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Vulture posted:Hello all. Would anyone here be willing to create a drawing for me? I am willing to pay. I didn't see this post when I got posted but anyone who is willing to do a commission would probably prefer to respond in this thread! I am not sure how many CC artists are doing commissions these days. It's also worth keeping an eye on SA mart.
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deep dish peat moss posted:Is it normal for calls for artists to essentially be just paying for a chance to possibly display your work? I am signed up to get calls from: EntryThingy https://www.entrythingy.com/forartists_calls CAFE https://artist.callforentry.org and Zapp https://www.zapplication.org there are some calls that cost nothing to enter. A lot of the calls they have are pretty specific, but you never know what will pop up. All are legit sources though Zapp is more art fair/festival focused they do sometimes have online events listed.
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Am I just out of touch and this is the way arts opportunities work these days?
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Can anyone recommend an upright box for 8.5x11 sketchbooks? Like the kind that RPG sets come in, a slip case? I'm sure someone sells one but damned if I can locate it myself. I'd like one to hold three pentalic sketchbooks but I'd just buy a full set if that's what it took.
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I'm kind of lost as to where to even start. Hoping since this is a "creative" matter, I can post my question here. Does anyone have a good resource on how to animate for a youtube channel? I have an idea I've been kicking around for a few years now in my head for a channel, but I don't even know where I should look for good instruction.
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Dec 28, 2023 17:21
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Are you looking to learn animation generally? Or are you looking for advice on running a channel? Because the two are very different. For a good primer on animation, I recommend The Animator's Survival Kit.
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Dec 28, 2023 18:19
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Both, honeslty. Very simple animation that's suited for commentary on existing videos. And Maybe I need a class on that sort of youtube (running it, creating for it, etc). Any info on that? Reputable sites that sell lessons or online courses?
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Dec 28, 2023 19:38
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I have no clue on the "running a YT channel" side, but I strongly suspect that 99% of the resources out there are going to be shoddy cash grabs (i.e. "buy our course on how to get rich as a YT personality!"). Something to bear in mind with "content creation" is that there's no reliable way to build an audience. If there were, everyone would've figured that way out and would be doing it and nothing else. We know that the bare minimum is producing a steady supply of content, but beyond that it's mostly just throwing stuff at the screaming void and seeing what sticks.
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Dec 28, 2023 20:15
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Yeah your asking about how to get started with two separate topics that are rather complex to just get into. Maybe you don't want to share your idea, but can you be any more specific about what you are trying to do? Do you actually need to make animations and are we talking like animated objects and characters or just motion graphics with some keyframe manipulation? Youtube is extremely saturated and successful channels have to consider stuff like: - Video title - Video thumbnail - Video length - Release schedule of content - Merchandizing - Sponsored content And it changes whenever Google decides to start favoring something new in the algorithm deciding what to suggest.
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Dec 28, 2023 20:56
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The Bananana posted:Maybe I need a class on that sort of youtube (running it, creating for it, etc). Our own dead forums have a YouTube thread that gets occassional traffic. You can see what people have found works... for them. It's really hard to say how much of it applies across the board, so you end up: TooMuchAbstraction posted:mostly just throwing stuff at the screaming void and seeing what sticks. My own example -- I have only a handful of videos out -- is that poo poo's unpredictable: First video: Simpsons meme miniature that became much more involved than I thought it would -- 443 views Second video: display case for some retro talking clocks -- 245 views Third video: a wood sculpture -- 103 views Fourth video: a short of a failed Die Hard Christmas ornament -- 2500 views The amount of effort I put into making the sculpture video (both the build and the editing) vs. the short doesn't even begin to compare. And yet the short does 25x the traffic. poo poo's wild. Granted, shorts are a different beast altogether, and my videos are just of things I found interesting to make vs. trying to carve out a specific niche. But I do agree with what TMA said: I doubt there's a conclusive approach anyone can point to.
