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(Read article summary)Celebrate Fourth of July with these festive and fun flag brownies. Red velvet serves as the base and a creamy frosting provides the perfect combination for red, white, and blue!
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These flag brownies will make a great addition to a Fourth of July party.
I don't pay much attention to M&Ms since I don't really eat them unless they're in a cookie. But I've been marginally aware that there seems to be an explosion of them on the shelves in all sorts of flavors: dark chocolate, white chocolate, mint, peanut butter, almond, coconut, pretzel, and who knows what else besides the ubiquitous plain and peanut.
I'm also aware that they put out specially colored ones around certain holidays: pastels for Easter, black and orange for Halloween, red and green for Christmas, browns and oranges for the "autumn mix." So I thought for sure I'd find red, white, and blue ones. Wrong.
So I improvised. I already knew I wanted to make these red velvet brownies again because they're delicious. And, fortunately, the white chocolate frosting provides a nice background color for the flag background. In a regular bag of plain M&Ms, the red was already the right color. The blue was not since it leans more toward teal than the dark blue of the American flag, but they will have to suffice. Mini M&Ms are best for small brownie flags.
I advise designing with your M&Ms on a piece of parchment first before you start dropping them onto the frosted brownie, just to make sure you know how you want your flag to look. The fun part of this exercise for me was that it forced me to really look at the flag and know which color stripe was on top, which is just below the blue portion, and which was on the bottom. My first attempt was a little sketchy so I had to try a second one for a slight improvement. For the rest of the pan, I used red, white, and blue sprinkles and was able to cut them smaller since it didn't matter how many sprinkles are on each one. You get the idea.


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It's too early for that talk, I still remember when in 1999 Drew Bledsoe was the half way point MVP. The rest of the season was the worst I have ever seen a QB been dreadful. I know that Brady is different but look how McNabb has cooled off after that fast start. I do hope that he is finally MVP of the season when it is done though.
They mentioned mid season NFL MVP's on the NFL Network yesterday and much to my surprise, 2 on the panel said Brady due to losing his 2 WR's and also losing the clutch kicker of all time and have the Team 6-1 at week 9 is amazing!
As I read it, Glazer was handing out first half awards, so Tommy is his MVP for weeks 1-8, not a bad accolade given the Pats' progress since preseason...this is the one I liked: One last sharp stick to the eye of the monkey spankers.


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And this is what I am doing here with you. You may be aware, you may not be aware of it, but this whole experiment is to create in you as much love energy as possible. Man can be transformed into pure love energy. Just as there is atomic energy discovered by physics, and a small atom can explode into tremendous power, each cell of your heart can explode into tremendous love. That love is called ishq. Sufism is the path of love.
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Theology thinks about God. That is the very meaning of theology; it consists of two words, theo and logy: logic about God, contemplation, thinking, philosophizing, speculation about God. Sufism does not think about God, because, Sufis say, how can you think about God? Thinking is utterly inadequate. You can think about the world, but you cannot think about God. You can only be in love with God, so it is not a theology, but it is a method. It is an experiment in your consciousness, an experiment to transform it from gross energy into subtle energy, from material energy into divine energy.
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Tend to think the Vikings would move down in round one with Matthews available tempting teams. With that said, Barr is a solid pick in a not trade draft.
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I consider ealy more of a 4-3 LDE than anything. Don't think he has a real fit in a 2 gap 3-4.
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I consider ealy more of a 4-3 LDE than anything. Don't think he has a real fit in a 2 gap 3-4.
4-3 LDE is exactly what Ealy is.
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First thing is first... Love the effort... I always like seeing someone put in the time to do both Free Agency and a multi round mock draft... Well done.
Now on to the Pats...
Love the signing of Arthur Jones DT Ravens... Fills a position of need with a guy who has ties to the team through his brother. I liked him coming out of college, and now that he has developed, he would be a great player to sign so we could focus on other positions in the draft.
As for the draft picks for the Pats...
Not a big fan of taking an interior OL in the first round, but Yankey is the pick I would complain about least. We have done it before, with Mankins, but I think we have too many needs to have an interior OL in the first. Value can be found later in the draft, especially with Swanson and Richburg still on the board
I definitely think this is a draft where the Patriots move back and acquire picks...
HUGE fan of Jean-Baptiste in the second round. Long, athletic corner just scratching the surface of his DB potential... I think he will have a nice combine and will rise due to the en vogue tall corner in today's NFL, but if he falls to there in the second round, I would be pumped to scoop him up.
