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unemployedartist posted:Could I get a recommendation for an online gallery like Deviant Art, but a little more professional? I know that there several people here that use Tumblr and such, and I was hoping to get some feedback about whatever services they use. http://cghub.com/ has a pretty professional gathering. I mean, anyone can register just like anywhere, but the filtering and rating systems seem to do a better job at letting genuinely quality professionals percolate to the most visible places than sites like DeviantArt. Most of my professional artist friends just use Tumblr as a blog and a place to interface with fans than an actual gallery.
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Just to let you know: the link to the PSG Tutorial in the OP is down, but I found a mirror here.
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Fiction D posted:Are there any suggestions for finding royalty free old timey music? I need a piece for the background of my short film. Something that sounds like the music in Bioshock. Perhaps the Internet Archive will have something you can use.
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Music Production: This user on youtube, WaxDat8800, has an incredibly useful set of tutorials for any MV8800 owners out there. Anything from sampling to layering to synth modeling! Oh, and if you have an MPC... Get an MV Instead, they're better?
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unemployedartist posted:Could I get a recommendation for an online gallery like Deviant Art, but a little more professional? I know that there several people here that use Tumblr and such, and I was hoping to get some feedback about whatever services they use. What about Behance? It depends how much more professional you want I guess.
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Is Gnomon worth a subscription for someone who wants to get into a career in concept art/Digital painting, or should I scrape around for free tutorials? Also would anyone wanna split the cost of one if it is?
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UX-focussed, but this is one of the best overviews (by McCann Erickson's chief experience officer) on how a design portfolio should be constructed, and how it should be presented to a reviewer/interviewer: http://www.usabilitycounts.com/2012/06/22/lynn-teo-portfolios-matter-building-the-portfolio-to-win-the-job/. Can't recommend the structure she advocates highly enough.
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If you're obsessed with writing tools like I am, check out Editorially. It's quickly become my favorite web-based text editor. I don't really use the collaborative editing features, but I'm sure they're nice. Basically, it's a Markdown editor for your browser, and the UI reminds me a bit of Byword. Most of my writing is blog posts of less than 2,000 words. A text document might get unwieldy at novel length, but I'm going to give Editorially a try for NaNoWriMo, anyway, just because I love the UI.
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WRITING- Specifically Screenwriting http://writingmoviesforfunandprofit.com I picked this book up on a whim. It's by Thomas Lennon and Ben Garant of Reno 911! / Night At The Museum fame Not only is this book extremely informative it is actually readable and entertaining. If you've ever read a 'how to write for screen' type book you know exactly what I'm talking about. It does a really good job of proving that becoming a professional screenwriter is possible, while not pulling punches in explaining what it means to be a screenwriter. After picking this book up I went from outline to finished script in 3 months. I just started seeking representation this week and am working on a second two more spec scripts in the meantime. The short and skinny is these guys tell you exactly what you need, and don't shill any bullshit. I wouldn't be at this point without this book. Worth the money and then some.
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ANIMATION/MOTION GRAPHICS http://www.actionscriptmoron.com/ A nice set of walkthroughs for weathering the choppy seas of ActionScript.
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If anyone uses ArtRage, I made a palette consisting of the 200 markers Prismacolor currently offers. (I figure it beats dropping bank on the physical ones for us beginners.) Just go to the Samples window, click the list icon, then "Add Samples → Load From Disk…" Prismacolor Markers Prismacolor Pastels CloseFriend fucked around with this message at 08:43 on Dec 26, 2013 |
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Anyone know a good site for non-latin alphabets? Maybe where I can download them as a pdf? Or maybe there's a good book covering everything from chinese to hebrew to whatever.
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I don't know if you're asking about calligraphy or what, but omniglot.com has pretty much everything as far as writing system reference.
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neonnoodle posted:I don't know if you're asking about calligraphy or what, but omniglot.com has pretty much everything as far as writing system reference. I'm currently getting into graffiti, and thought that writing foreign letters makes for good practice. That site looks really great! Thanks a lot.
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I didn't see it on the front page, but http://www.creativelive.com is a great resource for free classes in photography, design, and buisness related activities. They currently have 5 online channels that run nonstop educational material 24/7. They have live classes which you can also watch for free. You can buy the class to watch at anytime and I guess they throw in a few extras as well.
