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only see it in 3D

that is all

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this update doubles the content and file size of the first game including OpenFeint social integration, End-of-round boss encounters and 5 new weapons!

sooooo much work for such a small deal, i'd appreciate it if you check it out!

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just made a group for us few/proud/nebraskans [link]

+++ BB1.5 is almost done*

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it is the most FUN i've had in a movie for a long time, and the plot, the structure, the humor, the characters are all really really well done. i highly recommend it. there is lots of gore and splatters if that puts you off from the comedy, but i loved every minute of it.

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the first game i have ever worked on just happens to be awesome... who could have guessed?!

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terrible dialogue
terrible character development
lack luster plot
decently stylized CG
OK character design
pretty cool diesel punk robots
terrible ending resolution

also, the sound design which was the star of the short animation is only there for the first few minutes and the soundtrack was detrimental to the overall film.

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are you prepared?

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district 9 is still running through my veins

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the cgi, puppets and industrial design are so well done. the effects shots are brilliant.

this movie screams HALO but in a completely genuine way.



im seeing ponyo later today so i'll bounce back with a review of that later!

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To find your iPhone's UDID, just plug it into your computer and wait until iTunes recognizes it. Select your phone from the Devices list in iTunes and click the "Summary" tab. To see your UDID, click on the word "serial number" beside the picture of the iPhone. You should see the word "identifer" and an alphanumeric string – this is your UDID.

To copy it, just press command + C on your Mac's keyboard (or control + C in Windows).

paste it here as a comment and i'll get you something in the next day or so with instructions and the like!

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also, i was joking before but im really serious now. i have no idea how this movie is only rated PG. it is not a PG movie for what its worth. having not read the books, all the social turmoil was much more palatable then in the last two. at least it was played up as funny instead of annoying, stupid and needless.

as for "moon" this is a great movie i can't really speak about. its a movie where it all is standing on one tent pole and once it is taken away the mystery is all but gone. its a good brooding slow space psyc movie though - and that is a genera where you know if you are included or not.

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(and all my art is under NDA, but... im making an iphone game)

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42" lcd tv
17" macbook pro
Cintiq 12WX (but they left half of the cables)
xBox 360
Digital camera


yeah for growing up...

]]> =Legato895 http://Legato895.deviantart.com/journal/24328875/ http://Legato895.deviantart.com/journal/24328875/ Sun, 19 Apr 2009 15:48:58 PDT
EMPLOYMENT:

Two months ago, informed me that an animation studio was opening up in Omaha Nebraska (where I live) and that the guy starting it was one of the previs artists on the movie Coroline. He was to speak after the premier of the film in town and to an animation class at the school I graduated from a year prior. I went to his talk, knowing I wasn’t qualified for the position, but wanting to get some perspective and insight as GDC was a month away. I talked to him briefly, went home and typed up 3 pages of my life story in an email and sent it away. The following day I got a text asking if I could meet up with him and it just spiraled into employment from there.

Knowing full well that I was planning on trying to get a job at GDC, he offered to pay me for 4 weeks to come in part time around my other job and learn the few things I wasn’t strong in, all the while dealing with the companie’s investors, trying to secure me a full time position. Those 4 weeks were insane. I was working 12 hour days, Monday through Saturday, all the while preparing for GDC. It literally came down to 13 hours before I left for San Francisco that I found out I had the job. As of today I have worked two full weeks at Skyvu pictures and it is amazing. Most of what I do there I can’t show, but I hope and pray that one day you can see all the cool stuff we’re working on. I also hope that I will hone my talent there. Unfortunately, I don’t think I will ever be able to use a regular tablet again. At home im already using a Cintiq 12wx but at work… at work I have a Cintiq 21ux

It truly is something you should experience o______o

GDC 2009:

Knowing that employment was secure, I left for what was now essentially a vacation. A vacation with the ability to network with amazing people. I left with my friend Case and flew up (over?) to San Francisco to stay with a mutual, yet equally fake friend Bryan

He turned out to not only incredibly light but also normal, and although he had classes and boring stuff, his roommate Keaton gave Case and I the guided tour of the town.

It was there that I also met up with and hung out with Kai and while he had important art rock star stuff to do on most of the expo days, I still had him long enough to lure into a seedy looking mexican restaurant and get him food poisoning. (those are lies)

The expo itself was pretty fun, and I did set aside a day for the career pavilion which I will sum up in greater detail then the regular show floor.

