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xmlns:app="http://www.w3.org/2007/app">2011-02-21T21:13:33.477+01:00</app:edited><title>Intervista a Magnus</title><content type="html">Ah gia! Questo qui è Roberto Raviola, in arte Magnus, il mio autore di fumetti preferito, in una rarissima video intervista rintracciabile su internet.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Fu, fra le altre cose, coautore assieme a Max Bunker delle note serie a fumetti degli anni '60, Kriminal, Satanik, Alan Ford e Gesebel.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Non mi dilungo sugli aspetti più squisitamente artistici. Quel che voglio evidenziare di questo straordinario artista è che tipo di personaggio era lui stesso.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;iframe title="YouTube video player" width="480" height="390" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/n9V9w_rTj_0" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen&gt;&lt;/iframe&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/13577607-836686114561270273?l=endercomics.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel="replies" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://endercomics.blogspot.com/feeds/836686114561270273/comments/default" title="Post Comments" /><link rel="replies" type="text/html" href="http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=13577607&amp;postID=836686114561270273&amp;isPopup=true" title="2 Comments" /><link rel="edit" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://www.blogger.com/feeds/13577607/posts/default/836686114561270273?v=2" /><link rel="self" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://www.blogger.com/feeds/13577607/posts/default/836686114561270273?v=2" /><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://endercomics.blogspot.com/2011/02/intervista-magnus.html" title="Intervista a Magnus" /><author><name>Ender</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/18398344747820390837</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel="http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail" width="32" height="32" src="http://img146.imageshack.us/img146/5875/selfportrait80x80so8.gif" /></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" url="http://img.youtube.com/vi/n9V9w_rTj_0/default.jpg" height="72" width="72" /><thr:total>2</thr:total></entry><entry gd:etag="W/&quot;DUIERHc4fyp7ImA9Wx9WEU0.&quot;"><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13577607.post-5397563726858942327</id><published>2011-01-15T16:27:00.004+01:00</published><updated>2011-01-15T17:05:05.937+01:00</updated><app:edited xmlns:app="http://www.w3.org/2007/app">2011-01-15T17:05:05.937+01:00</app:edited><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="RAI 5" /><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="iPhone" /><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="iPad" /><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="Mac" /><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="TechnoSalad" /><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="Adobe" /><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="Playlist" /><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="Flash" /><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="Apple" /><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="Mac OS X" /><title>Ancora su Flash e l'iPad</title><content type="html">Questo articolo si riferisce alla rubrica "TechnoSalad", presentata da Gianfranco Giardina, nella puntata di Playlist mandata in onda il 12/01/2011 su RAI 5, che confronta Galaxy Tab e iPad. È possibile vedere la puntata &lt;a href="http://www.rai.tv/dl/RaiTV/programmi/media/ContentItem-e12806a2-f106-4c9f-8e62-8b4a8d7972a3.html#p=0"&gt;qui&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;È lecito avere la propria opinione ma Il servizio sembra piuttosto di parte. Il giornalista evidenzia i "difetti" del iPad di Apple e decanta i pregi del Galaxy Tab di Samsung.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Diversi concetti, sui quali il giornalista ha fondato le sue critiche ad iPad, non sono molto fondati o comunque non sono spiegati con chiarezza al pubblico. E chiaro che lo spazio di una rubrica così breve non è forse sufficiente ma perché allora si è scelto comunque di favoreggiare il Galaxy Tab?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Seguono alcune delle ragioni per cui non sono d'accordo con quanto detto.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;È necessario premetter che io sono un programmatore e conosco Flash e il Web molto a fondo. Inoltre conosco molto bene iPhone, iPad, Mac OS X e Android e programmo software per tutte queste piattaforme.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Una delle prime critiche mosse all'iPad è stata che non è dotato di un'espansione di memoria. D'altra parte si vocifera (leggete MacRumors, famosissimo sito di anticipazioni e retroscena sul mondo Apple) che l'iPad 2 avrà uno slot di espansione SD.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;La seconda critica (un po' più implicita) che gli è stata mossa è stata quella delle dimensioni. Galaxy Tab sceglie una dimensione che è una via di mezzo fra iPhone e iPad.&lt;br /&gt;D'altra parte si può obbiettare che realizzare un dispositivo che sia una via di mezzo fra iPhone e iPad è del tutto inutile poiché iPhone 4 e gli iPod Touch di ultima generazione sono dotati di Retina Display. In pratica, lo schermo di questi dispositivi, ha una risoluzione di 640x960 pixels (il doppio dei modelli precedenti) e vi garantisco, perché li uso (e sono pure miope), che non si sente affatto la necessità di avere uno schermo più ampio.&lt;br /&gt;Inoltre, probabilmente l'iPad 2 sarà dotato anch'esso di Retina Display diventando un avversario piuttosto duro per i tablet dei concorrenti.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;La terza critica riguarda il fatto che l'iPad non può effettuare chiamate telefoniche. È vero. D'altra parte bisognerebbe spiegare che solo noi lo percepiamo come un limite, perché non abbiamo le reti Wireless di cui sono dotati in USA. Ormai i protocolli VOIP sono tecnologie utilizzatissime per le chiamate via Internet e se potessimo contare su infrastrutture avanzate come quelle americane magari non sentiremmo la mancanza del telefono.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Infine, l'ultima critica riguarda il fatto che iPad non è compatibile con Flash. In quanto ex programmatore Web sono un convinto detrattore di Flash poiché non è un prodotto di qualità.&lt;br /&gt;Inoltre la breve spiegazione, nel servizio non da l'idea di quale sia la situazione fra Flash e il Web.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Flash non è uno standard Web.&lt;br /&gt;Per capire questa affermazione bisogna capire come è fatta una pagina Web.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Le pagine Web di ogni sito Web sono scritte usando almeno 3 linguaggi, che uniti costituiscono la pagina Web finita. Questi 3 linguaggi si chiamano HTML, CSS e JavaScript.&lt;br /&gt;Essi esistono da prima che fosse creato Flash e la loro sintassi è uno standard ufficialmente riconosciuto a livello mondiale ed è accessibile liberamente da chiunque.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Questo significa che tutti i siti Web si fanno sempre allo stesso modo utilizzando i 3 linguaggi standard del Web e che chiunque può imparare a creare pagine Web con essi utilizzando anche un semplice programma di video scrittura come WordPad o TextEdit.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Flash non fa parte di questi standard ed è un prodotto proprietario di Adobe. Questo significa che per poter creare pagine Web utilizzando Flash bisogna acquistare da Adobe una licenza di Flash. Il costo varia dai 200 ai 500 Euro circa, a seconda di quale versione di Flash si intende acquistare.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I linguaggi standard del Web e un programma di video scrittura qualsiasi non costano nulla.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Flash è lento e non è abbastanza efficiente.&lt;br /&gt;Alcuni esperti indipendenti da Apple e da Adobe hanno già fatto dei test (che potrebbe fare chiunque) constatando che Flash, specialmente sui computer Apple (Mac) è molto lento. La ragione è che Flash non sfrutta l'accelerazione grafica.&lt;br /&gt;I dispositivi di Apple (Mac inclusi) sfruttano un processore grafico per accelerare il video compresso col formato H.264. Flash non sfrutta l'accelerazione fornita da questo processore dedicato alla riproduzione dei video, ma fa tutto tramite il processore centrale, rallentando quindi il sistema.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Adobe, inoltre, ha già dimostrato molta pigrizia per quanto riguarda il Mac, non volendosi sprecare a sfruttare le funzionalità native (e pertanto più potenti) offerte dal sistema Mac OS X. Ha infatti procrastinato per quasi 10 anni prima di effettuare la migrazione di Adobe Photoshop e Adobe Illustrator a queste nuove tecnologie.&lt;br /&gt;Apple quindi, ha chiaramente espresso, in una lettera leggibile da chiunque, che non sono contenti del comportamento di Adobe. Inoltre tutte le versioni di Flash per iPhone e iPad già sottoposte da Adobe a Apple, per la verifica, si sono dimostrate poco efficienti. Apple sta solo aspettando che Adobe fornisca una versione di Flash di qualità.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Poco importa perché le animazioni su Web si possono fare da più di un decennio senza l'ausilio di Flash.&lt;br /&gt;Con i 3 linguaggi sopra citati si può fare praticamente tutto quello che si può fare con Flash. Si possono creare anche video giochi senza bisogno di Flash.&lt;br /&gt;Soprattutto grazie a recenti innovazioni dei linguaggi standard (riassunte nel nome Web 2) è possibile fare praticamente di tutto direttamente dall'interno di una pagina Web senza bisogno di utilizzare Flash.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Molti asseriscono che si potrebbero avere videogiochi interessanti su iPhone se Apple permettesse a Adobe di realizzare una versione di Flash per iPhone. In più di 10 anni non ho mai visto un videogioco scritto in Flash che si possa definire veramente bello.&lt;br /&gt;I videogiochi migliori sono sempre stati scritti (dall'alba dei tempi dell'informatica) in linguaggi nativi sfruttando l'accelerazione grafica fornita dal processore grafico. E questo genere di videogiochi è disponibile per iPhone così come per Android.&lt;br /&gt;In particolare, per i videogiochi 3D non vanno bene ne Flash ne i linguaggi standard del Web, perché allo stato attuale non sono abbastanza efficienti per garantire una qualità medio-alta.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Un'altra ragione che molti adducono a sostegno di Flash è che sarebbe problematico navigare in Internet perché molti siti sono fatti con Flash.&lt;br /&gt;Questo era forse vero nel 2000 quando Flash ha conosciuto il suo boom. Ma poco dopo, finita la moda, sono tutti o quasi tornati ai linguaggi Web standard. I siti che vogliono arrivare al maggior numero di utenti possibili non sono mai scritti in Flash (inclusi i siti istituzionali e dell'amministrazione pubblica).&lt;br /&gt;Lo stesso sito di Adobe, che è il produttore di Flash, non è scritto in Flash. E questo la dice lunga su quanto sia davvero importante Flash nel Web.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/13577607-5397563726858942327?l=endercomics.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel="replies" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://endercomics.blogspot.com/feeds/5397563726858942327/comments/default" title="Post Comments" /><link rel="replies" type="text/html" href="http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=13577607&amp;postID=5397563726858942327&amp;isPopup=true" title="2 Comments" /><link rel="edit" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://www.blogger.com/feeds/13577607/posts/default/5397563726858942327?v=2" /><link rel="self" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://www.blogger.com/feeds/13577607/posts/default/5397563726858942327?v=2" /><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://endercomics.blogspot.com/2011/01/ancora-su-flash-e-lipad.html" title="Ancora su Flash e l'iPad" /><author><name>Ender</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/18398344747820390837</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel="http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail" width="32" height="32" src="http://img146.imageshack.us/img146/5875/selfportrait80x80so8.gif" /></author><thr:total>2</thr:total></entry><entry gd:etag="W/&quot;CUYBRn48eyp7ImA9Wx9XFEQ.