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Back in the early days of the internet - before smartphones - emoticons, or emojis 🙂 as we know them today, was the Wild West of consistency and creativity. Sure, you could create a 16x16 pixel smiley face GIF and place it next to text or the classic sideways ASCII :), and that would get the same effect as today, [...]

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I just completed the High-Definition re-rendering of The Mischievous Bears short animated movie. The process went smoother than I expected it to, considering the assets I was using were 15 years old, and plus, I haven't really worked with 3ds Max in 10 years or so. It goes to show how little 3ds Max has changed after all of these [...]

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I recently began playing with 3ds Max again to see if I can load up some of my old renderings. To my amazement very little has changed with that software in the last 12-ish years since I last worked with it. Suffice it to say, I could re-render a few of my old favorites and even made 8x10 prints from [...]

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I've been dabbling with SketchBook Pro on my iPhone and iPad for over a year now. These are some samples I made on my phone (with my finger).

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I have been dabbling with Sketchbook Pro (among other drawing apps) on my Mom's iPad lately. I have to say it's pretty fun to work with. Not quite a Wacom tablet killer, Sketchbook Pro has a few limitations, but it certainly has its uses considering the price difference between the two. Sketchbook just needs to support larger canvases and it'll be [...]

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I've been monkeying around with WordPress for the last month or so. I think I now have a pretty good handle on its inner workings, so I've been able to make this theme a little more compact and unique from the pedestrian default look, of my old theme. Anyway, I may still make some changes to the graphics through the [...]

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I just finished the winter version of my iGoogle Houses Theme (dead link). I tried to make it relatively generic in avoiding anything directly related to the holidays since this theme is supposed to last through February. I'll need to come up with a Spring theme next and after that, I don't know. I still need to make a theme [...]

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I made my own iGoogle homepage theme with Inkscape. The creation process wasn't too bad, Google's documentation was okay, but as a web designer I wish Google allowed a bit more freedom in the design of a few of the graphical elements. I'll probably update it in the future, fix a few minor things. I may even do a winter [...]

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Okay, I've got another paper cut-out and this time it's for my church, the United Methodist Church of Whitefish Bay! It's not quite as exciting as the Nott Paper cut-out, but it does have some character to it. I still have at least one more building that I would like to make into a paper cut-out, but we'll see when [...]

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While I was digging through some old magazines, I found a really neat paper cut-out and glue together 3D castle. I immediately thought, "Hey, I could make a cut-out of the Nott Memorial." So, after just a couple of hours in Adobe Illustrator, I came up with a mostly functional cut-out of the Nott Memorial. I would like to use [...]