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| bio | website | lifesine.eu |
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| location | London, United Kingdom | |
| age | 27 | |
| visits | member for | 2 years, 4 months |
| seen | May 8 at 15:42 | |
| stats | profile views | 21 |
...is interested in Art & Technology and the blend between the two.
Currently dabs with creative coding tools (Processing/MaxMSP/OpenFrameworks/Arduino/Kinect/etc.), enjoys scripting apps(Illustrator/Flash/After Effects/C4D/Blender) and has a lot experience with actionscript.
Works on interesting projects at Hirsch&Mann,Technology Will Save Us and as a teaching assistant for the Adaptive Architecture and Computation course at The Bartlett,UCL.
Studie(s)d Creative Computing at Goldsmiths College, University of London.
Studie(s)d Adaptive Architecture & Computation at The Bartlett/UCL
Rarely posts on vimeo,blog, flickr and github.
...and yes, he thinks writing at the 3rd person is a bit odd..
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Apr 24 |
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How to calculate the best type colour for a random background colour? I was considering converting from RGB to CIE XYZ or L*a*b*. I might offer both options in the end. Nice answer (+1) |
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Apr 17 |
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How to calculate the best type colour for a random background colour? Pretty simple and pretty effective. I've played with a few options and the brightness threshold works nicely as you can see in the updated sketch. Instructions are in the comments on the left. If I have time I might want try playing with different colour spaces (like convert to L*a*b* and play with the components), but for now this does the job nice and simple. |
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Apr 17 |
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How to calculate the best type colour for a random background colour? (+1) thanks for the test, that's helpful :) |
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Apr 16 |
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How to calculate the best type colour for a random background colour? cool, I'll give this a shot |
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Feb 17 |
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How do you create squared big pixel texture like this in photoshop? Can you please be more specific ? What exactly do you mean by big pixel texture ? |
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Feb 6 |
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Adobe Flash CS6 won't Export Animated Gif - How do on the main timeline? Use Export Movie not Export Image and choose the Animated GIF format from the list (which should include quicktime/swf/etc.), but you don't have much control over quality/dithering which is horrible. For bet quality results, John's advice is the best. |
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Feb 6 |
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What do you call these infographic icons? +1 This is most interesting. Nicely documented Dawg! |
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Nov 24 |
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Exporting a 3d extruded shape to SVG from Illustrator produces horrible plane joins nice and clean solution +1 |
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Oct 26 |
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how to import vectors from fireworks to illustrator @Scott almost. Flash and Fireworks have a long history together: you can import/paste from a Fireworks png and the vectors will be preserved |
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Sep 29 |
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How can I export a flash file to a gif format without losing quality? Flash doesn't export nice looking .gif files. You can try to export your animation as a PNG sequence then open that as a sequence in Fireworks(frames will be added automatically) and export an animated .gif from there. You'll have more control (over image(number of colours) and animation(repeats,timing)) for gif export. Another alternative that comes to mind is to use the AS3 GIF Encoder library to export a decent gif via code, but that's handy if you're comfortable programming in actionscript 3 |
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Sep 21 |
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Which version of Adobe Flash is the stablest? @Dani Personally I also think Macromedia Flash 8 as a tool was very stable and pretty fast. With newer version I also recommend keeping a clean .fla file in general. Regarding cleaning the library, the easiest option is to use the Select Unused Items option from the Library panel's context menu. |
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Sep 14 |
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Illustrator - Radial gradient on multiple shapes You could do this multiple ways. If you want to keep one shape, this should be possible with the gradient mesh tool. You can also use multiple shapes (e.g. one for the background and several overlaid for highlights/shadows with basic radial gradients) |
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Sep 4 |
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How to: paper design to photoshop As @DA01 points out - scan your drawing. If it takes several scans you can bring the images together in photoshop and use the difference blend mode to match them up, do any other curves/contrast adjustments you need to make it easy to tracer over than bring the file into Illustrator to vectorize over |
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Sep 4 |
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Illustrator: Type in circular vector & background colour disappearing If you press and hold the mouse on the Text tool it will reveal a Type on a Path tool. As @iuliux mentioned, odds are you'll get a detailed proper answer on GD as your question is related to design tools not programming |
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Aug 23 |
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How to connect with aspiring game designers for collaborative work Maybe you can get something started on HackerBuddy |
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Apr 25 |
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Perspective/non-linear blends with a common centre Glad it helps ! I know, some shortcuts are quite obscure. Regarding sensitive controls, another option is to double click the polar grid icon in the Tools palette and try to play with the options there, although you loose the immediate feedback :( |
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Apr 18 |
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Drawing an animated signature in Flash @Magnetic_dud In addition to Justin's great tools and suggestions, I'd like to add few tiny extra techniques from a somewhat related post |
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Apr 7 |
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Where can I find the best vectorization tutorial for a newbie? It makes sense. Obviously the end goal is to be fluent with all the tools, but to just tracing hand drawn scanned artwork, I imagine understanding LiveTrace, the Pen tool and a few other techniques could suffice, even with little or no knowledge of other tools like: Text Tool, Flare Tool, Graph Tools, etc. @lawndartcatcher It's a basic workflow: draw on paper, scan, trace/vectorize on top of the scan in illustrator. If the drawing is simple, maybe LiveTrace will do, otherwise Pen Tool should be fine. Hope this makes sense |
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Apr 6 |
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Where can I find the best vectorization tutorial for a newbie? Thanks for the link. I don't completely agree though. I am trying to avoid general Illustrator tutorials which cover a lot of material and just try to find tutorials on the tools & techniques needed for vectorization only. |
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Jan 8 |
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What web graphics formats to use? I agree with most of your points, but I also use GIF for simple illustations/diagrams with few colours/no gradients as they result in smaller file size and a sharper look than JPEG. |
