= To Cell or Not to Cell = = Quickie animation: inkscape + blender + png2swf = Came across a really fast way to do silly animations like this: = Chrome Sphere in Flash via Haxe = Kinda got some chrome on the brain lately, so been looking at a few tips and tricks. [http://www.flashvalley.com/fv_tutorials/chrome_effect_in_Flash_with_vector_graphics/ Dude] has a nice tutorial which I wanted to try, but I wanted to code it, not point-and-click it. The [http://www.flashvalley.com/fv_tutorials/chrome_effect_in_Flash_with_vector_graphics/ tutorial] breaks down the chrome into 3 steps which are a lot like making [http://code.google.com/p/hx-glassifri = Bookmarklet to Relink Google Images = Since time immemorial, Google has been doing dumb stuff to try to keep their annoying usage pattern for their image search in tact. Good little commies should do a search, open each link see the original dumb page you don't want, then click on the real link for the image. Of course, that sucks. Sometimes it's fun just to cruise images and putting up extra bullmess is really dumb. I had a bookmarklet I was using before to pull out the real image links. It worked f = My First Walk Cycle Animation in Inkscape = I've been trying to get more into writing games lately, and the sprite availability is starting to become a nuisance. There are a number of spots where you can ask spriters to help you out, but this has a number of problems: * turn around time: asking strangers for favors makes it hard to set deadlines * graphic homogeneity: making sure all the sprites look like they go together * low frame count: spriters usually do about 3 frames per action