Branko V. posted an article on Design with Character - Nov 9, 2009, 4:41 am
As of few days ago, this blog has moved to a new one on Tumblr. I also have a few more new topics, so the blog is not as focused as before (sorry about that, but I got kind of tired of maintaining myr...
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Branko V. posted an article on Hypnotic Blog - Nov 6, 2009, 2:35 am
Diversity and variety. Everybody loves them, and even those who don't are sometimes forced to do so. However, there is a problem. Our culture (the Western culture) is not very diversity-friendly. ...
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Branko V. posted an article on Design with Character - Nov 5, 2009, 5:33 pm
The project is right on track. Got out of depression that kept me from continuing my work on the Dream Rider story. The first steps indeed look much better than the first one. I'm very close to w...
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Branko V. posted an article on Design with Character - Nov 5, 2009, 2:55 pm
I was, again, blaming my dissatisfaction with my paintings on software. Of course, MyPaint is an awesome piece of software for digital painters, and it's hardly MyPaint's blame that I'm n...
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Branko V. posted an article on Hypnotic Blog - Nov 4, 2009, 7:54 am
So you want to write some clever copy for a website that asks users to interact with a piece of software it hosts. They have this cool gadget that you can stick right onto your browser and make it sta...
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Branko V. posted an article on Design with Character - Nov 2, 2009, 4:42 pm
The Dream painting I created a few days ago is not letting me go. Today I started working on another piece, precisely because of this. My intention is to do a whole series and preferably in a format t...
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Branko V. posted an article on Design with Character - Nov 2, 2009, 2:42 pm
We all know and love David Revoy's work. And even if you don't know him, he's still a great artist. Maybe you cannot steal his talents, but you can sure steal his tools. Especially when th...
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Branko V. posted an article on Design with Character - Nov 2, 2009, 9:16 am
Yes, there is a full tutorial on Character modeling and rigging from start to finish on Blender Foundation's website. But it's textual. And frankly, too thorough for my taste. There is a lot o...
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Branko V. posted an article on Design with Character - Nov 2, 2009, 8:46 am
Project Durian, Blender Foundation's latest project, now has a new name, Sintel. After a long wait, the project has finally released the work-in-progress material for the public to see. It was wel...
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Branko V. posted an article on Design with Character - Oct 31, 2009, 5:41 pm
Sometimes mood carries you away from you work and into the realm of art. You loose control and let the vibes carry you around until you arrive at something you've never planned. In the end, it can...
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Branko V. posted an article on Design with Character - Oct 30, 2009, 7:24 pm
It's friday, right? Long week at work is over. You feel stressed out, and you want to do something radical to get your mind off that shit. Maybe a beer at the pub? Watch a game? Anyway, you know t...
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Branko V. posted an article on Design with Character - Oct 29, 2009, 6:07 pm
Today was a slow day. You know one of those days when you feel more obliged to do things than really driven to do them... I wanted to make a tutorial on leather gloves I drew last time, but decided my...
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Branko V. posted an article on Hypnotic Blog - Oct 29, 2009, 5:10 am
Hypnosis Studio founder, Branko Vukelić, is now into character design. Not just the writing, but the whole package. He is currently developing a character loosely based on his own novel, Switch. Yo...
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Branko V. posted an article on Design with Character - Oct 28, 2009, 5:57 pm
Finally nailed the left hand. The black leather glove was particularly interesting. I wanted to show the wear & tear on the glove, and I think it's not looking bad at all. The position of the hand...
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Branko V. posted an article on Design with Character - Oct 28, 2009, 11:06 am
Since by now I have a pretty good idea of what I want to do with the background, I removed the roughs from the previous iteration. This time I have a complete sketch of the feet (actually, the sketch ...
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Branko V. posted an article on Design with Character - Oct 27, 2009, 8:45 pm
I've made some roughs of the background, and sketched the feet and arms details. Currently, I'm working on the character's left arm. The black protective clothing is coming along nicely. ...
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Branko V. posted an article on Design with Character - Oct 27, 2009, 6:53 am
I've been looking at various speed-painting videos on YouTube. Here's my selection.
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Branko V. posted an article on Design with Character - Oct 27, 2009, 6:28 am
I've only heard about this before, but there actually is a customized Gimp used by painters. Personally, I will definitely keep MyPaint as my main tool. I do jump into Gimp from time to time to do...
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Branko V. posted an article on Design with Character - Oct 27, 2009, 4:24 am
I'm an action-first-theory-later type. I like to try and do whatever I can first, and then think about what I did later. So, after two days of intensive digital painting, I'm ready to read som...
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Branko V. posted an article on Design with Character - Oct 26, 2009, 5:50 pm
I've worked on the torso of the Kopa rebel today. On the body armor, to be more precise. Here are the results of today's work. I had some trouble getting the camouflage pattern right. Since I...
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Branko V. posted an article on Hypnotic Blog - Oct 22, 2009, 2:59 am
2D Boy, an independent game studio from San Francisco celebrated it's first aniversary last week with a very interesting offer: they sold World of Goo game at pay-what-you-want price. It was a gre...
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Branko V. posted an article on Hypnotic Blog - Oct 16, 2009, 3:05 pm
It's weird, and I haven't seen it discussed on the Net, or real-life results in form of creative solutions... But have you noticed how many people actually read while going number two? Some ha...
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Branko V. posted an article on Hypnotic Blog - Oct 1, 2009, 9:49 am
Although copy on Lovci na pljeku Internet show website might appear optimized in any particular way, we have carefully interwoven the keywords we are after throughout the site. It's a balance betw...
