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Stupid Question of the week – X-posting

August 18th, 2010 | by Smudge

Does anyone out there know of any X-posting addons that will X-post from WordPress to FA or WordPress to DA?

I can X-post from WordPress to other WordPress and WordPress to Live Journal, But I’d really be happy if I could X-post between WordPress and FA and WordPress and DA.

If not, no worries, but I thought I would ask.

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No art updates this week

August 16th, 2010 | by Smudge

Posted In: News & Reviews

Sorry guys, no art updates this week. Too busy rebuilding my computer system after the file system fried last week. However, I’m getting a much better computer out of it as I’m moving off of Win2K and onto Win7. Finally got my dual-monitor setup I’ve been wanting for ages too. Hopefully, I can get the last bits installed and working so that I can post new stuff next week. ^.^

I’m also working on Ads for Project Wonderful for my personal art site in the meantime.

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Adding Fox Suprise Products to Zazzle

August 9th, 2010 | by Smudge

Posted In: News & Reviews

At the moment Mondays seem to be the update Zazzle and personal site days. ^.^

Been spending the day adding new products based off Fox Surprise to Zazzle. Also somewhat reformatted my entry so that instead of just text links to the different products, it actually shows you little thumbnails of the products at the bottom of the image post.

Fox Surprise now has: Totes, Cards, Postcards, Mousepads, Stickers, Magnets, Buttons, Keychains, Mugs, T-Shirts

More site changes coming and new products to be offers.

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I have Logo!

August 2nd, 2010 | by Smudge

Posted In: News & Reviews

Got off my ass and finally got my logo in shape for Smudge Marks, my tentative new business name/website.

Woot! I have a logo for branding purposes. It’s all vectored and everything so it can scale up and down without loosing resolution.

^.^

Now, I have to magically come up with the money to register it along with getting the basic start-up costs of the business. All said and done, that’ll probably run me about $800.00 (estimate, rounded up). I’m hoping that I can fudge some initial sales to get the ball rolling. Well, I can hope anyways.

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Longing for Home – New Project Blog

June 8th, 2010 | by Smudge

Posted In: Journal, Projects, Longing for Home, News & Reviews

So, since I lost my old project blog over at WithoutaBox for Longing for home. I though I’d set one up here for the project.

Project history: I started Longing for Home quite some time ago as a contest entry for the Hash Animation:Master quarterly animation contest. I ended up taking 3rd place. It was rough, basic blocking and lots of simple stand-in models, but enough there that I could tell a small story with. After the contest was over, I decided to polish it up and try and make it look the best that it could be. Several years later, and many breaks in between due to RL, I’m still at it, determined to finish.

Where I’m currently at: I’m current in the process of re-rendering the project with a new starscape. While Rose’s model has been finalized I’m still not happy with many of the backgrounds and hope to tinker on those in the near future. Also, past the African plans shot, Rose’s animation still needs to be tweaked to both liven it up and make sure she is playing her recorder correctly. I also need to work on building a proper spaceship model for the ending shot.

How come with animation projects it really does take 90% of the time to get the last 10% of the project done? lol

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