magebird:

A quick tutorial for very simple folds/ruffles.

recoverykitty:

These links work as of 5/7/13.  

None of the links require downloads, plug in installs, or signing up for anything of ANY KIND. Those are just ads, click out of them and press play. If you’re struggling, this chrome plug in will make your life easier. 

Subbed = speaking in japanese with english subtitles

Dubbed = speaking in english (usually with no subtitles)

• The Cat Returns: subbed | dubbed
• Grave of the Fireflies: subbed | dubbed
• Horus: Prince of the Sun: subbed | x
• Howl’s Moving Castle: subbed | dubbed
• Kiki’s Delivery Service:  subbed | dubbed
• Laputa: Castle in the Sky: subbed | dubbed
• My Neighbor Totoro:  subbed | dubbed
• My Neighbors the Yamadas:  subbed | dubbed
• Nausicaa of the Valley of the Wind: subbed | dubbed
• Only Yesterday: subbed | x
• Panda! Go Panda!: subbed | x
• Pom Poko: subbed | dubbed
• Ponyo on the Cliff by the Sea: subbed | dubbed
• Porco Rosso: subbed | dubbed
• Princess Mononoke: subbed | dubbed
• The Secret World of Arrietty: subbed | dubbed
• Spirited Away: subbed | dubbed
• Tales from Earthsea: subbed | dubbed
• Whisper of the Heart: subbed | dubbed

japanese-revision:

Textbooks:

• An Integrated Approach to Intermediate Japanese
• A Dictionary of Basic Japanese Grammar
• A Dictionary of Intermediate Japanese Grammar
• Read Real Japanese Fiction

Dictionaries:

• ALC (I use this everyday)
  →Expression encyclopaedia
• Goo dictionary
• Weblio
• WWWJDIC (with audio clips)
• JWPce (downloadable dictionary for Windows)
• JEDict (downloadable for Mac users)
• Idiomatic Expressions
• Idioms dictionary [Japanese only]
• Counters dictionary
• Hovering dictionaries: 
  →Rikaikun for Chrome
  →Rikaichan for Firefox
  →Floating Dictionary for Mac
• Current Affairs dictionary

For kanji.

• Jisho (I use this for spelling kanji for if I can’t read it)
• Yamasa (I use this for learning to write)
• A Guide to Remembering Japanese Characters
• Associative Kanji Learning (stroke orders)
  
  

Online reading:

• Hukumusume Fairytales
• 竹取（Bamboo-Cutting） (vertical writing)
• 吉田秀幸の日記（Hideyuki Yoshida’s Diary） (recipes)
• Chokochoko’s reading texts to help with JLPT
• TED Talks (with Japanese subtitles and transcripts)
• Learning through Films [Japanese subtitles/scripts]

Manga.

• Free online manga
• Vomic (free online manga with voice actors)
• Sound Effects (in manga, etc)

Improving your speaking:

• Japanese pronunciation guide
• Interactive Hiragana Pronounciation table
• Topics for Language Exchanges.
• Bubbly (a Twitter-like app where you can record yourself)
• Audioboo (similar to Bubbly, but also a website)

Listening:

• “Real World” Japanese
• 泣きたいときのクスリ 2007 - ‘08 (radio drama)

Writing practice:

• Lang-8
• www.Japan-Guide.com
• 原稿用紙の使い方 (How to write an essay with Japanese writing paper)
• Shiritori (Japanese word-chain game)

News:

• NewsWeb Easy
• NHK News (audio news with speed controls)
• Mainichi Primary School student Newspaper

Podcasts:

• JOQR (Cultural Broadcasting)
• TBS Radio’s Junk
• TOKYO FM

YouTube:

• Afternoon Hirusagari
• Jet Daisuke
• バイリンガール英会話
• Analog TV Forever (collections of adverts)

Japanese sign language.

• Heartful Power Hideo
• Shuwa Island

TV:

• Japanese subtitles for anime
• KeyHole TV (to stream Japanese TV and radio)
• 風雲LIVE日本語（Feng Yun LIVE Japanese） (to stream TV)
• 映画で学ぶ実践英会話

Tumblr:

• Kanji-a-Day
• Holy crap Japanese
• Nihongo ga Suki
• Jumpstart Japanese
• Nihongolog
• Nadine Nihongo
• That Japan Addict
• ChilliMuffin
• Japanese through Fandom
• F-Yeah Native Japanese
• J-Vocab of the Day
• ぶらりめし [Japanese only]
• Peaceful Chef [Japanese only]

Those studying in Japan.

