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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Magic The Gathering

I've been playing Magic The Gathering for some time and the best format to play for me is Booster Draft. Last draft I've made Mono White deck and it was really good, but some guy with Vesuvan Shapeshifter combo deck defited me in the finals... He has one life, and when I didn't manage to remove Vesuvan Shapeshifter from the game, he got control and that was the end. He played Blue,

Black and splash Green ..... and he has:

2 x Vorosh, the Hunter,
1 x Liege of the Pit,
1 x Vesuvan Shapeshifter,
2 x Fathom Seer,
1 x Tolarian Sentinel,
1 x Mystical Teachings,
2 x Skulking Knight,
1 x Strangling Soot,
1 x Feebleness,
1 x Assassinate.....



I had:

2 x Amrou Scout,
2 x Amrou Seekers,
1 x Benalish Cavalry,
1 x Castle Raptors,
1 x Cavalry Master,
2 x Cloudchaser Kestrel,
1 x Pulmonic Sliver,
2 x Sidewinder Sliver,
2 x Watcher Sliver,
1 x Zealot il-Vec,
1 x Gaze of Justice,
1 x Fortify,
1 x Aven Riftwatcher,
1 x Pallid Mycoderm,
1 x Poultice Sliver,
2 x Sinew Sliver,
1 x Riftmarked Knight,
1 x Shade of Trokair,
16 Plains

All cards u can find at Gatherer

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World Of Warcraft

Lot of people play World Of Warcraft, and every day we thanks to Blizzard (tm) for creating games like Diablo and WorldOfWarcraft (my favorites), but how seriously and with how much passion you create your character? Try to answer some questions and see what D&D character are you , what class and race best describe you. Try this before creating your character and let me know was this helpful. Take some time and comment this subject here.

Respect, have fun and enjoy WoW TBC (WorldOfWarcraft - TheBurningCrusade)

I'm gonna put some ScreenShots, just to sort them a little :)

And here are some ScreenShots :D

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DR. SEUSS EXPLAINS COMPUTERS

If a packet hits a pocket on a socket on a port,
And the bus is interrupted as a very last resort,
And the address of the memory makes your floppy disk abort,
Then the socket packet pocket has an error to report.

If your cursor finds a menu item followed by a dash,
And the double-clicking icon puts your window in the trash,
And your data is corrupted cause the index doesn't hash,
Then your situation's hopeless and your system's gonna crash!

If the label on your cable on the table at your house
Says the network is connected to the button on your mouse,
But your packets want to tunnel on another protocol
That's repeatedly rejected by the printer down the hall

And your screen is all distorted by the side effects of gauss,
So your icons in the window are as wavy as a souse,
Then you may as well reboot and go out with a bang
Because as sure as I'm a poet, the sucker's gonna hang!

When the copy of your floppy's getting sloppy on the disk,
And the microcode instructions cause unnecessary risk,
Then you have to flash your memory,
and you'll want to RAM your ROM.

Quickly turn off the computer and be sure to tell your mom.