&quot;"><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13577607.post-72006723798451759</id><published>2011-01-08T11:01:00.003+01:00</published><updated>2011-01-08T14:25:57.073+01:00</updated><app:edited xmlns:app="http://www.w3.org/2007/app">2011-01-08T14:25:57.073+01:00</app:edited><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="siti" /><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="regolamento" /><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="forum" /><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="moderatori" /><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="lavoro" /><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="offerte" /><title>Offerte di lavoro: è comodo scaricare la responsabilità ai moderatori</title><content type="html">Come certamente saprete sul World Wide Web esistono molti siti (blogs, bacheche o veri e propri contenitori specializzati) che offrono uno spazio per la pubblicazione di annunci di lavoro. Io stesso ne frequento alcuni: DeviantArt.com, ConceptArt.org, HTML.it e altri.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Ultimamente ho attivato l'aggiornamento automatico degli annunci per mezzo dei feed RSS o Atom. In questo modo posso tenermi aggiornato minuto per minuto sulle ultime offerte e, quindi, ho una percezione più immediata di quello che accade ogni giorno.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Saprete anche ogni forum ha i suoi regolamenti più o meno rigidi. Ad esempio, fin ora, il forum delle offerte di lavoro di HTML.it mi è sembrato uno dei più regolamentati e uno dei meglio moderati. Forse, a volte, ci vorrebbe un po' più di elasticità, ma in linea di massima preferisco non averne che averne troppa o frequentare un forum nel quale i moderatori è come se non ci fossero.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Ad esempio, questo è il caso di DeviantArt.com. Dove spesso dobbiamo essere noi membri ad autogestire il forum e avvertire gli autori delle offerte, se non rispettano il regolamento, ricevendo spesso anche risposte scortesi. Altre volte riportiamo le offerte ai moderatori, segnalandole tramite l'apposito sistema di tickets. Ma, in pratica la situazione ha raggiunto lo stato di anarchia.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;In altri casi i moderatori si fanno avanti soltanto quando qualche collega si lamenta contestualmente di un offerta ridicola. Ma se l'offerta è fuori da ogni logica di mercato nessuno dice nulla, poiché spesso, chi invia le offerte paga per poterle inviare.&lt;br /&gt;Nessuno si preoccupa del fatto che chi cerca lavoro, per leggere le offerte (spesso lunghi messaggi dove i dettagli importanti non sono messi in evidenza) impiega del tempo e, se queste offerte sono per oltre il 50% delle bufale oppure delle offerte ridicole, è tutto tempo perso.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Oggi ho avuto l'ardire di rispondere ad una di queste offerte, dove il committente diceva di cercare un collaboratore disposto a lavorare a pagamento oppure gratuitamente. L'offerta appariva su DeviantArt.com, dove le offerte gratuite non potrebbero essere inserite nel forum Job Offers per ragioni di regolamento.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Ho quindi spiegato al committente che doveva decidere se cercare una collaborazione a pagamento oppure una collaborazione  a titolo gratuito, perché, in quest'ultimo caso, sulla base del regolamento, la sua offerta andava inserita in un altro forum.&lt;br /&gt;Ho anche aggiunto, che col suo comportamento stava "abusando del tempo prezioso di coloro che cercano lavoro in quel forum".&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Per tutta risposta, il committente mi ha detto che se i moderatori decideranno di spostare la sua offerta, perché ritenuta irregolare, allora accetterà la loro decisone, altrimenti resterà li dov'è e lui non farà nulla per allinearsi al regolamento (non ho fatto la traduzione letterale, ma il senso è esattamente quello).&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;In pratica è come se mi avesse detto che "finché la polizia non lo arresta lui continua a rubare" (per non dire peggio).&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Questa persona non è il primo che mi risponde in questo modo; al contrario, è una rarità trovare qualcuno che si allinei di sua spontanea volontà, una volta avvertito, fra coloro che inviano offerte irregolari. E, comunque, anche fra quelli più onesti, l'errore comune è sempre lo stesso: nessuno legge il regolamento!&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/13577607-72006723798451759?l=endercomics.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel="replies" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://endercomics.blogspot.com/feeds/72006723798451759/comments/default" title="Post Comments" /><link rel="replies" type="text/html" href="http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=13577607&amp;postID=72006723798451759&amp;isPopup=true" title="0 Comments" /><link rel="edit" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://www.blogger.com/feeds/13577607/posts/default/72006723798451759?v=2" /><link rel="self" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://www.blogger.com/feeds/13577607/posts/default/72006723798451759?v=2" /><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://endercomics.blogspot.com/2011/01/offerte-di-lavoro-e-comodo-scaricare-la.html" title="Offerte di lavoro: è comodo scaricare la responsabilità ai moderatori" /><author><name>Ender</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/18398344747820390837</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel="http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail" width="32" height="32" src="http://img146.imageshack.us/img146/5875/selfportrait80x80so8.gif" /></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry gd:etag="W/&quot;C0ENRX06eyp7ImA9Wx5QFU4.&quot;"><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13577607.post-8451373102730028205</id><published>2010-09-03T18:27:00.002+02:00</published><updated>2010-09-03T18:34:54.313+02:00</updated><app:edited xmlns:app="http://www.w3.org/2007/app">2010-09-03T18:34:54.313+02:00</app:edited><title>Long time ago...</title><content type="html">The past 12 monthts had been full of troubles for me and I had to temporary drop my social networks activity. Now, I post an overture of some of the studied I did in the few moments of free time.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;table style="width:auto;"&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td&gt;&lt;a href="http://picasaweb.google.it/lh/photo/48_9v74VciYXZqcpRvgUcQ?feat=embedwebsite"&gt;&lt;img src="http://lh6.ggpht.com/_HzkQT2tuwqg/TIEf1wnlizI/AAAAAAAAARk/TFgEiSfPiW8/s144/cawgirl.png" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td style="font-family:arial,sans-serif; font-size:11px; text-align:right"&gt;Da &lt;a href="http://picasaweb.google.it/ender.saka/SketchBook?feat=embedwebsite"&gt;Sketch Book&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/table&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;table style="width:auto;"&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td&gt;&lt;a href="http://picasaweb.google.it/lh/photo/bkaP2prcIvyy5vr_ijg5pg?feat=embedwebsite"&gt;&lt;img src="http://lh4.ggpht.com/_HzkQT2tuwqg/TIEf2YGNJZI/AAAAAAAAARo/rGzRv9oChKQ/s144/contadino.png" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td style="font-family:arial,sans-serif; font-size:11px; text-align:right"&gt;Da &lt;a href="http://picasaweb.google.it/ender.saka/SketchBook?feat=embedwebsite"&gt;Sketch Book&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/table&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;table style="width:auto;"&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td&gt;&lt;a href="http://picasaweb.google.it/lh/photo/rVBX6XoKC3Uc6-3wea03ag?feat=embedwebsite"&gt;&lt;img src="http://lh5.ggpht.com/_HzkQT2tuwqg/TIEf2TnmzUI/AAAAAAAAARs/qVV99jU5v1Y/s144/lord_e_servant.png" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td style="font-family:arial,sans-serif; font-size:11px; text-align:right"&gt;Da &lt;a href="http://picasaweb.google.it/ender.saka/SketchBook?feat=embedwebsite"&gt;Sketch Book&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/table&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;table style="width:auto;"&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td&gt;&lt;a href="http://picasaweb.google.it/lh/photo/P9fc4WFwnA8N1hev4YBgsg?feat=embedwebsite"&gt;&lt;img src="http://lh6.ggpht.com/_HzkQT2tuwqg/TIEf2utae8I/AAAAAAAAARw/2onPzddRi5I/s144/overture.png" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td style="font-family:arial,sans-serif; font-size:11px; text-align:right"&gt;Da &lt;a href="http://picasaweb.google.it/ender.saka/SketchBook?feat=embedwebsite"&gt;Sketch Book&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/table&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;table style="width:auto;"&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td&gt;&lt;a href="http://picasaweb.google.it/lh/photo/NM5k2U-iac5ErU0ot2JM0w?feat=embedwebsite"&gt;&lt;img src="http://lh4.ggpht.com/_HzkQT2tuwqg/TIEf23pPlvI/AAAAAAAAAR0/5693bJGQ2Do/s144/savana.png" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td style="font-family:arial,sans-serif; font-size:11px; text-align:right"&gt;Da &lt;a href="http://picasaweb.google.it/ender.saka/SketchBook?feat=embedwebsite"&gt;Sketch Book&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/table&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;table style="width:auto;"&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td&gt;&lt;a href="http://picasaweb.google.it/lh/photo/eSJki6BDFV-PgdpON0qh3A?feat=embedwebsite"&gt;&lt;img src="http://lh6.ggpht.com/_HzkQT2tuwqg/TIEgQ4VpaBI/AAAAAAAAAR8/zDIdpupqENk/s144/scrooge.png" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td style="font-family:arial,sans-serif; font-size:11px; text-align:right"&gt;Da &lt;a href="http://picasaweb.google.it/ender.saka/SketchBook?feat=embedwebsite"&gt;Sketch Book&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/table&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;table style="width:auto;"&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td&gt;&lt;a href="http://picasaweb.google.it/lh/photo/97e8GKWWLV2ykPSZXum6Zw?feat=embedwebsite"&gt;&lt;img src="http://lh3.ggpht.com/_HzkQT2tuwqg/TIEgQ8X-ckI/AAAAAAAAASA/n6a90QWDWBg/s144/time_anto.png" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td style="font-family:arial,sans-serif; font-size:11px; text-align:right"&gt;Da &lt;a href="http://picasaweb.google.it/ender.saka/SketchBook?feat=embedwebsite"&gt;Sketch Book&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/table&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/13577607-8451373102730028205?l=endercomics.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel="replies" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://endercomics.blogspot.com/feeds/8451373102730028205/comments/default" title="Post Comments" /><link rel="replies" type="text/html" href="http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=13577607&amp;postID=8451373102730028205&amp;isPopup=true" title="0 Comments" /><link rel="edit" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://www.blogger.com/feeds/13577607/posts/default/8451373102730028205?v=2" /><link rel="self" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://www.blogger.com/feeds/13577607/posts/default/8451373102730028205?v=2" /><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://endercomics.blogspot.com/2010/09/long-time-ago.html" title="Long time ago..." /><author><name>Ender</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/18398344747820390837</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel="http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail" width="32" height="32" src="http://img146.imageshack.us/img146/5875/selfportrait80x80so8.gif" /></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" url="http://lh6.ggpht.com/_HzkQT2tuwqg/TIEf1wnlizI/AAAAAAAAARk/TFgEiSfPiW8/s72-c/cawgirl.png" height="72" width="72" /><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry gd:etag="W/&quot;C04AQXc9fyp7ImA9WxNTF08.&quot;"><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13577607.post-2575132217458259643</id><published>2009-08-20T00:31:00.004+02:00</published><updated>2009-08-20T00:45:40.967+02:00</updated><app:edited xmlns:app="http://www.w3.org/2007/app">2009-08-20T00:45:40.967+02:00</app:edited><title>KaleiDraw 3D for iPhone, UI made with Blender</title><content type="html">&lt;p&gt;I recently completed the 3D rendered UI of &lt;a href="http://itunes.