Recent Work July 09

Sorry for the poor lighting, This video shows some of my more recent work, I would have shown some actual lampworking but I am just about out of oxygen (that stuff goes so darn fast). Hopefully I will get the lighting situation figured out soon (I'm still pretty new to the whole video making thing heh) and get you some work demos up, my planned first couple are going to deal with punties and possibly point pulling tips.

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[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!

[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.

[jackpotmonkey]

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

[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.-)

[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]

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

[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 :)

[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

[acroduster]

ps, I love the bat!-)