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WRITING http://www.hemingwayapp.com/ I haven't seen this posted anywhere, and I'd like to bring it to the thread's attention. Hemingway is a lightweight editing tool designed to pick out long, unwieldy sentences. I like it, even though it tends to tear actual Hemingway apart. It's basically a roided out version of Editminion, with a much simpler interface. I use it to point out problematic places in the manuscript itself. It helps me to pinpoint where sentences meander off into the distance and need to be reigned in. loving commas are going to be my crutch for life.   That said, does anyone know of anything that boosts productivity? I remember reading about a limiter for webpages that tracks how long you've been on them and then denies access until you finish certain tasks, like a net nanny program. Does anyone have any suggestions? It's really hard to describe what the drat thing did. It restricted access to these sites, which you specified, and then to disable it you had to click through a bunch of passive aggressive pop ups. You could set it to run for certain periods a day, like from 9-12, and it would do that. I really wish I could remember what it was called. Edit: I actually found what I was looking for! Stayfocusd is the app I was referring to, and it works in chrome. You have an allotted amount of time on "time waster" websites, like SA, Reddit, Twitter, Facebook. After that, it slaps you into a blank page that admonishes you that you should be working. I am going to try it out now! Lywinis fucked around with this message at 12:12 on Mar 2, 2014 |
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Silvyfox posted:WRITING Just used this and it's pretty handy. While you don't have to always trust its results, it's good for allowing you to make a conscious decision about whether you need to have that adjective there, or use passive voice here, or a long sentence there. Also according to another TDer I shared it with on the Thunderdome IRC, it thinks "lilly" is an adjective, so it's not infallible! It is helpful though and I got some edits for this week's submission out of it.
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WRITING (advice) The Turkey City Lexicon: a list of bad writing habits from a famous sci-fi writing workshop of the late 70s. This list is the origin of the term "said-bookism". The King's English, by the Fowler Brothers (1908). The book that revolutionised the English language, driving out all the flowery Victorian guff and replacing it with good, honest, straightforward writing. Some parts (Americanisms!  ) are outdated, but most is still quite relevant.
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I hope I didn't just miss it somewhere, but is there any source that keeps track of writing contests by any chance? I feel like there has to be a better system than typing "writing contests" into google and wading through all the ones with closed submissions / "coming soon!" pages / no prizes or publication opportunities, etc., but maybe that's just wishful thinking.
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Not sure if this is the best place for this kind of thing but didn't really see anywhere else that fits. If it's in the wrong thread let me know and I will move it accordingly. Some friends and I are starting an experimental writing blog where we would post unfinished written works that people have abandoned. Called Non Finito Magazine (http://nonfinitomagazine.tumblr.com/) it would feature short written works people liked but just couldn't quite finish, little chunks of stories that never became anything solid, artistic works that couldn't quite come together, etc. The idea is that even if unfinished in the traditional "beginning-middle-end" sense, these ideas should be shared and enjoyed. If this becomes decently popular as a concept, we may branch out into small printed editions or something similar, but for now we are just trying out the idea. If you would like to submit or know people who would, please pass the word along! Thanks! Smam fucked around with this message at 22:53 on May 8, 2019 |
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http://drawcrowd.com/ is a new website that might be worth checking out for inspiration and for artists trying to get their name out there. Developed by concept artist Feng Zhu.
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CGHub has been suddenly shut down, and won't be coming back.
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The go-to place for references for cartooning, animation and character design! http://www.pinterest.com/characterdesigh/
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Been using this software for the past few days - FocusWriter. It's a simple, 'distraction-free' text editor with multiple background themes. You can set writing goals on it, get word counts, and just customize the visual appearance of your writing. You can have multiple pieces of writing open in multiple tabs at once, and even better, it has typewriting sounds, so every key you press (minus the backspace key) has the sound of a key being pressed on a typewriter. It's a fun program to use and I've been using it exclusively for my fiction writing so far. Just thought I'd suggest it 
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Anyone here use Scrivener? It's slowly becoming the only program I use to plan and write stories.
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Sazabi_Master posted:Anyone here use Scrivener? It's slowly becoming the only program I use to plan and write stories. I do, and love it. It's not always intuitive, but I've found it's a great program for organizing stories. I tend to like to write in small bits and scenes, so I love that I can easily rearrange them, make comments, and trash them without deleting them. For me, it was totally worth the price.
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Echoing the above poster. It is absolutely worth the price. If you wait until November, they tend to offer discounts for the product, ranging from 20% - 50% depending on your participation in NanoWrimo.
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I'm in the market for newer, better font management software. Anyone have any suggestions, cautionary tales, etc.? Extensis Suitcase has burned me in the past and my experiences with Universal Type Client have been spotty at best.
