About a year ago, thenewgreen asked a question that is one of my favorites: What Was The Last Thing You Made?
This thread revealed so much about the individuals on Hubski and made me realize what a creative bunch we are. It's amazing how revealing the answers are. They show off our interests, hobbies, boring jobs, exciting jobs, priorities, and more.
Now with all the new users, and a year since the first thread, I ask again: What was the last thing you made?
I've been taking Graphic Design. Twice a week after work. Our assignment is to do a new identity for AT&T. Between my office job, Hubski, and this class I'm a bit behind and haven't had the time I've really wanted to dedicate to it yet. I was actually excited to turn the internet off and some work done last night but the universe had other plans. Here's the process thus far. I need to do type and color and really think about what I want to accomplish. Full Album Thumbnails. I had so many ideas but this is where it started: Now most people do roughs by hand but I fail at drawing so...thank you Illustrator: This is about where I decided it was boring and too different from their current identity. So I decided to go 3D and have more of a through thread and evolution to their brand: Here it is as I'm preparing to map: 80th try of mapping: Getting closer: Now I'm tracing that 3D map back in Illustrator in order to get the lines exactly what I want. This is where I was when Reddit took over Hubski last night. :) From here i need to neaten it up, figure out whats going on with the right leg, get the gradients right, do a color study, figure out type, and throw it all together. Process, man. Process. Updated (3 days later) -final- 
This is really dope. I'm also doing a design course at uni and I love seeing the progression. Also, I love how it gives AT&T a bit of a darker tone, because even though I'm Australian, I've heard quite a number of Americans claim that they're kind of a mean company hahaha.
I'm not nearly done with it. I haven't even thought about colors yet. Really sitting down and doing all this jazz is such a large amount of work!
I know how you feel ma'am. As much as I love the work, sometimes I would much rather sit on the couch with my dog and watch old episodes of The Office. Staying motivated is probably my biggest problem. Hell, I'm supposed to be at university right now but I accidentally slept in.
I've been into 3D modelling in the past weeks and I started to work on my own project in Unity 3D. I already know the most important functions, because I've been an internal tester for a game that was made with Unity. You can find some screenshots of my work here: http://imgur.com/a/TPpov I'm far from being a professional, but I'm doing my best to improve my skills.
Hey me too! I've only just started the 3D aspect of my university degree. Your stuff looks fantastic. I'm working in Maya currently and I haven't really begun texturing or anything like that, but here's a concept poster I made. It's for a fake animated film based on the life of Salvador Dali. Do you know what the difference is between working in Unity 3D and Maya? I'm fairly new to the 3D element of animation and modelling.
I think it's hard to compare Unity with Maya. Unity is a game engine and Maya is a modeling tool. Of course you can use your created models from Maya in Unity to build levels & environments and there are even plugins that integrate modeling tools into Unity. I'm working with Blender, a freeware modeling software. Your Salvador Dalí clock is really impressive! I'm still struggling with dynamic objects, everything I created feels too static... May I ask which university you are visiting? I'm planning to start to study in the near future and I'm currently on the lookout for universities that teach this kind of stuff.
Sure! Unity 3D is a very easy accessible game engine. Everything is cleaned up and there are a lot of tutorials in the engine itself. You can easily add models and textures via drag & drop, adjust the shaders, add normal-, specular- and heightmaps and much more. There is also a huge marketplace, where you can offer your projects and creations for free or even sell them. The community is very friendly and you can quickly create prototypes and such with basic knowledge of modelling and programming (I sadly don't know how to write a single line of code yet). Unity will also be supported on Next Gen platforms and you can "bake" your project with one simple click for Windows, Mac and Linux. If you are interested in this stuff, I can highly recommend that you have a look into this great tool - the basic version of Unity is free, and contains everything from Direct X11 support to complex shaders. The only thing that is missing are real time shadows (which isn't a big problem because of the great lightmapping tool). I hope that this answered your question! Please excuse spelling errors and grammatical mistakes, English isn't my first language.
This is such a marketable skill. Any company that is involved in production or manufacturing needs pretty rendering and mock ups to impress clients. We have two in house people that focus on 3D renderings full time. It may not be the most exciting use of the skills but it does pay well and gives you a different project to work on everyday.