• Japanicking in Yamanashi (at Yamanashi University)
• Samxuel (at Kyushu Sangyo)
• Katy in Japan Town (at NUFS)
• Chocotastie (at Seinan Gakuin)
• Kim in Sapporo (at Hokkaido University)

Blogging:

• Yaplog

Learning websites:

• JapaneseClass.jp
• The Japanese Page
• Tae Kim’s Guide to Learning Japanese
• Erin’s Challenge (with listening and reading practice)
• Maggie Sensei

Other resources:

• Lots of threads with a variety of resources for Japanese learning
• JLPT Resources

I’ve added more to the list since first creating it. As always, if anyone has anything they would like to add, let me know!

amandaonwriting:

Bloodstain Pattern Analysis (BPA) - Resource for Crime Writers

SOURCE

thetroglodyte:

I got asked about eyes and how to convey expression through them, so I doodles some quick stuffs to help explain.

So have some eyeballs.

maruti-bitamin:

marunotes:

maruti-bitamin:

For TGA-Tsurugi and a few others who inquired about scanning in and editing traditional media. There are, of course, many ways of going about it, but this is what has worked best for me personally. 

Here is the comparison of a blurry photo and a scan of an image.

Scanner Model: Canon LiDE 35 (8 years old now:D)                                      Photoshop (7 or CS both works)

1. To obtain the scan, I set the scanner mode at 300dpi on Colour Photo.

2. Go to Settings-> Set Fading Correction to “Hard”  (On default, images can scan in quite faded, so setting it to hard can reduce colour loss. But keep in mind, it will pick up all the dust and sometimes over-saturate the colours but that can be easily fixed.)

3. Everything else on the scanner, I leave at default, and scan.

4. Once image is obtained, I will clean off all the unwanted dust and textures in Photoshop with eraser and healing brush.

5. Now to adjust the colours.

6. For altering brightness, I go to Image->Adjustment->Curves.  On RGB, there are 4 channels. RGB itself is great at adjusting the light and dark. (Move the curve around with your mouse to test it out.)

7. For other colour adjustments, you can use the 3 other channels in Curves. (Red, Green, Blue.)

8. As mentioned before, scanning pictures under “hard” fading correction can oversaturate. To fix that, go to Images->Adjustment->Hue/Saturation. 

9. In the menu, there should be “Master” and also 6 other colours. You can choose to adjust the image entirely, or adjust selective colours.

And that’s pretty much the process for obtaining and editing a scan. 8)

Hope that helps!

I got some questions about scanning recently, so here is a post I made a while back in case anyone was curious. :)

thespacegoat:

• Accidentally close a tab? Ctrl+Shift+T reopens it.
• Bananas release dopamine, eat them when you’re sad.
• CTRL+SHIFT+ESC is the one handed version of CTRL+ALT+DEL
• Don’t brush your teeth hard, it makes them sensitive and removes enamel.
• Don’t like spiders? Put citronella oil on your walls and they will not go there.
• Drink one glass of water for every alcoholic drink you have, you’ll get drunk without getting a hangover.
• Get clear ice cubes by boiling water before freezing it
• Heal paper cuts and immediately stop the pain with chapstick.
• If you accidentally write on your dry erase board with a permanent marker, scribble over it with a dry eraser marker to remove it.
• If your shoes smell, put them in the freezer overnight, it will kill the bacteria. 
• Make bug bites stop itching with a banana peel.
• Make a paper longer with 12-point text, but 14-point periods and commas.
• Need to get around a blocked website at work? Try replacing the http:// with https://
• Never send your resume as a word file (unless asked) Instead, save it to a pdf file, it’s much cleaner and professional looking.
• Pick a flavor of gum you don’t normally chew, and chew it while studying during a test.
• Place a piece of bread in a container with your homemade cookies and  they will stay soft.
• Put a dry towel into a dryer with wet clothes, they will dry faster.
• Put toothpaste on a pimple and it will dry out.
• Practise fake smiling in the mirror every day before going to work/school, you’ll genuinely start to feel happier.
• Rub canola/olive oil on knives before cutting onions, you won’t cry, alternatively chew gum and you won’t either.
• Short on time with a wrinkled dress shirt? Hang it up in the bathroom while showering to steam it flat.
• The night before, place things you don’t want to forget the next morning on top of your shoes.
• Use hydrogen peroxide to remove blood stains from clothing.
• When cleaning windows use newspapers or coffee filters instead of paper towels, they will not leave streaks.
• When microwaving bread products/pizza put a glass of water in with it, it will keep your bread from going spongy.
• When you move into a new place you’re renting, take pictures of any and all damage, then post them on facebook (privately if preferred) so you can use the reference date as proof you didn’t do it.
• When searching plane tickets online delete your cookies prior, prices go up when you visit a site multiple times.

