an experiment in video

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tracerj did a 3-2-1-Contact inspired icon, but didn't nail the concentric hexagons to her satisfaction. I ended up thinking about how to do it enough that I tried it, then on a whim, recorded myself doing it.

The audio is just what my Powerbook's built-in mic could pick up while it's on my lap, so it's kinda low. Next time maybe I'll swipe Rik's headset or something. I also need to up the size of the keystroke display in the lower left. And maybe bring it into FCPro/iMovie for some post-production instead of just throwing Snapz' raw output onto Youtube.

Watch me forget which keys do which because I'm trying to talk at the same time!

video experiment 2: global color swatches

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"And it strikes me that I don't know a thing about global color swatches!" - ff00ff in the comments on my previous post
"Global color swatches are fucking awesome! They let me use a wonderfully-fluid color workflow I first did on Deluxe Paint back in '85 or so, that just kinda got lost in the transition from palettized displays to true-color displays." - me

So since the first one seemed to go over well, I made another quickie little video wherein I burble about how fucking awesome global color swatches are, and try to show you why.

Warning: contains me saying "fucking awesome" several times, and characterizations of other methods of changing a drawing's color palette as "a pain in the ass". Also the audio is still just being recorded by my laptop's little built-in mic because I'm lazy.