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewSoftware?id=323668110&amp;mt=8"&gt;KaleiDraw&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;table style="width:auto;"&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td&gt;&lt;a href="http://picasaweb.google.com/lh/photo/j1YkXiPR3BpuI2BWcwptlw?authkey=Gv1sRgCMrg9ffZvpuXuQE&amp;feat=embedwebsite"&gt;&lt;img src="http://lh4.ggpht.com/_HzkQT2tuwqg/SoyAE5LQ64I/AAAAAAAAAMU/0umVkIhBIgo/s144/final_hud_composizione.png" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td style="font-family:arial,sans-serif; font-size:11px; text-align:right"&gt;Da &lt;a href="http://picasaweb.google.com/ender.saka/EnderSComX?authkey=Gv1sRgCMrg9ffZvpuXuQE&amp;feat=embedwebsite"&gt;Ender&amp;#39;s ComX&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/table&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://itunes.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewSoftware?id=323668110&amp;mt=8"&gt;KaleiDraw&lt;/a&gt; is a simple OpenGL ES based kaleidoscope for iPhone, developed by friend and co-worker Giovanni Dal Negro aka GioFX.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;All the 3D/2D graphics are my own work. GioFX is the author of the OpenGL ES based code. &lt;a href="http://itunes.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewSoftware?id=323668110&amp;mt=8"&gt;KaleiDraw&lt;/a&gt;, developed for &lt;a href="http://iditeam.com/"&gt;iDiTeam&lt;/a&gt;, is based on a native Windows/Mac(Carbon) 3D engine, called Chimera, written by GioFX in C/C++ and ported to iPhone(Cocoa).&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;GioFX is also author of other entertainement applications, based on his engine Chimera, like &lt;a href="http://itunes.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewSoftware?id=294155967&amp;mt=8"&gt;Jungle&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href="http://itunes.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewSoftware?id=290946180&amp;mt=8"&gt;Sparkles&lt;/a&gt; (vendor site &lt;a href="http://www.multithemes.com/iphone/"&gt;iQzero&lt;/a&gt;).&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;If you are usual reader of this blog, you know I am a developer too (se &lt;a href="http://md5reader.sourceforge.net/"&gt;MD5 Reader 2&lt;/a&gt;). Recently my collaboration with GioFX leaded to the development of a new engine, partially based on Chimera. The aim of this project is the production of an upcoming 3D breathtaking title for iPhone.&lt;br /&gt;Stay tuned!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;OpenGL ES development: GioFX aka Giovanni Dal Negro&lt;br /&gt;Graphics: Ender aka Marco Frisan&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/13577607-2575132217458259643?l=endercomics.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel="replies" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://endercomics.blogspot.com/feeds/2575132217458259643/comments/default" title="Post Comments" /><link rel="replies" type="text/html" href="http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=13577607&amp;postID=2575132217458259643&amp;isPopup=true" title="2 Comments" /><link rel="edit" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://www.blogger.com/feeds/13577607/posts/default/2575132217458259643?v=2" /><link rel="self" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://www.blogger.com/feeds/13577607/posts/default/2575132217458259643?v=2" /><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://endercomics.blogspot.com/2009/08/kaleidraw-3d-for-iphone-ui-made-with.html" title="KaleiDraw 3D for iPhone, UI made with Blender" /><author><name>Ender</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/18398344747820390837</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel="http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail" width="32" height="32" src="http://img146.imageshack.us/img146/5875/selfportrait80x80so8.gif" /></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" url="http://lh4.ggpht.com/_HzkQT2tuwqg/SoyAE5LQ64I/AAAAAAAAAMU/0umVkIhBIgo/s72-c/final_hud_composizione.png" height="72" width="72" /><thr:total>2</thr:total></entry><entry gd:etag="W/&quot;A0UDQ3k_cSp7ImA9Wx9bE0w.&quot;"><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13577607.post-315414341484924317</id><published>2008-04-06T14:04:00.004+02:00</published><updated>2011-02-21T21:14:32.749+01:00</updated><app:edited xmlns:app="http://www.w3.org/2007/app">2011-02-21T21:14:32.749+01:00</app:edited><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="MD5 Reader 2" /><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="MD5 Fellow" /><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="Blender 3D" /><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="Creative Commons" /><title>MD5 Fellow</title><content type="html">Because of my duties in this period I leaved aside the blog, and I was going to forget to post here about the &lt;a href="http://md5reader.sourceforge.net/md5fellow.html"&gt;MD5 Fellow&lt;/a&gt; project.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;iframe width="425" height="344" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/Ie6XOCvPAfo?fs=1" frameborder="0" allowFullScreen=""&gt;&lt;/iframe&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;It is a 3D model of a character, created expressly as a test model for &lt;a href="http://md5reader.sourceforge.net/"&gt;MD5 Reader 2&lt;/a&gt; project.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;At the current state, this is the first release of &lt;a href="http://md5reader.sourceforge.net/md5fellow.html"&gt;MD5 Fellow&lt;/a&gt; (&lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;v 0.1&lt;/span&gt;). The model is provided as &lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;*.blend&lt;/span&gt; file format (the &lt;a href="http://www.blender.org/"&gt;Blender 3D&lt;/a&gt; internal file format) is complete with a skeleton (&lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;Armature&lt;/span&gt;) that permits to animat it easily enough.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://md5reader.sourceforge.net/md5fellow.html"&gt;MD5 Fellow&lt;/a&gt; does not have any textures or materials yet, but adding them is in our future plans.&lt;br /&gt;About skeleton and weights, it is already usable but it needs some fine tuning.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://md5reader.sourceforge.net/md5fellow.html"&gt;MD5 Fellow&lt;/a&gt; is released under the terms of &lt;a rel="license" href="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/2.5/it/"&gt;Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 2.5&lt;/a&gt; license: you can use the model and modify it for any open source project, if you attribute the author (me) and share any modifications under the terms of the same license or a compatible one. For more informations and guidelines about attributing the author try to visit the &lt;a href="http://creativecommons.org/"&gt;Creative Commons&lt;/a&gt; site.&lt;br /&gt;If you would like to use &lt;a href="http://md5reader.sourceforge.net/md5fellow.html"&gt;MD5 Fellow&lt;/a&gt; for commercial use, please contact me to find a agreement.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://md5reader.sourceforge.net/md5fellow.html"&gt;MD5 Fellow&lt;/a&gt; is a really important project for me because it is the result of a long research to get the best possible &lt;span style="font-style:italic;"&gt;mesh&lt;/span&gt;. It still needs to be fine tuned but I think it is a satisfy result. In the past I already started to study the argument (&lt;a href="http://blenderartists.org/forum/showthread.php?t=55491"&gt;Notes on 3D human modeling&lt;/a&gt;), but I abbandoned it for a long period.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://md5reader.sourceforge.net/md5fellow.html"&gt;MD5 Fellow&lt;/a&gt; concludes this research path and is a placeholder of the basis on wich I approach characters modeling.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/13577607-315414341484924317?l=endercomics.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel="replies" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://endercomics.blogspot.com/feeds/315414341484924317/comments/default" title="Post Comments" /><link rel="replies" type="text/html" href="http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=13577607&amp;postID=315414341484924317&amp;isPopup=true" title="3 Comments" /><link rel="edit" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://www.blogger.com/feeds/13577607/posts/default/315414341484924317?v=2" /><link rel="self" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://www.blogger.com/feeds/13577607/posts/default/315414341484924317?v=2" /><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://endercomics.blogspot.com/2008/04/md5-fellow.html" title="MD5 Fellow" /><author><name>Ender</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/18398344747820390837</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel="http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail" width="32" height="32" src="http://img146.imageshack.us/img146/5875/selfportrait80x80so8.gif" /></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" url="http://img.youtube.com/vi/Ie6XOCvPAfo/default.jpg" height="72" width="72" /><thr:total>3</thr:total></entry><entry gd:etag="W/&quot;CUMERX49eCp7ImA9WxRbGEQ.&quot;"><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13577607.post-3327582814348869412</id><published>2007-10-27T11:04:00.000+02:00</published><updated>2008-12-10T08:16:44.060+01:00</updated><app:edited xmlns:app="http://www.w3.org/2007/app">2008-12-10T08:16:44.060+01:00</app:edited><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="Cariatide" /><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="Wacom Graphire" /><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="The Gimp" /><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="Work in Progress" /><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="Digital Painting" /><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="WIP" /><title>Cariatide strikes back</title><content type="html">&lt;p&gt;If you remember the first pencil draft i made, the &lt;a href="http://endercomics.blogspot.com/2005/12/cariatide.html"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Cariatide&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt; (I have still not found a English translation for this italian word), now you could be interested in this evolution. It is still a &lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;WIP&lt;/span&gt;, but it is going to be what I imagine when I drew the pencil.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_HzkQT2tuwqg/RyMVuVdy_MI/AAAAAAAAACc/Xs9kVXpIxVE/s1600-h/cariatidefemmina_color.png"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_HzkQT2tuwqg/RyMVuVdy_MI/AAAAAAAAACc/Xs9kVXpIxVE/s200/cariatidefemmina_color.png" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5125964686658043074" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;I am not an expert of &lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Digital Painting&lt;/span&gt;, and this is my first notable result of some months spent playing with &lt;a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://www.gimp.org/"&gt;The Gimp&lt;/a&gt; airbrush settings, to be used with my &lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;USB&lt;/span&gt; &lt;a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://www.wacom-europe.com/int/products/graphire4/index.asp?lang=it&amp;amp;pdx=10"&gt;Wacom Graphire 4&lt;/a&gt;, and trying some techniques using layers and masks (alpha channels).&lt;br /&gt;At the end, I found this tutorial: &lt;a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://www.gimptalk.com/forum/article/Tutorial-Draw-An-Eye-In-Gimp-5-Minutes-21516.html"&gt;Draw An Eye In Gimp&lt;/a&gt;, where the author gives a magic setup for airbrush used with tablets.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;cite&gt;« Airbrush (shortcut a) -- This tool is used to create all shades in and around the eye. Note that you don't need to change the colour in the palette to create grey -- just let the opacity of the airbrush work for you. See the basic and Advanced airbrushing tutorials on more info on this. Set the opacity of the airbrush to 20% (!), the rate to 80% and the pressure to 10%.