I'm going to give you some totally unsolicited SEO advise for your youtube. Put some music words in your title and description. Genres, artists you get inspiration from, etc. That way you'll show up on more related videos and your own related videos won't be weird tennis videos. :)
Nice. Is that all you? You might want to check the #music tag out. Also, I will often post my own music under #originalmusic We have a lot of musicians on Hubski, and many of us will share our work here.
| Is everyone always this nice on Hubski? What an amazing and welcoming community.| Thank you. We may not always agree with one another, but when we disagree we try to do so in a way that is civil. One thing that, as an artist, I think you might appreciate is that on Hubski sharing your creations is encouraged. You do not have to have someone else post your own work, post it yourself and be proud of it. I look forward to hearing more and once again.. Welcome.
I'm sick so I can't really find the concentration to do anymore heavy work... I did these tiny panels for my personal graphic novel project. They're a few inches wide. I've been putting off doing these because I thought they'd be boring to do, but it was the right thing for a cloudy head. Just scanned them and added them to my InDesign file... :)
"But if it wasn't so intense, then it wouldn't feel satisfying." All of my favorite pieces are like that- just short of having pieces of the artists themselves. Typical. Put up a video of your process sometime. I would love to see how you manage to get your watercolour like that. I'm guessing a lot of tape. I could be wrong.
For these ones, it was a good guess. I usually use masking fluid and think out what to put down first. These were too small (4" wide) so trying to paint masking fluid on would've been a pain in the ass - I cut strips of tape up into thin pieces. I don't have a video of me working but here's a blog post I put up that might visually show how masking fluid works. I took work-in-progress pics of these, so they're going into my slow post queue.
I just made a Hubski minimalistic wallpaper! Was gonna give it a post of it's own but this coincidental post fits better. I'm on my way learning Illustrator, nowhere near insomniasexx's great post but I'm trying! I also really like how this hand-traced train turned out:
You guys have created so many great things. Recently I've created.. uh... about nothing. I built a computer for some guy, worked on my website and aside from school I've hardly done anything. I have nothing amazing to share. I took this photo of my school though. Some things may be misplaced, haven't bothered to go into photoshop to fix it yet. I should probably do something about this. I've been wanting to write some short stories for a while, and maybe start a tech channel on YouTube.
Thanks man, I think I may just do that this weekend. The picture is actually an included feature on my Nexus 4. Sadly, I don't think there is any other phones apart from the Nexus phones with this abillity. However, you could do it manually! To put it short: Use a tripod, take enough photos to get a 360° panorama. Then you need Photoshop, and there's an option there to make a planet effect like this. Here is a guide I found! Seems to do the trick. The result will probably be even better.
i drew... i draw a lot when im scared/frustrated/stressed/confused etc. or when i just need time to think. my latest drawing
yeah it would be nice if hubski had a formatting guide
There is, but it's easy to miss. If you click the grey "reply" link then a box opens up. At the top right, is a little thing that says "markup". Click that, and a message box pops up. Also, at the bottom of the page, there's a faq and a tutorial that the crew worked pretty hard on to put together.
I make shit all the time. Constantly. I'm currently on a design team for a community center. One little bit of fun we're having is looking at a potential fritted glass pattern. Fritted glass is basically porcelain permanently baked onto glass. We've been inspired by the crows on site and are looking at bird patterns at the moment:
This reminds me of that Alfred Hitchcock movie, The Birds.
The first few times I looked at it I swear it was a gif and the contrast kept changing. Super cool! I can't even imagine it large scale.
Yeah, It has a weird moiré feeling to it. But imagine it on glass - with transparency. Should be neat!
I'm not sure how to put a cool picture in the comments like everyone else. This is the last thing I made. It says "Old, but I'm not that old. Young, but I'm not that bold" In Elian Script. Neography/Graphology is a bit of a hobby of mine. I'm always on the lookout for new ways of writing.
