Excellent fictionalizing of alien abductions and the purposes behind it. The characters were well realized, sympathetic, and well-entwined with a plot encompassing a grande future for human society.
Started messing around with ArtRage Pro 3.0 and quickly made a digital painting of an awesome dream I had last night. Was canoeing through clear, deep waters as part of a scavenger hunt but passed under these ancient and immense aerial pillars mysteriously suspended overhead. Some had red lights at the base, though I hadn’t painted ‘em in yet.
Sleeping/dreaming is my favorite hobby.
The recent arrival of Corel Painter 11 inspired me to fire up my dusty, unused copy of Painter X and have a go at it. Recently I’ve been devouring watercolor tutorials and feel a general sense of renewed vigor for artwork in traditional media. This is a big departure for me, stepping away from the lavish accouterments of Photoshop with its fancy layer-styles and vector tools.
Had the opportunity to try out Sugar Labs Sugar Sugar environment for the One Laptop Per Child program. It’s a simple educationally-oriented desktop now easily installed on a USB thumb-drive . My take? Alright for kids in a group, but too limited for students above elementary school.
Just discovered sryo’s Modspots.net a small hub of low profile customization sites (on the English speaking area of the internet), of which Skinyourscreen is proudly noted (under mrbiotech)!
Sryo aptly brings together numerous skinning news sites, shells, developers, and artists for your perusal
Check out sryo’s LiteStep themes at LS-Lab and catch skinning news updates at Skinnables.org