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Ferrule posted:I'm in the market for newer, better font management software. I like FontExplorer X, but really wish you had the option to sync your library between computers (i.e. using Dropbox).
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pipes! posted:I like FontExplorer X, but really wish you had the option to sync your library between computers (i.e. using Dropbox). I've tried multiple font managers and I agree with the above.
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Ever since CGHub went all weird I've been using https://www.artstation.com/ It's still in beta right now but its good for a quick portfolio and it has nice inspiration board layout.
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Misc. These are some great tumblrs full of resources and are really organised. Super perfect for quick anatomy doodles or in-depth studies. http://artist-refs.tumblr.com/ http://art-and-sterf.tumblr.com/
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Drawing/Digital Recently, to promote his school-ism stuff, Bobby Chiu has been doing some daily drawing exercise demos, to help people sharpen up their drawing skills. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qDQLct6TJdI He has a bunch of them! He also includes worksheets/templates so you can draw along too. That, and he has an hour long video so you can see how he works, and he talks through them.
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WRITING This seems like the best place to post this. I made an add-on for Google Docs that converts formatting to forum BBcode tags so you can copy/paste from docs to forums without having to redo formatting by hand. Mostly I did it because it let me post Thunderdome crits more easily, but hopefully other people might find it useful when posting stories or parts for crit. It got approved yesterday, and you can find it in the Chrome App store for some reason. You don't actually need Chrome to use it, it installs server-side in your Google account. Any bugs/requests, do let me know
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Can anybody vouch for Scrivener? I want to start writing outlines that are more sophisticated than a big word-tangle in a Microsoft Word document. It looks really enticing and I'd like to give it a try, but I'd feel better hearing about it from someone who's used it first. Is it as good as it looks? Edit:  I should read more carefully and not post pre-coffee any more.yoyomama posted:I do, and love it. It's not always intuitive, but I've found it's a great program for organizing stories. I tend to like to write in small bits and scenes, so I love that I can easily rearrange them, make comments, and trash them without deleting them. For me, it was totally worth the price. Transmogrifier posted:Echoing the above poster. It is absolutely worth the price. If you wait until November, they tend to offer discounts for the product, ranging from 20% - 50% depending on your participation in NanoWrimo. Owl at Home fucked around with this message at 16:35 on Jun 20, 2015 |
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Speaking of writing apps, I absolutely love Ulysses. I'm sure Scrivener is great and all, but I'm turned off by all the buttons and switches. I just want to write, but I need to be able to organize my writing better than I can in Word or Google Docs or a typical text editor like Byword.
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Contribution: Writing Movies For This is far and away one of the most entertaining 'How To Be A Professional' books I have read, and while it jokes around about what it is that doesn't devalue the information within it. It is also brutally honest at points, and the sharp attitude helped me ditch the 'starving artist' mindset and realize that things aren't going to happen if I don't actually work and fail and improve. I think most importantly is it's written by Thomas Lennon and Ben Garant who are: A. Active writers in Hollywood - They are currently doing the things they are showing you. B. Funny and Informative - You don't get bored by the information - which there is a lot of. C. Brutally Honest, and also Self Critical The point is that if you want to work as a screenwriter you have to be willing to work for it. "[s posted:Fun And[/s]Profit"] While the subject matter is screenwriting it doesn't dwell on the boring parts that you should know if you plan on being a working writer. All the standard things like margins/font/size/indents/etc vary by studio and you can look them up pretty much anywhere anywhere. It doesn't dwell on the basics, just runs a quick refresher course. Fun and Profit is basically what you do after you come up with an idea/pitch/first draft. The goodreads page for it has a lot of reviews that sum it up better than I do. quote:What I learned from this book: Chrome Store/Books has a pretty big chunk of it available online. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3SDG4Z2vkd8 Meeple posted:WRITING That is freaking awesome. SkaAndScreenplays fucked around with this message at 14:27 on Jul 4, 2015 |
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Is there a thread I'm not seeing or are there any writers in here who have written about their own family members in relation to war (Vietnam specifically)? I am tentatively preparing to write my dad's experiences in Vietnam and was hoping someone could offer advice if they've done something similar. I've checked out interviews online and gotten a fairly solid idea of what I want to ask and how to structure it, but I'm sure there's things I haven't thought of that might be important or helpful. (I wasn't sure if this would go in the questions thread or this one since I'm sort of looking for resources but also asking a question so if I'm wrong I'm sorry!)
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