Damn Vampirestats

  Let's all take the time away from work and our personal problems to celebrate vampirestats, whose spam bots have dominated my blog views as well as the views of many other bloggers. So thank you vampirestats, thank you for being a pain in the behind and reminding us bloggers that real humans aren't actually viewing our blogs.

Celebrate their hard work. Celebrate and rejoice!

You can read more about their glorious work here.

GIMP 2

   GIMP or GNU Image Manipulation Program is an image editing software that is distributed with no prices. According to their site, GIMP is 'expandable and extensible', designed for any sort of plug in or add ons to be implemented. However, GIMP still manages to hold off on the more simpler things such as photo retouching, cut and crop, etc. An open sourced program, GIMP manages to hold firm and still compete with better known softwares such as the Adobe Series [9].

Figure 3.4 : Interface of GIMP 2

    GIMP has many functions. It's capabilities include image format conversion, an online batch processing system, rendering mass production of images, advanced image manipulation, as well as being utilized as a simple paint program. With so many abilities and features to give, GIMP offers great potential and promise for those who take the time to master it.

   Despite the name, GNU Image Manipulation Program, GIMP supports Linux as well as Windows. GIMP has tons of updates since it's creation and it's current version is GIMP 2.8.10. A free alternative to expensive software such as Photoshop, GIMP is a wonderful image editing software especially for those who strive to learn all of GIMP's tricks and secrets.

MyPaint

   MyPaint is an opensourced drawing software available for anyone interested in creating or drawing their own digital art. Unlike photoshop, MyPaint does not allow photo manipulation and focuses primarily on creating an image from scratch. MyPaint offers a variety of brushes such as charchoal and ink, and is wonderful for any aspiring digital artist as it requires no purchase of any sort.

Figure 3.1 : *Anime style picture drawn using MyPaint

Figure 3.2 : Concept art drawn using MyPaint

Figure 3.3 : Illustration drawn using MyPaint

   A unique trait MyPaint posesses is the ability to hide the interface with a click of a button. MyPaint also boasts on it's minimilistic and intuitive user interface as well as it's capabilities for extensive brush creation and configuration options. As time passes by and the open sourced software grows, MyPaint will only develop more and more components to it's already extensive features.

  MyPaint supports Windows and GNU or Linux. It is able to utilize the use of graphics tablets or drawing tablets, and as stated before, MyPaint is entirely free. In short, MyPaint is a great drawing program especially for those with a tight budget.


*All drawings were taken from their official site. I did not draw any of those pictures.

Walk Cycle

Apparently I animated some kind of weirdo. Anyway, this was done using Autodesk Maya.