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Love the FA (Sanchez is ok Pick)
But rather have Matthews than Evans But love the 2nd
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I would be fine with that in FA and the draft. Not bad work here.
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Realistic Bengals offseason. You have vinny Rey signing with us but the commentary sounds like he goes to Minnesota. But the draft is very realistic
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Very solid for the Titans I love the FA signing of Smith and Moreno....for the draft Lewan is fine but in but in the 2nd give us Dee Ford or Kyle Van Noy (dont need rb that early if we sign moreno)
Props to Kempes ^
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Bortles would be an excellent pick but after that the picks are horrible. We won't draft a RB with the first round pick we got for trading a RB. Alfred Morris was a 6th round pick. Ryan Shazier doesn't fit into a 3-4. Is he am OLB or ILB, because we need an ILB. I know those two players play at Ohio State, but it doesn't mean that Cleveland has to draft them. We have bigger needs at OG and WR. We can get a RB in the 3rd or 4th round and an IL in the 3rd or 4th round we have two picks in both of those rounds.
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If the Bears cut Julius Peppers and let Henry Melton walk, they are going to walk away with more than just Randy Starks in free agency.
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Posted: Tue Feb 18, 2014 6:58 pm
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Was a fun look through... thanks for your efforts. I doubt SF can and will re-sign both Whitner and Brown... my $$$$ is on Whitner out of the two. Would be pleased to have Boldin back.
The draft? eh... I like Tuitt, so no major complaint. We don't see DL as a strong need though. I like the selection of Jarvis Landry. Not a fan of Robey though... would love to see Jimmie Ward from NIU selected there, since he's available. He can play safety and NCB for us.
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The Gnat
: It's tough to say what teams think of the top tackles. With a draft this apparently top heavy (unlike last year's) it won't be surprising to see most teams stand pat.
: Ealy's best fit is probably the 4-3 based on the player he is now. That said, we've seen countless 4-3 college DEs be converted to 3-4 OLBs.
: Thanks. I think the Yankey pick comes at my skepticism at the Patriots going with a tight end in the first round. With the Patriots, I always consider how often they change their identity on offense. Although I do believe they will pick one within the first 3 rounds, I don't think they see the value in round one. They seem more of a "first thing's first" type team rather than a draft-for-this type team.
: Evans is a guy I like to get off the board as soon as possible. I think he's a really good player.
: Thanks.
: Nice catch, thanks.
: That is a valid point.
: I think Shazier wouldn't be bad in the 3-4. In terms of need, I have the Browns signing Decker so that crosses R off the early draft list.
: I previously had them sign Byrd, but I think he may be tagged. It's tough to tell who else they would target. I'm not hearing a whole lot from them in terms of FA they're targeting but I do plan on adding a few more free agents in my next version.
: Interesting. I feel like Whitner may be the odd man out then and Ward would make sense then in the top 2-3 rounds.
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so let me get this right........ Cleveland signs Ben Tate in the offseason..... and then takes a 3rd round running back in the first round.
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Speaker Events - March 11, 2014
IPI President Rød-Larsen Visits Azerbaijan
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This work reports on baseline fatigue and cumulative fangue damage results of mild steel under cyclic strain control All cumulative damage tests were conducted with a step loading in a decreasing order, from a high strain amplitude of 0.4 or 0.3% to a lower one of 0.2%. Different mean strain values of −0.2, 0, and 0.2% were applied in each strain amplitude level. Seven combinations of strain amplitude and mean strain were investigated. It was observed that cyclic softening in the second level was significantly stabilized by the presence of the first level, which accounts for approximately 20% of the total fatigue life. Mean stress relaxation in the second level depended upon the loading in the first level and was similar to that for single-level loading under certain strain amplitudes and mean strains. The damage summations in terms of cycle ratio (Miner's damage sum), both with and without mean strain correction, were calculated and discussed. For all of the cases investigated, the average damage summations were found to be in the range of 0.94 to 1.28. The degree of approximation and the deviation of each individual test from unity depends on whether mean strain correction was made. The competing effects of mean stresses induced and plastic deformation tended to overshadow the more classical loading sequence effects in terms of the damage summation. Fatigue damage accumulation has also been analyzed using Continuum Damage Mechanics modeling. The sources of the deviation of damage summation from unity and the nonlinear accumulation of damage are discussed.
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The independent Commission of Inquiry was established by the Premier of the Western Cape by Proclamation on 24 August 2012.
The Commission is mandated to investigate complaints received by the Premier relating to allegations of inefficiency of the South African Police Service (SAPS) stationed at three police stations in Khayelitsha, as well as other units of SAPS operating in Khayelitsha. It must also investigate a breakdown in relations between the Khayelitsha community and members of the SAPS stationed at the three police stations in Khayelitsha and other policing units operating in the area.