To put an image in the comments, upload it to imgur. Then, click on the image (so the image is the only thing displayed on the page) and paste the link into a comment. The image will embed automatically. It's okay. I've been here nearly a year and had to have this explained to me just the other day. I think there's info on this in the FAQ section, or maybe TMI - down at the bottom of the page. You can also embed soundcloud links in a similar fashion!
Thanks for your help. That's a lot easier than I thought!
leer10, check out the Elian Script in use here!
Wait, are there other people here who use Elian Script also? This is too great!
leer10 is my Hubski pen pal, and in his last letter he introduced me to the script. I'm very impressed with your use of it.
Lately, my girlfriend and I have been making rag dolls to make a little side money. I plan on making a future post about them, but here's a sneak peek of the first doll we made, and a doll we made on Saturday as a birthday present to a med student friend of ours. And here's said friend holding the doll we made quickly for her: Sorry about the photo quality; these were just quick snaps.
Not at present. We are hoping to sell some dolls online - especially ones that are unlikely to sell in the shop, such as video game-related ones. We'd also like to sell other stuff on Etsy like knitted hats and gloves and whatever else we make.
A couple weeks ago I gave a shot at video editing for a workshop a friend organized, was a great learning experience. http://vimeo.com/75573491
It looks great, well done. What promoted you to create it? Are you friends with the metal smiths that are making the pieces?
Well my friend's startup is organizing these workshops around the city and the guy who was going to edit the video bailed last minute so I stepped in . We knew the metal smith from a project a few years ago, hes been doing jewelry work for 30 years now and loves to teach people. The sad thing is in Istanbul there is a large artisan community but they are having a hard time finding apprentice's to teach their trade so they are mostly open about passing over information. The people who came found out about the event online.
The thing about things you create is you will never be 100% satisfied or feel that it is done. Either the due date arrives or it is abandoned.
I made this 
doodle in the style of peter draws, whose work can be found here http://www.youtube.com/user/Palivizumab. it doesnt really compare but im still proud of it.
So I clicked it at work even though you told me not to and my coworker caught me. Luckily he's cool and has worked with my long enough to have given up hope that I will ever be normal or safe for work. :) But now I can comment. I know nothing about music like a lot of people do here but I like it. I've been listening to it for about 20 minutes now. The problem I have with some chillout electronic (?) stuff is that it's too chill. I like that this has a great energy to keep me going without being anxiety inducing. I really like the art though. Goddamn I love that art. It's oldschool and artsy fartsy and wrong grime-y at the same time. The juxtaposition of sweets and a naked chick. This style that I associate with art and folksy stuff but showing off this explicit, dirty, sexual and sweet whore. I love it.
Thanks for the response dude, that's the best reaction I've gotten out of my music since releasing it. Usually I don't here much of anything, but it makes me want to push forward on the one I'm currently working on. I sent the comment to my girlfriend who did the album art, some of her stuff has a similar aesthetic. I guess I should plug her here artkarolina.com, I'm trying to get her to reupload her old images in a higher resolution.
Thanks for the comments. :) This may sound strange but I'm mostly influenced by Akira Yamaoka who has done the musical score for the Silent Hill videogames, and as well Jesper Kyd who has done the score the Hitman game series. As far as mainstream musicians, Moby, Boards of Canada, Tricky, Portishead, Max Richter and Phillip Glass.
Here is some more of her porno painterly work if you're interested. nsfw, obvs.
Is that an actual thing? I want more of this. I want posters and paintings like this in my farm mansion around my piggies and cows! Maybe it'll inspire said cows to get it on so I can finally see how they "mate"!!!!
Oh, cows mating is a bit grotesque and kind of boring once they get into it. Cows have wicked deep vaginas (thus the shoulder length glove for artificial insemination) and it shares a cavity with the anus, so poo has to be evacuated first. I wish porno-painterly was an art thing. Maybe it is, but not as far as I'm aware. Study of the human form crosses genres, somewhat in the way that the human voice does for music. There are definitely artists that study it more than others though. If you ever have the chance to see Picasso's notebooks, they might be worth seeing. Obviously, he never thought that anyone would want to exhibit them, but it's fascinating (and weird) to see the pornographic shit that went through the man's mind.
