Wednesday, August 31, 2011

Why BoT needs coffee

This is not difficult to explain.


The bot does not need electricity in a conventional sense.

It uses the acidity of coffee to fuel its electrical components.

It flushes out the coffee when it has no more electrolytic properties. Then it fills up with more coffee.

Kid Analog wanted to design the bot with an ability to run on fuel that was cheap and abundantly available. Coffee became the best option.





Thursday, August 25, 2011

What's Paper Computer All About?

What kind of stuff can you learn by playing Paper Computer Game?  All kinds of stuff.

For example, if you know how a character moves...

Humanoid Parameters

Jump = +2vert
Duck, Jump = +3vert
or Run, Jump = +2vert, +4horiz

Then you know for sure if you can solve the levels.

Watch out for additional "Objects" such as the rare "Earthquake Lever."

Hop up on stuff like an old-school Lego.


Once you have accomplished an understanding of what the meaning behind this project is, you can proceed to start developing creatures and objects.  Elements, essentially, that recur throughout the setting of the videogame that you are creating.

You can define appearance, behavior, and how the things interact.  Define appearance by drawing the item 3 times, being able to recreate the same visual appearance from mem.

8 is the recommended number of Creatures and Objects you should draw.  4 would be sufficient.  2 and that's almost not enough.  Try to draw 8 a piece.

These creatures and objects will be all over your videogame so get used to looking at them.  Try to think about all of the possible ways they could behave.  Think of how your Humanoid will interact with them.

It can be a talking game, a running and fighting game, or even just a walk around and beat the level type of game.

In any case, that's just how it all goes down.


Coming soon, the game "Android."
And the game "Bot."

Also, "Parameters."

And, "EarthRock."

These are not just games on computer.   They're games you need to design on paper.  The instructions inside of Paper Computer show you how you can develop awesome videogame-quality flipbooks.

Stop playing videogames and start making them.  Flipbooks are the first step.  If you can prove what you are capable of, others will perhaps step in and form a group.

Paper Computer

Imagine a game that you can play on paper, which looks and resembles an actual videogame.

You wouldn't need to plug in anymore!
MORE IMPORTANTLY, You Do The Thinking!@

Don't let computers do all the thinking for you.
Learn how to increase your own mental processing speed with Analogue Flipbooks, only available through Stereomedia.

Wednesday, August 17, 2011

Flipbook Island Voting Machine


Consider yourself encouraged. 

Hey!  If you like Kid Analog Cartoons, you're gonna love Kid Analog Flipbooks.  They're available all across the website that was built just for them:  Flipbook Island Dot Blogspot Dot Com.  

Here are some examples of what to expect from that website: 








Thursday, July 14, 2011

CafePress Shop

Know where to get awesome Kid Analog merchandise?  Cafepress!  That's where!

$12 Coffeemugs, teaching you your favorite lesson in animation.  You might even find some doggy hoodies that say "L.A.P.D.og" if you find those sorts of puns entertaining.

The term "pun" was a short-lived preposition, preposterously located in a precarious position between Rome and London in the centre of France.  It came from its own definition, and with every appearance it brings a closely related word, which is "fun."

Puns are poetic and keep everything copasetic.
Then again, maybe you just don't get it?   (♪♫♬♬♩)


Enter the Kid Analog Cafepress site [HERE].  

Wednesday, July 13, 2011

Definition: Philosophy

All philosophy comes from that first piece of paper that you pick up, and grab that pen, and assemble an arbitrary list of rules you followed anyway, before you wrote them down.

Now that they're written down, you must justify them to everyone. And you feel somewhat exposed, for having all your strict, rigid, numbered rules on that piece of paper, for all to see.

That, you see, is the true nature of philosophy.





Movie: SquirrelDay

it's just like groundhog day except a character relives the same day 3x, each time navigating it with a better outcome. The 3rd time, he succeeds and finds "release."

Another character is just 300x older than everyone. He has seen the world change and through history, there always exists the man who repeats 3.

They coincide in timeline, many times. But the elder 300 year old man only knows the man from the third life.

It's lessons in longevity. It's wrong or right. It's a whole bunch of things, especially movies in my mind I watch while walking at night.




(this picture was taken in the daytime).

Animation

"Animate" comes from a Latin word meaning "the mind" or animus. It means that you are giving an image a "mind" of it's own, if you will.

All animation is attention-grabbing, that's for sure. Why that works is a trick of the mind, making the skill something of a modern day magic trick.


When you use that power, it can motivate people to want to try it.

There are several different ways to animate. Here are ones I know: flipbooks, which you can find references on How-to's over at flipbookisland.com. And stop-motion, which is viewable on LSaristotle.

Several other methods exist. A major one is Flash Animation. I cant demonstrate it as a skill just yet because I haven't mastered it. I'm looking for someone who can work with me on a Flash Cartoon, similar to Homestar. Kid Analog the website is supposed to look like that.




meanwhile in the real world, Kid Analog volunteers for Jimmy Day to restore a room desparately in need of cleaning. Jim pays me in oscilloscopes and old computers. It's all he's got. Theres just no money, All we got is stuff that others have thrown away.

Tuesday, July 12, 2011

Pinball Game Fact

Did you know that the boards in the background of the old pinball games were made using a technique known as screenprinting? I think that's kind of cool.




Problem #210

This is known as a "Problem."
I draw them just to solve em.
And if it's unresolved then,
We can make another drawing.

Marked in differentiating levels of complexity based on the difficulty
of the original issue, Problems drawings are analogies for real
world issues. Here is #210.





I can't remember what the actual
issue is, because it has been solved.

Origins of Bluegrass

Uncle Jeb next door made his grass all blue. The kids in town didn't know what to do. Lil' Man went down to talk to him for a few.
There he was, on his porch in the middle. A rocking chair; placed on his lap was a fiddle. They talked for a little, deciding little to do about what's to be done when the lawn is all blue.

Jeb said: "I did it on purpose! You kids all deserve this! You're wasting the water, that's why it turned blue!"

But Lil man saw the lawnmower hooked up with the food coloring and knew the invention was why it was blue.

Have a good day to you!



Flipbook island Looks Inhabitable

I built this awesome online flipbook Theme Park, and put it on an island because It keeps the locals from hopping the fence, now that you need a ship to get there.

The name of this place is Flipbook Island. I am proud to announce that it is by far, tue most organized assembly of flipbooks on any blog. it looks professional.

I'm tying down a few loose ends with the graphics, and hope to post additional info on how to assemble computer graphics, either here on Kid Analog dot Blogspot, or possibly another if I decide that it needs a special home.

To keep it consistent, I did include some animated GIFs, exported from files built in an old version of Flash that I've had for eternity.

Flipbook Island

This is only the first of many updates and shout-outs given to Flipbook Island by Kid Analog.




Welcome to Kid Analog: Cartoon Blog

So this is it. The Kid Analog blog. Never thought it would happen, yet here I am. It's going down!

I am going to take photos and videos of my drawings, and upload it all here. Again, these will all be photographs of illustrations. If you want to have the originals, then maybe I can scan them. Alright, fine, some will be scanned.

But none will be scammed! Unless it's a cartoon about a flim flam man getting knocked in his can by a old prospector man with a frying pan.

That's what to expect.