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The Commission must compile a written report containing the findings of the Commission pertaining to the investigation, as well as recommendations as to how any inefficiency in the delivery of police services, or a breakdown in relations between the community of Khayelitsha and the South African Police Service, where they are found to exist, may be alleviated or remedied.
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Prague - Middle-aged Czech men and women are satisfied with their sexual life and give an even more positive rating to their partnership relationships, according to a poll conducted by the STEM/MARK in the past weeks and released today.
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The poll was conducted on a sample of 805 men and 800 women below 65 years with the expert help from the Sexological Institute.
"The results have surprised us. The percentage of those satisfied is substantially lower in similar surveys conducted abroad," sexologist Petr Weiss said.
"This is why we expected a much worse results among Czechs who tend to be generally dissatisfied," Weiss said.
Satisfaction with sexual life was voiced by 57.2 percent of those polled and with current partnership relationship by 76.5 percent.
Czechs consider open communication and good mood vital for good sex, Weiss said.
Fatigue, headache and overwork are the most frequent reasons cited by women when refusing sex.
Almost 30 percent prefer to pretend sleeping to sex, the poll found.
Men mostly cite fatigue and stress at work as reasons to refuse sex, Weiss said.
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This topic may have been addressed, but I couldn't find a specific discussion in the archives.
I have taken to carrying a late 1960's 4 inch S&W Model 10-5 and an '80's era 2 inch Colt Agent on occasion. Both have fully exposed hammers.
I like them in IWB the 1 o'clock position which works well with loose pants and untucked rugby and golf shirts.
One o'clock works best for me because of the discomfort with the car seat and seatbelt apparatus at 3 through 6 o'clock. The trade-off is, of course, having one less round at the ready.
Well you can imagine where the muzzle is pointing while I'm in the car or otherwise sitting! For this reason, the hammer is on an empty chamber. I was brought up to do that anyway. I'm not sure how the hammer would be struck hard enough to cause a discharge while in situ, but given where the muzzle is pointing.......And there's always the danger of dropping it while taking the rig on and off.
To my point: It seems that some revolvers have a safety mechanism that prevents discharge when the hammer is struck, or when the weapon is dropped. Is there a way to know if MY revolvers have these features? Given their age, I kind of doubt it.


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Pork Paprikash
Sweet paprika and sour cream share the spotlight with pork in this Hungarian classic, adding spice and creaminess to the dish. Buttered egg noodles soak up the sauce.
- Prep:
- Total Time:
- Servings: 4
Source: Everyday Food, December 2007
- Coarse salt and ground pepper
- 8 ounces wide egg noodles
- 1 tablespoon butter, cut into pieces
- 1 pork tenderloin (about 1 pound), excess fat and silver skin removed, halved lengthwise, then cut
- 2 tablespoons sweet paprika
- 2 tablespoons olive oil
- 1 medium onion, chopped
- 1 can (14 ounces) whole peeled tomatoes in juice
- 1/2 cup sour cream
- Chopped parsley, for garnish (optional)
Bring a large pot of salted water
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Meanwhile, in a medium bowl, combine
pork with 1 tablespoon paprika; season with salt and pepper, and toss to coat. In a large skillet, heat 1 tablespoon oil over medium-high; cook pork, tossing occasionally, until lightly browned on all sides, 3 to 5 minutes. Transfer to a plate (reserve skillet). -
Return skillet to stove; reduce heat to medium. Add remaining tablespoon oil and onion; cook until onion is soft, 4 to 5 minutes. Add pork, remaining tablespoon paprika, tomatoes with their juice, and 1/2 cup water; bring to a boil. Reduce to a simmer; cook, until sauce is slightly thickened, breaking up tomatoes with a spoon, 2 to 4 minutes.
Remove skillet from heat, and stir
in sour cream; season with salt and pepper. Serve paprikash over noodles, garnished with parsley, if desired.
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Judi23 29 Sep, 2014
To finish: so that the paprika melts in the fat for full flavour. Be careful not to burn the paprika. Then add the meat and finish cooking. You will have a nice thick sauce as very little if any, etra liquid will be neexed. With pork tenderloin you may need a bit but add spari gly, little by little so as not to over liquify. To thicken sauce if needed , use immersion blender or blender to liqufy onions etc into sauce. Add back to meat and add sour cream. Add salt to taste.
