Odd comic ideas

Ever since Starbucks entered the Indian market, i find myself being drawn to the siren cups every time I'm in the vicinity of one or I'm feeling a little fancy.

It really doesn't taste awesome, or maybe I'm not good at coffee. It'll always be a mystery because the whole world seems to have good things to say about Starbucks.

I'm not sure why we're all drawn to it. The shortage of money due to the pocket heavy coffee drinks left me feeling like there was a fault in our (mine perhaps?) "star" bucks... or maybe it's just me.

The comic was a result of me pondering over the few morsels of money left in my wallet and the need to go grab that mocha frappuchino.

GIF day

jiggy cookie

Trying to keep up with my GIF inputs on this blog. Work takes up so much time that it becomes impossible to be able to complete one per day!
I feel this inability to work on something everyday gives me more motivation to actually do something whenever i get the time.

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GIF scenes

Keeping in mind my last post, this one is basically skimming on the surface of the '14 days leading upto 100 days ' idea.

Work has gotten busy in the good sense so creating GIFs on the side does certainly seem rather daunting as compared to my situation about a month ago.

Nonetheless, today's GIF is one i've stalled for a while now, constantly deleting keyframes because of confusion randomly sprouting due to the increasing workload. But it's finally done and i'm happy about it.

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Contemplating a 100 day thing

It so happens that today was one of those days where i end up discovering something which'll probably have me hooked for a while. Until i fail at it miserably or it reaches a sense of saturation.

This discovery happens to be something so insignificant that i can't believe i did not try it myself!
I'll cut to the meaty part, so it's basically using illustrator to create a character whose attributes are sectioned into layers. Now importing this project file into After Effects and manipulating the layers to create a desirable movement.

You can find the video i referenced here! colourful language has been used... ALOT!

dance away little watermelon!

Now coming to the contemplating part, there have been the hashtags going about regarding a 100 day challenge or so and i'm not sure if i should do it.
Perhaps start with 14 days and move up? Step by step might seem less daunting.

Lets see how the days progress!

The mandatory AE post

Running low on Mt. Mograph, with a heavy heart i started looking for other tutorials.

I found myself able to throw sentimental and comfort value aside while i discovered a treasure chest of wonderful tutorials!

Today i tried one from Video Co-Pilot! I find that the more i delve into the software, it give me enough reasons to keep digging for more.

I've honestly never had this much fun in just the act of learning something, the last i can remember is when i was adamantly learning photoshop while in 10th grade.

enjoy!

My output!
Find the tutorial here!

Summit 38

The weekend which passed was Comic Con Bangalore weekend for me and possibly one of the better weekends i've had since coming here. In all the rush, updating obviously did not take place and neither did rendering the summit happen as planned.

I'll keep this post limited to just the summit as the weekend definitely needs better coverage!


Speaking of the summit, personally it was one of the harder ones, or maybe confusing ones because i did lose track at many points which led to me writing down after effect tips in my small notebook.
I keep going back to the notebook when i fear that i've forgotten what i learnt.

The output i managed isn't exactly (there's a big jump right there when the flap unfolds) as smooth towards the end fold as was shown in the tutorial but i'll leave that for another day.

Summit 38

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Late night explorations- finished!

Long overdue! I've finally managed to finish of my experiment with the Japanese crochet charts!

Definitely not one of my favourite pieces, but a very dear one mainly because i actually managed to pull through the whole pattern and learnt how to read the crochet chart as well.

would you look at the trees! ' maaaooow'

I've already started a ginger version  of the cat using the same 2.5mm hook which i used for this one. And in other news, i found and ordered 'Ami Ami Dogs- seriously cute crochet by Mitsuki Hoshi'. i know there are a gazillion pages which are offering the PDF as a free download but at the end of the day, i just wanted to give back to this craft which has had me enamored for so very long! And honestly, i'm a sucker for books and i might just have a problem as far as accumulating books are concerned ;)

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