Stop Motion Movie

I have allways think that stop - motion animation is great. Few days ago, I've watch this Tony VS Paul and make me search for some tutorial and I found it at Photojojo. Here it is:

Stop motion or frame-by-frame is a generic general term for an animation technique which makes static objects appear to move. Stop-motion animation is one of the simplest, most fun animation techniques. You can use just about anything in your stop-motion animation, and thanks to digital cameras and computers, creating one is now fun & easy. There are many ways to go about shooting, editing and finalizing a stop-motion. Don't be discouraged by the number of steps! It's much easier than it first appears.

Step 1: Shoot Your Animation

Step 2: Download Your Photos

Step 3: Find Your Photos in iMovie

Step 4: Animate Your Photos

Final Touches: Music and Sharing

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Even amateurs can try stop motion with most ordinary video cameras with a few simple steps:

1. Use a tripod, a chair or something else to secure the camera;

2. Toggle recording modes until you find the appropriate mode;

3. Start shooting clay models, LEGO, action figures, or any other desired object.

Have fun :)

If you are wanna to learn aboute history of stop - motion animations try on Wikipedia

Conquer online

I've been playing Conquer online for a year, I have 2 characters there, FireTao and Archer, with one I play, and other is in market selling stuff. About Conquer online I've heard from my brother, he has started to play and give me the link. It is free to download, free to play.

"In the mythical ancient Kungfu circle, an evil guild has risen in power to dominate the once peaceful world. Living under its terror, a group of courageous men and women has gathered to improve their skills to fight against the evil guild and bring justice back to people's lives. Experience the ancient Chinese Kungfu and magic, enjoy the endless beautiful scenery and mythical environment in which you can develop your own character and interact with other real-life and imaginary beings. This marvelous MMOG (Massively Multi-user Online Game) conquers the hearts of millions of players.
Beautiful 2D artistic backgrounds and advanced 3D effects bring characters and environments to life. Sophisticated equipment system with exotic ancient weapon and customized motions designed for each weapon. A lot of treasured gems are waiting for you to explore, which will grant unimaginable power to its owner."
- taken from Conquer online website

Encoding DVD to MPEG-4 AVI using MEncoder

1. Introduction

MEncoder is a part of MPlayer package, a movie player for Linux that can play most MPEG, VOB, AVI, OGG/OGM, VIVO, ASF/WMA/WMV, QT/MOV/MP4, FLI, RM, NuppelVideo, yuv4mpeg, FILM, RoQ, PVA, Matroska files, supported by many native, XAnim, RealPlayer, and Win32 DLL codecs. MEncoder (MPlayer’s Movie Encoder) is a simple movie encoder, capable of encoding the wide range of fileformats and decoders of MPlayer, to all the codecs of FFmpeg’s libavcodec.

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Magic The Gathering Type 2

T2 is really wide open format, can be so hard to create a deck. My friend Vasa create a B/W splash U deck and give me to test it at the last T2 tournament. Deck list:

4 x Condemn,
4 x Momentary Blink,

3 x Temporal Isolation,

4 x Orzhov Signet,

2 x Azorius Signet,

2 x Sarpadian Empires, Vol. VII,

3 x Teysa, Orzhov Scion,
3 x Faith's Fetters,

1 x Return to Dust,

1 x Wrath of God,

2 x Dread Return,

3 x Belfry Spirit,

4 x Skeletal Vampire,

2 x Angel of Despair

10 x Swamp,

7 x Plains,

3 x Azorius Chancery,

2 x Orzhov Basilica,

1 x Urborg, Tomb of Yawgmoth,

1 x Orzhova, the Curch of Deals

Sideboard:

2 x Necrotic Sliver,
1 x Wrath of God,
1 x Stormfront Riders
1 x Phthisis
1 x Exhumer Thrull
1 x Return to Dust,
4 x Mortify,
1 x Faith's Fetters
2 x Ghostway

- First match I had, was against Boros... I won 2:0,

- Second match against B/W deck with Hypnotic Specter, Blind Hunter, Sudden Death, Wrath of God, Last Gasp, Griffin Guide (thats are the cards I've saw) and score was 2:1.. I have lost one because I didn't got mana (4 Lands for 10 turns),

- The next was 1:1 my opponent had very good deck (don't know the name of deck, but he got in it:

4 x Loxodon Hierarch,

4 x Angel of Despair,

4 x Teneb, the Harvester,
4 x Damnation,

4 x Wrath of God,

4 x Wall of Roots,

4 x Farseek,

4 x Persecute

- And then some guy with:

4 x Rakdos Guildmage,

4 x Dark Confidant,

4 x Demonfire,

4 x Rift Bolt,

4 x Shock,

4 x Volcanic Hammer

just run over me ....

Mine conclusion is .... This deck is really good to play, I just have to learn to play :)

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