Judi23 29 Sep, 2014
I am sure that this recipie tastes fine but, as a Hungarian, Yhis is not the way ro cook paprikash anything, and I would hesitate to call it such. More often than not we do not brown meat for paprikash as it a) gets a great color from the paprika and b) we want some moisture from the meat to help create the sauce. This way we don't have to add much water or stock. We add a tomato or two and some green pepper to add flavour. We also sautee the onions in oil or fat then add paprika to this mixture
Marianna Taranenko 4 Sep, 2013
Thanks a lot for this wonderful recipe, my boyfriend enjoyed it a lot. I made my own corrections, adding some mushrooms, garlic, riped tomatoes instead of whole ones, cream instead of sour cream and served with some Parmesan . Amazing
Holly3 11 Jul, 2013
I thought this was delicious, however just wanted to note that I had to simmer (low boil really) at the end for 15-20 minutes for the sauce to thicken. Would still make it again, but was surprised no other reviews mentioned this. I followed the given measurements but after 2-4 minutes it was completely watery and the tomatoes hadn't broken down at all.
lunamother 10 Jun, 2013
So fast and easy. My whole family (including kids, 6 and 9) loved this meal. The meat was tender (and even more so the next day) and the sauce so flavorful. Made exactly as the recipe reads, though I did double it, with a 28-oz. can of tomatoes.
supakat77 5 Dec, 2011
I have made this twice so far. The first time I made it exactly as the recipe states except I used some chicken stock instead of water...it was delicious. Just made it again tonight but switched it up using things I needed to use up from my fridge. I used chicken, veggie stock, crushed tomatoes and used half sweet paprika and half smoked paprika...it was even better this way! Recipe is a keeper and is easy to modify to your taste...and it tastes great left over, can't wait to eat it tomorrow!
Sheryll 29 Sep, 2010
I just must try this recipe really soon. I have always made it with a three to four pound pork roast in my pressure cooker and have not made it in years, because it was just too much food.......... wow and can not wait to try this shorter, smaller version.
HillcrestStudio 3 Jun, 2010
Absolutely delicious
Cookingcutie11 22 May, 2010
This was really delicious, but I used smoked paprika since I love it. The flavors were great, and the pork was nice and tender.
MsLiza 14 Mar, 2010
I've made Chicken Paprika hundreds of times, now I'll try pork
LadyDebbie 24 Jan, 2010
IMO is a non-dairy sour cream substitite. You can usually find it in the dairy case next to the sour cream.
NCPetMommy 15 Jul, 2009
Loved this recipe! I cut it in half since it was just my hubby and I, and was sorry I did, there weren't any leftovers for lunch the next day. I can't wait to make this again - the full batch!
blaukehlchen 17 Dec, 2008
Phylblade, I think what CathyWren refers to by IMO is this: Isomaltooligosaccharide (IMO-500): This is derived from refined corn starch. It is a substitute for sugar. It is used in carbonic and lactic acid drinks, fruit drinks, confectionery, dairy products, health care products and pharmaceuticals. (All info found by googling IMO non dairy.)
voonkahyan 13 Dec, 2008
we need put how many water on it?
voonkahyan 13 Dec, 2008
we need put how many water on it??
Phylblade 11 Dec, 2008
CathyWren, what is IMO?
Terri08 10 Dec, 2008
they say on the rest of the comments that it's 1/2 cup water
Terri08 10 Dec, 2008
how many cups of water?
Applemom3 9 Dec, 2008
I made it for dinner tonight with cut up chicken breasts instead of pork. Loved it!
KathleenCullen 9 Dec, 2008
Thank you Adina, will try it this week...
KathleenCullen 9 Dec, 2008
Thank you Adina, will try it this week...
Adina 9 Dec, 2008
Adina from Everyday Food here! Thanks to everyone who pointed out the missing water measurement. In step 3, you should add 1/2 cup water. The recipe will be corrected shortly.
raeganlady 9 Dec, 2008
Probably about 1 or 1.5 cup water or use chicken/veggie broth
jgrynberg 9 Dec, 2008
It works really well with chicken - and I use a sweet onion instead of a regular yellow one. Really tasty.
ulihelisdi 9 Dec, 2008
Why use sour cream at all, why not use non fat plain yogurt, it works well.
CathyWren 9 Dec, 2008
My family's Hungarian. Mom use to use IMO in her paprikash recipes, so non-dair is probably ok. Also, the dish is originally made with chicken, so chicken's fine! What I wonder is how about using low-fat sour cream? Wonder if it would change any of the properties...?
Also, wouldn't it be great if the recipes on Martha's site listed nutritional info?
mfj 9 Dec, 2008
Could this be done with chicken?