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;For tablet users: Set all sensitivities except colour. Use an opacity of 80% instead, remember to use a light hand to apply the strokes. »&lt;/cite&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_HzkQT2tuwqg/RyMQEVdy_KI/AAAAAAAAACM/T6laNoTMLO0/s1600-h/Schermata-The+GIMP-1.png"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_HzkQT2tuwqg/RyMQEVdy_KI/AAAAAAAAACM/T6laNoTMLO0/s200/Schermata-The+GIMP-1.png" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5125958467545398434" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_HzkQT2tuwqg/RyMQPFdy_LI/AAAAAAAAACU/TqHXnMCuBN0/s1600-h/Schermata-The+GIMP-2.png"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; float: right; cursor: pointer;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_HzkQT2tuwqg/RyMQPFdy_LI/AAAAAAAAACU/TqHXnMCuBN0/s200/Schermata-The+GIMP-2.png" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5125958652228992178" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;This are the two settings I used.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Unfortunatelly my &lt;a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://www.gimp.org/"&gt;The Gimp&lt;/a&gt; is configured with an italian localizzation.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Though, apart from the general opacity (opacità), rate (ammontare) and pressure (pressione), that are setted as explained in the tutorial, I used this two different configurations for the sensitivity activation check boxes. All activated, except for the color check box, or all disabled, except for the opacity check box.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;The first one gives a brush that is better for details of the paint. The second one, instead, gives a brush better for large areas or soft filled areas.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;The other settings you can modify are brush size and hardness. To set these two values, I configured four shortcuts from the preference panel of &lt;a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://www.gimp.org/"&gt;The Gimp&lt;/a&gt;. This way I am able to dimically change them, without loose time opening the brush tab and grab the slide bars, working a lot more comfortable and increasing working speed.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Not all the merit for this result is deserved by the tutorial above. I spent a lot of time to find a good approach to a more rational &lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Digital Painting&lt;/span&gt; technique. And the result is a method that mix the settings above, with the use of a different layer for each color of the image. Each of these layers have a mask and I paint directly on the mask using white or black color.&lt;br /&gt;Moreover my preferred way to work is to have a fully opaque mask and use black to make the layer trasparent where I want highlights or midtones. This whay you can use easly blending modes, if you need, and layer opacity.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;To recreate a marble skin for the girl I used a texture created following this tutorial: &lt;a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://gug.sunsite.dk/tutorials/alastair1/"&gt;Alastair's tutorial - Marble&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/13577607-3327582814348869412?l=endercomics.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel="replies" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://endercomics.blogspot.com/feeds/3327582814348869412/comments/default" title="Post Comments" /><link rel="replies" type="text/html" href="http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=13577607&amp;postID=3327582814348869412&amp;isPopup=true" title="0 Comments" /><link rel="edit" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://www.blogger.com/feeds/13577607/posts/default/3327582814348869412?v=2" /><link 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gd:etag="W/&quot;DUEASXY9cCp7ImA9WB9RFEw.&quot;"><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13577607.post-2064935107933538117</id><published>2007-10-15T04:31:00.000+02:00</published><updated>2007-10-15T05:07:28.868+02:00</updated><app:edited xmlns:app="http://www.w3.org/2007/app">2007-10-15T05:07:28.868+02:00</app:edited><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="packages" /><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="gawk" /><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="awk" /><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="eix" /><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="Gentoo" /><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="grep" /><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="command line" /><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="categories" /><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="update" /><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="emerge" /><title>Some usefull Gentoo command line instructions</title><content type="html">&lt;p&gt;With this command is possible to list all the installed packages of a certain category, that are up to date or that need to be updated.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:courier new;"&gt;eix -A media-video | grep -E "\[[IU]\]"&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;For the example category, I choosed, I got this output.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:courier new;"&gt;[I] media-video/dvdauthor&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:courier new;"&gt;[I] media-video/ffmpeg&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:courier new;"&gt;[I] media-video/lives&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:courier new;"&gt;[I] media-video/mjpegtools&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:courier new;"&gt;[I] media-video/mkvtoolnix&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:courier new;"&gt;[I] media-video/mpeg2vidcodec&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:courier new;"&gt;[I] media-video/mplayer&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:courier new;"&gt;[I] media-video/nvidia-settings&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:courier new;"&gt;[I] media-video/totem&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:courier new;"&gt;[I] media-video/vcdimager&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:courier new;"&gt;[I] media-video/xanim&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:courier new;"&gt;[I] media-video/xine-ui&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;This is a variant of the previous command, that lists the packages with the description.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: courier new;font-size:85%;" &gt;eix -A media-video | grep -iE -A 4 "\[[IU]\]" | awk '{ if ($1 == "[U]" || $1 == "[I]") { print $0 } else { if ($1 == "Description:") { print substr( $0, index( $0, ":" ) + 1 ) } } }'&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;And this is the output I got.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:courier new;"&gt;[I] media-video/dvdauthor&lt;/span&gt;&lt;pre style="font-family: courier new;"&gt;         Tools for generating DVD files to be played on standalone DVD players&lt;/pre&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:courier new;"&gt;[I] media-video/ffmpeg&lt;/span&gt;&lt;pre style="font-family: courier new;"&gt;         Complete solution to record, convert and stream audio and video. Includes libavcodec. SVN revision 9330&lt;/pre&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:courier new;"&gt;[I] media-video/lives&lt;/span&gt;&lt;pre style="font-family: courier new;"&gt;         Linux Video Editing System&lt;/pre&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:courier new;"&gt;[I] media-video/mjpegtools&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:courier new;"&gt;[I] media-video/mkvtoolnix&lt;/span&gt;&lt;pre style="font-family: courier new;"&gt;         Tools to create, alter, and inspect Matroska files&lt;/pre&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:courier new;"&gt;[I] media-video/mpeg2vidcodec&lt;/span&gt;&lt;pre style="font-family: courier new;"&gt;         MPEG Library&lt;/pre&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:courier new;"&gt;[I] media-video/mplayer&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;pre style="font-family: courier new;"&gt;         Media Player for Linux&lt;/pre&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:courier new;"&gt;[I] media-video/nvidia-settings&lt;/span&gt;&lt;pre style="font-family: courier new;"&gt;         NVIDIA Linux X11 Settings Utility&lt;/pre&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:courier new;"&gt;[I] media-video/totem&lt;/span&gt;&lt;pre style="font-family: courier new;"&gt;         Media player for GNOME&lt;/pre&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:courier new;"&gt;[I] media-video/vcdimager&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;pre style="font-family: courier new;"&gt;         GNU VCDimager&lt;/pre&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:courier new;"&gt;[I] media-video/xanim&lt;/span&gt;&lt;pre style="font-family: courier new;"&gt;         program for playing a wide variety of animation, audio and video formats&lt;/pre&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:courier new;"&gt;[I] media-video/xine-ui&lt;/span&gt;&lt;pre style="font-family: courier new;"&gt;         Xine movie player&lt;/pre&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;And if you find any package in the category that needs to update, you can update all of them in a single command.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: courier new;font-size:85%;" &gt;emerge -p `eix -A media-video | grep -iE "\[U\]" | awk '{ if ( $1 == "[U]" ) { print $2 } }'`&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Control the output and, if it is correct, run the command once more without &lt;span style="font-family: courier new;font-size:85%;" &gt;`-p'&lt;/span&gt; option to actually complete it.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/13577607-2064935107933538117?l=endercomics.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel="replies" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://endercomics.blogspot.com/feeds/2064935107933538117/comments/default" title="Post Comments" /><link rel="replies" type="text/html" href="http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=13577607&amp;postID=2064935107933538117&amp;isPopup=true" title="0 Comments" /><link rel="edit" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://www.blogger.com/feeds/13577607/posts/default/2064935107933538117?v=2" /><link rel="self" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://www.blogger.com/feeds/13577607/posts/default/2064935107933538117?v=2" /><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://endercomics.blogspot.com/2007/10/some-usefull-gentoo-command-line.html" title="Some usefull Gentoo command line instructions" /><author><name>Ender</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/18398344747820390837</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel="http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail" width="32" height="32" src="http://img146.imageshack.us/img146/5875/selfportrait80x80so8.gif" /></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry gd:etag="W/&quot;C0UGRnY_eCp7ImA9WB5REko.&quot;"><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13577607.post-116312085162785575</id><published>2006-11-10T01:59:00.000+01:00</published><updated>2007-06-19T18:40:27.840+02:00</updated><app:edited xmlns:app="http://www.w3.org/2007/app">2007-06-19T18:40:27.840+02:00</app:edited><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="Character Design" /><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="Avril Lavigne" /><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="Concept Art" /><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="Sketch" /><title>Avril</title><content type="html">&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/3096/1199/1600/avril_scurrile.png"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/3096/1199/320/avril_scurrile.png" alt="" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;There is a long time that I do not update any drawings.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;This one (hope that it is not offensive) was made as a test for a comic book story, where the eroine should look like Avril Lavigne.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;I done many tests but I still not sure if it is a good result. Though I do not like Avril.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/13577607-116312085162785575?l=endercomics.