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Branko V. posted an article on Hypnotic Blog - Sep 22, 2009, 5:28 pm
Up to a few days ago, I've always believed web content creation meant fancy Flash games. I don't know why I've got that impression, but if you think about it, Web is about content. Sure, t...
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Branko V. posted an article on Hypnotic Blog - Sep 19, 2009, 7:01 am
There are things in our society that definitely need to stop. Of course, when it comes to changing the old ways, opinions are as numerous as individuals. Some consider smoking a bad thing that can kil...
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Branko V. posted an article on Hypnotic Blog - Sep 18, 2009, 11:34 am
As a narcissistically depraved father, I have often felt fits of great rage and anxiety when my baby cried. Although I have learned to control it, I am positive my inability to communicate with my chi...
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Branko V. posted an article on Hypnotic Blog - Sep 16, 2009, 3:35 am
Writing about the Pride parade (yes, I have personal motives, although I am not a homosexual myself) lead me to a few interesting links on the Web, so I would like to share one with you today. Rictor...
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Branko V. posted an article on Hypnotic Blog - Sep 15, 2009, 9:44 am
In all the hetero versus homo discussions on Internet around the Pride parade, an important issue is being obscured. The whole homosexuality issue has brought about massive rage in a large number of S...
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Branko V. posted an article on Hypnotic Blog - Sep 14, 2009, 5:10 pm
Last time I blogged about Pride parade promotional video. Reading realted comments led me to a conclusion that lots of people still confuse sex and sexuality. The term sex denotes the actual act of in...
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Branko V. posted an article on Hypnotic Blog - Sep 13, 2009, 5:27 pm
The Belgrade Pride parade 2009 promotional video has a very simple copy. They did not rely so much on copy as much as the names of the guest speakers, Serbian celebrities. The copy says: I am (name o...
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Branko V. posted an article on Hypnotic Blog - Sep 13, 2009, 3:32 pm
As usual, I'm taking my daughter to her mom on sunday. It's a 25-minute tram ride to down-town Belgrade. The trams are very old and clunky, and extremely noisy. I can understand noise in Japan...
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Branko V. posted an article on Hypnotic Blog - Sep 13, 2009, 9:37 am
I've walked around the city today to see if I can snap some good images of what I wrote about on this blog. Sure enough there were graffiti everywhere. After just a couple of hours of poking aroun...
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Branko V. posted an article on Hypnotic Blog - Sep 13, 2009, 5:47 am
Two days ago, I was standing in front of the Belgrade University's main building, right across the Students' park in down-town Belgrade. It was a sunny day. Perfectly normal day. Students were...
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Branko V. posted an article on Hypnotic Blog - Sep 13, 2009, 5:19 am
It's been a while since the October revolution, October 2000, when people rose against the Milošević regime and overthrew it in a spectacular display of revolt. They thought the old times were o...
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Branko V. posted an article on Hypnotic Blog - Sep 13, 2009, 3:39 am
Recently, I've discovered Google Apps, a service from Google that enables small businesses to integrate its services under a single custom domain (like hypnosis-studio.com). This is a perfect way ...
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Branko V. posted an article on sudo logic - Aug 17, 2009, 3:09 am
Another project is announced on Blender homepage. The open-content movie called Durian. As with other projects, like Apricot (Yo! Frankie), Peach (Big Buck Bunny), and Orange (Elephants Dream), the g...
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Branko V. posted an article on sudo logic - Aug 4, 2009, 2:09 am
These days I've been all existential. I haven't done much work... couldn't. All I have been doing is think about various issues in life, about me, what I've done so far. Ever since I&...
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Branko V. posted an article on sudo logic - Jul 31, 2009, 7:48 am
When World Wide Web was first conceived by scientists, it was meant to be a happy place. An innocent, pure, elevated, nirvana of information and universal access. Fast forward to 2009, people are talk...
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Branko V. posted an article on sudo logic - Jul 29, 2009, 11:58 am
I have seen a few websites recently that try to make a few extra bucks off unsuspecting users. These (well, scam is a strong word, but) shady sites employ various kinds of little white lies to try and...
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Branko V. posted an article on sudo logic - Jul 21, 2009, 1:04 pm
So, we're just a few years into the 21st century... merely a decade to be precise. Yet, there are already signs of what nutrition and food industry might look like in the future. Imagine commutin...
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Branko V. posted an article on sudo logic - Jul 17, 2009, 3:13 pm
Python unittest framework is great. It has a simple API, and that's cool, because writing tests should be as easy as possible. However, complex code might benefit from a slightly more complex tool...
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Branko V. posted an article on sudo logic - Jul 1, 2009, 3:31 am
So it's bad enough I did not get the advertised SSH access for my Bluehost account. And that's plenty bad, because that was one of the deciding features when I picked BH up. Now their presiden...
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Branko V. posted an article on sudo logic - Jun 21, 2009, 5:54 pm
[...] I really want to look into Cheetah -- the example I saw on web.py looks "right". (web.py itself OTOH gets an "F", for undocumented code with too much magic behavior. upvars(), bah.) So that'...
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Branko V. posted an article on sudo logic - Jun 7, 2009, 5:57 pm
Django templating language was designed to not be bound to any particular format (unlike some templating languages which are bound to, say, XML). This gives developers a powerful tool to create any ki...
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Branko V. posted an article on sudo logic - Jun 6, 2009, 4:29 pm
When you use Django's forms framework, handling POST requests and AJAX can get a bit messy. Thanks to my mentor, Dusty, I got a clean code to deal with this issue. First some background. I have a...
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