The aNILEator's Space

Vistafy 2.1.0

Wed, 23 Jul 2008 23:48:42 GMT

Updated Vistafy to 2.1.0

It adds a custom font, one of the first released skins to do this.
and fixes some bugs from previous build. Translations may not be any good (Basically the Vistafy Theming option is the only one I'm worried about translating) as were done with my brain + google translator.

Hope you like the new additions.

No more bushy beard and a facebook

Thu, 17 Jul 2008 10:30:52 GMT

Wednesday Night, I cut off 80% of my beard just leaving a little patch on the bottom of my chin, looks better I think :)

I've decided to also succumb to a facebook account probably use it mainly for photos and peoples birthdays. I'm not one to bother with it much. So far with registration impressions etc are it's damn slow.

Damn I fancy listening to some old GG Allin So yeah bite it you scum!

Vistafy 2 Released

Sat, 07 Jun 2008 13:24:14 GMT

I’ve been working on 2 Windows Live Messenger skins recently, one will be released later on, (But it is the base of this skin also) the other Vistafy 2, completely re-written, coded and everything else.

I’ve added in Aero and Basic Themes, a load more options, more skinned windows and more.
It’s compatible with 8.5 and 9.0 beta 1 and has ad removing instructions inside the extracted skin folder.

Hope you like using this skin for Windows Live Messenger, you will need the latest Messenger Plus! Live to use it.

Forum Release Thread: http://msghelp.net/showthread.php?tid=84178

New and finished room house pics

Fri, 09 May 2008 18:23:10 GMT

Added some new photos to the House Development Photo album including some finished bedroom shots.
This weekend I may have my first tenant moving in.

BBQ parties pwn!

Thu, 08 May 2008 01:47:25 GMT

Today I went in search of a BBQ, originally just a portable disposable tray one (you know the type), with my friend kain. Well afer failing in local shops we headed into Stoke, sun was shining a gentle breeze blowing, yup pretty damn awesome weather for a BBQ. Went into shops in Stoke, still no BBQ's finally we went into Sainsburys, 'Surely they will have one!' we thought.

After walking the aisles finding firelighter blocks and bin bags, hope seemed pretty low, till we walked into the very last aisle (home stuff and magazines) and half the row was dedicated to BBQ stuff

They had a half barrel style BBQ on display for ~£40 disposables were ~£4 and £6 respectively, and I thought no contest really I'll have more than one BBQ might as well get a real one and just get more coal each time forward thinking!

So we carried this heavy load back between us to my house up and over the hills and busy rush hour roads, stopping at every other bin and phone connections box to break. re-grip the box or pull my jeans up eventually we got the thing back, listened to the 2 free cd's that were part of the latest Metal Hammer magazine and assembled the BBQ without issue, apart from our own knacked arms shaking a bit from the muscle strain when tightening screws. With BBQ assembled, it was time to call some people around for food booze and good times. People agreed to come but didn't know at what times they'd be able to so a staggered arrival seemed on the cards.

7.30 1st guest Toby, then Matt, then Kain returned we get the BBQ re lighted and going properly by 8 and have cooked all the birdseye burgers by 8.20 munching commence! next to arrive would be cool-green Jasmine a.k.a Jasmoo just as burgers round 2 have finished cooking now with added onions! Onto hotdogs with some beef and chili sausages going on the flames then a horde of guests all at once! so onto the prawns and pork and apple sausages. I mixed together some thai sweet chilli sauce and dark rum into a foil bowl, added in the prawns and put that on the barbi tasted great! shortly after people stopped eating and we then watched some shite on youtube and then Diary of The dead whilst I installed adobe products onto jasmoos laptop

Absolutely brilliant night hopefully one of many, a great way to celebrate end of uni year!
cheers and thanks to everyone who came see you guys soon :) hugs all round, kisses where necessary.

New Animation. Red

Thu, 24 Apr 2008 13:48:08 GMT

Finished editing uploaded to youtube video is below

YouTube - Animation: Red

Hope you like it.

Messenger Plus! Live Beta T-Shirt arrived

Mon, 21 Apr 2008 17:38:20 GMT

Had another good day animating, we killed Grandma today stabbed her twice in the face .

