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Randomized Signature Block
For years I updated the signature for my email client manually – until I got fed up… That’s why I wrote a script to create a randomized signature block automatically from an RSS feed! Check it out 😀 In this workshop you’ll customize the script for your needs! In my setting I use Linux and…
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3D Earth Scene with WebGL
We live in times of abundant narcissism, that’s where the idea for the 3D scene „Planet Smiling Selfie“ came from. The code was provided by the educators of the online course 3D Graphics for Web Developers. I replaced earth’s map with a giant self-made smiley but left earth’s specular map & clouds. Then I created…
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Designing a Space in 3D (Task)
For the 3D animation „Titanic’s Victims – Echoes from the Sea Floor“ I imagined a remote-controlled submarine with a spotlight transmitting noisy video & spooky sounds from the ancient sunken passenger ship. Download the original video file for better (noise) quality! This is my first Blender project, so I had to learn a few things,…
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Switching from LastPass to Firefox Sync
I use my tablet more often recently, so I need my passwords on more than one device… I seized the opportunity to quit my password manager LastPass and switch to Firefox Sync (free software). LastPass offers a „Security Challenge“ which I employed to identify and change weak passwords during the migration – logging into all…
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Pixilation Task Revisited
For „Yogilation – A Pixelated Yogi in Pixilation“ I videotaped myself practicing yoga and extracted the relevant frames with VLC (hotkeys „e“ for frame by frame navigation and „Ctrl+s“ for snapshot). I recycled the accordion music from my „Pixilation Task“, reversed it and applied the effect „Paulstretch“ with Audacity. For the graphical effects (brightness, contrast…
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Pixilation Task
For the pixilation „Accordilation – Accordion in Pixilation“ I videotaped myself playing accordion, grabbed four frames per second, added a title, applied a charcoal filter and merged the frames to video again. The course instructors curate pixilation animations in this playlist. I used the command-line interface (with a little help for ImageMagick and Libav) on…
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Cel Animation Task
For the cel animation „Walk Wait Wave“ I used the Stick Fighter app on my tablet for the stick figures and the video editor Quik to add the title as well as a nice background music: FilmoraGo is another good video editor, but it adds its name at the end of the video. The course instructors found…
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Stop Motion Task
For the stop motion animation „Cubing“ I set up my desk with three lamps for lighting, my laptop as background and a tablet with the Stop-Motion Movie Creator app for production: FutureLearn is a social learning environment at its heart – here are some social media tips and tools for social learners. The course instructors curate…
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Flip Book Task
My submission for the online course Explore Animation. I used GIMP to stitch together the individual pictures, reduce the number of colours and resize the final GIF animation: Thomas and Johnston’s twelve principles of animation are illustrated well by this video and also in these animations. The course instructors curate flipbooks in this playlist.
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Hacker’s Digest – Don’t Panic
Ich lese viel und gerne… Hier präsentiere ich einige meiner aktuellen Favoriten in alphabetischer Reihenfolge – und bin gespannt auf Tipps und Kommentare von euch! Romane Accelerando (Charles Stross) Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality (Eliezer Yudkowsky) Homo Faber (Max Frisch) Millennium (series) (Stieg Larsson & David Lagercrantz) Off to Be the Wizard (Scott Meyer) Ready Player One &…