Playing Around With Painter: Liza WIP 001.

I’ve been messing around with Corel’s Painter Essential 3.
I wanted to come up with something interesting and “artsy”.  But the more I sketched, the more I became frustrated at how ugly my work came out. It’s not that my Wacom Pen wouldn’t cooperate; it’s my lack of drawing practice.
After several futile attempts, I’ve [...]

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The Surprising Corel Painter Essentials 3

It has started to snow this week. When I woke up early this morning, a relatively thick blanket of snow has already covered much of the road. It’s still not the big snow flakes that I tend to associate with Winter; it was still what’s called “light snow”, fine dusts of frozen rain [...]

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My To Do List (And Other Wish List).

A hectic week just passed. I just wrapped up the last episode of posing work for a Flash series production that I am working on. Now that that’s done, I can now concentrate on doing animation, which I am also doing for that particular Flash series. Boy, do I have some [...]

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Flash CS3 Professional: Initial Impressions.

I’ve just upgraded my copy of Flash Professional 8 to the latest version of the software, which is Flash CS3 Professional. Now, I had to do that because I am moving my computer set-up into an all-Mac configuration. I have an Intel Mac and running Flash Pro 8 on it is a nightmare. [...]

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Upgraded My Mac From Panther to Leopard.

I failed to mention during my post on upgrading to Flash CS3 Professional that I also upgraded my iMac’s operating system to the latest version of Mac OSX, Leopard.
Leopard was released roughly three weeks ago. I waited for the reviews to come out first before deciding on taking the plunge and do an upgrade. [...]

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Upgraded to Flash CS3 Professional.

I’ve upgraded my copy of Flash Professional 8 this morning. I now have Flash CS3 Professional running on my iMac.
It runs so much faster than the previous version. Flash Professional 8 was made when Macs were still running on Power PC processors. It runs on Rosetta on an Intel Mac, so [...]

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The Genius That Is Adam Philipps.

No words, just click the link to watch it:
Watch Waterlollies.
‘Nuff said. Actually, can’t say ’nuff.

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Sweet Upgrade For My iMac.

My regular workstation PC has been unreliable lately. Sometimes when I turn it on, it would not boot up. I could hear the fans working but the screen on my monitor would be all black. This would happen maybe twice, thrice a month.
Everytime I start it up in the morning, I am [...]

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Macross DVD Box Sets: How I Ended Up With Two.

On a previous post, I wrote about my Amazon.com shopping experience. You see, I had this sudden itch to track down the DVD box set of one of my favorite cartoon series of all time, Robotech (otherwise known as Macross).
Macross is an anime television series about a giant alien space ship, transforming [...]

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