Hey, let me drunkenly animate your photos in about 25 to 60 days!

sorry, drunk. what i mean is that i'm going to try to take the current version

https://i.imgur.com/JFzVUuS.jpg

and paint a new layer over parts of it that look like above

and by "rounding up to done" i was trying to make a joke about being halfway done and obviously far away from finishing but rounding up to the next milestone ("done")

i have been recently informed that some of my jokes aren't landing and don't even make sense. things got a little dry over here, humorwise, on my part

i'm laying it all out here on the table

don't bother scooping up my corpse, coach, i gave it all up out there on the field

sometime, when the team is up against it -- and the breaks are beating the boys -- tell them to go out there with all they got and win just one for the Gipper

i was already giving 110% out there. but then my pay got docked 80% but my tasks remained the same, so now i'm giving, uh...let's see...138%

jeez, i was a little drunk last night

thought of you
https://zooooom.us/

"This is a real parody and a real screensaver"

And a real ripoff of conferencecall.biz!

i'm surprised conferencecall.biz hasn't gone viral again

it's gotten a little boost, and i've seen more twitter comments and stuff recently, but nothing too big.

overall stats since 2014:

297K users, 338K sessions

average time on-site: 48 seconds

https://i.imgur.com/oqGRZ7f.png

profit = (~$15 AWS server costs per month) x 88 months = -$1320

on the plus side some developer guy asked me a few days ago if he could adapt the website into a Google Assistant app, which i guess is cool for people who use those kinds of devices

not to be that guy but you might be able to host it for free on github pages and have the dns point there (assuming its all static content)

https://i.imgur.com/FVPRIOm.jpg

oingo boingo version

https://i.imgur.com/qLNQy58.gif

bandwidth throb version

https://i.imgur.com/1ekM4PI.gif

https://i.imgur.com/Nu6n3Ct.gif

never finished this, which these days means it's finished i guess

https://i.imgur.com/fYwjZDL.jpg

https://i.imgur.com/B7zq9FV.png

sorry, one more. this one incorporates the reference photo i was using from my living room. it's like you're actually standing there really high!

https://i.imgur.com/8VdIssZ.gif

like the superimposition one a lot!

thanks!
it helps to not be completely wasted, heh

a lot of things have changed in the last 12 years. but the likelihood of me being completely inebriated while trying to do things remains as strong as ever, sadly

https://i.imgur.com/piA00s2.jpg

Big fan of all of these. Animated panels of a sketchbook is a fantastic idea. Would love to see a photomontage-type short film in this style.

hi Karl, image hosting related question here. hope you don't mind me posting it in yr thread. seems imgur now requires a phone number to create an account. i don't like that. what are my alternatives ? how does this look to you:

https://vgy.me/

of course budo, it's always nice to have company on this thread! :)

i guess the answer to your question depends on what you're looking to do with the image hosting. for just posting images and getting a link to share them online (like this thread), i'm pretty sure you don't need an account with imgur. you can just do it as a rando person, not signed in. the account is more for "community" (the imgur comment community is among the worst on the internet) and for keeping track of old images you uploaded. but if you just want to quickly upload an image and share it, you can do that without logging in.

if you're looking for a more professional/advanced option, i think options like Flickr are still pretty popular, but i definitely don't know much about that side of things. i'm a longtime down-and-dirty imgur uploader

xp to tangenttangent thank you! i like that idea a lot too! i will probably give it a shot sometime (in a limited, 'let's give it a shot' fashion) soon.

it's an interesting thing to think about, in terms of what kinds of painted shapes and lines offer more creative flexibility on the animation side. generally, clean crisp lines with highly contrasted foreground/background elements are easier to animate. but the nice thing about photoshop and other apps is that if you want to spend enough time, you can deal with pretty much whatever. but if i knew ahead of time that i would be animating it, i could choose subject matter that would make my life easier. could be fun!

commodity VPS hosting is also super cheap now and guides to configuring a webserver on them abound, so like, there's always hosting it yourself. You might keep paying for hosting longer than imgur does for all you know! xxp

here's mx computer guy with the unhelpful difficult suggestions that cost money

haha, no that sounds legit! i think it all depends on what you want to do with the images.

personally, for anything that is shared online, i just use a simple easy host (imgur) with the understanding that like any other company on the internet, it'll probably be bought out by some group of jerks and ruined, then shut down. i always keep the originals on my own hard drive - well, NOW i do, after the tinypic disaster of whatever year that was - and figure that at some point in the next 5-10 years everything online will be broken yet again

ah okay thanks Karl and silby !!

i posted this on the 77 depresso thread (while i was nearly passing out, whoops). i need to change a few things but it's generally done. the 2 personal milestones for me on this were that it was the first thing i've painted without a reference image, and that i was able to do it just a couple hours. i definitely don't think that less time spent on something is better, in and of itself, but i had been spending waaaaaay too long on them recently, which is cool but seems ill-advised for early-stage amateur efforts. at an early stage of learning something it seems more valuable to spend that time working on different aspects of the discipline, rather than endlessly refining your 6th painting ever (or whatever)

https://i.imgur.com/srY0tZ1.jpg

that's a very large image, so feel free to open in a new tab if you want to see every ill-advised brush stroke, zoom into a nearly empty glass of whiskey, or admire my ohio-shaped coaster

https://i.imgur.com/RhhMFrB.gif

COVID descending a staircase

i'm not sure why i posted that, but in the cold morning light i do like the stickman's form! i gotta remember that, next time i'm doing late-night stickmen.

