I just gotta say, "Merry Christmas to all and goodwill towards all people!" It is tonight that we celebrate God giving his only son to save us. The miracle of Christmas is that the world can change. I guess it's more than that, but I'm easily amazed. I heard a good quote about Christmas that I'd like to share with you. It is that "Wise men still seek Jesus." Funny, huh? If I ever found Jesus and knew that I'd never find him as good, I wouldn't want to go on. The truth is that we can continue to find him every second of everyday of our lives. If you're skeptical because I'm a radical, I don't blame you. But if you're skeptical of all radicals, then you're not a pretty paranoid person. In fact, you are a radical. People who are skeptical of all radicals are themselves radicals. I know of one radical that has never let me down even when I deny him: Jesus. Every time I deny him, he forgives me and asks me to accept him again. With grace like that, who needs to care about this world? We have to do our best, but if not for our future, we should do it to worship the lord with our actions. If that's not a lesson, I dunno what is.
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Well, this isn't the normal Making-Of picture, is it? Well, perhaps it is. This picture was made entirely in Corel Draw. I just made shapes that looked right, colored them and typed a little bit of history. Something cool about this is: the face mask and shield are translucent, but not like you normally think. I manually calculated the color changes and filled the objects. I used the intersect function of Corel Draw to split objects into under shield and not under shield parts. It may look like the face and eyes are under the mask, but they aren't. I just added 50 blue to each. Hehehe, cheap trick. But it worked.
Today's picture of the day is early! 2:30 PM I'm going work hard on my Quantum Physics tonight, so I don't want to be disturbed by the thought that Javantea's Fate is more important, even though I know it is. =) What is today's picture? Well, duh, look back a page and you'll see the exact picture as last time. Except it's different somehow. Yup, this one features AltSci3D. I've talked a lot about it, but this is the first actual in-program shot. I added the title GUI after I took the picture. As you can see, the GUI is nowhere to be found, except the remnants, the text that drove most of the GUI. Why do I say most? Well, I had a nice little VCR control on the lower right. The rest have text. So, what can I say about this over the previous one? Well, this one is beautifully dynamically lit, of course. It's very nice. I had to get rid of the Dojo, the ground, and the sky, but I'll fix that later. As you can see, from now on Jav and all the secondary characters will be very well lit. I won't let them be poorly lit ever again. =) But still, I need help on the model. What is wrong with the new Jav? Is his face too ugly or something? I might have to mess with it. It looks funny, right? Hmm, arms at his sides, a little more muscle, and a better shaped face. Then he'll be Javantea! Do people like the old Jav face better than the new one or is this new one better? I could just add mouth movement to the old one. I'll check it out. The lesson for today is: get that character right! Don't let your main character be mediocre, let alone crappy. If the shading is all wrong, just say, "NO!" Start all over if you have to, you will later anyway. People don't like a change of characters in Scene 3. Hehehe, but that's what I gotta do. And I'll do it in Scene 6 or 7 too, but that's a different story.
Another day, another "Making Of". If you get sick of other sites not updating enough, try JF. I'm consistent as the moon and frequent as the sun. Of course, the moon has phases and once a month it's full and once a month it's new (and invisible, I might add). And I might add that both are clouded out ~ 100 days per year where I live. If Seattle was ugly when the sun is shining, it would be considered the most beautiful city in the world. Hahahaha... "I'm only happy when it rains."