CCiraco 9 Dec, 2008
Yes I noticed that font error as well. Also, I'm lactose intolerant, would it be just as good without the sour cream...I hate those "non dairy" substitutes. Or could I add something different? Corn starch to thicken it??
NicknAZ 6 Dec, 2008
The water measuremetn isn't clear. It appears there was a glitch causing a font error. Please update soon.


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I was asked by an aspiring 3d artist who was about a year from actually attending college, for some advice about the gaming industry and this is what I had to say to her. She was specifically thinking about going to Digipen, which is the same college I went to. But the advice applies to just about any school that offers a program in "video game' 3d art.
Well, there are a few things I'd suggest you do, if you have the goal of being a 3D Artist in the gaming industry.
First off, you need to really decide if you want to aim for the gaming industry or production film 3d.
Most schools that offer degrees in 3D Animation could go either way. The big animation projects that they all have you do are big prerendered, storyboarded 3d animated sequencees - which is obviously much more along the lines of film production. The limitations and techniques used in a planed out, storyboarded 30sec/1-2min animation are entirely different from the limitations and techniques used in real-time game art.
While these sort of assignments can still be valuable in teaching you different, important, techniques, they do literally nothing to prepare you for actual game industry work flow.
This means that you will need to do a little self-imposed focusing.
In the actual game industry, most people are fairly specialized into at least a couple smaller niches. There are overall generalists, as well, and they're still valuable, but being specialized in a specific area, and then a generalist in several others, is usually more valuable.
From my time in school, I remember it seemed like everyone wanted to make characters. I think that's just a big thing for school-aged kids. The idea of making the characters seems cool.
Problem is that there are very few character positions, and it's very hard to get good enough at it to be competitive - especially when you're first trying to break into the industry.
At our studio, we have 8 level artists, and 1 character artist. I'm the studio's character rigger, and terrain/prop generalist.
So if you want to go into characters, realize that you'll have to get really effing good at it, to compete.
Terrain/Environment/Level artist positions are way more plentiful. But again - making environment art for a video game, and making it for a production animation are VASTLY DIFFERENT. When I was in digipen, it was back before they offered the BFA program, so I was in a 2-year associates program. We only had TWO assignments, my entire time there, that specifically involved video game terrain art. The rest were much more like production-animation type projects.
If you really want to get good and be really competitve when you start job hunting, you'd probably be best served to self-impose some additional work on yourself, or bend some of the class assignments to allow you an opportunity to practice your desired specialty.
My husband Justin, went to Digipen too, and he currently works in the industry as an effects/particle artist. Obviously there were no effects or particle assignments the entire time we were at digipen. But he knew that's what he wanted to do.
Every assignment we had, he would find some way to squeeze in all these extra crazy effects, or reactor/havoc objects, or he'd have burning torches, or simulated water or SOMETHING, going on, in the background. He didn't need to do it to get the assignment done. But he wanted to get better at that specific thing, so he always squeezed it in.
It's made him really valuable too, because no one really focuses on things like that when they teach 3d classes, so no one focuses on learning it while in school. There aren't a lot of 3d artists who know how to use reactor, or havoc, or particle flow, or voxels, when they come out of school. Even 5+ year industry veterans usually don't know shit about those things. So he's really valuable to a studio.
I learned complex rigging things and it's made me valuable. Rigging, in most studios, is not a full-time job. There isn't usually enough work to keep a rigger busy full-time, so it's important that I can also generalize in other fields. But no one else here, knows how to do, what I do, with the rigging. Even our lead character artist really sucks at skinning (Although he's a fucking god with zbrush). So I'd say, my best advice, is to spend some time trying out a lot of different things, early on, and try to pinpoint one specialized thing that will set you apart from the other hordes of experience-less grads, and spend your time at school intentionally getting really good at that one or two things.
Specialize in terrain. Specialize in character modeling. Specialize in character animation. Specialize in effects. Specialize in object-animation. Pick something and get really good at it, and learn the basics of as much of the rest as you can manage.
As a final bit of advice - learn either 3dstudio max, or maya, or both. Digipen will cover both, in separate years. It's really REALLY good, to actually be able to use both apps, because you never know which the studio you go to will be using.
If you aim for character animation, you might want to learn SoftImage XSI, or Motion Builder.
Do Not bother with blender. Yes it's free. Yes, it's actually a really decent 3D app, especially considering it's free. But it is not used by anyone in the industry.
