Donut throws random sh*t together and calls it art

[Teh Donut]

When I'm up late at night, I tend to make random stuff. Just...stuff.

Unlike the rest of you kiddies though, my only tool is MS Paint. And some weird gif animator thing.

So yeah. Just some stuff I slopped together in Paint.

And maybe some other stuff. Maybe. I dunno...I'm not especially talented/bored enough for this kind of thing.

[Teh Donut]

Some oldies. Back when I was interested in doing the whole flag thing. I found it's a lot harder when you don't have good tools for it.


20 minutes


15 minutes


4.5 hours

Some things I threw together from boredom tonight...Like I said, I only have paint, which hates making fade/shadow effects...

[Teh Donut]

So after a year of delaying, finally uploaded it.

The airfield video

For those who don't remember this, it's what I was doing last year, and put off uploading because internet at home is slow and I'm lazy.

[EJP]

I see what you did with those props (Propellers). There were just a deformed cylinder made translucent. You should have made them more like actual props and just got them to rotate like the real thing. That way you wouldn't get those glares and it wouldn't be painfully obvious.

[Teh Donut]

I tried that. It didn't work. This isn't meant to be a production-quality piece anyhow, like I said in the description. I wasn't going to trouble shoot for several hours to figure out how to make the props spin while the aircraft they were "attached" to made all manner of loops and changes in plane and ucs. That was the issue...they would either refuse to bank and follow the path of the aircraft (tying them to the same path as the aircraft would lock them and prevent them from spinning, too), or they would go off and do their own thing.

It already took 40 hours to get the planes to do what I wanted; I wasn't going to spend another 40 hours working with the props on a 2:12" piece for which I wasn't getting paid.

I already went above and beyond what was required of the project by rendering a fully 3d environment with sun and atmosphere effects, instead of just making a flat screen "sky" and plopping in a generic omni light, and adding and synching sound.

[EJP]

Why do I have the feeling we had this conversation already? Anyway, I wouldn't trust the translucent texture for 3D modeling. It has always given me problems and does more harm then good in my opinion.

[Teh Donut]

Yeah...Just another example. I think it has somehting to dow tih the fact that it treats translucent solid objects like glass, and thus refracts the "light". Anyone with some physics knowledge knows that at certain angles of refraction, no light reaches the observer.

I'm sure if I used a flat plane for the faux props, then I wouldn't have this problem, or at least it wouldn't be so obvious/bad. If I did that, though, then the fact that they are nothing more than flat disks would be obvious the moment the aircraft began to pass by. It's a no-win situation; only way around it is to spend those 40 extra hours and figure out how to get the props to do what I want them to do. :/

[Teh Donut]

Logo, commissioned by someone I barely talk to anymore for a forum he ran. Or runs. Don't really know if it's around. I actually submitted two, but the other one was rejected. I don't blame him for rejecting it; it kinda sucked, I guess. Anywho, not entirely happy with the lack of definition on the flowers on this one. That's what you get for using white, I suppose.

Reminds me, I should get to work on logos for our own forum skins...



Don't remember if I posted this anywhere. I'm doing it again, anyway. I hate color. Just fyi.

That reminds me...nvm, forgot it again.

[TrueBlue©]

^ Cool. I like the boxish one.

[Teh Donut]

The other airfield video

EJP reminded me that I never uploaded this one (whether or not he was talking about this one, I don't know, but the comment made me remember). I had meant to do cockpit noises (engine, radio, whathaveyou), but never did, and don't feel like finding/making them.

[Teh Donut]

I made this video for a fan trailer contest. By no means the best in the competition in my opinion, and I didn't have nearly as much time to work on this as I'd have liked, but I'm still pleased with the outcome. Just dreaming of what I can do if I had real software and didn't have to suffer through Windows "Movie" Maker. *wistful sigh*

[Teh Donut]

I think I'm moving away from "art." I haven't really done any art in a long time aside from the odd low-effort pixel thing that really isn't worth sharing.

I forgot about this one. Terrible acting on my part; I was trying for some old-timey nasally thing, but it just sounded...bad, and also the effort dropped off immensely about half way through; this was already not the first take, though, and I couldn't be bothered to do another one. Wifey did good, though, but I don't think she was actually acting.

We didn't win this time. I can understand why - the editing and videography weren't...terribly great, and some others did a better editing job, so hey. BUT! We did get third, so at least that's a podium finish, I guess. Also, we had a lot of fun making it, so I'm not too fussed. It was definitely the most unique and fun video in the contest, so I'm still happy with it, even if my inner perfectionist screams at the terrible job I did on it.