RUSSIAN
Sites for Grammar
masterrussian.com/ - Lessons and vocabulary
www.russianlessons.net/ - Beginner lessons and the site I use for referencing basic grammar
www.alphadictionary.com/rusgrammar/ - My favourite site for grammar, goes right from the basics to what you need to construct complex sentences. Great examples with
sentences and exercises.
Dictionaries
wordreference.com - Already been mentioned, but usually has good explanations and examples
ru.thefreedictionary.com/ - A Russian-Russian dictionary that usually just gives synonyms, but still okay
slovari.yandex.ru/ - Yandex is pretty much the Russian Google. So yeah.
News
www.bbc.co.uk/russian/ - The BBC news in Russian. Articles usually get translated a few hours or a day after they appear in English.
www.pravda.ru/ - Pravda's still going, and pretty popular.
www.vesti.ru/ - Just a news site
ytro.ru/ - Just another one
lenta.ru/ - And another one
TV
itv.1tv.ru/ - Stream Russia's First Channel
www.1tv.ru/videoarchiver/ - Loads of full and free shows from First Channel's archive
rutracker.org - Download just about anything. Like, anything. In a forum format, so you can browse shows/films/music/comics and download at will.
www.internytv.ru/online.php - Watch Интерны online, it's kinda like a Russian Scrubs. Pretty funny.
JAPANESE
www.polarcloud.com/rikaichan/
It's a firefox module. Indispensable if you don't want to open a dictionary tab for each word you see.
www.guidetojapanese.org/learn/complete
Awesome guide on grammar.
www.nihongoresources.com/
The lessons are very heavy, but it has a dictionary. I use it to learn jouyou kanji!
jisho.org/kanji/
Will find the kanji you're looking for with kana and number of strokes.
fr.wikibooks.org/wiki/Japonais/Grammaire/Introduction
www.dictionnaire-japonais.com/rechercher.php
First one is a succinct grammar guide, second is a dictionary. Sorry it's in french but it can still be useful so I'll post them.
MISC
www.wordreference.com/
SPANISH
www.studyspanish.com/tutorial.htm
Almost everything you need to know on grammar.
www.youtube.com/user/languagenow
This motherfucker is a professional teacher, he will teach you about spanish AND portuguese.
www.spanishdict.com/dictionary
Best dictionary I came across so far, it contains a lot of idioms.
www.ctspanish.com/idioms/idioms.htm
www.languagerealm.com/spanish/spanishslang.php
Idioms and idioms and some slang.
PERSIAN
http://www.easypersian.net/
GERMAN
http://www.uni.edu/becker/German.html
http://www.uni.edu/becker/German2.html
http://pons.eu/ Translator (better then google)
http://www.prosieben.de/tv/stromberg/episoden-subpage/
German version of The Office
http://deutschkurse.dw-world.de/
FRENCH
http://www.leconjugueur.com/frconjonline.php
Even if already conjugated, just type the verb you're looking for to know all it's secrets.
NORWEGIAN
http://www.frathwiki.com/Norwegian
Contains basic grammar of norwegian if you want to taste the water.
KOREAN
www.learnkoreanlanguage.com - General lessons and hangul for beginners
talktomeinkorean.com/ - Lessons and culture from beginner to advanced
www.learnkorean.com/ - More general lessons, good for beginners
FINNISH
www.digitaldialects.com/Finnish.htm
www.cs.tut.fi/~jkorpela/Finnish.html
website full of useful links
MANDARIN CHINESE
nciku.com
www.youtube.com/user/ShermerIL
Chinese lessons.
www.chinasprout.com/ - Amazing store with tons of textbooks, games etc for learning chinese language. Most books have the option to choose between simplified and traditional
characters as well. If you need to order a chinese textbook, I recommend buying from here.
www.chinese4kids.net/ - Good site, has cartoons, lessons and activities. Aimed at kids, but it's suitable for beginners as well.
ICELANDIC
icelandiconline.is/
Great website that goes over the basics, and is generally a great resource for learning the language. Some institutes have adopted it as an acceptable prerequisite for more
advanced courses, and it is also helpful with Old Norse.
Other useful Icelandic links;
digicoll.library.wisc.edu/IcelOnline/Search.TEId.html
>Free online Icelandic dictionary. You tend to search by headwords, but it can check the entire entry as well, which is useful for common phrases with particular
declensions
bin.arnastofnun.is/
>Free declension database. Put in the word you want, select the box marked "Leit að beygingarmynd" so that it searches the entire entry in case you're trying to figure out
the head-word, and then go. You need to know the category, and it's only in Icelandic (learn that vocabulary!), but it's useful.