webcomicdojo:

Come one, come all, for another month’s worth of free resources for artists. This edition is another perfect blend of tutorials and reference images you’ve been desperately seeking. This post has everything from kitchens to secret attics, mall interiors to castle interiors, forests to corridors.

As always, this list is brought to you by The Webcomic Dojo and Gold Coin Comics. Please click the “Read More” link to see all one hundred:

Use a Tablet to Create Stunning Comic Book Fan Art …

the library by ~DawnElaineDarkwood on deviantART

location.corridor.2 by *AppleSin on deviantART

Attic Studio by *jermilex on deviantART

Photoshop Tutorial - Create a 3D Text Scene Using Photoshop …

DC Online Metropolis Midtown by ~olivernome on deviantART

DC Online Metropolis by ~olivernome on deviantART

The Ruins by ~repawnd on deviantART

Ridgeway by *Jenovah-Art on deviantART

afternoon in the park 2006 by ~orangehexagon on deviantART

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fuckyeah-pixels:

whaatnext:

• everything you need to know about pixel art and how to start (best one so far)
• pixel art, what is it? 
• an introduction to pixel art by richard janes
• 2D will never die’s tutorials page
• ultrashock’s pixel art tutorials: part i | part ii | part iii | part iv
• wikihow’s become a pixel artist
• great list of 30 tutorials
• create a 3D characters from pixel art

the big list of pixel art tutorials by pixelprospector

pixel art tutorials

• HUGE Collection of Pixel Art Tutorials (pixeljoint)
• Pixel Art Tutorials (Derek Yu)
• Pixel Art Tutorial (Natomic / Mark)
• Big Collection of Pixel Art Tutorials (Gas 13)
• Pixel Art (drbubu)
• Pixel Tutorial (Final Boss Blues)
• Pixel Art Tutorials (deviantART)
• More Pixel Art Tutorials (TIGSource Forums)
• Even More Pixel Art Tutorials (Pixel-Zone / Some dead links…)
• Learning Pixel Art (Black Golem)
• A Beginner’s Guide To Spriting (TIGSource Forums)
• 2D Tile Art Basics (Flash Game Dojo)

pixel art inspiration

• HUGE collection of Pixel Art, Mockups and more from TIGSource forums!!
• Tzigla (a place for collaborative pixelated drawings in 100×100 pixel squares)
• Pixel Art Guild (site that features Pixel Art)
• Pixel Art Mega Thread (Something Awful Forums)
• Pixel Art Rebirth In Digital Animations (Game Comments)
• Hall of Fame for Games Featuring Outstanding Pixel Art (TIGSource Forums)

pixel art forums

• Pixel Joint
• Pixelation – Way Of The Pixel
• Show Us Some Of Your Pixel Work (TIGSource Forums)

freelance guide

• Pixel Art Freelance Guide (Adam “Atomic” Saltsman)

graphic style analysis

• Graphic Style Analysis – Part I (Black Golem)
• Graphic Style Analysis – Part II (Black Golem)
• Graphic Style Analysis – Part III (Black Golem)

tutorials about glowy graphics

• We Love Glow (Rob Fearon)
• The Radiangames Style (Luke Schneider)

Some of you have been asking for pixel-related resources/tutorials. Enjoy this master post and have fun! Thanks to whaatnext for providing this list.

suvasi:

Printable doll house games, paper, crayons

March 27, 2013

http://www.etsy.com/shop/SuVasi