But I came home and on the floor inside the doorway was A special gift from Canada

Dynamic Pose and Anthropomorphic characters ROCK!

Thu, 17 Apr 2008 04:17:26 GMT

Yeah!!!!! POWER SLIDE!!!!!!! and a Scientist Hedgehog all for Uni YEAH!!!!!

Hedgehog is holding a pencil and a test tube in case you can't tell and he is wearing safety goggles, keep those eyes safe! Especially around pesky sciences!

Animating went well today

Mon, 07 Apr 2008 17:29:09 GMT

Well after initial delays our group finally started to animate today, we worked well and got 1/2 of the woodland scenes filmed today. Compared to the other team currently animating our work is much much smoother and way more frames (I feel sorry for the girls though, I just don't think they realise what they should be doing) I think the girls have a REALLY good set though, very bright and colourful and looks great without much attention being paid to lighting.

Primarily I was animating today, animating with Dan's character we nickname 'Red' or 'Peter' completely depending on how stressed out or confused we are :P as I said earlier it was the woodland scenes, tomorrow (Tuesday 8th April 2008) we aim to complete the woodland scenes and make a good start on the Town scenes. Ant has been really good providing pieces for pretty much all of our sets, and loading his bag and carrying rubbish sacks full of dirt, tree cuttings, foam and moss. Unfortunately our set, lights, table and camera aren't exactly stable so there were a few camera jogs and errors earlier, which may not get rectified due to time restraints.

To Do Woodland:

Close-up shots of Red deciding which route to take through the forest
Wolf Spying on Red from distance
Wolf Shadow Puppet for running
Side on wood walk
Discovering grandma's

To Do Streets:

Red Leaving house
Red Lost with Map
Wolf in Alley
Red and Wolf discussion
Wolf Smirking

To Do Grandma's:

Granny resting/waiting for Red
Wolf attack
Blood Splatter
Wolf disguise
Red visits
Red discoverers granny is not who she seems
Wolf smirk
Wolf Shadow attack
Blood to black

Credits

Deadline is Monday 14th April 2008

While I'm on a rant...

Thu, 20 Mar 2008 15:34:49 GMT

While I'm ranting, I just scrolled down and saw my strip party invite, not a single person came to either one, woot woot ¬_¬

And not as many people turned up for my birthday as planned, but that was still a good night, and thank you to the people who did come, I think and hope you enjoyed it too :)

Working in Teams Sucks

Thu, 20 Mar 2008 15:24:09 GMT

People just let you (me) down all the time. (Why can't people actually care and have a passion about stuff, or just not want to let others down, or do their own work?) Same thing happened in College on projects (I'm thinking Under The Sea Animation, I never released, Only Dan-da-man came through to help in the end)

Today I spent a whole day in the University hoping to get some animation on the red riding hood project done, but did a single member of my team turn up? nope!

At least I got a 3 second odd long test done with my character, but the computers/software officially sucks at rendering video, and I don't like/don't have a DV tape desk, camcorder or anything, hence I like digital files I can easily exchange between computers fast and efficiently and edit amongst them relatively hassle free.

But, on a lighter note I also just got all the Achievements in AudioSurf :D woo! aNILEator/stats/AudioSurf

Clay Hunter Model

Sat, 19 Jan 2008 00:42:08 GMT

New video showing off the model I've made at university with Nick from Mackinnon & Saunders

My Hot & Steamy Strip Party

Mon, 14 Jan 2008 12:58:12 GMT

Thought I'd spice things up a bit!

My Parents came over for the weekend and we finished my room! It may need another layer of paint next week and then the carpet is getting put down the week after :) It's lurvely!

And we've decided to do it to all the rooms now, as it's turned out sooo good in my room I may as well get the whole house done and make it nicer, and add lots more to the value and appeal :)

HOT!

Got It!

Wed, 09 Jan 2008 18:13:51 GMT

So Day 2 of having my mac, Installed Windows Vista by BootCamp and It's REALLY EASY and a damn good vista laptop too :) although...it...doesn't....quite...like...my..."activation"...process :P It still boots fine, just takes an extra few seconds of Bootloader errors. But I can live with a few seconds boot up time for an activated Vista.