GDC / SHOW FLOOR:

It was pretty fun.

GDC / CAREER PAVILION:

This was what I was banking my future on before I got the job at Skyvu. And in retrospect I was pretty stupid. If you didn’t have industry experience, your business card went into the trash, or more tellingly, they told you flat out that they didn’t take physical media and to apply online. I assume that If I were to pass a certain threshold of awesome, that I would be asked for such things, but I am not so I wasn’t.

There were a few exceptions that I would like to point out in case somebody gets a google trackback to this page and that is the Insomniac booth, and the Ubisoft booth.

At insomniac I spent 1-2 hours standing in line just to mob one of the two artists there who were actively taking portfolios and critiquing them. These guys should be up for some sort of award. Not only did they have no life that entire day as far as I could tell, but they offered the most sincere and helpful critique somebody could ask for. 99% of the people in line were aspiring 3d artists, but I still learned a great deal

As for ubisoft, the booth was fairly big, but I did talk to a equally helpful man who was over all just a huge encouragement to me.

The rest of the booths for the most part were fairly daunting and impersonal, but you can’t hold that against anybody, and it mainly went to con... ]]> =Legato895 http://Legato895.deviantart.com/journal/23829298/ http://Legato895.deviantart.com/journal/23829298/ Sun, 22 Mar 2009 10:24:25 PDT
[link]


i am leaving home to go to GDC in two hours, but i was just so excited by this new version i had to share it with you guys.

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i will be having a blast

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this will take me all the way up to GDC for the most part!

btw, killzone 2 is un-freaking-believable

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i saw the movie coraline two days ago. the first thing i must say is, 3d movies are amazing. i had always passed judgement on them, but even though the 3d use in the movie was more subtle than most movies, the trailers alone that were in 3d were mind blowing.

i do not care what i look like wearing glasses, because i didn't once look away from the screen. this is a reason to go back to the theatre again imo

as for the movie, i left it wondering how it was rated pg, and relieved to see it wasn't. that said, two crying/terrified children aside, i wish they had gone 100% adult instead of 50/50. the deep and dark grimm's fairy tail vibe was really great, but i felt like (having never read the book or graphic novel) it was held back - even though im not sure where

ultimately i found the movie really enjoyable, but i left it wishing it was good enough to be mainstream and hoping these guys are going to make their money back. this is almost an art film and it took 7 years to complete from what i've heard X_X

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that was the most intense, emotional movie i have ever seen. i went from the depths of sadness and despair, to literally wanting to kill people with my bare hands. there was so much adrenaline, so many injustices that happen every day to hundreds of thousands if not millions of women every day... i know this movie played the sex trafficking card just to up the stakes, but you have no idea the amount of righteous anger i have within me at the moment. so yeah... holy crap - my heart is still beating fast.

on another front, i changed the front/gallery page of my website - im not sure what web technology my sliding image links utilize but i would like people with browsers more obscure than safai and firefox (no IE i rock the mac) to test it out and make sure it all works. that can be found at [link]

i'll be finishing up the soldier on my front page here in an hour or so i suppose - right now is the time where i get ready to upload it 100 times only to see something thats wrong every time -_-

WHY CAN I NOT JUST LOOK AT IT AND SEE IT?!

love you guys, anything past this character sheet im working on for my portfolio is a blessing, so hopefully i'll be blessed here with time, motivation and talent

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second, HAPPY NEW YEAR!

third...

as you may or may not know, GDC is fast upon us and that means with a few spare days last week i went ahead and designed the front for my business card i plan on printing out and whoring at the expo. this design can be found here [link]

(note, if the card looks dark gray, i don't know whats wrong... its black in photoshop, but gray elsewhere - im pretty sure its just a cmyk thing... maybe)

if anybody reading this has done prior business card work i would love to see examples... or, if you have examples to fire at me from the hip.



fourth, i've been reading TONS of stuff about GDC. POURING over everything i can find and am learning a lot. i re-structured my website (basically took the splash page off so now it just takes you to my gallery index first, and injected a little bit of humor. let me know if my respective galleries are strong enough taking into account work not present. i have selected what i consider indicative of each subject - but i could be wrong.

also, if any of you are going to GDC let me know and we can set something up maybe (having never gone, im not sure how it all works) but rest assured you will be my LAST priority (unless you are female and single)

fifth and lastly. i've been doing some work, but most of it is small doodles, thumbnails, and linework for Res-wR and a mod. also, this week's Industrial design of the week topic is "arctic steampunk explorer" which the groundwork is already being poured.



sorry for the absence - december killed me artistically and now only a month and a half before i need to lock down my portfolio /o\



oh, and...
MUSIC you should be listening to.

