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johnp

00:31

@Viziionary did you use a different version in the end?

Personally preferred the previous ones you posted here

Viziionary

@johnp you're referring to the extra left side expansion I added at 20 seconds? I dont think I changed anything else

johnp

yeah personally think it works better without that. What was your reason for adding it

Viziionary

Ryan's remarks on that left side text being too hard to notice with no attention being brought to it

johnp

Ah I see, I agree with what he was saying however I think the bars actually lead the eyes in the opposite direct when they move right and left like that

as the bars move left from phone to text - that should be enough to guide the eyes. Principle is called common fate (as all elements move in a common direction, it generates curiosity in the direction they're going)

I would just enlarge the type size of each line on the left. Each line could appear as each bar moves back from phone to text?

Sorry, maybe I shouldn't have said anything, I feel like I'm making a fuss now 🙈 do you have a deadline for this project soon?

Viziionary

00:58

Well

I think one issue is I use Photoshop for animation, and it's not very good at re-factoring animation when you have a lot of things going on.

For example

To insert a new animation setion or remove it, you have to go in by hand in the animation tab and expand every single layer in the project one by one so you can elect each keyframe, and it's easy to make changes that accidentally mess up other aspects of the animation, like messing with vector masks and such

johnp

ah, i can imagine :/

Viziionary

So it's difficult to make large scale improvements in a perfectionist way the way I'd like to

That one addition of the left side expanding, for example, took like 2 hours

It was insane.

johnp

hmm wonder if there any workflows to speed things along

Viziionary

I do have to make some changes to the wording at the end, I wrote something wrong, and I'll considered refactoring that part when I get into it.

johnp

well good luck with the project anyway :)

Viziionary

01:02

Yeah thats a good question, are there any softwares that are good at animating UIs?

johnp

no idea about UIs specifically...I'd probably use AE

Viziionary

AE?

johnp

you can export prototypes as vector layers into after effects layers

sorry, After Effects

Viziionary

oh after effects

Okk..

johnp

it's scary to start with...im still not very good with it, but for what you're doing it's probably the best option if you have to do this again

on another proj

Viziionary

01:04

I didn't realize After Effects could work with PS files

ok cool

johnp

oh I meant Illustrator files^ most UIs are designed in vector-like apps

not my area of expertise however

Viziionary

Oh right

I use illustrator

johnp

but after effects can handle most things you throw at it

Viziionary

well no

sorry

I use indesign

for UIs when Im not using phtoshop

Can Indesign layers be used?

johnp

really? indesign is an odd choice for ui! ive never tried that...there are usually ways of exporting layers for stuff like this, never tried it

Viziionary

01:07

I was never much of a fan of illustrator

I worked for a print company for a while and really found the indesign workflow and tools very expressive for creating UIs in vector

johnp

ah right...there is a lot of crossover between that an illustrator

Viziionary

illustrator's workflow just does not seem intuitive to me.. Idk if its a bad workflow design or just me personally

Ive heard other co-workers not like it too

johnp

there are certainly a lot of ways of doing the same thing...some of the new features are distracting in my opinion...

Viziionary

Maybe Ill just have to give it more of a chance\

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PieBie

08:09

Merry Monday Morning

3 hours later…

Vincent

11:39

@PieBie 'fternoon

PieBie

heya hoya!

Vincent

11:59

had a good weekend?

PieBie

12:44

sry, was out to lunch. back now :)

and yeah, had a good weekend.

Vincent

13:04

(y)

johnp

Ryan

13:26

hello scoundrels

PieBie

who you callin' scoundrel?

Ryan

you!

dirty rotten one at that

Vincent

lol

hey oh-so-saintly one

PieBie

damn, seems I've already built up a reputation in here grin

johnp

13:47

any stories from the weekend?

Vincent

uh... I failed horribly at making an impression in two back-to-back games of Race for the Galaxy?

Ryan

I joined Adobe Stock Photo and started prep and cleanup work on a few to put up on there

Vincent

^^ cool! :D

finally found a group of front-end devs I can work with and kick dev work to while keeping the design part in my own hands... and get design work from them as well

johnp

hehe you have a games night most weekends @Vincent ? I'd be at a loss trying to find someone who's into video games, never mind anything else. @Ryan cool, what do you think of adobe stock? thinking of joining graphic stock myself for a few illustration references. it's really affordable but still a small collection...

that should make things much more enjoyable @Vincent

Ryan

I've bought from Shutterstock and iStock. Never bought from Adobe Stock yet. ANd I haven't sold on any yet