And can force file sharing by connecting to my LocalIP as a sever (I haven't set it up as a script yet to automatically mount the drive so that's a bit of a problem/annoying)
and forced printer by IP too, I hope that stays!

All in all I'm liking it so far, it's been on most of the last 48 hours and doing ok battery life is acceptable anyway :)

I own a MacBook

Tue, 08 Jan 2008 22:21:14 GMT

Tis ok I guess :)

can't get network with windows working properly, or printer sharing, loads of other people got the same problems, Guess it's just shit with Leopard atm

Round up of 2007...

Sun, 06 Jan 2008 13:09:43 GMT

So here's another late post. A round up of everything in 2007.

February

March

April

May

June

July

August

September

October

November

December

50 New Animations
20 Second Piece (Yes I know I posted it in January but shhhhums!)

Only other things to add are that I had a good Christmas and now have a Step-Mother as my Dad got married on 12th of the12th at 12:00

Their new years party was pretty cool too

working on all their digital photos, videos, laptops, networks etc though has not been fun but it's all done now

Here's to 2008

20 Second Piece

Sun, 06 Jan 2008 10:21:57 GMT

Here's my 20 second Piece.... Bit late posting it but oh well, it was Christmas

Basically, he's eating some weird stuff tries to shake it off and it gets stuck to his face.

50 New Animations

Sat, 08 Dec 2007 09:10:16 GMT

So I just finished compiling together 50 new animations I've done since joining Uni

AM50029-1 Animation Principles Stop Motion Exercises List.

#1 TIMING
1. Block-Animate moving in a straight line at a steady rate on 1’s.
2. Block-Animate moving in a straight line at a steady rate on 2’s.
3. Block-Animate moving in a straight line at a steady rate on 3’s.
4. Repeat with perspective towards and away from camera.
5. Block-Animate moving in a circle at constant speed looking down.
6. Repeat from a low angle close to arc-perspective.

#2 EASE IN AND EASE OUT (FARING)
1. Block-Accelerate from standing start to constant speed on 1’s.
2. Block-Accelerate from standing start to constant speed on 2’s.
3. Block-Accelerate from standing start to constant speed on 3’s.
4. Block-Decelerate from constant speed to stop on 1’s.
5. Block-Decelerate from constant speed to stop on 2’s.
6. Block-Decelerate from constant speed to stop on 3’s.
7. Block-Animate into frame and stop, pause for 8 frames, start again and animate out of frame.
8. Block-Create a winding course with faring on the bends.
9. Block-Create a spring cycle (constant left/right motion) and loop on PVR.
10. Block-Create a pendulum swing and loop on PVR.
11. Armature-Head turn without faring on 1’s.
12. Armature-Head turn with faring on 1’s.
13. Armature-Waist-up turn with faring on 1’s.

#3 ARCS
1. Armature-Head turn with faring in an over-the-eye line Arc.
2. Armature-Head turn with faring in an under-the-eye line Arc.
3. Armature-Waist-up turn with faring in an over-the-eye line Arc.
4. Armature-Waist-up with faring in an under-the-eye line Arc.

#4 SQUASH AND STRETCH
1. Clay Ball as Rubber Ball bounce.
2. Clay Ball as Wood Ball bounce.
- Take 2 - Ball bounced across screen
3. Clay Ball as China Ball – CRASH.
4. Clay Ball as Water Droplet – SPLASH.
5. Armature - Squash and stretch classic turn with Arcs.

#5 WEIGHT AND BALANCE
1. Lifting light weight with the whole body.
2. Lifting heavy weight with the whole body.
3. Pushing light weight with the whole body.
4. Pushing heavy weight with the whole body.
5. Pulling light weight with the whole body.
6. Pulling heavy weight with the whole body.
7. Tightrope walk.