Learning that specific package will not prepare you for working in an actual studio. Get the student versions of 3dsmax and Maya. You can get both of them, fully-functional and legally for THREE WHOLE YEARS under the student learning license. IT'S FREE FOR THREE YEARS. There is NO REASON not to get them.
Also, if you want to aim for characters, start to really study anatomy. Like REALLY study.
Get one of those books, like Anatomy for Artists (Good book, will probably be required for one of your classes anyways - it was when I went there) and try drawing a human and animals from the inside-out.
Draw some basic forms of the bones. Don't waste your time and effort trying to draw every rib or metatarsal bone, but get the general shape and mass of all of the big solid bits, and then draw the muscles over top.
Focus on specific areas. Like, just draw the upper-torso and the arm and focus on the muscles of the upper-arm and shoulder as it connects to the chest. Learning this stuff will seriously improve your drawings and understanding of real living creatures.
Also, if you're aiming for characters and creatures, Zbrush is an important tool to learn, but don't try to just jump straight into the surper high poly mesh. Get a very solid, well-proportioned base mesh first and work up gradually. I see so many n00b lumpy red deform-o heads where the person tried to jump into the high detail stuff without getting a solid base structure in first.
For normal map creation on environment art, I recommend you get and try out a program called Crazybump. It's really becoming a standard in the industry and it is insanely helpful and it's even cheap enough that you might not need to pirate it at first. lol.
In response to that I was then asked to go into some more detail on the terrain/level artists job, this was my response:
Every level will have a lead level artist who is primarily responsible for overseeing the whole thing, maintaining consistency and quality, and working with the designer to make it work for gameplay.
On next-gen titles, the level artist will usually have several junior artists working under him/her to help with specific pieces, sections of the level, and props.
In smaller teams, it may just be a level artist who is solely responsible for the whole level, and then pass it off to a junior artist who will do a collision pass.
As a level artist, you literally model and texture the whole darn level. The floors/ground, walls, buildings, fenses, trees, furniture, light fixtures, plants, fountains, cars, whatever, etc. etc.
Most studios will have a repository of objects and props, and often times have dedicated prop artists who will make key objects, and more complicated-reusable objects like cars, and you'll be able to draw from that repository for items so you don't always have to make absolutely everything though.
Also, it's often very very encouraged to reuse assets that have already been created by other people on the team, for the sake of consistency, and saving time. And saving on resources - why make five different brick textures when you can easily get away with two?
The lead level artist will also be responsible for lighting the level and the atmosphere settings. Lighting is done in two passes in next-gen games. The first pass is a baked-in lighting simulation where the lights placed in the level are used to calculate what value the vertexes should be and then those values are 'baked' into the geometry data.
The second pass are the realtime lights that can cast shadows (If your engine and hardware support it) and can be animated if need be (ex. if you have a lamp, hanging on a chain and it's getting blown by the wind - the light is attached to the animated object and moves with it, so that you can get dynamic lighting.)
Now, any objects in the environment that move, react to the player, explode, whatever - are handed off to one of the environment animators once they've been modeled and textured. So you generally don't have to worry about doing that stuff, as a level artist. You still usually have to make it for them, and they may have requests like having you set up multiple states of something if it can get damaged or get destroyed. Make a clean state and then a broken state and they'll transition between the two.
Weather effects, fires, explosions, sparks on electrical wires, etc. - those tasks will go to the effects artist
Water will depend on a few things. If it's just a 'faked' animated-texture water, then the level artist will still probably be responsible for it. Say you're in some jungle setting and there's a water fall. The level artist will probably have to do *some* work on it. But they'll be working closely with the effects artist since they'll still have to add a lot on top of everything. The effects artist may just be assigned the whole darn thing too.
If it's "real" simulated water, especially if it's water that the player can swim in, or interact with, then it will be engine specific. In our games, we have a gameobject called a 'water box' that we place. It's just a reference box and in the software, it looks like an untextured box. But it has custom attributes that we have to edit that get exported. We can set the under water fog color and density. Distance, etc. And we can assign a custom-made ref map for the surface. The engine takes that information and creates the water in game real-time.
These are responses to additional questions I've received:
Q-- presentation to senior high school students a lot of them thought they would spend a lot of their time playing/testing games...
A-- Well, I'll definitely say that in the later stages of making the game, you will still do plenty of playing and testing it. lol. You make an adjustment/bug fix/lighting change, and you have to run the level, run around to wherever the change/fix was made, and make sure it's actually fixed.
When you're working on one specific level for weeks, the background music to that level is like, embedded in your brain. Especially since it'll remain paused, on the dev station in your office for hours and when you're going back and forth over and over you can't really shut it off...