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If you talk to any successful content creators you'll quickly learn that these are people who are so passionate about what they're doing that they can't imagine NOT doing it. Usually these are people who were already creating a ton of stuff for free. You should really just start making videos as best you can and when you run into something you'd like to do but don't know how, that's when you go do some research. You might start with "adding text to a video" or even "Davinci Resolve Basics" etc. Do not go into this trying to be the next MrBeast, go into this wanting to share your passion about something. Just my 2 cents!
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I, uh, need a tool I can feed pictures into that will spit out a super cheesy slideshow with the absolute least amount of work possible. Extras I'd like but am not married too include it looking lovely and low effort, and being able to use that green day song that people always use for slideshows. An online, in browser, tool would be juicy af. Any ideas?
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Literally A Person posted:I, uh, need a tool I can feed pictures into that will spit out a super cheesy slideshow with the absolute least amount of work possible. Extras I'd like but am not married too include it looking lovely and low effort, and being able to use that green day song that people always use for slideshows. An online, in browser, tool would be juicy af. Make a Google Photos album? They have a built-in slideshow feature. No music support, but you could always just use a media player alongside.
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TooMuchAbstraction posted:Make a Google Photos album? They have a built-in slideshow feature. No music support, but you could always just use a media player alongside. Boom. Duh. And thank you.
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is there even a thread for other social media sites like instagram? I've been having this thing exclusively on desktop insta where if you use anything: browser, desktop app, or different browser (ive tried firefox and edge) it will have this thing where every other instagram account's stories will have every. single. @tag direct you to the wrong one. So if you're looking at @johnny5aces and he tags @sam in a story it will instead pop up @someotherfucker who he happened to tag in 1 out of 100 stories. And every. single. tag will be @someotherfucker i have noticed on firefox you can press spacebar to pause and play stories but when it's doing the redirect you can't do that fwiw. Also when you are getting redirected you can open a new tab on the wrong link. Which would be a great QOL feature for CORRECT story linking but that would require good design from a multibillion dollar app again this never ever happens on phone
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In general I've found the web experience to have lots of bugs and that will stick around for awhile and then new ones pop up. For pausing, can you click he actual pause button on the story? Spacebar isn't the only input.
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I can I mainly brought it up as a tell
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instagram's desktop experience is purposefully poo poo to convince you to migrate to the app
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Ok, I'm losing my damned mind. We used to have a fountain pen thread, and it's seemed to have disappeared. So I'm gonna take this shot- I've got a TWSBI pen, the kind that vacuum loads. And the silicone used to grease the seals has gone entirely missing. It's a tiny bottle, really easy to misplace. where can I get more of this stuff? all the pen resources I've found only sell a thick grease that won't work, and TWSBI doesn't have it on their storefront. I really like this pen and want to keep it in good shape!
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The fountain pen thread is here for ??? reasons. (I don't participate in it, just remembered it was weirdly in the Ask/Tell subforum, as I used it to stalk my Secret Santa victim a couple years back)
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Is there an airbrush thread? I'm being gifted a siphon setup and want to learn a bit about technique.
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Do we have a thread anywhere dedicated to painting with oils, acrylics, etc.?
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The Demilich posted:Do we have a thread anywhere dedicated to painting with oils, acrylics, etc.? Traditional Art Thread
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Decent basic image editing freeware that a dummy like me can use to open a bunch of tiffs & or pdfs to clip chunks out and resize/resample/re-save them as jpegs for official form-filling out purposes? In the back-before times I think I used a relatively popular free editor called uhhh rjpg? Something like that? But these days it’s all an unfathomable mystery
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idiotsavant posted:Decent basic image editing freeware that a dummy like me can use to open a bunch of tiffs & or pdfs to clip chunks out and resize/resample/re-save them as jpegs for official form-filling out purposes? In the back-before times I think I used a relatively popular free editor called uhhh rjpg? Something like that? But these days it’s all an unfathomable mystery I'd say Krita or Gimp
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Thanks, I'll check them out! edit: Krita's perfect, thanks! idiotsavant fucked around with this message at 19:44 on Apr 2, 2024 |
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HenryJLittlefinger posted:Is there an airbrush thread? I'm being gifted a siphon setup and want to learn a bit about technique. Is it like the air brush used in miniatures painting? Because the traditional games sub forum has lots and lots of knowledgeable posting on that kind of airbrushing.