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel="replies" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://endercomics.blogspot.com/feeds/116312085162785575/comments/default" title="Post Comments" /><link rel="replies" type="text/html" href="http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=13577607&amp;postID=116312085162785575&amp;isPopup=true" title="3 Comments" /><link rel="edit" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://www.blogger.com/feeds/13577607/posts/default/116312085162785575?v=2" /><link rel="self" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://www.blogger.com/feeds/13577607/posts/default/116312085162785575?v=2" /><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://endercomics.blogspot.com/2006/11/there-is-long-time-that-i-do-not.html" title="Avril" /><author><name>Ender</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/18398344747820390837</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel="http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail" width="32" height="32" src="http://img146.imageshack.us/img146/5875/selfportrait80x80so8.gif" /></author><thr:total>3</thr:total></entry><entry gd:etag="W/&quot;CkEESH4_cCp7ImA9WB5REko.&quot;"><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13577607.post-116251783185619674</id><published>2006-11-03T02:15:00.000+01:00</published><updated>2007-06-19T18:30:09.048+02:00</updated><app:edited xmlns:app="http://www.w3.org/2007/app">2007-06-19T18:30:09.048+02:00</app:edited><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="MD5 Reader 2" /><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="jMonkeyEngine" /><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="ChaosDeathFish" /><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="MD5" /><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="blender2md5" /><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="Blender" /><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="jME" /><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="der_ton" /><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="Doom 3" /><title>MD5 Reader 2 CVS</title><content type="html">&lt;a href="https://sourceforge.net/projects/md5reader"&gt;MD5 Reader 2&lt;/a&gt; CVS source code is up. For informations on how to download it go &lt;a href="https://sourceforge.net/cvs/?group_id=180458"&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;. If anyone is interested to contribute future development, subscribe to &lt;a href="http://www.sourceforge.net/"&gt;sourceforge.net&lt;/a&gt; and follow instructions on how to request to be added as developer to an existing project.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="https://sourceforge.net/projects/md5reader"&gt;MD5 Reader 2&lt;/a&gt; is the continuation of a dead project, originally created by &lt;a href="http://www.volatile-engine.com/blog/2"&gt;ChaosDeathFish&lt;/a&gt;, that makes the 3D engine for Java, &lt;a href="http://www.jmonkeyengine.com/"&gt;jME&lt;/a&gt;, able to load MD5 3D animated models.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;This loader supports mesh, materials, weighted skeletons and animation. These features was not nativelly supported under &lt;a href="http://www.jmonkeyengine.com/"&gt;jME&lt;/a&gt;; at least until one of the latest CVS code implemented a new skeletal system for &lt;a href="http://www.jmonkeyengine.com/"&gt;jME&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Though &lt;a href="https://sourceforge.net/projects/md5reader"&gt;MD5 Reader 2&lt;/a&gt;, can provide a valid alternative to native &lt;a href="http://www.jmonkeyengine.com/"&gt;jME&lt;/a&gt; skeletal system or can be used a an intermediate file format converter, that gives to modelers the chance to model, rigging and animate their models, for example, with &lt;a href="http://www.blender.org/cms/Home.2.0.html"&gt;Blender&lt;/a&gt; and export them with &lt;a href="http://www.doom3world.org/phpbb2/viewtopic.php?t=1711"&gt;der_ton's blender2md5 exporter&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/13577607-116251783185619674?l=endercomics.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel="replies" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://endercomics.blogspot.com/feeds/116251783185619674/comments/default" title="Post Comments" /><link rel="replies" type="text/html" href="http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=13577607&amp;postID=116251783185619674&amp;isPopup=true" title="0 Comments" /><link rel="edit" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://www.blogger.com/feeds/13577607/posts/default/116251783185619674?v=2" /><link rel="self" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://www.blogger.com/feeds/13577607/posts/default/116251783185619674?v=2" /><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://endercomics.blogspot.com/2006/11/md5-reader-2-cvs.html" title="MD5 Reader 2 CVS" /><author><name>Ender</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/18398344747820390837</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel="http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail" width="32" height="32" src="http://img146.imageshack.us/img146/5875/selfportrait80x80so8.gif" /></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry gd:etag="W/&quot;C0YDRHo5cSp7ImA9WB5REko.&quot;"><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13577607.post-116189385579698463</id><published>2006-10-26T21:54:00.000+02:00</published><updated>2007-06-19T18:39:35.429+02:00</updated><app:edited xmlns:app="http://www.w3.org/2007/app">2007-06-19T18:39:35.429+02:00</app:edited><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="Mars land of no mercy" /><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="MLonM" /><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="Mars Face" /><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="Sketch" /><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="Viking 1" /><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="3D Model" /><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="Cydonia Mensae" /><title>The Mars face</title><content type="html">&lt;p&gt;One of the last ideas I was working to, is the realization of a face for the open source game &lt;a href="http://www.marsnomercy.org/"&gt;Mars land of no mercy&lt;/a&gt;, in which I am involved as member of the team. The face should be a monument inspired by the well known Mars face. The complete post is &lt;a href="http://forum.marsnomercy.org/viewtopic.php?t=200&amp;highlight="&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://img214.imageshack.us/img214/9959/faceonmarskl8.png"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 320px;" src="http://img214.imageshack.us/img214/9959/faceonmarskl8.png" alt="" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;The first step consist to draw a sketch of the face using the original image of the Cydonia Mensae that contain the feature commonly known as the "face", taken by the Viking 1.&lt;br&gt;I tryed to imagine how a hypothetical face should look like if the face on the photo would have been a real face.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://img204.imageshack.us/img204/2654/faceommars02rendertw5.png"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; float: right; cursor: pointer; width: 320px;" src="http://img204.imageshack.us/img204/2654/faceommars02rendertw5.png" alt="" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;And here is the "work in progress" result.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 10px; font-style: italic; float: left;"&gt;Mars Land of no Mercy game is Copyright © 2006 by &lt;a href="http://mars.dev-labs.net/index.php"&gt;Mars Land of No Mercy&lt;/a&gt; authors.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/13577607-116189385579698463?l=endercomics.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel="replies" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://endercomics.blogspot.com/feeds/116189385579698463/comments/default" title="Post Comments" /><link rel="replies" type="text/html" href="http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=13577607&amp;postID=116189385579698463&amp;isPopup=true" title="0 Comments" /><link rel="edit" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://www.blogger.com/feeds/13577607/posts/default/116189385579698463?v=2" /><link rel="self" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://www.blogger.com/feeds/13577607/posts/default/116189385579698463?v=2" /><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://endercomics.blogspot.com/2006/10/mars-face.html" title="The Mars face" /><author><name>Ender</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/18398344747820390837</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel="http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail" width="32" height="32" src="http://img146.imageshack.us/img146/5875/selfportrait80x80so8.gif" /></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry gd:etag="W/&quot;Ck8DQH09eSp7ImA9WB5REko.&quot;"><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13577607.post-115735555651259484</id><published>2006-09-04T08:23:00.000+02:00</published><updated>2007-06-19T18:34:31.361+02:00</updated><app:edited xmlns:app="http://www.w3.org/2007/app">2007-06-19T18:34:31.361+02:00</app:edited><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="jMonkeyEngine" /><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="blender2cal" /><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="GNOME" /><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="Soya 3D" /><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="jME" /><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="Slackware" /><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="mcbeth" /><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="Doom 3" /><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="KDE" /><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="MD5 Reader 2" /><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="ChaosDeathFish" /><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="Quake 4" /><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="MD5" /><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="World Forge" /><title>The return of the...</title><content type="html">I have been busy for some time the past month. I encountered many problems with computers.&lt;br /&gt;Technology have not been on my side in the last period.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Mother Board and Processor of my girlfriend's computer got burned in the half of agust and we have been waiting for a week for the new components we ordered.&lt;br /&gt;Usally the seller needs no more that 3 days to deliver the components but, in the middle of agust, a week is reasonable ;-) .&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;In the meanwhile I was installing &lt;a href="http://www.slackware.com/"&gt;Slackware&lt;/a&gt; Linux in a new computer that I bought to have a more performant desktop. I need to work with graphics and the currently released applications asking more and more "need for speed". Slackware is a really lightweight system, but not &lt;a href="http://www.kde.org/"&gt;KDE&lt;/a&gt; or &lt;a href="http://www.gnome.org/"&gt;GNOME&lt;/a&gt; :-D.&lt;br /&gt;Also the installation of &lt;a href="http://www.slackware.com/"&gt;Slackware&lt;/a&gt; anyway gave me many problems so I had 2 problems for 10-15 days: a burned computer and one working but without any system :-D .&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Anyway somehow things have gone well at the end.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Currently my drawing effort is really poor. I am really immersed in some coding work.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I fixed some applications from different projects.&lt;br /&gt;First of all I fixed the &lt;a href="http://www.worldforge.org/"&gt;World Forge&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href="http://purple.worldforge.org/cvs/forge/scratchpad/elefth/blender2cal3d_2.py"&gt;blender2cal_2.py&lt;/a&gt; exporter to work with &lt;a href="http://www.blender.org/cms/Home.2.0.html"&gt;Blender 2.42&lt;/a&gt; and fliping correctly coordinate system to match  &lt;a href="http://savannah.nongnu.org/projects/soya3d/"&gt;Soya 3D&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href="http://www.jmonkeyengine.com/"&gt;jME&lt;/a&gt; orientation matrix. Currently the latest news of this attempt are &lt;a href="http://www.jmonkeyengine.com/jmeforum/index.php?topic=2982.msg29434#msg29434"&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;Secondly I fixed the &lt;a html="http://www.jmonkeyengine.com/jmeforum/index.php?action=profile;u=206"&gt;ChaosDeathFish&lt;/a&gt;'s &lt;a href="http://www.jmonkeyengine.com/jmeforum/index.php?topic=1395.0"&gt;MD5Reader&lt;/a&gt; for &lt;a href="http://www.jmonkeyengine.com/"&gt;jME&lt;/a&gt; to work with the latest &lt;a href="https://jme.dev.java.net/source/browse/jme/"&gt;jME CVS&lt;/a&gt;. &lt;a href="http://www.jmonkeyengine.com/jmeforum/index.php?topic=1395.0"&gt;MD5Reader&lt;/a&gt; is an importer to load &lt;a href="http://www.doom3world.org/phpbb2/viewtopic.php?t=2884"&gt;MD5&lt;/a&gt; 3D models format (&lt;a href="http://www.doom3.com/"&gt;DOOM 3&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href="http://www.quake4game.com/"&gt;Quake 4&lt;/a&gt;) into &lt;a href="http://www.jmonkeyengine.com/"&gt;jME&lt;/a&gt;. This effort have been possible thanks to the help of &lt;a href="http://www.jmonkeyengine.com/jmeforum/index.php?action=profile;u=181"&gt;mcbeth&lt;/a&gt;, who fixed the model boundings update and send to me the lates &lt;a href="http://www.jmonkeyengine.com/jmeforum/index.php?topic=1395.0"&gt;MD5Reader&lt;/a&gt; sources, currently not any more available online. Of course a great help to make this fix possible have been suggestions from the &lt;a html="http://www.jmonkeyengine.com/jmeforum/index.php?action=profile;u=206"&gt;author&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Currently I am in trouble with many aspects of Linux, so I have been not able to release this fixes yet. But I hope to resolve them in few days and putting up a page somewere with these usefull (I hope) pieces of code.