Logo Concept with GIMP

Last week, after a Blender pressure from work, I was able to somehow extract my creative juices (just like how you would a ripe orange) and fulfill something I could at least be happy about.  Great timing that one of the groups over at Facebook that I am involved in had this call for a logo concept.  In an instant, I had this sudden burst: got a piece of paper and drew with my pen.  I didn't feel time pass by then, when I realized I was already exporting my final image with GIMP.

Anyhow, enough talk.  I just wanted to share with you this quick doodle I did and I'm hoping the Facebook group I submitted it to would appreciate my concept too.

"Lapis", by the way, is the Tagalog (Filipino) word for pencil.

The concepts I derived out of this was mostly letter-based and directly interpreted in our local language.

Let me know what you think. ;)

-Reyn

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Compiling Blender 2.5x SVN with Ffmpeg Using Scons

I did this in a Linux Mint 11 64-bit machine (Ubuntu 11.04-based).

At long last, my struggle is over.

Huge thanks to Campbell Barton and to Davis Sorenson for the patience and tips while I was in IRC at the #blendercoders channel (such a friendly place, btw!)

However, I wouldn't have made it through without the user who goes by the alias Cobe571.  Without him linking his guide, I would be stuck and would have to probably wait for better seamless support in Blender and ffmpeg.  It can really really be a pain to set all these up.  The last minute, I almost gave up and just decide to use the premade builds available at Graphicall (which are really handy if you want something out of the box).

Thoroughly, I followed Cobe571's guide over at http://wiki.blender.org/index.php/User_talk:Cobe571.  However, I had to do few modifications on my own since my system didn't recognize or was not able to execute some of the commands mentioned.  Namely, under the section "- Compiling FFMPEG in a non default path", I had to remove "--enable-libgsm" and "--enable-libdc1394".  Don't ask me what they are for, I personally don't know.  Then finally, when I executed Blender (from the /install/linux folder), it couldn't find certain library dependencies, in this case "libavfilter".  So I went ahead and did a "sudo apt-get install libavfilter-dev", and that did the magic! Now I'm able to run a Blender with ffmpeg support compiled on my system.

Many many thanks to you guys!

Again, I highly suggest you go over this page > http://wiki.blender.org/index.php/User_talk:Cobe571

Steady

"Steady movement is more important than speed, much of the time. So long as there is a regular progression of stimuli to get your mental hooks into, there is room for lateral movement. Once this begins, its rate is a matter of discretion."

- Corwin, Prince of Amber