I'm not much of a beer drinker anymore (or drinker in general).
But my favourites always were Czech lagers/pilsners like Budweiser, Staropramen, Gambrinus, Krusovice, Litovel etc.
As far as German beers goes my favourites are Rothaus Tannzäpfle, Köstritzer Schwarzbier and Zirndorfer Landbier.
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I'd recommend checking out this DVD if you can, I watched a short presentation yesterday and learned quite a bit about how to practically use color and paint with light. Fucking awesome stuff:
http://www.thegnomonworkshop.com/store/product/…or#.U0BMwoU_rp4
So much stuff to learn! I'm not sure how much i'll push for digital painting any longer. Have a feeling i've hit a wall now that i could only climb if i spent way more time painting and being much more methodical about it. But i simply don't have that time.
So i think i will focus more on stuff that is directly job related. The painting helped me to get really comfortable with the wacom and i learned some very useful stuff in PS that helps with texturing (for instance hand painting decent masks now feels easy peasy). My next step should be to get back into digital sculpting again. Haven't used zbrush for 2-3 years and last time never got really comfortable with it because using the pen felt so awkward and not being able to draw for shit wasn't helpful at all trying to sculp. Think that could be much different now if i give it another shot.
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I like this thread.
My tip of the day: When you click on the small button next to "Lock:" above your layers you only paint on top of the pixels that already exist in your layer.
I kicked insta from Insurgency mod team.
I feel this is relevant especially in regard to making generalistst out of your student:
Oh i used to have a feud with with Sentura. And Thrik warned me that i get banned if i don't keep my cool. Good old times. 
You gotta be fucking kidding me. As i see it VR will be something very sensitive to privacy. Ther's a camera involved, ppl gonna watch porn etc. I don't want that shit connected to FB and the NSA! And i don't want ads in my view or whatever crap they come up with. Way to hurt VR hype in its still fragile infancy!
Yea i'm not gonna buy Gigabyte again. Nice cards when they are new but just too frail in the long run. Had some similar problems with my card alongside failing fans. Got a MSI card now and am super happy with it. It's very sturdy (metal instead of cheap plastic parts) and the fans are even more quiet then Gigabyte's.
I'm really looking forward to it. I'm positive that it will be success this time around because the tech is so much better then in the last era of VR hype (early 90's) and will continue to get better over the next couple years.
It's a item that actively discourages real world human interaction.
That's the strenght and weakness of it. I think it could become like a drug for people who want to escape from the real world, so a whole lot of people.
So do you think this time VR will be integrated into society much like the smart phone? do you think it will have a niche audience? Do you think it will suffer the same fate as Gunpei Yokois Virtual Boy?
Probably gonna be more niche then smartphones but lot of people will own a VR device and if it's only to watch porn.
Don't think it can be compared with Virtualboy because ther's so much software and media already in development for it and it's not even out yet.
It's still better then working in a sweat shop or cleaning the pipes of the Mumbay sewer system. So can't complain too much.
Yea makes sense. I always make some adjustements before i publish the work.
There are no textures in there (as in photo overlays). Texture is created by use of different brushes (some brushes might be textured tho) and blend modes. So i take that as a compliment. That spitpaints most of times don't feel finished is a given because of the 30 minute time contraints.
Of course i could spent some more time afterwards but the 30 minutes fits well in with how how much time i'm willing to spent on painting every day (mostly do 1,2 spitpaints and another half hour just doodling something).
Quote from blackdogIs the first piece retouched afterwards? Because the light sources (and wet reflections) have a photorealistic feeling that clashes a little with the rest of the composition.
Not sure what exactly you mean by retouched. The whole thing is painted, no photos were used. I faked some chromatic abberation tho by moving the blue channel a liitle and used a filter for some film grain.
Couple new spitpaints. Gotta try and be more creative! Feels like i always paint the same shit in different colors 
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Some new paintings. I should really try to paint more people/characters but it's hard because it never was a subject matter that interested me much. At least i'm getting better at landscapes/skies. That's a start. Can try to go more to architecture and tech stuff from there which is job related.
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To be clear i didn't hate on the guy. Just found it depressing that so much money can be made with something so simple and uncreative while talented guys/teams barely scrape by or break even. Old man yelling at clouds moment.
The whole mobile thing is a mystery to me anyway and the economy behind these games blows my mind. Still don't have a smart phone.
Went to a big family birthday party last night, my two nephews sit next to me, get out their smart phones and guess what they played... Flappybird. It's nuts.
Honestly if i was in Nguyen's shoes i wouldn't give a shit what the haters say. Jackpot. Enjoy it!
Forget about the buddhist calmness for a moment. This shit makes me SICK!
Quote from Seldoon182We only need 1% of people hosting their own content to send them a message. Also you can start to be your own provider. I read some search on it and I might start to provide internet myself and host my own content. You don't need neither a powerful machine nor terabytes of space.
Kinda missing the point. Your own hosted content will be put on the slow lane just as everything else where the isp's and their partners don't make an extra buck from.
Yeah, same in portugal. There's a specific organization that deals with this exact same of bullshit, no matter what scale. It's called "consumer protection association" and they already prevented and fixed a lot of shit like this. But again, no way this would even work in the USA, companies would bring it down easily and they would never let it become big enough to matter or to even cause any kind of ripple in this ocean of bullshit.
Yea we have this in Germany aswell thank god. They stopped something similar from happening just recently or at least managed to postpone it.
In the long run i think internet as we know it is doomed tho. This shit will just creep in bit by bit, two steps forward, one step back. Rinse and repeat. My only hope is that maybe some other technology will pop up that connects people in a less controlable and virtualy unlimited manner.
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