I also have an Old Norse textbook on my computer, but it's a terrible, terrible book, and I've only used it because it gets you reading texts quickly.
Hope this shit helps out anyone looking into Icelandic. Very good language to get into, and it really forces you to think about what you're saying.
GENERAL RESOURCES
**General Extensions for Google Chrome:
Polyglot: Automatically translates random words on websites you're surfing to your selected language. https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/plpjkjplknknmhfhkjgcfgofclmlnine
I2Type: Pop-down keyboard for most any language.
https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/ohpiacnomiacdnhcfalghggiankgknak
***Social Resources
http://conversationexchange.com/: Meet people to be penpals and talk in e-mail or msn/skpe
http://www.interpals.net/account.php: Same thing but quite myspace-ish.
**General sites
http://a4esl.org/: Lots of esl stuff, and lots of stuff for many languages, I use it for the Thai vocab quizzes.
Viki.com: Tons of TV shows and movies subtitled by member of the site- helps with exposure I think.
And that's it. For Thai specifically there's not much I've found at the intermediate level. But besides skyping with penpals I go to:
Thai2English.com -decent dictionary
Sanook.com - Thai news site, simple quite easy to translate
thairath.co.th: Probably the most professional Thai news site on there. Good luck.
mandarintools.com
ninhao.com
Saturday, December 31, 2011
Monday, December 19, 2011
MCF 2011 visit log
So me and my friends went to CF 2011 last saturday. Gonna write some shit about it.
Judging by quality alone, I think it's pretty so-so...
Looking at good artists' booth (idk their circle name)
= Great artworks, love the surrealism in their art. Unfortunately, i could only buy
Looking at shit artists' booth
= Shit price for shit piece. Not worth my shit.
From what I experienced;
- Ticketing system (Management)
- Massively long queues
- Difficulty to get ticket to enter the venue is S++
(I was lucky i had some friends who came early, by 1.00am) - Crowd Flow control is shit
- Hunger and thirst
- buys a ticket - get chocolate only
- little to almost no cheap, fast food vendor nearby (i'm talking about hotdogs and stuff)
- Doujin/circle booth
- Mostly badges
- Most fanmade merchandise are cheap looking but overpriced/not worth your money etc etc
- mostly caters to fujoshi(s)
- almost no touhou stuff. if available, is either overpriced or not worth it
- Some original content is too western-looking. People would prefer manga style, as it's leaning more towards the niche (anime)
- Most drawing are shit, even if high-quality drawings are present, most of them felt 'empty' during fast browsing.
- Company booth
- eh, keep up the good job
- if possible can add more?
Judging by quality alone, I think it's pretty so-so...
Looking at good artists' booth (idk their circle name)
= Great artworks, love the surrealism in their art. Unfortunately, i could only buy
Looking at shit artists' booth
= Shit price for shit piece. Not worth my shit.
Thursday, November 10, 2011
10 perkara penting utk org kreatif
copypasta'd
1. Experts aren’t the answer.
The blogs, the teachers, the mentors, the seminars aren’t the answer. They’re not there to tell you exactly what you need to know. If they’re good, then they are there to give you some ideas, some guidelines, or some rules to learn and subsequently break. This isn’t about the expert, it’s about you. In creative pursuits especially…what’s going on inside you is where the answers can be found. Hear what experts say, but don’t always listen to them.
2. Clients cannot tell you what they need.
Clients hire you because they have a problem. They need a great visual representation of something, a solution. They think they know the best way to photograph something, but they don’t really. That’s why they hire you. Take their suggestions to heart, because they definitely know their brand, product, their vision–perhaps even shoot a few versions of the images they THINK they want to see first–but then go nuts with own vision. Add value. Show them something they didn’t expect. Don’t be a monkey with a finger. Remember why you got hired…that YOU are the badass image maker. If you are good enough to get selected for the job, you should be good enough to drive the photographic vision.
3. Don’t aim for ‘better’, aim for ‘different’.
It’s funny how related “better” and “different” are. If you aim for ‘better’ that usually means you’re walking in the footsteps of someone else. There will often be someone better than you, someone making those footsteps you’re following… But if you target being different–thinking in new ways, creating new things–then you are blazing your own trail. And in blazing your own trail, making your own footprints, you are far more likely to find yourself being ‘better’ without even trying. Better becomes easy because it’s really just different. You can’t stand out from the crowd by just being better. You have to be different.
