My friend Tom has just started a very useful site focused on home recording called Recording Dope. It's got tons of extremely useful information as well as a free podcast. Tom is an extremely experienced producer and engineer who lends his particular wit and wisdom to problems that plague even the most seasoned recording artists. Check it out!
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- Here are some stills from the animatic of my current project. The anatomy needs some work. It's my first effort in color. This project is being done start to finish in Mirage (except for the editing, which will be in Final Cut). Not only is Mirage lovely to work with-- perfectly aping pencils, pastels, watercolor, ink-- it's also really useful to control workfolw in all the processes of making a movie.
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What is a graticule?
- graticule \Grat"i*cule\, n. [F. See Graticulation.] A design or draught which has been divided into squares, in order to reproduce it in other dimensions. A graticule is often mistakenly called a "field guide" by professionals and amateurs alike (and certainly a graticule has a field guide printed on it), but it is itself the plastic sheet laid over a drawing to determine precise layout. I chose this name because I would like this journal to serve as a measurement for myself as I grow as an animator.
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- Sony DCRVX2100 Mini DV CamcorderI use this for serious video stuff because it's huge. It sits well on a tripod or even a shoulder, is great in low-light and has superlative image quality. FOr quick captures I generally use a crummy Wal-Mart JVC or even the quicktime capture on my little Minolta.
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- TubeMP Mic PreampProbably the best 80 bucks I spent. This versitile unit makes even poor mic's sound pretty good. Has a great guage and some extras.
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- Wacom Intuos 3
- Emachines 5305 laptop
- Mac G5 dual 1.8 with 4GB RAM
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I run a forum for members of Iowa's statewide community. We discuss Sports, Politics, News and even other random internet goodies. Anyway I was wondering if you were interested in possibly exchanging a link with my message board:
http://www.515forums.com/
515 Forums
Anyway in exchange for this I would either, allow you to post your own link to your blog in this subforum:
http://515forums.com/phpBB3/viewforum.php?f=29
or I could go ahead and do so myself if you don't want to deal with registration.
If you were to post it though, you could go ahead and see what sort of feedback the users of my site give you and give a description of the blog in your own words. If not, just let me know and I'll list it for you.
Right now, I am working to market my forum to as many Iowa residents to as much as possible and obviously quality back links help with page rank. Since we share the same targeted audience I think this could be mutually beneficial to both of us.
Even if you reject my offer of an exchange you are free to post your link anyway.
If you have any questions, let me know.
Thanks
Mark B
veracity024@yahoo.com
Johnston, IA
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Posted by: Mark B | Saturday, January 26, 2008 at 03:21 PM
Ahh nice site! Thanks for sharing that!
Posted by: furiousball | Tuesday, June 12, 2007 at 10:28 AM