1. As most people are, of course, I'm anxiously awaiting the May release of IG. I have my commander all picked out already (the Cadian commander from Forgeworld). It's an awesome model. When the new codex is finally out and in my hands, you'll start seeing "Imperial Guard" as one of the options in the poll on the left. I've had a few emails asking me if I was ever going to add them. :)
2. Still painting those Burna Boyz I did color tests on. Also, I assembled and magnetized a box of 5 Nobs. The combi-guns are a real pain to get in right. I'll have to take special care to position a few models specifically for the combi-guns in the next box (I need 10 Nobs).
3. Looks like SM are winning the current poll. It'll probably be the HQ selection: Librarian. Lots of new and cool things in there.
4. I got Adobe Creative Suite 4 last week, and have been playing around with it a bit. Mainly, the bit that makes me the most excited is Illustrator's ability to "Live Trace," effectively turning any pixelated(raster) scan of a drawing I did into a vector image. Normally, when I would try and do color-quality comics, the process was endlessly long. I would draw the pictures, scan them in, and then re-draw on a second layer with a Wacom Tablet to get a clean line-tracing to work with. Now, that last step is a mere button-click. I've already drawn up a new 40k comic to test it on ... so you guys will start getting color comics now! Expect that to be done sometime next week. ;)
... normally, I give you guys a picture with each post, as I don't want to just bore everyone with a wall of text, but I really have nothing directly related to what I've talked about... so I'll leave you with this gem I found on the internet a while ago:
Maybe you've seen it, maybe you haven't. Hopefully, you've enjoyed it nonetheless.
It figures CS4 would have the ONE feature I've desperately longed for a version after I said "I've got all I need from Adobe, no more!"
ReplyDeleteLove that image, btw.
@Kingworks: I think CS3 and CS2 have it too. The feature is called "Live Trace" in Adobe Illustrator. In CS4 it's located in the top toolbar when you select an image... not sure if it's in the same place, but you might want to check; it could be a little not-so-well-known feature that's been hiding from you all this time. ;)
ReplyDeleteBefore getting CS4, I only had Macromedia Studio. I had the bastard-child predecessor of Illustrator: a piece-of-crap program called Freehand. Thank God things have gotten better since then. :)
...I now have a new desktop background.
ReplyDeletewhere did you find the cool pic?
ReplyDeleteI think I found it on a random Google Image search for "Power Armor.". I'm glad I didn't specify 40K, or I would probably have missed it.
ReplyDeleteI can't believe that gorilla isn't wearing a helmet... he could get hurt.
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