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/13577607-115735555651259484?l=endercomics.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel="replies" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://endercomics.blogspot.com/feeds/115735555651259484/comments/default" title="Post Comments" /><link rel="replies" type="text/html" href="http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=13577607&amp;postID=115735555651259484&amp;isPopup=true" title="0 Comments" /><link rel="edit" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://www.blogger.com/feeds/13577607/posts/default/115735555651259484?v=2" /><link rel="self" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://www.blogger.com/feeds/13577607/posts/default/115735555651259484?v=2" /><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://endercomics.blogspot.com/2006/09/return-of.html" title="The return of the..." /><author><name>Ender</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/18398344747820390837</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel="http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail" width="32" height="32" src="http://img146.imageshack.us/img146/5875/selfportrait80x80so8.gif" /></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry gd:etag="W/&quot;CUYMRXk8fyp7ImA9WBBQEk4.&quot;"><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13577607.post-115064132331942369</id><published>2006-06-18T16:31:00.000+02:00</published><updated>2006-11-11T09:19:44.777+01:00</updated><app:edited xmlns:app="http://www.w3.org/2007/app">2006-11-11T09:19:44.777+01:00</app:edited><title>Satisfaction Plus</title><content type="html">Eh, eh, eh! :-D&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Today, till now, 16:33 PM in Italy, the blog have been visited 29 times.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/13577607-115064132331942369?l=endercomics.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel="replies" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://endercomics.blogspot.com/feeds/115064132331942369/comments/default" title="Post Comments" /><link rel="replies" type="text/html" href="http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=13577607&amp;postID=115064132331942369&amp;isPopup=true" title="3 Comments" /><link rel="edit" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://www.blogger.com/feeds/13577607/posts/default/115064132331942369?v=2" /><link rel="self" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://www.blogger.com/feeds/13577607/posts/default/115064132331942369?v=2" /><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://endercomics.blogspot.com/2006/06/satisfaction-plus.html" title="Satisfaction Plus" /><author><name>Ender</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/18398344747820390837</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel="http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail" width="32" height="32" src="http://img146.imageshack.us/img146/5875/selfportrait80x80so8.gif" /></author><thr:total>3</thr:total></entry><entry gd:etag="W/&quot;CUYMRXs7fip7ImA9WBBQEk4.&quot;"><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13577607.post-115060476599413539</id><published>2006-06-18T06:17:00.000+02:00</published><updated>2006-11-11T09:19:44.506+01:00</updated><app:edited xmlns:app="http://www.w3.org/2007/app">2006-11-11T09:19:44.506+01:00</app:edited><title>Satisfaction</title><content type="html">I am really happy with this blog.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Five days ago I inserted the visits counter. And, in this little range of time, I have registered an average of 7 visists a day.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;For me this is the first experience of such a "success". Eh, eh, eh! Someone could say that it is ridicolous, but for me is a good begining.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;So thank you all for your interst.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/13577607-115060476599413539?l=endercomics.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel="replies" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://endercomics.blogspot.com/feeds/115060476599413539/comments/default" title="Post Comments" /><link rel="replies" type="text/html" href="http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=13577607&amp;postID=115060476599413539&amp;isPopup=true" title="4 Comments" /><link rel="edit" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://www.blogger.com/feeds/13577607/posts/default/115060476599413539?v=2" /><link rel="self" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://www.blogger.com/feeds/13577607/posts/default/115060476599413539?v=2" /><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://endercomics.blogspot.com/2006/06/satisfaction.html" title="Satisfaction" /><author><name>Ender</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/18398344747820390837</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel="http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail" width="32" height="32" src="http://img146.imageshack.us/img146/5875/selfportrait80x80so8.gif" /></author><thr:total>4</thr:total></entry><entry gd:etag="W/&quot;Ck4BRn48fSp7ImA9WB5REko.&quot;"><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13577607.post-115013540677142658</id><published>2006-06-15T17:42:00.000+02:00</published><updated>2007-06-19T18:35:57.075+02:00</updated><app:edited xmlns:app="http://www.w3.org/2007/app">2007-06-19T18:35:57.075+02:00</app:edited><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="Calyw" /><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="Bezier Curves" /><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="Gitana" /><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="Vectors" /><title>Vector Gitana</title><content type="html">&lt;div xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://calyw.blogspot.com/"&gt;Calyw&lt;/a&gt; have updated a &lt;a href="http://calyw.blogspot.com/2006/06/questa-gitana-la-mia-versione-colorata.html"&gt;vector drawing&lt;/a&gt; based on my &lt;a href="http://endercomics.blogspot.com/2005/12/you-have-5-minutes-to-do-it.html"&gt;Gitana&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Click &lt;a href="http://calyw.blogspot.com/2006/06/questa-gitana-la-mia-versione-colorata.html"&gt;here&lt;/a&gt; or the thumbnail below.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/7176/2323/1600/gitana9.png"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/7176/2323/1600/gitana9.png" alt="" border="0" height="30%" width="30%" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 10px; font-style: italic;"&gt;Copyright © 2006 by &lt;a href="http://endercomics.blogspot.com/"&gt;Marco Frisan&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href="http://calyw.blogspot.com/"&gt;Antonietta Braido&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/13577607-115013540677142658?l=endercomics.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel="replies" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://endercomics.blogspot.com/feeds/115013540677142658/comments/default" title="Post Comments" /><link rel="replies" type="text/html" href="http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=13577607&amp;postID=115013540677142658&amp;isPopup=true" title="2 Comments" /><link rel="edit" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://www.blogger.com/feeds/13577607/posts/default/115013540677142658?v=2" /><link rel="self" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://www.blogger.com/feeds/13577607/posts/default/115013540677142658?v=2" /><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://endercomics.blogspot.com/2006/06/vector-gitana.html" title="Vector Gitana" /><author><name>Ender</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/18398344747820390837</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel="http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail" width="32" height="32" src="http://img146.imageshack.us/img146/5875/selfportrait80x80so8.gif" /></author><thr:total>2</thr:total></entry><entry gd:etag="W/&quot;C0YARHk8eyp7ImA9WB5REko.&quot;"><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13577607.post-114799667641368803</id><published>2006-05-19T01:55:00.000+02:00</published><updated>2007-06-19T18:39:05.773+02:00</updated><app:edited xmlns:app="http://www.w3.org/2007/app">2007-06-19T18:39:05.773+02:00</app:edited><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="Sketch" /><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="Girlfriend" /><title>Gne Gne Gne</title><content type="html">My girlfriend expressing she was not agree!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/3096/1199/1600/anto-gnegnegne.png"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/3096/1199/200/anto-gnegnegne.png" alt="" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/13577607-114799667641368803?l=endercomics.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel="replies" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://endercomics.blogspot.com/feeds/114799667641368803/comments/default" title="Post Comments" /><link rel="replies" type="text/html" href="http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=13577607&amp;postID=114799667641368803&amp;isPopup=true" title="2 Comments" /><link rel="edit" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://www.blogger.com/feeds/13577607/posts/default/114799667641368803?v=2" /><link rel="self" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://www.blogger.com/feeds/13577607/posts/default/114799667641368803?v=2" /><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://endercomics.blogspot.com/2006/05/gne-gne-gne.html" title="Gne Gne Gne" /><author><name>Ender</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/18398344747820390837</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel="http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail" width="32" height="32" src="http://img146.imageshack.us/img146/5875/selfportrait80x80so8.gif" /></author><thr:total>2</thr:total></entry><entry gd:etag="W/&quot;C0YGSX47eCp7ImA9WB5REko.&quot;"><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13577607.post-114799649525659220</id><published>2006-05-19T01:27:00.000+02:00</published><updated>2007-06-19T18:38:48.000+02:00</updated><app:edited xmlns:app="http://www.w3.org/2007/app">2007-06-19T18:38:48.000+02:00</app:edited><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="Uncle Scrooge" /><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="Sketch" /><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="StoryBoard" /><title>Scrooge</title><content type="html">&lt;p&gt;Some images taken by my last work in progress. Dead line: tomorrow!