i'm pretty excited about my next self-commission: a portrait of my Cyberpunk 2020 character I made last night. I'm playing Ten Ton Heat, a Fixer that also plays drums for an up-and-coming band that has a gig on a pirate radio station barge near Seattle in a couple weeks. I'm not quite sure what i look like, other than my Attractiveness level is 6 (making me the third hottest member of the band; we have a pair of identical twins from Chechnya that are incredibly hot and charismatic, with very low intelligence), and I've purchased a set of SmartGoggles with 3 CyberOptic modules: Teleoptics (20x zoom), MicroVideo Optic (I can record up to 20 minutes of video), and Infrared.

i should move that discussion to the tabletop RPG thread, but i'm also going to either paint it, sketch it up digitally, or both. i've only painted one figure before (about an inch tall on the canvas) so i'm nervous and excited to try to do a large one

we rolled most of our character's backstories and "Life Events", although we did manually adjust a few things for more fun. here's what the other crew ended up like:

Rockerboy (one of the twins, and the one that is pretty much the band's "leader", even though we're agreed that we're a group of equals, and i've demanded that we share any band income equally. he put everything into Cool and Attractiveness, and the Rockerboy Special Ability: Charismatic Leadership, which allows him to sway an audience up to his level (10) squared, x 200. which is 20,000 people! in a strange twist of random rolling luck, he has the most starting money out of all of us - $24,000 Eurodollars, compared to my $3000 and the Nomad's $1000), but he also just lost his job, so he has no more monthly income coming in. since he's the rich guy in the group, i made him buy me top of the line electronic drums ($800).)

Techie (the other hot twin, more of a multi-instrumentalist. He and the identical twin Rockerboy grew up with a family that "vanished", which is funny because my family also "vanished", separately, in Vietnam. normally the Techie will be visually distinguishable from the Rockerboy because he'll always have lots of hologram related gear on. but we've also established that if the situation demands it, the twins can truly seem identical to other people, so there will definitely be fun shenanigans.)

Nomad (the bass player. also an orphan or abandoned earlier in life. all four of us are like that, and generally we have no money (except for the Rockerboy's previous windfall of cash from his previous gig).

i'm going to work on my character portrait later this week. can't wait to get started for real!

DAMMIT

that was supposed to be on the Tabletop RPGs/story-building games - beyond D&D thread, sorry

<3

this image is huge!

https://i.imgur.com/W8Tvc2A.jpg

i'm doing a lil mini-fundraiser thing tonight by selling some of my recent paintings. I'm donating whatever people are willing to pay to Chicago Community Bond Fund (CCBF), and matching the contributions.

just a head's up for anyone who may be interested. i'll be posting about it on instagram (where i know almost all of my followers) and here (where i feel like i know many of you!) in just a bit. if you're interested in getting one of the paintings, you can either email me or send me a DM on instagram.

oh shit, CCBF has been flooded by donations! their website actually suggests sending it to other organizations who need it more right now. glad i checked that first!

https://i.imgur.com/iVPW7RD.jpg
https://i.imgur.com/usMQev3.jpg
https://i.imgur.com/KtoJhsv.jpg
https://i.imgur.com/a6eSd9Z.jpg
https://i.imgur.com/bqkQeeK.jpg
https://i.imgur.com/shcRArK.jpg
https://i.imgur.com/3Q9cj8A.jpg

I’d like to raise some money for community bail funds, which provide money to pay off unaffordable bonds for people charged with crimes. These organizations could always use support, and never so more than at this critical moment. In Chicago, for example, police are targeting peaceful protest organizers, and 700 people were arrested on Sunday alone.

To help spur some donations from others, Blair and I are selling some recent paintings (name your price). All proceeds will go to an ActBlue fundraiser that goes toward 38 community bail funds across the country, and I’ll match your contribution as well. https://secure.actblue.com/donate/bail_funds_george_floyd

Just DM me with the painting you’d like and the amount you’d like to donate, and we can work out the details (address, payment stuff).

1. Peony (by Blair and Zach)
2. Seed Tray
3. Swiss Cheese
4. Doorway sold
5. Embers
6. Seabed
7. New Home
8. Fuck the Police (by Blair, Ink Drawing on 9”x11.5” drawing paper)

Most of these are acrylic on 9”x11.5” drawing paper. The one Blair and I painted together (Peony) is acrylic on 9”x12” canvas.

You can either send me money (via Venmo?) and I’ll donate it for you along with my donation, or you can just donate it yourself and let me know the amount so I can match it. Again, just DM me and we can work it out. :)

I guess the main Q might be “uhhh…so how much should I donate?” A: Donate as much as you’re comfortable donating. It would be great if it were at least $25 per painting, I guess? On the other end, if you want to donate a bunch (like TRIPLE DIGITS) I’m happy to match you there, at least to an extent (I’m using my $1200 coronavirus check as my donation fund, as I’ve been lucky enough to hold onto my job so far).

Let me know if you have any other Q’s and I will try to A them! Also, please, someone buy at least one of these so I don’t have to confront Total Failure. Seriously, if nothing else please do it for the people on the ground who really need financial support right now.

down to just these three:

2. Seed Tray
5. Embers
6. Seabed

might you consider the pittsburgh penguins a subject worthy of art

oh hell yeah

if you're interested in something i can make it though! i still have three left but i'd like to do a round two in another month or two

$600+ raised so far, 3 left

(seed tray, embers, and seabed)