4. Big challenges create the best work.
If you get assignments that are pushing your vision, your skills, then awesome. Kudos to you, keep getting those assignments. If you’re not getting those assignments, then you need to be self-assigning that challenging work. Give yourself tough deadlines and tougher creative challenges. You do your best work where there is a challenge that is clearly present and 10 feet taller than you think you can handle.
5. Aesthetic sensibilities actually matter.
Go figure on this one… I’m constantly surprised as how much this is overlooked. Read this and believe it: You must develop a keen understanding of design, color, light, and composition. To just say “I know a picture when I like it” isn’t going to get you anywhere. You need to know –for your own sake as well as the sake of your clients who will ask you– WHY a photo is a great photo. WHY is this one better than that one. If you don’t have any visual vocabulary, opinion, or aesthetic sensibility you won’t be able to explain these things. You won’t get the job. Or if you do get the job, you won’t be able to explain why your photos are worth getting hired again by the same client for the next campaign, story, or video. Trust me on this. Develop a sense of visual taste.
6. Simple is good.
Almost every photo that is bad has too much information. Outside of technical basics, the number one reason that most photos fail is because there is no clear subject. Often this is the case with design, film, fashion, you name it. Remove clutter, remove distraction. Tell one story, and tell it well. 7. Make mistakes, learn quickly. Simply put, you need to be able to learn from your mistakes. Avoiding failure is not the goal. The goal is recovering from mistakes quickly. That goes for ever element of your photography–creative, business, vision…you name it. If you’re not willing to make mistakes, you’ll be paralyzed with inaction. That is the devil. Get out there and do stuff. If it works, do more of it. If it doesn’t work, change it. Quickly.
8. “Value” is different from “price.”
Don’t compete on price alone. That is certain death in any creative field. Focus on delivering value and price yourself accordingly. If you deliver great value with your images — better than expected, and better than your competition– and you can illustrate that through any means, then you should be more expensive. And remember that value comes in many forms.
9. A-Gamers work with A-Gamers.
If you are good at what you do, then you work–or seek to work–with other people who kick ass too. If you suck, then you put yourself around sucky people to feel better about yourself. If you want to be the best, seek to be around awesome people–be it other artists, assistants, producers, clients, partners, whatever. Shoot high. Shoot for better than yourself.
10. Real artists create.
Do you just sit around and think of stuff you could create, photograph, build, ship, or design, but never output anything? Then you’re a poser. Take a new approach and make stuff. Maybe what comes out of your studio isn’t perfect, but there should always stuff leaving the door and hitting the web, the page, the billboard, the gallery, or the street. If you are for real, you’ll be pumping out work on the regular.
1. Experts aren’t the answer.
The blogs, the teachers, the mentors, the seminars aren’t the answer. They’re not there to tell you exactly what you need to know. If they’re good, then they are there to give you some ideas, some guidelines, or some rules to learn and subsequently break. This isn’t about the expert, it’s about you. In creative pursuits especially…what’s going on inside you is where the answers can be found. Hear what experts say, but don’t always listen to them.
2. Clients cannot tell you what they need.
Clients hire you because they have a problem. They need a great visual representation of something, a solution. They think they know the best way to photograph something, but they don’t really. That’s why they hire you. Take their suggestions to heart, because they definitely know their brand, product, their vision–perhaps even shoot a few versions of the images they THINK they want to see first–but then go nuts with own vision. Add value. Show them something they didn’t expect. Don’t be a monkey with a finger. Remember why you got hired…that YOU are the badass image maker. If you are good enough to get selected for the job, you should be good enough to drive the photographic vision.
3. Don’t aim for ‘better’, aim for ‘different’.
It’s funny how related “better” and “different” are. If you aim for ‘better’ that usually means you’re walking in the footsteps of someone else. There will often be someone better than you, someone making those footsteps you’re following… But if you target being different–thinking in new ways, creating new things–then you are blazing your own trail. And in blazing your own trail, making your own footprints, you are far more likely to find yourself being ‘better’ without even trying. Better becomes easy because it’s really just different. You can’t stand out from the crowd by just being better. You have to be different.
