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So I have had a DeviantArt account for a long time now and I’ve been posting whatever random crap I decide to doodle there for years now. I’ve owned the account since 2004 but hadn’t really posted anything beyond a single Oekaki drawing between 2004 and 2007.
I’ve also always had a minor interest in art but I ignored these interests for a long time because I was drawn more toward computers which seemed to be a solid career path.
I’m starting to realize that maybe I’d like to try to freelance as an animator or artist somehow, but I’m not nearly good enough. So I’ve been practising by trying to vectorize animations from popular cartoons. So far I’ve found this process quite an uphill battle in Flash. I found making vectors really easy in Photoshop or Illustrator (or in the free application Inkscape). But I spent the better part of an hour last night figuring out how to outline and fill just one flat-shaded region in Flash.
After that I was quicker though. I was able to flat-shade a few more regions in no time at all. Well this is a journey of 10000 hours, and I think I’ve just made my first step.
I usually save this kind of thing for my Facebook feed these days, but this video really gets to me. It touches me every time I watch it. I figured out the theme pretty much right away, but the reveal was no less stunning.
My keyboard isn’t working! Why does question mark not work anymore? Nothing works the way it should!
If that’s ever happened to you, you’ve probably accidentally triggered the language switch hotkey in Windows. In countries where you only have one language installed you may never have this problem, but in Canada I usually get English and French keyboards set up by default.
Windows comes shipped with this hotkey set to default to something like Ctrl + Shift. This is TERRIBLE! I end up hitting it all the time if I’m not careful. So I usually opt to turn it off the first time I get annoyed by it. Here’s how:
In Windows 7 you go to Control Panel,
then Region and Language,
in the new window that opens click Advanced Key Settings,
then click the Change Key Sequence… button,
then turn both key sequences to Not Assigned and click OK.
Close everything and now you won’t accidentally change languages while typing.
Once you’ve turned off the hotkey, you might want to make sure your default language is set to the one you want.
Hope this helps!