Tempest - W.I.P.The day started innocently enough, clear skies, calm seas and winds. No one would know that this day would change history. Graan, the last of the master sorcerers, hurried frantically through the fields that edged the village he called home. He was dirty and tired from searching the mountains that rimmed the region for his wife, Shana. She had gone missing a week prior and he knew she sometimes went to her parent’s shack in the mountains when she was upset.Upon entering the village, he was greeted by its elder, a younger man who had no name. “Master Graan, we have news of Shana” he said, the sadness barely hidden in his voice
Dear Yes on Prop 8 SupportersDear Yes on 8 supporters,Hey there. I’m going to go out on a limb here that most of you are feeling pretty proud of yourselves right now, patting each other on the back for your near victory of 3%. It must feel good to win huh? God knows I would be proud too if I woke up to find that my vote had such an impact on thousands upon thousands of people. I must say, I’d be pretty elated over the defeat of the US’s strides for separation of church and state, the victory over the very things our fore fathers fought and died for –the things our country was founded on, Yes, I have to say, I’d be pretty enthralled with myself
Character Design: An introductionArvalis-2012 by `arvalisWhat does 'Character Design' mean?The character design is the process which comes after the characterisation and consists in defining the character through his/her physical appearance. We need to consider a character as a little fictional creature, human or not, that aims to please its creator and the public as well.While the basic characterization of this fictional creature (his tastes, his fears, his behaviors) may take a little mental effort, as it is a sort of list of emotions, facts and feelings that come and go in the life of a character, the process of visual realization of this creature may not be as simple. That's why many writers and characters creators prefer to rely on experienced hands.Also many of the mental aspects of the character are not possible to gain by using 'static' visual medium. For 'static' I mean all the illustrations and drawings unable to tell a
PE: 10 tips and tricks not very known about PS10 useful and not very known Photoshop tricks1. Saving your .psd with all layers hidden makes a smaller file compared to saving it with all layers visible.2. You can use the Crop Tool to quickly increase the canvas size of an image by holding down Ctrl + Alt whilst dragging the Crop Tool outside the current canvas.3. If you want to see only one of your layers at a time, hold down Alt whilst clicking the eye icon of the layer. (do it again to show all layers again)4. Holding down Alt while in a dialog box turns the Cancel button into a Reset button, so you can reset the values back to default.5. If you want to just quickly check a very heavy .psd file, you can hold down Shift + Alt while clicking the Open button. This way Photoshop will open a flattened version of the file.6. You can change the gray background that surrounds your image with the Paint Bucket Tool, just hold down Shift and make click on the background.7. Not a very unknown tip, but if y
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