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Wednesday, March 31, 2004
Playing With Lightning
For those who are interested, I've added two variants to my button, as you can see above. The blue version is looking a bit weird to me -- there's something wrong with the editing.
But no matter. If you choose to link with the blue version, I can simply replace the file at a later date (thus changing the image on your own page, should you use it).
I may just do totally different designs for each button (while still keeping that lovely fetus pod theme, of course). ~_^
On another note, I'm still wanting to add a few of you to my button collection. Sara, I'm looking at you. Your button doesn't seem to be working for me though. So, I haven't put up the link just yet.
Also, Baron, the button thread on OB is a great idea. I might use that thread to look for people's buttons to put on my own page here. Whether or not people choose to link back is up to them.
And for those who didn't know, the background image to these posts is the "fetus plant" that carries the clones, in the fields from The Matrix. It's kinda hard to see, but it's there if you take a closer look. Mostly, I just wanted a background that provided a bit of light/dark contrast. ^_^
Anyway, my project ended up going relatively well. Today was a weird day though. It just felt...different.
We ended up starting on a program called "Peak 3", which allows you to edit/mix/create music. Our first project is to create three one-minute-long music pieces.
This is really difficult, for two reasons. One, because the sound libraries at school are not only small, but they have a lot of irrelevant sounds. I mean, ten files of children laughing? To try to turn that into music is incredibly difficult. It took me the whole three hour lesson to develop a reasonable drum beat. It's that difficult, especially if you're virtually working from scratch.
Still, I'm liking it. I have always wanted to really get involved in developing electronic music and it's fun to start actually learning how it all works. I have a massive CD here at home, full of hundreds of little sound samples (all music-related, too), which should be great for this type of work.
Unfortunately, I don't have Peak 3 at home. And I can't get it burnt, because I don't use a Mac. Oh well. It's certainly not the best program out there. Sound Forge is better -- that's the one I'd like to own, I think.
Anyway, I'll send this rambly post by calling everyone to get cracking on those myOtaku buttons. I think it's a nice creative project, with that community flavour to it. Yep.
EDIT: Paper Mario 2 is being developed for GameCube. And Mario can apparently turn into a paper aeroplane and fly around! How utterly cool does that sound, eh? IGN says the game will still use the 2D characters on 3D backgrounds. Should be fantastic, when you think about the sharpness they can potentially achieve with sprites on the 'cube. The idea of really fluid 2D characters on gorgeous 3D backdrops has me drooling. ^_^
Now I must go back and play Paper Mario again...
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