#6 FOLLOW THROUGH AND OVERLAPPING ACTION
1. Walk – Normal
2. Walk – Creep
3. Walk – Double bounce
4. Walk – Robot
5. Run.
*EXTRA* Dog Walk

#7 ANTICIPATION
1. Jump.
2. Run.
3. Double take.
4. Duck.

#8 SECONDARY ACTION
1. Walking and waving.

#9 EXAGERATION
1. Laugh.
2. Sneeze.

#10 BREAKING JOINTS
1. Throwing a ball.

Mead = fun good time

Mon, 19 Nov 2007 22:09:38 GMT

Tonight I joined the Metal Society and they have MEAD!!!!!!!
Now I am happy and tipsy eeeehehehehehe (*insanity prawn boy impression)

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BAM POW 2 down!

Tue, 13 Nov 2007 18:10:09 GMT

2 More animations out the way tonight.

Now to test the new features and functions in the new Msgplus BETA

Photo Album: House Bathroom 24/5/08 - 30/5/08

Fri, 30 May 2008 06:43:42 GMT

House Bathroom 24/5/08 - 30/5/08

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Photo Album: House Development

Sat, 26 Apr 2008 12:01:52 GMT

House Development

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Photo Album: MP!L Beta T-Shirt 2008

Mon, 21 Apr 2008 13:25:38 GMT

MP!L Beta T-Shirt 2008

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Photo Album: Modelling

Thu, 17 Apr 2008 00:54:30 GMT

Modelling

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Photo Album: Blog Images

Wed, 15 Aug 2007 06:11:44 GMT

Blog Images

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Photo Album: Less Than Jake 6 Shows, 6 Nights, 6 Albums

Thu, 17 Apr 2008 00:58:34 GMT

Less Than Jake 6 Shows, 6 Nights, 6 Albums

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Photo Album: GWAR 16th March 07

Fri, 23 Mar 2007 20:04:40 GMT

GWAR 16th March 07

Soon To Lose His Head

GWAR Beefcake

GWAR Oderus

Hitler/Jesus Jerking Off into the crowd

GWAR Ballsac

GWAR's Crowd

GWAR Beefcake

GWAR Oderus's Penis

Zombie Junkie Over Dosing

The Ultimate Bohab

More photos...

Photo Album: LifeCam

Thu, 15 Feb 2007 16:02:32 GMT

LifeCam

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Photo Album: Hair

Sat, 07 Jul 2007 17:03:38 GMT

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Photo Album: 2007-11-07 Heroes Pendant

Wed, 07 Nov 2007 19:06:33 GMT

2007-11-07 Heroes Pendant

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Photo Album: My Blog Photos

Fri, 23 Mar 2007 20:03:53 GMT

My Blog Photos

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Photo Album: Nile in Person!...

Thu, 01 Feb 2007 18:20:09 GMT

Nile in Person!...

Car Park Photo 1

Car Park Photo 2

The aNILEator Ninja

Me in My mask with added flames... :D

Custom List: Contact Me

Mon, 02 Apr 2007 14:28:44 GMT

Contact Me

The aNILEator's Space

Vistafy 2.1.0

No more bushy beard and a facebook

Vistafy 2 Released

New and finished room house pics

BBQ parties pwn!

New Animation. Red

Messenger Plus! Live Beta T-Shirt arrived

Dynamic Pose and Anthropomorphic characters ROCK!

Animating went well today

While I'm on a rant...

Working in Teams Sucks

Clay Hunter Model

My Hot & Steamy Strip Party

Got It!

I own a MacBook

Round up of 2007...

20 Second Piece

50 New Animations

Mead = fun good time

*BAM* *POW* 2 down!

Photo Album: House Bathroom 24/5/08 - 30/5/08

Photo Album: House Development

Photo Album: MP!L Beta T-Shirt 2008

Photo Album: Modelling

Photo Album: Blog Images

Photo Album: Less Than Jake 6 Shows, 6 Nights, 6 Albums

Photo Album: GWAR 16th March 07

Photo Album: LifeCam

Photo Album: Hair

Photo Album: 2007-11-07 Heroes Pendant

Photo Album: My Blog Photos

Photo Album: Nile in Person!...

Custom List: Contact Me

BAM POW 2 down!