Vincent

13:52

@johnp tihs is cardboard gaming :)

Ryan

Reading all of the details but will likely put the same photos up on all of the stock sites if its allowed which I believe it is

johnp

i see i see

Vincent

@johnp But if you want the pics of my retrogame session, just ogle my IG :P

johnp

hehe i may do, signed up to IG but haven't used it yet

DᴀʀᴛʜVᴀᴅᴇʀ

good morning

PieBie

13:57

Valorous m'rning oh ov'rl'rd of most pleasing visage

Vincent

hi @DᴀʀᴛʜVᴀᴅᴇʀ

please bless us with your rasping breath

DᴀʀᴛʜVᴀᴅᴇʀ

johnp

Ryan

14:13

@Vincent 336 moves for a Knight? What do you mean?

Vincent

@Ryan If you add up all possible moves a knight can do for all 64 spaces on the board, the total number of moves is 336.

Ryan

That doesn't make any sense. Its not a real number :\

Vincent

I got it from somehwere on Wikipedia. It could be wrong, but it sounded plausible

Ryan

I'm sure smarter math people than me might understand the point of it from a pure math sense but from a chess sense I have no idea what that means

A knight can get to any spot on the board: 64. A knight can make at most 8 moves from any one square.

Vincent

@Ryan Not on all squares. It can't leave the board

On A1, for example, it can make just two moves: b3 or c2

So if you add up that number of possible moves for each field, I suppose it yields 336 moves.

I didn't check, tho. Pun intended of course.

Ryan

14:27

lol well done with the pun

johnp

14:38

joojaa

14:59

/.\/.\

PieBie

triangular boobs?

johnp

my thoughts exactly

Vincent

snort

PieBie

johnp

i downloaded that on my phone on sunday xD

Ryan

15:10

my boobs are hexagons

I'm just waiting for Vincent to include me in his hexagon project sneif

johnp

haha

PieBie

haha :D

Vincent

@Ryan lol

PieBie

great, now I've got to explain to my co-workers why I'm laughing...

Vincent

You know I adore your man-boobs :P

johnp

15:17

can't play tetris with my sagging manboobs unfortunately

Vincent

Tetris? If you get a whole row of them, they disappear? :O

Ryan

he said cant!

johnp

id just end up stacking lots of incomplete rows..you know when you f the game up xD

PieBie

img.memecdn.com/the-heaven-in-tetris_o_513367.webp

@johnp wish that block existed

johnp

hehe yes, tetris heaven. btw my vaporwave obsession has got out of control... this place is like a cocktail bar

Ryan

15:39

vaping tobacco/weed? or what are you vaporing?

johnp

haha no, random music playlists on youtube. was researching vaporwave illustrations then i was getting all these suggestions. it's like a mix of late 80s/90s synths with lots of japanese references...videos are usually mashups of japanese ads before the economy went bust at the time

im turning into an emoji

might enjoy it after work @Ryan haha youtu.be/4kdwUOlihDA 'tis blissful

Ryan

trueactivist.com/…

johnp

16:01

@Ryan mmm doesn't inspire much hope! they say the world is more peaceful now than ever in spite of what we see and hear... hard to believe

the bomberman mesg is very strong

8 hours later…

Ryan

23:40

Vodka and photo time

@johnp whats your IG?

johnp

haha erm hold on a sec...ill have to check

farrell6433

haven't posted anything yet

i was just stalking a company i ordered from for product updates

Ryan

BRB. Any time I leave my external HD in too long it crashes for some reason. Gotta reboot :\

johnp

that's a strange one! is it overheating?

Ryan

I'm not sure if its Lightroom or the HD causing it

johnp

maybe it's set as a scratch disk or something?

Ryan

23:46

no idea. but i've got 150 gig left on it

so glad I ended up buying external memory and a case to put it in

hmm now LR is giving me an error so maybe it is LR. The HD and LR crashes a lot but this is first time Ive gotten an error

johnp

thinking of replacing my system drive with a ssd but feel a bit iffy about cloning the os

Ryan

johnp

easy on the vodka @Ryan :P

that is cool, you using a prism?

Ryan

something like that. A toy I saw in a store so bought for I think it was $10

johnp

nice one

Ryan

23:51

it fits on my 50mm lens pretty perfectly. It actually works even better over my phone camera

johnp

wow that's deadly! works really well in that scene

Ryan

it was just a toy they had in the art museum. They had the same piece in a few different cardboard cutouts. I went with the Hasselblad because it had the handle shape

johnp

lol nice. didnt realise it was a cutout for a minute 🙈

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