But this is usually just the level geometry without the actual NPC population. So it's not like you're 'playing' the level. Just running around in it to check stuff.
Now if they actually want to be testers, there are still plenty of those jobs, but its far from glamorous. The pay is fairly low, and the hours SUCK. I'm talking about some serious overtime, and working weekends and holidays if a big deadline is coming up.
Q-- I'm fond of thinking about plots, gameplay, how to do this..
A-- Plots and gameplay are things that designers deal with. Designers arethe ones who figure out how the actual game play is going to go, and the lead designer might be partially responsible for helping to come up with the story and possibly some actual writing. It'll depend on the studio. Some studios hire actual writers, like, legitimate authors. In some places, the head of the studio may be primarily responsible for coming up with the story.
Designers have to deal with a lot of technical scripting, but not actual programming. Again, their duties will depend a lot on what studio they're working at. A lot of studios have complex, fancy, level editors and the Designers will work in that, setting up nodes and scripting events.
Q-- How much do you interact with your programmers? Who writes shaders: artists, programmers, or a mix of both?
A-- In our studio we have a technical artist who is primarily responsible for writing the shaders, but he works closely with one of our coders. He and the programmers do a lot of work together. He sort of acts as the bridge between the art and code department.
There are two programmers at our studio who are both assigned to working out the character system - One is working mostly on the character animation and traversal system, and the other one is working a lot on the combat system, and they've both had to come to me fairly frequently so I can set up files for them to test with. For the combat guy, I'm always having to work on the 'hardpoints' (the dummy objects that are exported with the character that define where the weapons and accessories appear on the character).
So it really depends on what that programmer is working on, as to who they interact with in the art team.
Q-- I'm going to tell you point-blank that I love Blender.
A-- I never claimed that it's not a perfectly good enough 3d application, and you can certainly make some great stuff in it. However you will never get a job at a real game studio and use it. No one in the industry, unless they're indie, uses blender. Coming to a studio that uses Maya when all you know is Max is challenging. Same as vice versa. That's why it's best to learn both. At least, get really good at one, and know the general use of the other. At least if you learn one of those two applications, you've got basically a 50/50 chance of knowing how to use the software that your employer will need you to know. If all you know is blender there's like a 2% chance you might get a job that uses that package.
No one uses it. If you're going to spend months learning to use a package, its a much better use of your time and effort to learn a package that will be used in your future job.
Q-- any idea on an average pay? i mean i'd love to model stuff but i still gotta feed myself. i am guessing its pretty crap for first starters...right?
A-- My first job in the industry was as a contract artist. I was paid hourly and I got $12/hr. After 3 months I got a raise to $15/hr. At 9 months I got hired on salary. I started around $32k/yr. Every year I've gotten a raise. I'm now sitting at 5 years experience and I make $45k/yr.
The pay is also representative of where you live, though. I'm in central Oregon and the cost of living is lower here than in Cali or the Seattle area. If I was working at a studio in Seattle, I'd probably be getting a fair bit more than that.
But it costs a lot more to live there too. So it's variable.
Q -- What about breaking into Video Game Concept art?
A -- The concept artist has to be really really effing good. They have to be fast. They have to be diverse. They have to be good at drawing and painting from scratch, and be good at paint overs. They need to be able to do environment art as well as characters. In fact, the environment art is going to get a lot more use. Our concept artist does almost all level paint-over and level concept stuff.
His stuff is for lighting and atmosphere reference too. He helps set the color and mood that we use for a level.
He does paint-overs of the layout stage art to give us direction.
I think to get a job as a concept artist you just have to have an epically baddass portfolio and be able to demonstrate that you can be really fast when needed.
Q -- What is the industry like in other countries?
A -- I'm afraid that I have no idea. I've only ever lived and worked in the United States, and that's as far as my experience goes.
Q -- How best to break into the industry?
A -- This is probably the hardest part for a new grad. Actually getting that first job.
The biggest reason its so hard is because most studios won't even look at someone who has no previous experience.
It's like they've got someone in human resources who sifts through the initial applications and on their first pass they just go through each and everyone and so "Any experience? No? Trash can." The second question they ask is "A degree? No. Trash can." And this is before they even look at your portfolio. The HR person might not actually look at your portfolio at all - they're just there to narrow down the list before it gets sent to someone who actually WILL look at your portfolio.
So how do you get around this?
Well, you just apply to every freaking job you can stumble across, and send your portfolio and resume to every studio's firstname.lastname@example.com address you can find. Chances are that this won't get you very far, but do it anyway.