Fleet Foxes - trust me
Tobacco - electronic stuff with really catchy and unique rhythms
Bon Iver - kinda sad, quiet stuff

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its startlingly terrifying thinking what i could do other than art... something im sure everybody thinks at one time or another. i do know that Target is slowly taking me apart physically and a change is in session, even if march comes and goes.

best of luck to you all, sorry for this rant - but than again, i made the decision to post it, so im not ashamed of it

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multiple sensors that provide a distortionless panoramic image for projecting onto internal surfaces. a technology like this is used on almost all of my vehicles to provide lines of sight without conventional viewports!

also going on in the Kingery household

you will never guess what game im playing now, because its battlefield 2. more accurately, the battlefield 2 project reality mod. last played it over 3 years ago i think and its still amazing, and still in active development!

im drawing small odds and ends for people that may or may not show up on the site.

just watched "dark city" and am very glad i did - and am slowly making my way through the ender series (almost done with "xenocide"!

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[link]

its a 42meg m4v file (should work in quicktime or vlc)

also putting it up on vemio but that will also go down at some time

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screw you guys

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hope you guys like it.... and i hope it somehow slips through the cracks

[link]

also

Left 4 Dead will blow your mind if you play with good people. add me on steam - Legato895 - and join up!

]]> =Legato895 http://Legato895.deviantart.com/journal/21359303/ http://Legato895.deviantart.com/journal/21359303/ Thu, 06 Nov 2008 15:12:33 PST
my steam name is Legato895

cya online!

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ender's game, snow crash, ring world, the diamond age, dune, etc...

i just finished the book Anathem. it was 30 or so hours long if i recall correctly and it has indowed me with so many thoughts and emotions i literally laid in my bed for hours at a time just listening to it... the whole point of audio books being that you can do other things while reading. i did nothing. in fact, i didn't listen to music or podcasts during the period of time between getting this book and finishing it

it took a "few hundred pages" to crack it. furthermore like all stephenson books i've so far read, it drops you into a confusing world and i was at one point about to start all over because i felt i had no idea what was happening

i did no such thing, and it all worked out ok for me.

i guess this is what the harry potter series does to a person... that was something i read the first few books on but abandoned when i had to start waiting for them to come out. i will return to them, but only once they are on audible. until than, all i can hope to do is think about what i've just read and try to avoid getting sad that i do not live in such a place as this book presents me.

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let me know if anything is broken on whatever weird ass browser you use

[link]

still not completely finished, i'll probably sort out some sort of splash page rather than what i have now... regardless, thanks in advance!


[link]

]]> =Legato895 http://Legato895.deviantart.com/journal/19644363/ http://Legato895.deviantart.com/journal/19644363/ Mon, 28 Jul 2008 14:59:29 PDT
i was getting lots of problems between my cintiq and my macbook pro's monitor calibration, and apple's manual calibration dust wasn't getting the monitors close.

im not sure if a 170$ camera that you attach to your screen once every month or two deserves a longer write up than: it did what i wanted it to do. a few other pros are that it was really painless to run, and... yeah... thats about it

assume im pleased with it until i make a new journal saying otherwise... right now both monitors are completely exact, and its amazing

]]> =Legato895 http://Legato895.deviantart.com/journal/19073440/ http://Legato895.deviantart.com/journal/19073440/ Fri, 27 Jun 2008 10:35:15 PDT
just saying

]]> =Legato895 http://Legato895.deviantart.com/journal/19037048/ http://Legato895.deviantart.com/journal/19037048/ Wed, 25 Jun 2008 11:00:33 PDT
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]]> =Legato895 http://Legato895.deviantart.com/journal/18861872/ http://Legato895.deviantart.com/journal/18861872/ Sun, 15 Jun 2008 20:04:34 PDT
and here i am. entering my credit card details back to reactivate my account.




to be honest... i cannot wait to be home on my computer zipping around in my interceptor in a few days!!!