&lt;/p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="display:inline;"&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/3096/1199/1600/scrooge-scrooge_girlfriend.png"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 5px; cursor: pointer;" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/3096/1199/200/scrooge-scrooge_girlfriend.png" alt="" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/3096/1199/1600/scrooge-paper0006.png"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 5px; cursor: pointer;" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/3096/1199/200/scrooge-paper0006.png" alt="" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="display:inline;"&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/3096/1199/1600/scrooge-paper0005.png"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 5px; cursor: pointer;" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/3096/1199/200/scrooge-paper0005.png" alt="" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/3096/1199/1600/scrooge-marleyghost.png"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 5px; cursor: pointer;" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/3096/1199/200/scrooge-marleyghost.png" alt="" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="display:inline;"&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/3096/1199/1600/scrooge-paper0002.png"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 5px; cursor: pointer;" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/3096/1199/200/scrooge-paper0002.png" alt="" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/3096/1199/1600/scrooge-paper0004.png"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 5px; cursor: pointer;" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/3096/1199/200/scrooge-paper0004.png" alt="" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="display:inline;"&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/3096/1199/1600/scrooge-paper0001.png"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 5px; cursor: pointer;" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/3096/1199/200/scrooge-paper0001.png" alt="" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/3096/1199/1600/scrooge-paper0003.png"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 5px; cursor: pointer;" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/3096/1199/200/scrooge-paper0003.png" alt="" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/13577607-114799649525659220?l=endercomics.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel="replies" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://endercomics.blogspot.com/feeds/114799649525659220/comments/default" title="Post Comments" /><link rel="replies" type="text/html" href="http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=13577607&amp;postID=114799649525659220&amp;isPopup=true" title="4 Comments" /><link rel="edit" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://www.blogger.com/feeds/13577607/posts/default/114799649525659220?v=2" /><link rel="self" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://www.blogger.com/feeds/13577607/posts/default/114799649525659220?v=2" /><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://endercomics.blogspot.com/2006/05/scrooge.html" title="Scrooge" /><author><name>Ender</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/18398344747820390837</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel="http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail" width="32" height="32" src="http://img146.imageshack.us/img146/5875/selfportrait80x80so8.gif" /></author><thr:total>4</thr:total></entry><entry gd:etag="W/&quot;C0cNQnY4fCp7ImA9WB5REko.&quot;"><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13577607.post-114719733795041334</id><published>2006-05-09T19:53:00.000+02:00</published><updated>2007-06-19T18:38:13.834+02:00</updated><app:edited xmlns:app="http://www.w3.org/2007/app">2007-06-19T18:38:13.834+02:00</app:edited><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="Mars land of no mercy" /><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="MLonM" /><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="Concept Art" /><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="Mac OS X" /><title>Open Source Strategy Game</title><content type="html">I forgot to tell that, 2 or 3 months ago, I joined the team of &lt;a href="http://mars.sourceforge.net/"&gt;Mars, Land of No Mercy&lt;/a&gt; an Open Source Turn Based Strategy Game, available for Windows, Linux, BSD and Mac OS X.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;My roles are 2D Graphics Designer or 3D Modeler (if I would be able), and Mac OS X package maintainer.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;A demo version, for all platforms supported, is available at download page &lt;a href="http://mars.sourceforge.net/releases.php"&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;For people interested in compile by themself sources package and SVN trunk are available &lt;a href="http://sourceforge.net/projects/mars"&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;For particular instruction to compile on Mac OS X, ask me.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Here my first sketch for a mech concept.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;img src="http://mars.sourceforge.net/data/img/ender/mech_concept01.png" /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:10px;font-style:italic;"&gt;Mars Land of no Mercy game is Copyright &amp;copy; 2006 by &lt;a href="http://mars.dev-labs.net/index.php"&gt;Mars Land of No Mercy&lt;/a&gt; authors.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/13577607-114719733795041334?l=endercomics.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel="replies" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://endercomics.blogspot.com/feeds/114719733795041334/comments/default" title="Post Comments" /><link rel="replies" type="text/html" href="http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=13577607&amp;postID=114719733795041334&amp;isPopup=true" title="0 Comments" /><link rel="edit" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://www.blogger.com/feeds/13577607/posts/default/114719733795041334?v=2" /><link rel="self" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://www.blogger.com/feeds/13577607/posts/default/114719733795041334?v=2" /><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://endercomics.blogspot.com/2006/05/open-source-strategy-game.html" title="Open Source Strategy Game" /><author><name>Ender</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/18398344747820390837</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel="http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail" width="32" height="32" src="http://img146.imageshack.us/img146/5875/selfportrait80x80so8.gif" /></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry gd:etag="W/&quot;C0QERHk4cCp7ImA9WB5REko.&quot;"><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13577607.post-114698188428859362</id><published>2006-05-07T07:47:00.000+02:00</published><updated>2007-06-19T18:41:45.738+02:00</updated><app:edited xmlns:app="http://www.w3.org/2007/app">2007-06-19T18:41:45.738+02:00</app:edited><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="Twiligh Comics" /><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="Sequential" /><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="Comic Strip" /><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="L'Errante" /><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="Comic Page" /><title>L'Errante</title><content type="html">&lt;p&gt;The subject of this post is the Italian original title of an issue I inked 5 years ago for a friend, editor of indipendent Twilight Comics.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="display:inline"&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/3096/1199/1600/tav0001.gif"&gt;&lt;img style="margin:0 10px 0 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/3096/1199/200/tav0001.png" border="0" alt="" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/3096/1199/1600/tav0002.gif"&gt;&lt;img style="margin:0 0 0 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/3096/1199/200/tav0002.png" border="0" alt="" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="display:inline"&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/3096/1199/1600/tav0003.gif"&gt;&lt;img style="margin:0 10px 0 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/3096/1199/200/tav0003.png" border="0" alt="" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/3096/1199/1600/tav0004.gif"&gt;&lt;img style="margin:0 0 0 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/3096/1199/200/tav0004.png" border="0" alt="" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style=""&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:10px;font-style:italic;"&gt;Story and Characters are Copyright &amp;copy; 2001-2006 by &lt;a href="mailto:saracerne@libero.it"&gt;Mario Cerne&lt;/a&gt;, drawings and Twilight Comics logo are Copyright &amp;copy; 2001-2006 by Marco Frisan.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/13577607-114698188428859362?l=endercomics.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel="replies" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://endercomics.blogspot.com/feeds/114698188428859362/comments/default" title="Post Comments" /><link rel="replies" type="text/html" href="http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=13577607&amp;postID=114698188428859362&amp;isPopup=true" title="0 Comments" /><link rel="edit" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://www.blogger.com/feeds/13577607/posts/default/114698188428859362?v=2" /><link rel="self" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://www.blogger.com/feeds/13577607/posts/default/114698188428859362?v=2" /><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://endercomics.blogspot.com/2006/05/lerrante.html" title="L'Errante" /><author><name>Ender</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/18398344747820390837</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel="http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail" width="32" height="32" src="http://img146.imageshack.us/img146/5875/selfportrait80x80so8.gif" /></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry gd:etag="W/&quot;C0QDRXc-eCp7ImA9WB5REko.&quot;"><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13577607.post-114698074698456958</id><published>2006-05-07T07:38:00.000+02:00</published><updated>2007-06-19T18:42:54.950+02:00</updated><app:edited xmlns:app="http://www.w3.org/2007/app">2007-06-19T18:42:54.950+02:00</app:edited><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="Kawashi" /><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="Character Design" /><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="Sony Yaroze contest" /><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="Concept Art" /><title>Concept Arts for the Sony Yaroze contest</title><content type="html">&lt;p&gt;Here, 2 of my favourite concepts for the contest, I partecipated with the Team established by &lt;a href="http://www.kawashi.it/"&gt;Kawashi&lt;/a&gt;, a friend of mine living in Tokio. I cannot post the title and the story of the game &lt;a href="http://www.kawashi.it/"&gt;he&lt;/a&gt; created, because of copyright.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="display:inline;"&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/3096/1199/1600/alita_big_sword_01.png"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0 10px 0 0; cursor: pointer;" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/3096/1199/200/alita_big_sword_01.png" alt="" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/3096/1199/1600/maya_fine_cleanup.png"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0 0 0 0; cursor: pointer;" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/3096/1199/200/maya_fine_cleanup.png" alt="" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:10px;font-style:italic;"&gt;Story is Copyright &amp;copy; 2005-2006 by &lt;a href="http://www.kawashi.it/"&gt;Kawashi&lt;/a&gt;, concepts are Copyright &amp;copy; 2005-2006 by Marco Frisan and &lt;a href="http://www.kawashi.it/"&gt;Kawashi&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/13577607-114698074698456958?l=endercomics.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel="replies" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://endercomics.blogspot.com/feeds/114698074698456958/comments/default" title="Post Comments" /><link rel="replies" type="text/html" href="http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=13577607&amp;postID=114698074698456958&amp;isPopup=true" title="0 Comments" /><link rel="edit" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://www.blogger.com/feeds/13577607/posts/default/114698074698456958?v=2" /><link rel="self" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://www.blogger.com/feeds/13577607/posts/default/114698074698456958?v=2" /><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://endercomics.blogspot.com/2006/05/concept-arts-for-sony-yaroze-contest.html" title="Concept Arts for the Sony Yaroze contest" /><author><name>Ender</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/18398344747820390837</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel="http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail" width="32" height="32" src="http://img146.imageshack.us/img146/5875/selfportrait80x80so8.gif" /></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry gd:etag="W/&quot;C0MGQHo5fyp7ImA9WB5REko.