Honestly, the best way to get a job is to know someone who is already on the inside.
Networking is a HUGE part of getting a job in this industry.
Whenever we have had an open position, long before any notice is actually posted online, the art manager will ask us all in some art meeting if we know anyone who would fit the job. We throw out some names, send the people we know a line and see if they're looking for work, and anyone who is, will send back their samples.
We usually hire someone without ever even posting the job listing anywhere on the net.
So... that sucks for you.
But all the more reason to send your stuff -again and again- to every studio you find, even if their site doesn't list that they're hiring. Just because it doesn't say it, doesn't mean that they really aren't.
And just because you already sent your work to Naughty Dog doesn't mean that you cant send it again in another month. I'm not telling you to spam the living shit out of every studio - try to space it a month between your emails, but keep at it. You have to be really persistent, and while you're job hunting, keep working on improving your portfolio.
It took me 9 months after graduation to get my first job. Some people take way longer than that. Just don't give up, and realize that you will probably have to be willing to move. There is no guarantee that you'll find a job in your ideal city. You have to go where the job is when you're still a n00b and desperate for experience.
Q-- what would you recommend someone to focus on who is wanting to do animation for videogames and currently pursuing a degree in animation?
A-- We have our character animators who deal with the mocap, and deal with creating and managing the animations for the cinematic sequences, as well as preparing and exporting the animations so that the coders can get all of that working for traversal and combat, etc. The character animator is pretty much swamped with what he's got going on.
The object animators deal with all of the environment objects that move and change. Even something as simple as 'the player walks over and rolls a barrel over to get to a hole in the wall behind it'. That barrel's path has to be set up by someone, and that someone is one of the object animators.
Of course it also applies to really complex things like Helicopter flying in the sky getting shot down and crashing to the ground. The effects artist will also play a big role in something like that since there will be fire and explosions and such, but the rotating blades, broken pieces, things flying off, and the actual collision with the ground - all animated by someone.
Q-- How far does your rigging go? Adding the skeleton and weighting and the face modifiers? or is there more than that?
A-- This is the answer for the studio that I'm working at right now, however this is not how it will work everywhere all the time. The characters that go directly into the game are simply skinned to a skeleton. The skeleton doesn't even have IK or anything attached to it. It is simply a hiarchy of bones that recieve animation data.
The characters that I hand off to the animators are actually set up for a program called Motion Builder, which is the animation software that we use to create our animations. The animators import in the motion capture data that we've had made, and then they clean it up and make adjustments, or use bits and pieces and then hand-animate what we need in addition to it.
I set the skeletons up with FBIK (Full Body IK) before I export it out of Maya and into motion builder. In there I set up a lot of controllers, and custom drivers to make working with the rig easier for the animators.
When they're done in motion builder, it takes all of the data and keys from the IK and controllers and bakes it into the bones so that when it goes into the engine it drives the skeleton properly.
Q-- What is zbrush? you've mentioned it a few times and I don't remember seeing anything called specifically zBrush in maya.
A-- Zbrush is a stand-alone package from a company called Pixologic. --> www.deviantart.com/users/outgo…
Zbrush is used for 'sculpting' incredibly detailed, high poly meshes. Most everyone in the industry uses it for character creation. They create the super detailed high poly mesh in zbrush, and they use it to create a normal map that is applied to much simpler, lower poly geometry.
Q-- A few of my teachers have mentioned art tests. What do they entail exactly?
A-- This will depend a lot on what studio you're applying to, but generally speaking, they will give you a specific task and a time frame to do it. Depending on the position you're applying to, it could be a specific building, a room, an animation, or a character. They will probably provide you with some reference or concept art and a list of restrictions that you have to work within.
Q-- So I've decided to specialize in Prop art and I'm wondering if you can help me out with some inspiration for real "Holy Shit"-quality props I could do for my portfolio?
A-- It's hard to say would would be 'holy shit' quality props. I think that diversity would be key.
Do some science-tech props, some grimy industrial props, some organic props, like trees or moss and lichen covered rocks, and some every-day household stuff. Put together a couple small sets - like a phone pole next to a mailbox and a vending machine on a small slap of brick with some weeds growing out of the cracks - stuff like that.
You could do a small museum set piece. Have your king tut mask, but also make the display case, or pedestal, and have some other artifacts near it.
If anyone has further questions, throw them my way, and I'll probably add them to this lecture thing.


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Dear David, Get onboard the bus or skip the deduction. Your headquarter employees are receiving a tax-free fringe benefit. However, that doesn't mean the field office employees can invent their own tax law.
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