strong legacy that will not be tarnished by a future absent of the visionaries going awry. 2: Hiromasa Yonebayashi, Goro Miyazaki (Who despite bad press, directed a very solid film with "From Up on Poppy Hill") Mamoru Hosoda (An ex-employee of Ghibli, directed Summer Wars, and The Girl who Leapt through time) and Makoto Shinkai (Who has worked with Ghibli employees and holds the same virtues) all carry on the tradition, as I'm sure many of the younger employees of Ghibli will do as well, once directorial reigns are handed to them in other studios. This is not a bad thing, it's just a point in the history of animation. Many studios are embracing keeping animation in country there, and are beginning to restore the high quality animation that existed from the early 1970s to late 1990s. Look at Madhouse's films,Studio Trigger, Gainax, etc. TL;DR not the end of the world

Why thank you kind sir. Today I painted a scene from Kurosawa's Yojimbo:

There's a general consensus that life expectancy has generally improved for the population as a whole over the past few hundred years. I've seen some debate to the contrary, but this is a largely respected idea. In addition to this, there's been a large leap forward in funding and advancement of medical sciences, cancer treatments, disease prevention, and other things, with the setbacks thus far seeming small in comparison. There's potential for a great number of positives and negatives to happen in the future here. Stem cell research, 3D printing, Nanotechnology, telomere research, and others are in a push for extending life, if used positively. Most of these are double edged swords though. The cost of genetic engineering is dropping rapidly, and that also opens the door for the more nefarious amongst us to create horrible diseases. Nanotechnology is used wrongly could break down your body and end your life in seconds. There's also the even more obscure potentials for things like brain uploading, and the philosophical conundrum on if your brain is replaced, is that really you any longer on the opposite side? Do you believe any of this has the potential to come to fruition, parts of it, none of it, all of it? Tell me what you think.

They chose social media as the platform for their campaign, which is the real joke. Well the topic is on ludditism as a whole, not just the social media aspect the video is attacking. Care to elaborate on anti vaccination and how it applies to ludditisim? So you're in belief of the coming singularity? Near term Kurzweil style singularity or long term? I think the choice of talking to random strangers is typically one born of a desire to improve in communication. I definitely try force myself into social situations I'm not comfortable with now so that I function better in this regard.

1 minute of overtime was disgusting, they spent way more time off field then that.. e,e coulda won it. Oh well, Tim Howard is a monster, no one will forget that.

Count me in :D

Lud·dite (ldt) n. 1. Any of a group of British workers who between 1811 and 1816 rioted and destroyed laborsaving textile machinery in the belief that such machinery would diminish employment. 2. One who opposes technical or technological change. [After Ned Ludd, an English laborer who was supposed to have destroyed weaving machinery around 1779.] Luddism n. I see this everywhere now. People afraid of computers, internet, medicine, anything that shows even the slightest of change. People from my generation, longing for some memory that may or may not even exist for them. Gen Y wishing they had been born in the 70's or 80's, or a time before computers. People blaming problems that may be internal on things outside of their direct control. The fatal contradiction in this Luddite poetry is that his message is only possible to truly spread through the technology that he is protesting. His social criticism is an extremely short-sighted view of the quick and vast changes in our society by saying that the old way is the only true way to live life. It really just boils down to the same reactionary nostalgia that always gives way to technological advancements. Some of it is nostalgia for things that never existed. What is really overlooked is how the Internet has connected us globally. I have been able to become friends with people around the world that I will never meet. It can also strengthen and unite local communities and shine light on corruption and abuse. The free flow of ideas, even technophobia (this video has reached over 21 million people in a couple of weeks), expands our understanding of the world for the better. Greater access to knowledge does not create idiots. All this is just to say that there is an overreaction to social media and online communication. If you think your life is empty because of the methods of communication then go ahead and make a change to moderate yourself. I just don't see why some feel the need to say ditch all of it, don't use GPS, sell your computer, screens are bad, etc. That is really just closing doors to the entire world around us for the sake of preserving our closed perception. [spoiler=TL;DR .] Yeah, right. I'm clearly far swung on this issue in one direction. I'd like to see if others care to dissuade me, or if we're largely in agreement here.

