Recent Work July 09

[cmant1000]

You did a great job in starting out.

Thanks,

CMan

[bzglass]

Nice work. Next time you are just talking and not working try turning your ventelation off so we can hear you better. Keep makin more glass, we all love to see it!

[acroduster]

ps, I love the bat!-)

[acroduster]

seeing people trying and succeding in glass art is why I do what I do with my youtube channel.-) and you have made my year!-) thank you so much for posting your progress!

your lighting is actually not bad.-) try adding an effect or filter in vegas called brightness and contrast, and try sliding the middle contrast slider up just a bit, not too far or it will be bad, but just a little punch added back into the image will make it pop like you wont believe.-)

[jackpotmonkey]

Any idea why i got 2 sets of letterbox lines, i kept original aspect ratio when I rendered, well i did change the pixel dimensions to the original video dimensions, but I am pretty sure thats how i did the first one

[jackpotmonkey]

hm... i think i figured it out nm... vegas wants 720x480 had to set it up to take 640x480 and use .9091 NTSC DV mode to get rid of the letterboxing

[acroduster]

actually the DV (digital video standard) is 720X480, except in apple land! at least apple has not tried to create their own HD standard!-), are you rolling with a DV camera or a web cam? you can crop 640X480 to scale it up to 720X480, though your fix, is probably the easiest, you could create a custom editing profile to fit whatever you are using.-)

[jackpotmonkey]

Digital Camera (Canon Powershot S3 IS) mounted on a tripod

[jackpotmonkey]

On a side not, besides shaping the loop the only thing i have been using for these is a masher for the wings of the bat and a paddle to help condense my gathers, everything else is glass shaped or tooless as you suggested :)

[acroduster]

tools are not bad, but many burn them up when starting out, its just too easy to burn tools to risk them until you feel comfortable, for you, you will be fine! tools also make you forget that gravity is the single best tool a glass artist can use.-)

try an old butter knife, get it warm and rub beeswax on it, then use it to push and shape the glass.-)

[jackpotmonkey]

Yeah I have plenty of different shaping tools, I am just trying to learn the flow of the glass and what I can do without tools so that I am not so reliant upon them in the future.

[Figment420]

Looking good man. I really liked the lattachino pendant. Keep it up man you are on the right path.

[jackpotmonkey]

Thanks :)