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Is there a 10 minute video on After Effects rendering that anyone here would recommend? I can't ram preview anything which is crazy since this is the raw clip from Premier. I can play the video in VLC but putting it in the After Effects timeline gives me 142-747ms frame render times. Trying to play the clip in After Effects requires it to render. I'm doing something wrong here but can't put my finger on what.
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Hi art folks. I got bit by the bug and suddenly wanted to do some collage. So I got a bunch of old books and stuff, and cut out some pictures. But then I realized these cool old pictures were usable only once. Glue, modge podge, finito. Kind of a waste, right? I remembered I had a light box that i could learn to use. I could assemble the pictures, trace, paint, watercolor, etc. it could be pretty cool. Collage but reusable via tracing and light box. So here is the problem. My cut out source pics are from textbooks and they are printed front and back. Placed on the light box, you can see the text. Hopefully this works:  https://imgur.com/gallery/pkxuAxV there's the link in case See the reverse text on the pieces? Maybe if I tape all my cutouts to a piece of paper and then photocopy it, then I can cut them apart and just use the photocopies with the light box? I have some clear sheets of overhead transparency plastic, so maybe I could tape the pieces on there and do the same? I guess it wouldn't matter with the photostatic, because it would be opaque anyway. 
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I've taped all my collage-ables to some computer paper and I guess what comes next is photocopy and/or scan em in. Maybe if I printed the results in extra black or on super thin paper or a better idea,, it would be better for this collage/ light box setup? It's experiment time 
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I'm contemplating painting my front door, and had the idea to do a dithered gradient, something like this: Two problems: first, how to get the mask made? Presumably there's some service out there where you can send them a black-and-white pattern, and they can laser cut it out of vinyl or something; any suggestions? Second, how do I apply the mask to the door? The door itself looks like this:  It's roughly 80" tall and 36" wide. The surface irregularities seem like they'd make it really tricky to get a mask applied properly, since anything stuck onto the door would be distorted by the variation in depth. Any advice is appreciated, thank you!
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here my advice. Don't do that
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OK, how about some useful advice? If you just want to dunk on my aesthetic choices, then kindly gently caress off. If you have some actual guidance, then go ahead. Also to be clear, the colors in that example gradient aren't the actual colors, I was pretty lazy with grabbing them because that's all poo poo on an uncalibrated screen and doesn't have any bearing on reality.
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cumpantry posted:here my advice. Don't do that The door seems like not the door for this idea, ya?
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TooMuchAbstraction posted:OK, how about some useful advice? If you just want to dunk on my aesthetic choices, then kindly gently caress off. If you have some actual guidance, then go ahead. You could go to a place like Habitat for Humanity restore, find a badass and cheap door that would look great in that pattern.
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Literally A Person posted:You could go to a place like Habitat for Humanity restore, find a badass and cheap door that would look great in that pattern. Yeah, that's a good idea, thank you! Any ideas on getting the stencil made?
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My instinct says vinyl cutter for the stencil but yeah, the door would definitely need to be as featureless as possible to make it not look distorted.
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Vinyl would be good but would get distorted as it wraps around the details. You could project it at night then it would look right straight on. Snowy fucked around with this message at 23:01 on Apr 11, 2024 |
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Call me nuts but that seems like the type of pattern some thought and painters tape could handle.
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Literally A Person posted:Call me nuts but that seems like the type of pattern some thought and painters tape could handle. Yeah but then you wouldn't have 9 pairs of vinyl cyberpunk pasties to put over your nips when you show up to defend yourself at the emergency HoA meeting e: 18 pairs!! VelociBacon fucked around with this message at 00:19 on Apr 12, 2024 |
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VelociBacon posted:Yeah but then you wouldn't have 9 pairs of vinyl cyberpunk pasties to put over your nips when you show up to defend yourself at the emergency HoA meeting  Wisdom
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