Larz Zahn

dude! it always takes me over 4 hours. if you know a faster way, pleaaassseeeeee tell it to me!!! thats why it takes me so long to finish one. i keep going back and forth cause i get so bored and fed up with it. i knew that the way i do things people see it as overly complicated and time comsuming. but its easier for me to focus like that. if someone tries to.. "mold me" in their way of doing things, i get so lost after a few minutes. but once i do it my way, it takes nearly half the time the first attempt did.

uh sure dude. i dont mind. excuse me for asking a (in my mind) a stupid question. an efficient way? i just use photoshop.... of course you could be talking about method. (hence the stupid question part. i am curious, how or what would you call an adaption of a gif? or is this one of those wait and see things? anyways, i posted the individual frames, i didnt bother with all the layers, cause its just duplicates of these. and i didnt worry about the words cause i figured you'd just want to look at the art. i cant post the psd file cause its 1.80+ megabytes. but if you wish i can email you it, that way you can disect the actual process i use, and even offer helpful advice on improving my existing technique and also if im doing something, well... inefficiently. like timing for example. im stealing your word ryuki. (efficient!) heres the last pic.

thanks guys hehe, i was sorta half asleep when i made the last frame... i also made the in betweens last. so.. are you saying that the last form is, not lined up properly, or the last of the transformation shot doesnt match the final aptom porportionally? personally i think its the last. like i said, i wasnt fully awake and it was the first picture of aptom i done. i think when i went back to do the transforming parts, i had a better grasp of what i was doing and what i wanted. still, i thought i fixed it. ryuki, would you want me to send you the individual frame shots?

1 of 3. form 1.

this one is pretty big. i guess i started to work on it with a wallpaper in mind, but after i looked at it finished, im not convinced it would make a good wallpaper after all. plus the color looks a little bland. i think making the glow look more... radiant would do better. just to forwarn everyone who wants to open it up. its about 1000 pixel tall about 900+ across. i needed a small refreshing break from a gif project im workin so i started and finished this in an hour. which surprised me, im kinda slow when it comes to photoshop.

good luck with english... i absolutely abhored all the term papers we were forced to do... stupid english classes.

news update. today a friend gave me a tv. its huge, like 40 inch and weighs over 300 pounds. not exagerating here either. how you ask? well, the tv is an old square tube set. not a flat or wide screen. a true dinosaur relic. and the picture is surprisingly great. now, i have only one qualm... for some reason, the screen will brighten or darken depending on what is being viewed. its slightly frequent, even more so if there is any lettering on screen like sub titles or credits. changing of the source of light in the movie will also trigger a brighten or darken change. i compensated by making the screen brighter so whatever is causing this isnt as sensitive as before, although at times it'll still do it. but this is not a big problem, i often forget its there unless its in a slow part or i get bored. im more confused and intrigued by this than aggiated. now what aggiates me is my dvd/surround sound combo. its a walmart cheep setup. i knew better than to try to use it but i did it anyway. the extra inputs are horrible, the color and sound are both distorted. the actual surround sound volume is not loud at all. at max levels, a person can talk louder than it by barely speaking above the normal inside voice. and the final crushing blow... the dvd player will always, ALWAYS, stall out during a movie. if it'll even play it blasted disc at all. and its not just this indivdual player. this is the third player of the same make an model that i tried. same results. other than that, i had a great day!!!

its been raining pretty bad here as well, i just drove home in the rain. it was clear skies, then all of a sudden, a wall of solid water falls from the sky. then the clear sky, then teh wall of water... i hate rain. holy crap... i'd never though i'd hear about hobby lobby outside of my own state... much less it being mentioned on the internet. um.. thats of course considering that i always thought hobby lobby as a localized store. oh yeah, hey riv. i asked my mom about the yarn washing thing. she said that the indivdual yarn rolls will have the instructions on the label of each roll. i hope that helps.

lol! i love the facial features. wow, Riv... your pretty short! heh jk.

ouch.... i so want to be a teacher so i can try that.

and here is trial 3. ash and title with out a orange haze. well smart and ole mighty viewers, thoughts and advice?

okydokey then. after a long pause... (me working on older projects) that took longer than i would of liked, i finally finished the ashy thingy... so here is the first two. trial 1 is the new ash look, the title, and a bright orange haze to try to atleast represent a fiery enviroment. trial 2 is the same with a lesser orange look.

its ok. i got rubber glue traps for that little electrifying rat. no ones taking me by surprise!! BWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!! HA!! HA HAHA!!!! and i got a lightup pen, a daily planner and Chuck season 1. all good stuff, considering i asked for nothing. ryuki? whats majin and the forsaken kingdom?

dude, you play pokemon? no offence intended, but you just may laugh instead. there was a big thing a while back about pokemon here locally. lots of people were going on and on and on and on about how pokemon was evil and demonic and satan this and satan that. it really made me sick to here these people go on about it, and they never seen a single episode, they're just taking what someone told them and harping on it. now i know its not demons, just little critters with powers. but i never seen a show and i really never plan to. i never did get into pokemon, but i did see half a season of digimon. but i lost interest in that pretty quick. now i'll be the last to judge someone by what they play or watch, i watch a lot of shows people would deem childish, but i do admitt, i'm biased agaisnt pokemon for NO REASON whatsever. i dont know why but i just dont like it any. and my first intial impulse is to smirk if anyone says they like pokemon. but that only lasts for like... 3 seconds.