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the movie would have gotten a 6, except my roommates and i spent a good half hour describing the few steps that could have been taken in order to make the movie awesome. he was so close, but completely failed. instead the movie gets a 7

good news everybody, artistic content that can be viewed is being created! but i probably won't post it until its all done!!!

keep on keeping on and let me know what you think about the movie - try to keep it spoiler free tho, even though you only have to watch it for a half hour before you get all the pieces >.>

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if your in the omaha nebraska area and are interested in sigur ros, im not sure if tickets are still for sale for the june 11th concert, but i am ultra pumped (tm) - this will be my second concert of theirs!

anyway, back to the womb of team fortress i go i suppose (legato895 / MKingery) are my steam names i think... - can't wait for left for dead!

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there hasn't been any other replies to my job applications, which i guess was to be expected. what is disconcerting however has been the complete and udder lack of concept art jobs on my job sites i usually check. i haven't been able to even apply anywhere since a few months ago when i saturated the field.

anyway, thats what i feel at the moment. no regrets. if your in the market for a movie that will rearrange you, i highly suggest "into the wild" by the way... its one of the most powerful things i've seen in a long time - just wish it didn't have 5 minutes of desexualized nudity X_X!

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because god forbid i have the game and box sitting right here but couldn't find the manual to activate it on my new computer

which by the way is in fact amazing

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FOOLED YOU!!!

day 389: no end to the art draught is in sight

and im about to save up and spend 600$ to update my computer for the first time in 3 years...

here is what i will be getting*

[link]

]]> =Legato895 http://Legato895.deviantart.com/journal/17489461/ http://Legato895.deviantart.com/journal/17489461/ Mon, 24 Mar 2008 09:37:07 PDT
i order a gig of ram for a friends computer that bestbuy sold her. a computer running vista with 512mb of ram...

while the ram was in the mail, it died, she sent it in and over the next 30 days nothing happened. my ability to return the ram within 30 days had expired and than low and behold bestbuy gives her a new model.

i call just to see if an exception could be made and the guy after some deliberation said and i paraphrase -

"keep it, its not worth sending it back. next time you order anything from us call us right after, we will see this on your file and credit you the 22.99"

X_X!

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although like the last ones, this too was simply saying "we do offer internships at this time" so i still do not really have a feel for my quality of art being the culprit

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this marks the second 'vintage' scifi book i couldn't put down, which confirms my suspicion that i would probably enjoy almost any scifi book i set my sites on. however i think what makes me go after the books i do is them having a underlying original and unique theme. for "the forever war" it was the effects of time dilation on somebody, and for ringworld it was the effects of having trillions of square miles worth of land, and what happens when everything starts falling apart.

the book was fantastically read, although i more than once felt embarrassed when my roommates walked by and the guy reading it was trying to do a voice for an alien, but oh well, it won't kill them! i'll probably go ahead and buy the whole series on amazon, even though i love the audio book format while drawing.

///

for those of you who were interested in my amazon s3 review [link] , its been some 22ish days later since i started uploading around 60 gigs of info at cox's upload max and everything is finally in its place, with a daily bit-level backup regiment in place to keep everything up to date. that means if a fire were to consume my house, and take my external and my laptop, all my music and playlist files, all my documents and most importantly, all of my art, will still be recoverable. also, it means i can draw any of this data if needed to any computer that has an internet connection.

when i get the average bill amount i'll let you know but as for now i feel like the final piece of the puzzle of security has been added!

///

on a final note, i think the carrier for this week's challenge is turning out much better than the fighter, even so i think almost everybody who saw the fighter thought it functioned much differently than it does in my mind... so in that regard oh well!

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"FRIDAY & SATURDAY NIGHT VOICE CHAT on VENTRILO

Host: [link] Port: 4042"

]]> =Legato895 http://Legato895.deviantart.com/journal/17059557/ http://Legato895.deviantart.com/journal/17059557/ Mon, 25 Feb 2008 15:06:11 PST
so it begins i suppose

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[link]
[link]

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anyway, im using a program called "jungle disk" to manage it all and will be pretty excited when i not only have 100% onsite harddrive redundancy, but also a full offsite backup updated every 6 hours, just in case anything goes wrong.

with my life completely revolving around my computer, i've been playing with fire a bit too much.