I made a harness to get a piss sample from my dog. He wouldn't let me move a cup under him when he was taking a leak; not that I was fast enough (I'm a little tall and he's really short). He was getting kind of weirded out by what I was doing and I don't blame him. Plus, runners were starting to stare. Anyway, I used some rubber bands, an old prescription bottle and some string to basically make a thing like a chastity belt for him to collect his piss. Worked like a charm, even if I had to walk 2 miles back to my house carrying a pillbottle full of hot dog pee and a weird harness. I just wish the receptionist at the vet's had been more impressed. It took some time to build, damn it! Edit: Oh yeah, I put up a new recipe here.
That is amazing! I would love for theholywombat to draw that scene. I would frame it.
Ill get on it tommorow, its getting kinda late in Denmark
smoorman1024 b_b I FOUND A DENMARK PEOPLE! reference: http://hubski.com/pub?id=87426
Done edit: now you better goddamn frame it and take a picture :)
I took some used 2-3 liter soda bottles and turned them into self-watering planters. I did this by first cutting the bottles about in half horizontally then puncturing the lids to allow some string to pass trough. It will sit so that the top half is upside-down in the bottom half. I cut a few lengths of string long enough to fit from bottom to top of the apparatus. I filled the top half with dirt and a plant, making sure that the string went all the way through. Finally, I filled the bottom half with water just under the bottle cap. I'd post pictures, but the plants died, and the planters got thrown out. This is a stepping stone to my future endeavor of building a large aquaponics farm to grow all sorts of food plants and fish.
I've been writing a lot of comedy shorts for Machinima recently, which will be making their way online over the next few weeks. However, a while back, I had this short produced elsewhere. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CXTmCtywrWY
Now I'm not as technically gifted or fancy as a lot of you folks but I do have my passions. Mostly Pizza and Beer.
was one of a number of trials on some new Americana dough recipes.
So I know it has been a bit but here is the recipe info for the Americana style dough I used above- * 22.5 oz unbleached high-gluten flour/bread flour (I like King Arthur's Bread Flour) * 3T sugar * 2t table salt * 2t IDY (Instant dry Yeast) * 1/4c vegetable oil * 1c milk * 3/4c water @105F Mix all ingredients in a large bowl with a metal spoon until all the flour is incorporated. (~ 4mins). Let rest for ~ 5 mins. Then mix for another 2-3mins. Until soft, sticky and passes the "windowpane test" Add more water or flour to adjust the dryness/stickyness of dough. Divide dough into 4 equal 10oz balls. Round the balls and lightly brush with oil. Place in freezer bags. Let rest for ~ 15mins then place in fridge overnight. Remove from fridge and let stand for ~ 1.5hrs to give the dough some better workability. The dough should be easy to work without being too plastic / blown.
Stretching / Dressing the dough- There are a lot of different ways to stretch out Americana dough like this. Its durable enough to take some relatively rough, inexperienced handling so it shouldn't be too bad. The only key is DO NOT ROLL IT! I can't stress that enough. You'll ruin the crumb. Tossing is perfect for this dough, though. Top it however you want! The one I pictured is a homemade tomato sauce, basil, tomato slices, and mozzarella (with a little bit of parm to bring out the flavor). A good trick is to mix some of the cheese down in with the sauce, really helps to get some carmelizing in the oven. Cook @ 550F (highest most ovens will go) for 5 mins on a pan. Transfer to the rack and cook for ~3 more to crisp up the bottom. The oven time and temp are incredibly crucial. People seem to be too afraid of turning it up and don't get a good enough oven spring out of the dough.
My notes after trying it- * Dough needed extra flour ~ 2T to get consistency I wanted. * Dough held up fine in fridge for up to 3 days (but were getting overblown by day 3 and would not push it much longer). I also froze 2 of the balls after the first night in the fridge to test how well they thawed. After thawing, they were a bit more blown than I would have liked but still workable. Needed a bit longer of time out at room temp to get proper elasticity and spring. * True to style the conicione had a nice crumb and crust was bready in general. Worked well overall and would be a good dough for heavier toppings.
I've been fairly busy with university stuff recently but am I allowed to share some older stuff I've done? Here is a portrait I created of Joseph Gordon-Levitt using stippling.
