{"id":66,"date":"2009-03-13T18:08:14","date_gmt":"2009-03-13T23:08:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mrsoftie.net\/?p=66"},"modified":"2016-03-27T14:43:34","modified_gmt":"2016-03-27T19:43:34","slug":"early-sketches","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.obxlabs.net\/mrsoftie\/2009\/03\/13\/early-sketches\/","title":{"rendered":"early sketches"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Here are two sketches that I showed before the break. The goal of the first was to explore Mr. Softie&#8217;s export capability, and produce a short video using After Effects. <a href=\"http:\/\/emtee.net\/concordia\/cart457\/blog\/drink\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\">The piece<\/a> is a short rhyme whose behavior attempts to illustrate (abstractly? I&#8217;m trying to get away from this word) its meaning. It&#8217;s nothing amazing, but <strong>jhave<\/strong> commented that it might interesting, given the topic of drinking, to do sketches while essentially getting drunk&#8230; So, if anything, I&#8217;m happy with the discussion that came out of it, as well as the effect given off in the last frame. I haven&#8217;t tested <strong>jhave<\/strong>&#8216;s green-screen technique, but it seems to work well for Nicol\u00e1s.<\/p>\n<p>The next sketch is an illustration that reads &#8220;And of course the nightly news will deceive you&#8221;. I started in Mr. Softie, applied some behaviors, cut up some text, and exported to Illustrator and added texture\/color in Photoshop. The idea is to play with primary, nationalistic colors (blue, white, red) and use black for expression. It&#8217;s very much a work in progress.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_230\" style=\"width: 510px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a rel=\"attachment wp-att-230\" href=\"https:\/\/www.obxlabs.net\/mrsoftie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/03\/nightly-news1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-230\" class=\"size-full wp-image-230\" src=\"https:\/\/www.obxlabs.net\/mrsoftie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/03\/nightly-news1.jpg\" alt=\"Nightly News\" width=\"500\" height=\"664\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.obxlabs.net\/mrsoftie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/03\/nightly-news1.jpg 500w, https:\/\/www.obxlabs.net\/mrsoftie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/03\/nightly-news1-225x300.jpg 225w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-230\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Nightly News<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here are two sketches that I showed before the break. The goal of the first was to explore Mr. Softie&#8217;s export capability, and produce a short video using After Effects. The piece is a short rhyme whose behavior attempts to illustrate (abstractly? I&#8217;m trying to get away from this word) its meaning. It&#8217;s nothing amazing, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[5,8],"class_list":["post-66","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-mr-softie","tag-sketches"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.obxlabs.net\/mrsoftie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.obxlabs.net\/mrsoftie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.obxlabs.net\/mrsoftie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.obxlabs.net\/mrsoftie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.obxlabs.net\/mrsoftie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=66"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/www.obxlabs.net\/mrsoftie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":832,"href":"https:\/\/www.obxlabs.net\/mrsoftie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66\/revisions\/832"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.obxlabs.net\/mrsoftie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=66"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.obxlabs.net\/mrsoftie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=66"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.obxlabs.net\/mrsoftie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=66"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}