BACKUP BACKUP BACKUP >_<

]]> =Legato895 http://Legato895.deviantart.com/journal/16971031/ http://Legato895.deviantart.com/journal/16971031/ Wed, 20 Feb 2008 00:30:52 PST
the problem is, my dark images like the demon and the demonic wagon are not only super dark, but the 'gamut" (whatever that is) just bombs each time...

other than manually upping the brightness on the actual image is there any magical "do not suck" setting i need to click, or any options i should be looking for? it just boggles the mind how it can look so crappy on one picture but fine on the other X_X

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ive had a week long art sabbatical, hopefully i can kick back, but its good to take realistic breaks

i graduate in 2 weeks from a local community college and than who knows. will i get plucked up and hired? will i move to washington state blind and try getting a job within striking distance? will i hire on as a lowly QA dude and crawl my way to the top?

stay tuned for next time's exciting episode of dra... my life!



another miro [link] pimp for the mac - i just found the discovery channel's feed so i get weapon segments from future weapons, bear grills eating animals alive, and myth buster shots that don't make it to tv... man i wish i had cable.

anybody have any experience with sling box?

]]> =Legato895 http://Legato895.deviantart.com/journal/16857417/ http://Legato895.deviantart.com/journal/16857417/ Wed, 13 Feb 2008 00:56:23 PST
im downgrading a HP pavilion which came with vista to xp for a friend
all she does is play wow, and knows nothing about computers

all goes like usual (it takes forever and is touch and go in regards to getting drivers) but it all sorts out

i install WOW and it says the machine has lower than suggested ram...

i check and the pc is only reading 448mb of ram...

im pissing myself thinking that it isn't picking up another stick that it used to have and is now dead...

oh jesus

*amendment*

i cracked it open, and it clearly has only one chip in it... but everwhere im seeing online says it comes with 1gb of ram... so maybe best buy took it out or something when they 'fixed' it for her -_-

]]> =Legato895 http://Legato895.deviantart.com/journal/16850037/ http://Legato895.deviantart.com/journal/16850037/ Tue, 12 Feb 2008 14:49:43 PST
heres the main part of the email - as the account holder i still have no idea what i need to do next :/

"We are writing on behalf of Cox Communications to advise you that we have received a notification that you are using your Cox High Speed Internet service to post or transmit material that infringes the copyrights of a complainant's members. We have included a copy of the complaint letter. Pursuant to the provisions of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act ("DMCA"), which is codified at 17 U.S.C. § 512, upon receiving such notification, Cox is required to "act expeditiously to remove, or disable access to" the infringing material in order to avoid liability for any alleged copyright infringement. Accordingly, Cox will suspend your account and disable your connection to the Internet within 24 hours of your receipt of this email if the offending material is not removed.

Please be aware that the DMCA also provides procedures by which a subscriber accused of copyright violation can respond to the allegations of infringement and, under certain circumstances, cause his or her account to be reinstated. To do so, however, the response must meet certain criteria. Pursuant to section (g) of the DMCA (17 U.S.C. § 512(g)), you have the right to submit to Cox a counter-notification which, to be effective, must include the following elements:

(a) a physical or electronic signature of the subscriber;
(b) identification of the material that has been removed or to which access has been disabled and the location at which the material appeared before it was removed or disabled;
(c) a statement under penalty of perjury that the subscriber has a good faith belief that the material was removed or disabled as a result of mistake or misidentification of the material to be removed or disabled;
(d) the subscriber’s name, address, and telephone number and a statement that the subscriber consents to the jurisdiction of the Federal District Court for the judicial district in which the address is located.

In the event that you submit to Cox a counter-notification that includes these elements, Cox will forward your counter notification to the complainant and advise them that Cox will cease disabling access to the allegedly infringing material in ten (10) business days. Unless the complainant notifies us that it has filed an action seeking a court order to restrain you from engaging in the allegedly infringing activity prior to the expiration of those ten (10) business days, Cox will reactivate your account.