now i dont feel so bad. i passed the sign part first time, but i had to go back for teh written part three times, i always missed like 1 question or something... honestly? i think i failed that third time but the lady behind the desk took mercy on me.

that megatron toy is.... horrible... please tell me thats not the model for the third movie.

its december 23.... and almost time for christmas... what this means for me is family get togethers, i found out that i have two such functions that i absolutely can not get out of. so... i'll just have to grin and bare it.

dnag it... i missed yer birthday. oh well, happy late birthday riv! congrats on your driving test!! by the way, how many times did it take you to pass your license permit? it took me 3 times. as for yarn, i'd usually toss them inwith my other laundry.... but i dont have much yarn type clothes, and i dont use them much... afraid i cant be much help there.

i just had a look see.. nothings close to me at all !!! ok closest one is in missouri. two states away... lets see... (looking it up on mapquest) ok forget it. i just waited an hour an a half. hm... two states... i doubt i can do this before the new years... family plans that i absolutely cant get out of. but im gonna try for 2011.

haha. thanks for at least reading it durendal. its the thought that counts. sorry about the airlines, bk. question... im suppppeeerrrr tired. so i dont follow your comment to well... are you saying that your family isnt getting together or something?

ugh, darn you dial up!!!! i cant access the vid links. Ryuki!! you linked the kiva ost! dude, i always listen to those tracks... so if the transiberian orch is anything like that i'd so enjoy it... have to wait till i can hack into someones wifi.... ddeerrrrnnnnnnnn it. riv, where else are they going in the states, do you know? im hopin that im near.

wow... that was a long post, i wonder who'll read it and who'll just skip over it. heh. well bk, i hope the airlines didnt mistreat you TOO badly. i mean... no more than you deserve. as for movies, i saw tron today. it was pretty dang good.

i know im old school and all, but how the crap is getting someone's facebook and skype kinky? and skype is pretty much a computer phone. so thats no kinkier than a cell. heh. yes bk. all that in one battle would be epic. and i have done that. remember when i said we had a game and my infantry got walked on? that was it. only it didnt have fighters but it had everything else. bk!! i never mentioned the dropships, you know what they are!?!?!? report. (Cough) my team won, but sadly, the commander didnt make it... (Thats me!!) this was still a practice run, so it was 2 on 2 fighter dogfight. what had happened was... ok we're in space, so our velocity is a constant unless we slow down or speed up or crash. well... im in the lighter fighter of my team, and gave the slower yet more armored/armed fighter to my friend larry. i took off and he went it slow. i closed in on dad and bobby(dad's friend) bobby had the other slow and tough fighter and im going head to head with him, and dad bearing down on me. i will not lie, i got lit up like a christmas tree. but i survived and i got so close i could reach out and touch them close. and i let loose with everything i had, i nearly crippled bobby's fighter right off. he actually didnt have good armor but gawsh... he had weapons.... my, he had lots and lots of guns. so i really hurt bobby. next turn, he passes by me turning and takes some shots at my rear armor, he hit but nothing too serious. So i head for dad. same deal, i close in tight and unload. it wasnt as bad as bobby's was but he was still hurting. now, they are both worse off than my fighter is (how i dont know) and larry is creeping along in the back letting loose with his long range missles at both bobby and dad. then the epic fail. in this game you can go to 0 velocity. meaning, your just sitting in space not moving. thats what i did, i slammed on breaks, turned 180 degrees, all planned out in my head. i expected dad to over shoot me and put his rear armor dead to rights infront of me. and i'd also be out of bobby's firing arch. yeah... epic fail time... ya see, LAST TURN dad announced he went to 0 velocity while he was still infront of me... so all i did was end my movement, DIRECTLY infront of his fighter, and then swing my fighter around AWAY from him. practically gave him a point blank shot at my rear.... yeah... i died that turn. but since they were so focused on me, larry had so many great shots at both dad and bobby. as i died, larry hit bobby five times, and each time, something on bobby's fighter blew up. it was so funny. (if you do enough damage per hit, you have a chance for a critical hit, which destroys a weapon or component or equipment, and larry got a crit each time.) now bobby cant go except half his normal speed, and dad's fighter is as small as mine was, so his armor is already paper thin, plus what i damaged. next turn bobby is limping away, and larry badly mauls dad. hehe. it was glorious. dad and bobby both called the game then, bobby couldnt control his fighter, and was forced off the playing field, and dad couldnt hope to win against larry's superior fighter.... dude, that rocked.

thats really cool riv. is it like rock with violins an cellos or something, like evanesence or tantric's down and out? i use to love my eng comp class in college. once a week we had to go to a recital and do a report. im not entirely sure what a recital had to do with english.... but i wasnt about to complain. o and running around in circles in your room is dangerous, you can run face first into a wall, or worse yet, get dizzy and repaint your floor with your lunch.. i seen me do it. the wall thing, not the dizzy thing.

today is round two in the aerotech/battletech game. hopefully i can convince the others to use capital ships. for those of you who dont know, a fighter is well, a fighter, i doubt there isnt a person who doesnt know what a fighter is, but for simplicity sake, i'll play. a fighter is small like an x wing from starwars. and a captial ship is huge, like a star destroyer from star wars. there short and simple, just the way i like it. man, if i can get them to use the ships, i will be so psyched for this. i already got my game plan all ready and waitin. eventually im gonna incorporate everything when we actually start the mechwarrior campaign. aerofighters, battlmechs, powerarmor. im excited. i always wanted to takeover a jumpship in space. hehe, im so geekin right now.