&quot;"><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13577607.post-113473820133632123</id><published>2005-12-16T13:55:00.000+01:00</published><updated>2007-06-19T18:43:41.427+02:00</updated><app:edited xmlns:app="http://www.w3.org/2007/app">2007-06-19T18:43:41.427+02:00</app:edited><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="Logo Design" /><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="Ender CG" /><title>Ender CG logo</title><content type="html">&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/3096/1199/1600/logosmangiato.png"&gt;&lt;img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/3096/1199/200/logosmangiato.jpg" border="0" alt="" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;For the site, I will dedicate to Computer Graphics, I created this logo (not finished), using GIMP, some simple effects and a lot of patience.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;The idea is to give the impression of an ancient but technologically advanced society.&lt;br&gt;This is the reason for the logored aspect of the text.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/13577607-113473820133632123?l=endercomics.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel="replies" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://endercomics.blogspot.com/feeds/113473820133632123/comments/default" title="Post Comments" /><link rel="replies" type="text/html" href="http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=13577607&amp;postID=113473820133632123&amp;isPopup=true" title="0 Comments" /><link rel="edit" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://www.blogger.com/feeds/13577607/posts/default/113473820133632123?v=2" /><link rel="self" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://www.blogger.com/feeds/13577607/posts/default/113473820133632123?v=2" /><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://endercomics.blogspot.com/2005/12/ender-cg-logo.html" title="Ender CG logo" /><author><name>Ender</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/18398344747820390837</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel="http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail" width="32" height="32" src="http://img146.imageshack.us/img146/5875/selfportrait80x80so8.gif" /></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry gd:etag="W/&quot;C0IFQHozeyp7ImA9WB5REko.&quot;"><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13577607.post-113473704144776405</id><published>2005-12-16T13:32:00.000+01:00</published><updated>2007-06-19T18:45:11.483+02:00</updated><app:edited xmlns:app="http://www.w3.org/2007/app">2007-06-19T18:45:11.483+02:00</app:edited><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="Alchemist Markup Engine" /><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="Mascotte" /><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="Girlfriend" /><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="Antonietta" /><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="AME" /><title>Alchemist Mascotte</title><content type="html">&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/3096/1199/1600/alchemist.png"&gt;&lt;img style="float:right; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/3096/1199/200/alchemist.jpg" border="0" alt="" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;The person in this portrait is my girlfriend, Antonietta. When I finished the code development of Alchemist I decided to use her face for the logo.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;A friend of mine, living in Japan, has explained me that AME, the shortcut for Alchemist Markup Engine, in Japanese, means rain or candy.&lt;br&gt;So I asked myself which kind of liquid should fall from the ampoule hold by Antonietta. Drops of rain or candies? Or both?&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/13577607-113473704144776405?l=endercomics.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel="replies" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://endercomics.blogspot.com/feeds/113473704144776405/comments/default" title="Post Comments" /><link rel="replies" type="text/html" href="http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=13577607&amp;postID=113473704144776405&amp;isPopup=true" title="0 Comments" /><link rel="edit" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://www.blogger.com/feeds/13577607/posts/default/113473704144776405?v=2" /><link rel="self" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://www.blogger.com/feeds/13577607/posts/default/113473704144776405?v=2" /><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://endercomics.blogspot.com/2005/12/alchemist-mascotte.html" title="Alchemist Mascotte" /><author><name>Ender</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/18398344747820390837</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel="http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail" width="32" height="32" src="http://img146.imageshack.us/img146/5875/selfportrait80x80so8.gif" /></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry gd:etag="W/&quot;C0ICQH0_fCp7ImA9WB5REko.&quot;"><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13577607.post-113473606758682941</id><published>2005-12-16T13:16:00.000+01:00</published><updated>2007-06-19T18:46:01.344+02:00</updated><app:edited xmlns:app="http://www.w3.org/2007/app">2007-06-19T18:46:01.344+02:00</app:edited><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="Concept Art" /><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="Cariatide" /><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="Sketch" /><title>Cariatide</title><content type="html">&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/3096/1199/1600/cariatidefemmina.png"&gt;&lt;img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/3096/1199/200/cariatidefemmina.jpg" border="0" alt="" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;Cariatide, in Italian, means a kind of decorative statue that seams to support a column. I drew this as a study for a possible layout of my web page.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/13577607-113473606758682941?l=endercomics.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel="replies" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://endercomics.blogspot.com/feeds/113473606758682941/comments/default" title="Post Comments" /><link rel="replies" type="text/html" href="http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=13577607&amp;postID=113473606758682941&amp;isPopup=true" title="0 Comments" /><link rel="edit" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://www.blogger.com/feeds/13577607/posts/default/113473606758682941?v=2" /><link rel="self" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://www.blogger.com/feeds/13577607/posts/default/113473606758682941?v=2" /><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://endercomics.blogspot.com/2005/12/cariatide.html" title="Cariatide" /><author><name>Ender</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/18398344747820390837</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel="http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail" width="32" height="32" src="http://img146.imageshack.us/img146/5875/selfportrait80x80so8.gif" /></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry gd:etag="W/&quot;C0EEQn88cCp7ImA9WB5REko.&quot;"><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13577607.post-113360793675294354</id><published>2005-12-03T11:53:00.000+01:00</published><updated>2007-06-19T18:46:43.178+02:00</updated><app:edited xmlns:app="http://www.w3.org/2007/app">2007-06-19T18:46:43.178+02:00</app:edited><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="Character Design" /><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="Sketch" /><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="Girlfriend" /><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="Antonietta" /><title>You have 5 minutes to do it!</title><content type="html">&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/3096/1199/1600/gitana.png"&gt;&lt;img style="float:right; margin:0 0 10px 10px;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/3096/1199/200/gitana.jpg" border="0" alt="" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;My girlfriend was looking for a character to make the friend of the main character of her comic strip. So she asked me: "Please, help me! Can you draw some sketch of a girl? You are Master in doing 5 minutes sketches!". I answer: "I am not a computer, my inspiration does not begin working when you want! I need more time!"&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;2-3 minutes later I come out with this sketch.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/13577607-113360793675294354?l=endercomics.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel="replies" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://endercomics.blogspot.com/feeds/113360793675294354/comments/default" title="Post Comments" /><link rel="replies" type="text/html" href="http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=13577607&amp;postID=113360793675294354&amp;isPopup=true" title="0 Comments" /><link rel="edit" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://www.blogger.com/feeds/13577607/posts/default/113360793675294354?v=2" /><link rel="self" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://www.blogger.com/feeds/13577607/posts/default/113360793675294354?v=2" /><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://endercomics.blogspot.com/2005/12/you-have-5-minutes-to-do-it.html" title="You have 5 minutes to do it!" /><author><name>Ender</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/18398344747820390837</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel="http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail" width="32" height="32" src="http://img146.imageshack.us/img146/5875/selfportrait80x80so8.gif" /></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry gd:etag="W/&quot;C0EDRXkyeSp7ImA9WB5REko.&quot;"><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13577607.post-113360496260512763</id><published>2005-12-03T11:14:00.000+01:00</published><updated>2007-06-19T18:47:54.791+02:00</updated><app:edited xmlns:app="http://www.w3.org/2007/app">2007-06-19T18:47:54.791+02:00</app:edited><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="Character Design" /><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="Sketch" /><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="Christmas Kid" /><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="Christmas" /><title>Christmas Kid</title><content type="html">&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/3096/1199/1600/bimboeschimese.png"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer;" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/3096/1199/200/bimboeschimese.jpg" alt="" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;This nice kid, was inspired by some decorations i saw on a wine glass. In that decoration, there was three childrens floating over a Christmas landscape. So this kid is my interpretation of that childrens.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;And the kid is strictly related to some draw I made while teaching my girlfriend some drawing techniques. Here is what I drew to show her how to realize some sweet and nice character.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/3096/1199/1600/panettoncini.png"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: right; cursor: pointer;" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/3096/1199/200/panettoncini.jpg" alt="" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/13577607-113360496260512763?l=endercomics.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel="replies" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://endercomics.blogspot.com/feeds/113360496260512763/comments/default" title="Post Comments" /><link rel="replies" type="text/html" href="http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=13577607&amp;postID=113360496260512763&amp;isPopup=true" title="0 Comments" /><link rel="edit" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://www.blogger.com/feeds/13577607/posts/default/113360496260512763?v=2" /><link rel="self" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://www.blogger.com/feeds/13577607/posts/default/113360496260512763?v=2" /><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://endercomics.blogspot.com/2005/12/christmas-kid.html" title="Christmas Kid" /><author><name>Ender</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/18398344747820390837</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel="http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail" width="32" height="32" src="http://img146.imageshack.us/img146/5875/selfportrait80x80so8.gif" /></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry></feed>

