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Possible Designs for iWobot – 1

tiw — Wed, 14 Oct 2009 13:25:09 +0000

iwobot in happy state

iwobot in sleeping state

First possible design I came up with, is a TV-like robot with basic body parts which can help iwobot to have human-like gestures. It has 2 legs, 2 eyes, a mouth a screen and hair with a hair clip ^^

I thought the screen can be a data transfer interface between the robot and the user. So in case the user asked iwo what her favorite picture looks like, iwo can actually show it to the user by putting the image on her screen.

Anyway, it’s Feedback time!

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Color Theme 1 – Colors That Go With Brown

tiw — Tue, 29 Sep 2009 15:01:07 +0000

I like playing around with colors, to see how they match together and what feeling they give to the object they are on..
There are many sites out there like Color Lovers or Color Schemer or Color Scheme Designer.. But, the typical me, wants to do it herself :) You can call it the re-inventing of the color schemes perhaps :) Anyway, here are some colors I put together. If I had to name this theme, I would name it, hmm, “colors that go with brown” or something like that, like “colors that remind me of coffee and candy”..

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Teleport to World of Warcraft

tiw — Fri, 20 Mar 2009 23:30:26 +0000

Click here to view the embedded video.

It was time to take my collage experience to the next level.
This time I decided to teleport a real life character into a 3D game, World of Warcraft. The real life character seems a bit pixelized on the edges of his body, since the lighting was not good enough to make a perfect distinction between the actor and the background. I used a green shower curtain that I bought from IKEA for a 3.99 euro as a chrome key green screen :) Not professional but a cheap solution for hobbyist film makers.

For the collaging, I first used key-light plug-in for Adobe After Effects to make the curtain disappear and the vector paint effect to delete some other parts of the scene. Then logged in to my World of Warcraft account. Defined a macro and wrote “/applaud” in it. And dragged and dropped this macro button on Action Bar slot 1, so that whenever I press 1 on my keyboard my character would clap her hands. Then the nice trick of making the menus disappear comes: you just have to press CTRL+ALT+Z and everything but the world and characters disappears. After capturing this scene I got both movies to Adobe Premiere and made final transitions and added some tittles.. That’s it.

Now the problem is, I haven’t been playing wow for over a year, but for the sake of my upcoming project I reactivated my account. Let’s see how addictive it will become this time :(

Can’t see the movie? Download it here

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007 Copy – A Collage Trial

tiw — Tue, 20 Jan 2009 22:11:40 +0000

In order to make cool effects on your videos, the first thing you need to master is the background eraser tool in Adobe Photoshop, so that you can picture yourself anywhere you can imagine! I pictured my cat ‘Copy’ in a James Bond movie poster :-)

Here was the actual James Bond poster:

And here was the actual picture of my cat:

Here is the link to CreativeTechs website, where I got this Photoshop tip from.

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Copy Cat Pixelized and Animated

tiw — Mon, 29 Dec 2008 00:13:57 +0000

I made some pixelized drawings of my cat Copy and animated them using a Gif Creator tool.

You can use a free program like UnFreez to create gif animations. There is also the source code of this program on the download page if you do not trust the executable file.
Anyway, here are my creations:

I made the waiting, walking up-down-left-right and attacking up-down-left-right animations so that I can use them in the future if I start some game development :)

I am curious about your animated gif’s. Do you have any? Share it here!
Gif Animations post on BloggingGeek.com Forum

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