Sunday, December 7, 2008

Blu-Ray? No thank you, please.

Well, I just finally got to see Blu-Ray demonstrated to me for the very first time... sigh... the much-ballyhooed new format is a tremendous disappointment.

It certains crisps up images, all right -- too crisp. Every film clip shown on it, both live-action and animated, was so digitized that all smooth images were as jagged and pixelated as an Atari 5200, and all the the color hues, including skin tones and deliberate smudges, were blocky and giving the impression of being out of an '80s videogame as opposed to being solid. Neither myself nor five other individuals present could enjoy what was being presented. Objects which were supposed to be far off in the distance fared even worse, being blocked up to the point of complete unrecognizability.

Photographic and animated visuals simply do not benefit from being broken down into such sharp pixels that they no longer form coherent pictures and cause a problem with the normally pleasurable act of simply looking at a movie or show.

Sunday, September 7, 2008

So...

So I discover my pictures posting on my storyboard blog "The Valley of The Jade Stars" are so low quality as 2 be dreck. U just can't look at them, the pic quality is horrible. So in desperation I seek out help at work. 4tunately 4 me, they have a scanner I can use 4 free. Tested it out & replaced 2 of the frames, around panels 72 & 73 I believe, & WOW what a difference! Hopefully within the next week I should have all the panels replaced with the corrected nice ones & my story will look just fine. :)

Sunday, August 24, 2008

Welcome 2 my personal blog area!

Welcome 2 my own little corner of the web! My input on Blogger is the 1st time I've created & shared my work online since... well, 1989! 4 those who happen 2 remember me back from our Golden Age Of Modeming back in the day during the 80s, HI! How have U all been? Every1 doing cool? Weren't the 90s a drag? Seriously though, I sincerely hope 2 hear from many of U again & hope U're still around. I hope U enjoy my storyboard blogs, & wish U all the love & peace in the world. Bay Area 4ever! -Craig