That's really cool? Do you have a tablet or what? How do you do this?
I do it using a tablet! And I use customized brush settings as well. The trick I've learned is to use opacity and color bases to your advantage. And liberal use of ctrl + z, if I may add, haha...What I've found is that my stroke style inherently heads to a more impressionistic feeling.
I'd love to see the process next time you create something like this. Just take screenshots occasionally as you go - even if it's ugly or imperfect. I think that seeing the process shows so much and I find it intriguing how people work and create.
the last thing I have made was a shirt for a concert i recently went too. i used freezer paper, an iron, and some bleach to create a few designs I had cropped together my self from images of the bands logos and such. Pretty easy and a ton of fun to do before an event, and they never turn out trashy or even look home made. I had received many compliments on my shirt asking where i had gotten it from! check it out actually....
I built a SNES cart interface using an arduino and a couple of shift chips. I started this project after I fired up Earthbound only to find my saves were gone. I wanted a way to backup/restore saves to the carts so this wouldn't happen again. Figured I might as well add ROM dumping while I was at it. 
I made a pretty interesting group stemmed from #hubskimusicclub called #musicswap, which is a place where music playlists are made and traded among users. /shamelessplug
One of these. Edit: to clarify, the 'one of these' to which I'm referring is the short film, not the website.
I'm in the process of making a bandsaw box in the shape of a bust, where the drawers are the lobes of the brain. It's going pretty well.
It's for a class, so it'll be a while, but I'll probably post about it when I'm done.
I built a database for one of the professors at my college. The structure allows him to track the development of each student/class-section throughout the course of the semester as well as the difficulty (miss-rate) of a particular question or test. This is going to let him tailor his lectures to cover heavily misunderstood concepts and hopefully keep the student average in his courses ahead of the curve.
I guess this counts, but I'm not exactly sure.
http://www.mobafire.com/league-of-legends/build/official-hol... My friends encouraged me to write a guide for a champion on League of Legends because they thought I'm really good at her and we had alot of spare time on holidays.
I never "finished" it, it's still work in progress, but I never find the right time to work on it because I'm confused thanks to the critisizm and the lack of actual stable advice I got.
I plan to finish it before christmas, but untill then I want to research to the fullest to make it a great guide.
It's mostly focused on humor, because I noticed alot of guides are really down to the ground boring and lack alot of information, so I try to mix those two.
Does food count? I tried out a new recipe, stuffing sweet peppers with pizza toppings and baking them, like low-carb pizza rolls. I also made some home-made cinnamon rolls when I was bored (I make a lot of bread recipes when I'm sitting around, so I have an excuse to play video games while the dough rises). Oh, and I developed a bar cookie recipe that works for me, since every time I try to make normal cookies (with mostly butter), they melt and the edges burn, no matter how long I refrigerate the dough. Shortening is my friend.
I wrote and recorded a song called Foolish With Time. It's not finished and admittedly, it's a bit silly at the outset but I like the chorus and even the A-hoora-hoora refrain. Needs drums etc. Beyond that I am finished recording the next #tngpodcast and I cannot wait to see what steve comes up with for the video. It should be a good one!
I work for a rather large online fabric/quilt store and I think they've successfully gotten into my head. The last thing I finished (in my spare time) was a little proof of concept nine-block pattern generator. http://blockrockingrepeats.com
I'm from that ask reddit thread that linked here. I'm not usually so immature I promise.
Well, physically, the last thing I made was a 3-d print of a Kodiak shuttle from Mass Effect. Digitally, I'm still working on it, but I'm making a game; not too sure yet as to what it will be like, but I hope it will be fun! I'm learning a lot about programming games in the process, and writing a plot will be a good creative exercise for me.
I'm currently developing an android app for the website http://hummingbird.me/. Basically it lets you keep track of which episodes of anime you've watched and keeps all the ratings/comments that you enter. I'm still not quite finished with it, but I'll definitely post a link here on Hubski when I finish it.
I did some work experience at the local tourism board over the summer, and on my first day found myself making a map of the city and plotting a route and itinerary for a visiting government official. Felt pretty badass after hearing she loved it.