Another BIG Update

Whoa, it's been a little bit since I last updated, sorry about that. I've been kinda working on homework and stuff....yeah schoolwork is annoying, but at least i'm getting paid for it. Oh wait a minute...

...but I blew chunks this morning and now I get home so I can work on all this crap now!!!!

PIVOT------------------------------------------------------------------

...so, I factored in what kind of sounds I had to get for the new animation. Thankfully I won't need to buy any songs from iTunes...which I have to admit, as helpful as it is, it is annoying....just having to pay a buck for a song that i'll only use 5 seconds of anyway. For a dollar i'd rather have a Snickers bar and actually eat the whole thing, dangit!!!!

anyway, I also found that most of my sounds won't come from online, either. Almost everything will be recorded live or it'll come from videos that i'll have to convert from online. *sigh* it'll be worth the effort, though.

I'll get a microphone from my friend and then I can start on it yay.

BLENDER---------------------------------------------------------------

MY BOOK CAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAMMMMMMMMME!!!!!!!!!!!!

My "Blender For Dummies" book!!!!

And so far, i've taken a lot from it. Turns out that Blender is supposed to be super-totally-mega-awesome advanced technology for animating, even though it appears to be....messed up.

for those of you that don't have it and would like to get it, i've included a download link just for you:

http://www.blender.org/download/get-blender/

the best part is that it's open-source (i.e. free), and it's only a 9mb download!!!! (unless you want to download the zip archive). And you still get some pretty good animation software. Really, they should be selling this for hundreds of dollars considering how great it is.

This is where I wait for people to download this and come back to me and say "OMG HOW THE F*** DO I DO ANYTHING ON HERE?!?!?!?!"

Be at peace, young ones. I will show you all some common courtesy by giving you a tip-of-the-day, straight from the book.

BLENDER TIP OF THE DAY::::

I'll be starting off with tips about the interface for the next few days. I'll be moving along at the pace that people could be following these posts at.

1. Blender's interface has been called everything from "brilliantly thought-out" to "thrown together by a pack of monkeys". It scared the living sh*t out of me the first time I looked at it. But it's actually cool once you know how to actually do stuff!

Blender is unique in many more ways than this one, but it has a non-blocking interface. What that means is that when you want a new window, the new one doesn't block any of the other ones. Like when you go to open a file or save a project, a window pops up, and you can't see what's behind the window. This is an overlapping window. Blender doesn't do this. You can make new windows by doing this:

1. right click the seam of the two headers.

2. click the option that says split area.

3. click the spot where you want the new seam to be, and a new window is opened!

you can also resize the window by left-clicking and dragging. It's epic.

Also, just take some time to play aound in Blender a little bit. See what happens when you click on this or that. I learned a little bit by doing this.

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You can buy this book "Blender for Dummies" right now, in your bookstore, too. It costs $35.00, and it comes with a disk where you can get Blender off of. This book is brand new, just pubished too. (the copyright date even says 2009 D:)

Comment here if you have a question on Blender or Pivot animating. (keep in mind though that i am still a n00b at Blender Dx)

See ya soon!

~GA93