4. Big challenges create the best work.
If you get assignments that are pushing your vision, your skills, then awesome. Kudos to you, keep getting those assignments. If you’re not getting those assignments, then you need to be self-assigning that challenging work. Give yourself tough deadlines and tougher creative challenges. You do your best work where there is a challenge that is clearly present and 10 feet taller than you think you can handle.
5. Aesthetic sensibilities actually matter.
Go figure on this one… I’m constantly surprised as how much this is overlooked. Read this and believe it: You must develop a keen understanding of design, color, light, and composition. To just say “I know a picture when I like it” isn’t going to get you anywhere. You need to know –for your own sake as well as the sake of your clients who will ask you– WHY a photo is a great photo. WHY is this one better than that one. If you don’t have any visual vocabulary, opinion, or aesthetic sensibility you won’t be able to explain these things. You won’t get the job. Or if you do get the job, you won’t be able to explain why your photos are worth getting hired again by the same client for the next campaign, story, or video. Trust me on this. Develop a sense of visual taste.
6. Simple is good.
Almost every photo that is bad has too much information. Outside of technical basics, the number one reason that most photos fail is because there is no clear subject. Often this is the case with design, film, fashion, you name it. Remove clutter, remove distraction. Tell one story, and tell it well. 7. Make mistakes, learn quickly. Simply put, you need to be able to learn from your mistakes. Avoiding failure is not the goal. The goal is recovering from mistakes quickly. That goes for ever element of your photography–creative, business, vision…you name it. If you’re not willing to make mistakes, you’ll be paralyzed with inaction. That is the devil. Get out there and do stuff. If it works, do more of it. If it doesn’t work, change it. Quickly.
8. “Value” is different from “price.”
Don’t compete on price alone. That is certain death in any creative field. Focus on delivering value and price yourself accordingly. If you deliver great value with your images — better than expected, and better than your competition– and you can illustrate that through any means, then you should be more expensive. And remember that value comes in many forms.
9. A-Gamers work with A-Gamers.
If you are good at what you do, then you work–or seek to work–with other people who kick ass too. If you suck, then you put yourself around sucky people to feel better about yourself. If you want to be the best, seek to be around awesome people–be it other artists, assistants, producers, clients, partners, whatever. Shoot high. Shoot for better than yourself.
10. Real artists create.
Do you just sit around and think of stuff you could create, photograph, build, ship, or design, but never output anything? Then you’re a poser. Take a new approach and make stuff. Maybe what comes out of your studio isn’t perfect, but there should always stuff leaving the door and hitting the web, the page, the billboard, the gallery, or the street. If you are for real, you’ll be pumping out work on the regular.
Saturday, April 2, 2011
Friday, April 1, 2011
Soon, door may...full volume in english
Sundome manga. Have you read it?
from manga updates:
Description
The protagonist, Hideo Aiba, just like in other mangas, is a loser. He is a part of a club at school called the "Roman Club" filled with weirdos and otaku freaks, one of them being a leg fetishist who plays with a doll, one of them being a voyeurist fetishist, and another one being an anal fetishist. One day a girl named Kurumi Sahana, transfers to his class. On first sight he falls for her. The same day she checks out the roman club and thinks it's really funny and interesting. On the first day there she finds a book called "The Secret Book Of Masturbation" and then she asks the main guy to...
Sundome literally means "stopping the moment before," and considering the content of the story, it refers to being stopped just before cumming or ejaculating.
The protagonist, Hideo Aiba, just like in other mangas, is a loser. He is a part of a club at school called the "Roman Club" filled with weirdos and otaku freaks, one of them being a leg fetishist who plays with a doll, one of them being a voyeurist fetishist, and another one being an anal fetishist. One day a girl named Kurumi Sahana, transfers to his class. On first sight he falls for her. The same day she checks out the roman club and thinks it's really funny and interesting. On the first day there she finds a book called "The Secret Book Of Masturbation" and then she asks the main guy to...
Sundome literally means "stopping the moment before," and considering the content of the story, it refers to being stopped just before cumming or ejaculating.
Related tags:
Borderline H, Character Growth, Club/s,Domination/Subordination,Female Dominance,S&M, Silly Humor,Strong Female Lead,Urination, Wimp Male Lead
Download all 8 volumes, completed, here: MF Code a2k479y3rcq9c
Thursday, March 31, 2011
Some notes
Morrigan Aensland
Height: 172 cm (5'7")
Weight: 57.6 kg
Millia Rage
Height: 169cm (5'7")
Weight: 48kg
Litchi Faye Ling
Height, 170cm (5'7")
Weight, 58kg (128 lbs)
Makoto Nanaya
Height: 163cm (5'3")
Weight: 49kg
SO, Morrigan should be a little higher than litchi.
