Episode 054 - Scrapbooking Effect
February 24th, 2008 by rfquerin
I’ve just uploaded Episode 054 which was a fun one for me. In it, I demonstrate a fairly easy way to get a slotted corner type of scrapbook thingy whatchamacallit. I show a couple of other potentially useful techniques as well for an embossed text effect and a way to clip images to a certain shape using patterns.
Obviously, if the screenshot catches your eye (sorry for you youngsters out there who might not know the wonderful TV epic known as The Facts of Life) - please know that this was done as a sort of dedication to heathenx who I *know* is a huge Natalie fan - she’s the one on the right. 
I smoothed out the intro a little bit on this one going back with the 26fps framerate and actually using the blur setting on Blender to get a little more natural looking flying text. There is still a little jitteryness in the flash version that I can’t seem to get rid off. It’ll have to wait until we move whole hog to mp4 format in the coming months (maybe). Have a look and let me know how it plays back for you viewers out there.
The new screencasters intro music is by Five Star Fall which I got over at Magnatune.com. I also used one of their songs in the sped-up intro portion as well. They’ve got some really rocking guitar which I like and have a kind of 80’s retro feel at times as well which I like too.
Cheers.
February 24th, 2008 at 9:47 pm
I like the intro better and the audio is more balanced. I don’t think I will ever have a need for the scrap-book effect but I learn so much by watching how you get there. Thanks for your work.
Oh and “The Facts of Life”…nice, as was the gold tooth a few episodes back.
February 25th, 2008 at 6:19 am
Ok, let me explain…Natalie has a good personality and a nice set of teeth. So there! Sure, I’m the president of her fan club but I show no bias.
You take the good, you take the bad,
you take them both and there you have
The Facts of Life, the Facts of Life…
February 25th, 2008 at 7:59 am
I was actually going to hunt down that theme song and use it for the sped-up intro. But then I thought it might actually drive people away from the site.. Nevermind the FoL lawyers coming after me for copyright violation.
btw - Tootie Rocks!
Blair was always completely out of everyone’s league so it’s not even worth entertaining the thought.
February 25th, 2008 at 8:40 am
Blair was out of YOUR league, maybe. We kept our relationship secret until I couldn’t take the constant nagging. I broke up with her sometime around ‘87. She kept my friendship bracelet and commitment ring. I think soon after I started dating Molly McButter but she was kind of greasy. Didn’t last long.
March 4th, 2008 at 7:36 am
Say you guys may not realize this but if you use the Opera browser and click older entries they do not work. Just thought you wanted to know. It may be something similar to what was happening at learnjQuery. A possible fix is located in this thread at my opera
March 4th, 2008 at 8:04 am
Hmm..
When I first hit the page in Opera the bottom nav links seemed to work. But then they just stopped working completely. And when I disable all stylesheets in Opera they definitely work. So I guess it’s a CSS problem that is affecting Opera only.
I dunno. But in lieu of a more salient answer, I blame heathenx!!
March 4th, 2008 at 8:08 am
Reading that thread, it appears that there are a couple of css additions that can be made to hopefully fix the problem. Also from that thread it appears that it’s Opera 9.26 that has the problem and not 9.50. I’m running 9.24 on my system here, so I can’t check. Any idea about what’s happening when you use 9.50?
March 4th, 2008 at 8:20 am
Dammit, Querin! I was going to blame you first.
I have Opera 9.50 (build 9613) and I don’t experience any issues. Everything seems to work just fine. I haven’t used the stable build for for a really long time so maybe that’s why I never noticed it before.
March 5th, 2008 at 7:25 am
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