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Spent the day re-animating my film due to Tutors hating my brush choice, so I spent some time doodling a fantasy box-art for a game that doesn't exist. Maybe I'll make it someday. Didn't have time to finish this so that's why some of it is blue and sketchy. http://pny.lv/090ng
Thursday, 03-Mar-16 21:55:46 UTC from web-
@scoot Jeez, you had to re-animate your whole film? That's harsh. One of my .fla files got corrupted today so I'm having to redo, like, a week of work. That sucks. Sorry about that. :c
Thursday, 03-Mar-16 22:11:46 UTC from web-
@mrmattimation It's fine, I hadn't got as far as I wanted to anyway, so it's not like 3 minutes of re-animating. Sorry you're having troubles too.
Thursday, 03-Mar-16 22:19:00 UTC from web-
@scoot Eh, I'm mangoed off about it, but honestly it could have ended up WAY worse. I was trying to downgrade the file to an older version of Flash and the one time I forgot to change the file name to reflect the version, the program decides to crash and it crumpled my ~150mb file into a 16kb piece of garbage that can't even be opened properly. But I had a backup from about a week ago so as bad as it is, it could have been worse.
Thursday, 03-Mar-16 22:22:14 UTC from web-
@mrmattimation It's one of the risks of working in Flash unfortunately, the damn thing just loves breaking files. I've lost days of work before and it pretty much put me off the program for life. I animate in Photoshop now. You'd think since this is such a common problem that it would automatically generate backups.
Thursday, 03-Mar-16 22:26:57 UTC from web-
@scoot Yuuuuup. Actually, this is the first time that I've lost a file due entirely to circumstances completely out of my control. Every other time it was at least partially my fault.
Thursday, 03-Mar-16 22:29:29 UTC from web-
@mrmattimation Flash usually just crashes mid-way through saving files for me, so it's not my fault.
Thursday, 03-Mar-16 22:31:55 UTC from web
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@scoot Also, how is animating in Photoshop going? I never really saw it as usable for that purpose.
Thursday, 03-Mar-16 22:34:12 UTC from web-
@mrmattimation It has it's good and bad points. Good points are that it has all of Photoshop's usual features available, bad points is that it's a bit clunky. It can do onion-skinning and such, it's all very basic. Working with good brushes is what makes it for me though. Takes a bit of getting used to
Thursday, 03-Mar-16 22:36:50 UTC from web
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Thursday, 03-Mar-16 22:15:20 UTC from web
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@mrmattimation Thanks! It's the first time I've tried anything like it, especially the dragon.
Thursday, 03-Mar-16 22:19:18 UTC from web
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@scoot I'm going to tell you the same thing @mrmattimation
Keep a blacklog of saves, save every workday on a new file
Basic work ethic will save you MANY headachesThursday, 03-Mar-16 22:21:16 UTC from web-
Thursday, 03-Mar-16 22:25:16 UTC from web
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@scoot oh, right, you have layers and stuff, my bad, been working too long on a single program I kinda forgot elsewhere things don't suck so bad
I'm forced by my school's stupid program to work with Microsoft Visual studio, it's HORRID, you try to do something in C, it works, you load it again 3 hours later and it goes through a magical equation that involves the current phase of the moon, the time of day and how many Kingdom Hearts Speedrunners are on Twitch at the time, and sometimes (most of the time) even so it refuses to load the damn code properly.
I lost a trimester's worth of work last year kuz for some reason the damned thing decided to change the class load order and prevent me from undoing it.
And to make matters worse the compression is HORRID, the same code compiled in gcc (linux) is about 3mb (code + app) while on MVS it's above 700mbThursday, 03-Mar-16 22:57:45 UTC from web
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@zennx First of all, and I'm only going to say this once: It is very crappy to tell somebody who's just lost weeks of work that it was their fault for not saving a new file every single day. Please, do NOT do to anybody else what you did to me earlier in the day.
Second of all: in his case there wasn't any corruption. He just had to redo stuff with a new brush.Thursday, 03-Mar-16 22:25:27 UTC from web-
@mrmattimation Reading back what I posted... yeah I sounded like a dick, sorry.
But still it's the only thing that can prevent that from helping again.
and it has more advantages, loading up an older version can help you see "when x-feature started kiwiing up"
again, wasn't trying to be an ass, sorry :(Thursday, 03-Mar-16 22:49:23 UTC from web
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