Please refer to this help article for more information:
[link]


Sincerely,

Cox Customer Security"

so if anybody has any insight i'd love to hear it - for everybody else stay safe - it can happen to anybody.

as for me, i kinda feel bad that the only movie on my computer i had to delete was "the fifth element"

]]> =Legato895 http://Legato895.deviantart.com/journal/16804048/ http://Legato895.deviantart.com/journal/16804048/ Sat, 09 Feb 2008 16:48:23 PST
[link]

also, just a suggestion, but if you have a mac and have miro, or are otherwised interested in nature and high definition animal footage, i gotta say the earthtouch weekly videos are simply amazing... its like having a 15 minute planet earth episode for free every week or so! you can subscribe to their torrents via rss or whatever

[link]

]]> =Legato895 http://Legato895.deviantart.com/journal/16748188/ http://Legato895.deviantart.com/journal/16748188/ Wed, 06 Feb 2008 01:50:13 PST
"I AM A HIGH SCHOOL STUDENT AND ME ALONG WITH SOME OF MY FRIENDS WERE THINKING OF MAKING A COMIC AND WE WE WONDERING IF WE SOULD USE SOME OF YOUR IMAGES. WE HAD ALSO WANTED TO SELL SOME COPIES OF THE COMIC TO OUR CLOSE FRIENDS. WE HAVE NO INTENTIONS TO STEAL ANY OF YOUR WORK; WE WERE ONLY BLOWN AWAY WITH YOUR AMAZING SKILLS AND WE HAD JUST WANTED TO MAKE A COMIC JUST FOR FUN AND SELL IT TO OUR CLOSE FRIENDS AND NO ONE ELSE. YOU WILL GET FULL CREDIT FOR YOUR IMAGES SO CAN WE PLEASE USE SOME OF YOUR IMAGES."

i haven't gone through my art, but you would be lucky to get more than one picture of the same thing... HOW DO YOU MAKE A COMIC USING INDIVIDUAL AND UNRELATED PICTURES?

oh god... it must be contagious through contact with digital communication...

*WEEPS*

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]]> =Legato895 http://Legato895.deviantart.com/journal/16585198/ http://Legato895.deviantart.com/journal/16585198/ Sat, 26 Jan 2008 17:37:27 PST
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that is bad enough, but my GOD read how brilliant the comments are!!! i'll copy and paste a few for the lazy lot of you... but these are seriously GOLD

"Jeff says: Gandlaf isn't an Ainu, he's an Istari, which is a physical embodiment of an Ainu spirit. True Ainu who have not taken on a certain manifestation in Middle Earth can take any physical shape they desire, so it would be impossible to calculate terminal velocity for an Ainu but, fortunately, it is possible to roughly calculate that of an Istari, which has a semi-permanent shape and form, which I would estimate to be about ~120% of a human in height. Gandalf is just over 7' tall, and we can assume the average human in Middle Earth is the same as on Earth about 5'10. Now, mass increase exponentially because we exist in three dimensions, so the increase in mass is not scalar and won't be 120% also. For sake of argument, I think we need to assume that Istari are proportioned like humans, so that 120% applies to height, width, and depth, meaning that the mass of an Istari is considerably more than 120% of a human. As an irregular shape, it's difficult to nail down, but I would put it at just a little less than double the mass of a human. A 20% increase in each dimension of a uniform shape (like a cube) would result in just over a 95% increase in mass. Of course, a creature that is long-lived and this large probably has considerably greater bone density, a larger heart, and larger lungs than humans, at least if evolutionary principles apply in Middle Earth, which is definitely unclear, given Tolkein's religious beliefs."

"Steve V. says: To add more complication to all this, let's go back and forget about terminal velocity and realize that there are other things happening if you can accelerate towards the center of the earth for 104 seconds. In this case gravity is not constant, but is decreasing towards the center. Offhand, that makes a difference of about 2% in the gravitational force at the end of the plunge - mostly negligible. What would happen if it went to the center? Weightlessness. And if the hole goes all the way through? Periodic motion down to the center, up to the other side to zero speed, then reverse and start back all the way through. How many seconds to get to the center? Need to do an integral... Then another thing is forgotten. The radial velocity - the earth is spinning at the same angular velocity, but the linear velocity varies based on radius. The balrog's sideways motion does not vary with radius (depth) and the vector direction was determined when he started falling, but the hole orientation is rotating with the earth. The balrog would presumably hit the wall when falling far enough. Need to do the complete math here - the real thing is that the balrog is doing a truncated orbit... Have fun."

"Eutychus says: Oh, and wouldn't there be updrafts due to hot air rising up the chasm, especially being so near to the mantle? (And it says here that under mountains the crust can go up to 80km thick)."

"some dude says: ...you are assuming the gravity and atmosphere density in middle earth are known. BUT ARE THEY??!?!?"

"Ian says: I'd like to point out a possible flaw in this... Balrogs are creatures of fire and shadow... so.. it might not necessarily HAVE a mass... Sorry..."

simply brilliant

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