Height: 172 cm (5'7")
Weight: 57.6 kg
Millia Rage
Height: 169cm (5'7")
Weight: 48kg
Litchi Faye Ling
Height, 170cm (5'7")
Weight, 58kg (128 lbs)
Makoto Nanaya
Height: 163cm (5'3")
Weight: 49kg
SO, Morrigan should be a little higher than litchi.
Tuesday, March 29, 2011
Trying to revive something IRL
Please pray for my success.
May post up some good stuff in it later.
Morrigan Attacks Remake
Maybe useful, maybe not. This is my idea of a Morrigan remake. Since this is Morrigan after she fused with Lilith, Lilith will make cameo appearances in some of Morrigan's attacks.
Normal/Basic:
ground HK
- has launcher properties.
ground HP
- If done in corner, grants wall bounce.
Unique Normal/Basic:
Parry ala SFIII 3s
Parry ala SFIII 3s
Burst ala GGXX
consumes burst meter (if any)
or 75% meter.
Morrigan appreciation and whatevs
This is not a status update.
Various animations and pic of morrigan.
Not safe for work.
Sunday, March 27, 2011
HD Morrigan sprite
After some days, I've finished it. Here it is:
If anybody wants the PSD file for reference, get it here: MF code: tlddd01lfiymusa
lol MUSA = MOSES.
I've tried to separate the palette but haven't double check yet.
Palette indexed to 256colors.
If anybody wants the PSD file for reference, get it here: MF code: tlddd01lfiymusa
lol MUSA = MOSES.
I've tried to separate the palette but haven't double check yet.
Saturday, March 26, 2011
Paint.NET is a very underrated tool
Paint.NET is a very underrated tool:
HD Morrigan sprite so far:
continued from yesterday's work this morning at 9.15 am until I stopped at 1.20 pm (just now).
Paint.NET line/curve tool is superior from photoshop and all. Yesterday's work was photoshop-SAI only, today, it was paint.net wholly. WHOLLY SHEET.
<- click this to get paint.net, and download Photoshop Plugin for Paint.Net for Photoshop compatibility.
Friday, March 25, 2011
M.U.G.E.N shit project - Morrigan Hires/Hidef whatever.
MUGEN is shit. So does the fans. But it doesnt stop FTG game fanatics to learn something from a shit thing, and it certainly doesnt stop us from making some more shit stuffs for such a trifle thing.
I want a Hi-res Morrigan. But nobody ever made one yet, and with capcom going all 3d we wont be able to see BlazBlue VS DarkStalkers anytime soon or ever will. Except if Arc System Works would want to work on HD or HR Capcom sprites.
So I'm gonna start one my own. Probably just a spriteswap, but who knows?
Before I get started, I ponderzz, "what would the optimal sprite size be?" So I looked on the internet to find an answer and here is my answer:
I'll be using the scale of the resized sprite 2nd from right. Reason: 1 - Her legs look less fat. 2 - she looks less fat on the bum. 3 - I tried scaling a mugen MvC morrigan with original DC sprite to xscale = 0.91 and yscale = 1.14 and it fits well with CvS characters, and most probably GG, SF3, and BB chars as well.
Wish me to be able to complete this project, or watch me die trying.
edit: here's a sprite in progress.
I want a Hi-res Morrigan. But nobody ever made one yet, and with capcom going all 3d we wont be able to see BlazBlue VS DarkStalkers anytime soon or ever will. Except if Arc System Works would want to work on HD or HR Capcom sprites.
So I'm gonna start one my own. Probably just a spriteswap, but who knows?
Before I get started, I ponderzz, "what would the optimal sprite size be?" So I looked on the internet to find an answer and here is my answer:
Wish me to be able to complete this project, or watch me die trying.
edit: here's a sprite in progress.
Saturday, March 5, 2011
HOW TO LAND Zangief's 360 throw in SF4
Buy a good arcade stick. then open up SF4 launcher. pick Zangief. you just defend from the opponents' attacks. then while you are defending, just spin that stick and do a full rotation as fast as possible, and spam light punch while you're at it. when your opponent pressure strings halt even a bit, you'd easily pull a reversal 360. when your ultra meter is full, spam 3 punch buttons.
that's about it.
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