The Useful Thread
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- grafician-1
- Doesn't {Just Listen} result in you standing there mute and dumb like some weirdo?Nairn
- :|Salarrue
- How's it Hangin?capn_ron
- What's the Haps?dbloc
- "excuse me, your balls are showing"futurefood
- "Do you keep uncooked meat in your sock drawer?"mort_
- "Do you have a moment to talk about our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ?"Krassy
- Which way to the beach?capn_ron
- "You're making it move."cannonball1978
- Salarrue3
A really simple animation drawing tool online
It has onion skin so makes it really fast to make anims.
https://brush.ninja/
From Pango post in the gif animation thread
- PhanLo8
Free preset for After Effects
https://www.obispost.com/fleko
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FLEKO is a free preset for After Effects that allows you to stretch pixels and distort them geometrically. Create perfect loops, unique abstract patterns and keyframe-less animations.
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- PhanLo13
Here's another little animation tool for MAC called LIZARD LADDER made by https://twitter.com/TedWiggin
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http://www.tedwiggin.com/LizardL…
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It does magic in-betweens between drawings and creates little loops. Demo vid below
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Some daft shit I made:
- cool!milfhunter
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- <3sea_sea
- That head mutation reminded me of the failure of Flash shape hints for shape tweens.CyBrainX
- @cybrainx yeah me too! I quite like it for that reason. To get the text to tween so well I had to draw it from the same origin each timePhanLo
- Salarrue2
Effective Color Contrast and Making Text Legible
The right choice of color, contrast, text size, or font can make all the difference in the world to a person with vision loss. Knowing how to make the best choices can increase the value and effectiveness of materials created for people with vision loss and color deficiencies.
- utopian4
Fontshare is a free fonts service. There are some really nice font families here.
- monNom2
If you like a big wacom, and you also using keyboard shortcuts, the ergonomics kind of suck. You end up twisted and reaching with one arm to control your keyboard, and it's hard to work all day like that. My neck and shoulders were always giving me problems from drawing in that posture.
A Cintiq is an (expensive) option, but you are always a bit too close (IMO), your arm/hand obscures part of your work, and keyboard placement is still an issue. For me, I could never feel as fast and fluid drawing on a screen and tapping on tools with my pen. A better position is having the wacom just below your monitor and tilted at an angle like a drafting board.
To achieve that, get yourself one of these "Innovative 7000" heavy duty monitor arms and clip it to the side/front of your desk. This one is nice because it will place the pivot right at desk height, so your wacom is perfectly positioned below your monitor, and not too high.
Screw a piece of plywood to the vesa plate of the monitor arm (sized a little larger than your wacom), then get some adhesive backed velcro to stick the wacom to the plywood. For the keyboard, a small wireless keyboard like you use for a media-server can be stuck up in the top-corner with velcro, and possibly a foam or wood block to get the level right. It's good to have the keyboard sit over the bezel a bit in order to keep the reach low.
I've been using this setup for about 3 years now and it's been a total game changer. No more stress in my neck and shoulders, and I can very easily rotate the wacom into position when i want to use the pen, or away immediately when I'm done with it, and I never need to move stuff off my desk to do it.
- Here's a slightly less janky solution
http://artdesigncore…monNom - This is great!
*steals idea, CNC cuts a load of melamine covered MDF with VESA mounts and velcro*
Seriously, this seems sellable.Nairn - Etsy shop incoming.monNom
- How can you work so close to your monitors?!grafician
- You can adjust depth (and tilt) with this. Wacom is usually 8-10" forward from monitor and I have monitors at arms length with fingers outstretched.monNom
- There's a keyboard tray on this desk to that might be throwing you off.monNom
- just use an iPad while sat on the sofa.shapesalad
- Nice man. Like a DIY 24" Cintiq stand. I've been tinkering with the idea of cutting out my desk front for something similar.fyoucher1
- Here's a slightly less janky solution
- nb-1
- nb3
- grafician1
Free Photoshop in the browser
- A cool thing about this is it's made by just one dude.Nairn
- +1 :-)PhanLo
- that's impressive.fadein11
- coolFax_Benson
- Fax_Benson0
Raise a Freedom of Information Request or search 700k previous requests. (UK only)
- grafician4
"Open source, experimental, and tiny tools roundup"
- that looks loaded.. but is a horrible interface.Nairn
- ok, this is a lot of fun
https://msurguy.gith…Nairn - yes looks horrible but nice tools!renderedred
- the UI is...odd - indeed, but the links are super usefulgrafician
- grafician-2
Lots of examples of Readymag websites, for inspiration:
- Nairn4
"Pattern Generator
Use this tool to create unique, seamless, royalty-free patterns."
- sted0
A podcast where folks talk about running small & large web apps in production. Topics include tech stacks, lessons learned and DevOps / deployment tips.
- monNom5
I'll just leave this right here
- and It took him 25 years to explain how to do it.utopian
- cool effectmicrokorg
- Amazing but as complicated as pangos. Noodles recipe_niko
- Kinda neat. I'l try it once and never ever use it again. Thanks Mogadon Photoshop Guy!face_melter
- epson, gloss paper, water spritzer... plus logo you'd like to "bleed" some peeps like to print on the back off the gloss paper b4 spritzing.jonny_quest_lives
- i find the fun part is mixing it up a bit... you're in the zone when you have 10 or more prints to pick from...jonny_quest_lives
- Wtf, Pango, do you have a noodle recipe?Ianbolton
- The whole channel is amazing. Great audio, too.SimonFFM
- utopian6
- Qualatex Balloon Networkkingsteven
- the-future.jpgdbloc
- THUNDER!sted
- This is what happens to my wee-wee after a really cold shower.utopian
- content is a super simple gradient background?Bennn
- https://trekhleb.dev…
nah it works with things like watersted - I’ve been using reszr for this for years ago. Lol just checked it used flash. But it looked the sameerr
- https://i.imgur.com/…drgs
- i went through his other projects, impressive!renderedred
- Blasphemy!fyoucher1
- Nairn4
- a few gems in here, thanks.fadein11
- i read his blog posts, this guy has tons of great links and tools he built.renderedred
- from his blog: https://www.pxfuel.c…renderedred
- also: https://tablericons.…renderedred