Yes, Takeshi Obata. I followed his work for a while after Hikaru No Go and into Death Note, but after Blue Dragon Ral Grad and the One Shot Hello Baby, I sloped off in reading works by him. Bakuman had openly misogynistic statements at the beginning of the series as well, such as "Men have dreams women can't understand", when the protagonist tells his family of his dreams of becoming a mangaka, and is initially shot down by his mother, but his grandfather or father (I forget which) tells her this.

I think the build quality issue as a topic is outdated as well... I can't tell you how many more shattered iPhone screens I've seen then I have android device screens. Anything by Samsung has solid build quality anymore. So is the Iphone5, and later. Although I see a lot more scratches and cosmetic damage on the iphone5 due to how pristine they were obsessed about making those beveled edges. Most Samsung products have long rounded edges that don't show wear and tear as fast. But other then, what's already been said, simple UI vs customizable UI, etc. Development for iPhone is easier than Android from my experience as well, if that's a factor in your purchasing decisions. Any more though honestly? Both are great devices, its preferences and things that come down to how you need to use it, like battery life, etc. Personally, I own a Galaxy S5.

They changed directors after #2. Also, for the record, I went ahead and read the manga and read the light novel (All you need is kill) before seeing the movie (Edge of Tomorrow). Though the movie differed substantially from the comic and novel, I enjoyed it quite a bit on it's own. I went into it expecting it to be a different telling of the same general story though. I think that's the sort of expectation you have to have. It's a different media, they're not going to tell the story the same way. Also, although I was a bit disappointed Rita Vrataski wasn't quite the indestructible killer she was in the manga or novel, I wouldn't describe her as weak. She has an iron resolve and was still quite powerful in her own right. Especially going into the final scenes of the movies. The design difference in the Mimics from the manga vs the movie is substantial, but in movement, the movie design made more sense. I think they could have driven up the amount of speed and movement the exosuits gave them to utilize things like the battle axe Rita Vrataski had, but it would have required full cg actor replacement, and apparently infuriated the actors more. Emily Blunt was relieved—honestly, she swears, relieved—to have to wear an 85 lb. metal exoskeleton during the battle scenes in Edge of Tomorrow. “Can you imagine trying to walk like you’re in one of those suits, and then they paint it in afterward with a computer? You’d look stupid,” she says. “When you see the movie, the action looks authentic because we were genuinely put on wires and flipped around wearing these enormous suits.” While I find what she said mildly offensive as a computer graphics artist, as we would have likely put her in a suit much like what she wore anyway to ensure the movement was accurate, and done a lot of work ourselves animating, since the computer can't just "paint in" the fixes, as people apparently believe they can, without hours of intensive high skill labor... The biggest difference for me, and actually the largest thing working in favor of the movie was in fact the much better representation of women. The portrayal of women in the manga was downright misogynistic at times. In fact in relatively short order I compiled a notable example image: [spoiler=Somewhat NSFW] But yeah. In summary, I can appreciate both the manga, novel, and movie for different reasons. I did like the ending of the novel and manga better, harder as though it may be to digest for your average viewer.

Das expensive. That army you see at the end of the credits? Ussually under ILM or Weta? Those people spend 2 years animating 40 minutes of the movie to be photoreal and fit in to filmed segments seamlessly. and then people yell at them for "using to much CGI", as if being contracted work was their fault, and that "It's cheaper and easier to use CG", therefore "Not as cool". But tangent rant aside, It's expensive. All the compositing work, explosions, flying robots, giant destruction scenes can cost anywhere from $1500-$10000 per second of film and takes literally millions of man hours to produce, not including computer hours for rendertime. The studio won't let that fly.

Oh! My apologies, thank you. I will go read through this.