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Jan 15, 2010
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Just received the first submission for the Baby Doll Competition. You guys can now vote. For those who havent submitted their entries, what are you waiting for? The earlier you guys submit, the more time you have to vote for yourself and other entries.
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Jan 12, 2010
Dell Design Studio : Make it Yours!
:D:D:D:D
Happies** Do you know why I love design so much? It is because of the fact that when I can foresee my end result being so awesomesauce and that causes my heart to go into an adrenaline rush until I finish my work. I haven't felt like this for a long time!
Thank god for Dell, they have this new line of laptops called Design Studio Laptop (sounds so me!!) which is delightfully affordable and compact! I am looking at the 16" one, the monster out of the Design Studio family. It comes with Windows 7 and 3gb RAM. 3gb and its DDR3 too. Hmm, for those who don't understand computer jargons, RAM is like a short-term memory storage of a human. The bigger it is, the more it can store, the faster your computer can multitask. Then, there is the hard disk space which is like a space for keeping objects and files. The Design Studio comes with 320 gb hard disk space, that's equivalent to roughly 450 copies of 700mb movies.
The little things that made this laptop so amazing is the 3 usb-ports, backlit keyboard, Blu-ray DVD drive and a hdmi outlet. Wee~~ hdmi display!!! Bye bye DVI cable, hello HDMI! Eventhough the monitor is a bit too small for me, having it in hdmi makes a big difference. The original comes in 15.6" but the bigger the better so 16" for me. It's really, really difficult to work with anything smaller than that when I have browsers, coders, design apps, entertainment and chat on all at once.
For RM 3,999 the price is too cheap for all the goodies that come with it. If you had a Dell machine repaired before, you will have already learned that you are just a phone call away for the technician to come to your doorstep and fix your machine for you. I am quite impressed with their service actually (beats waiting 100 years at LowYat for the people to fix. -_-).
The best part though, is the fact that I can win this!!! And the best-er part is the competition is a Design competition!!!
Needless to say, I am extremely excited about this contest because there are 2 prizes!
Dell Design Studio : Make It Yours!
*competition ends 5th February 2010.
Best Entry : Dell Studio 15" Laptop with your own laptop skin design worth RM 3,500 + Warranty + onSite support + RM5000 in cash.
The winner for this category will be decided by a panel of judges.
Most Popular Entry : RM2,500 cash voucher for a leading department store.
The contestant with the most votes wins this.
However, you can't win both. In the event of you winning both categories, the Most Popular Entry prize will be awarded to the person who got the second highest number of votes.
Anyway, the size of the artwork has to be 6180px x 4535px at 360 ppi. That is freaking huge, I did a 10 feet by 6 feet banner and the file size was smaller than this. I took ages to finish my design. Anyway, ppi means pixels per inch. The more pixels per inch, the sharper the printing.
Join now!
For my entry, I wanted to do something that has my photo in it but I don't think I wanna mislead people. If I do win the laptop, it has a photo of my beautiful and glamorous visage but when they see the person behind the screen they will be shocked. My 'beautiful and glamorous' visage cheat one. :D So I decided to do something outrageous and preposterous using 3D.
Hah! Bet no one used 3D for their design! I happily sketched my idea down in photoshop and start up Maya.
/*Warning, Massive 3D jargons ahead, you can skip it but that's like half the post and my sanity...You can click on the links below which offer explanation on a certain jargon.*/
[1] There you go, the mesh of the cube and the fonts.
[2] I realized I've forgotten how to use RealFlow for liquid simulation!! What kinda kopi first class honors degree in "Film & Animation" do I have? fml.
So fine, I did the liquid with Maya. The threshold is still not perfect, the water looks abit too 'sandy' and pehchah-belah.
[special] Occlusion pass - rendered in 6 hours
The liquid wouldn't render in occlusion. This deserve a special tag cuz it took freaking 6 hours to render every pixel of 6180x4535px resolution. 3D is one subject where the computer does the work and there is nothing you can do to rush it when you want good quality.
[special] Fake Occlusion pass of the water - rendered in 9 hours
I started to break everything down into passes in order to render everything. The occlusion for the water cheat one, I make using lambert and spotlights one. I am proud of it though, it looks like occlusion!! :D
[3] After that, I couldn't figure out why my brown line's nurbs curves were jagged after rendering (supposed to add isoparms). This is a render of all the objects in the scene before I start lighting them up. //Enough, I want to skip this!
[4] Diffuse Pass
After rendering a total of 11 passes in 36 hours, I opened up Photoshop to composite. This is the first pass with 2 spotlights without any specular highlights. The fonts are brighter cuz they are surface shaders.
[5] HDR Pass
I threw another pass which was rendered using a HDR as the lights for the scene. The HDR was yellow casted and made my cube a bit reddish.
[6] I changed the color of the cube back to blue and I decided that the background was too dark, so I lightened it up. I was pleasantly surprised that the background was tinted blue, just how I wanted it to be. Oh well, that's one less step for me. After that, I threw in a vintage patterned background overlay.
[7] The cube was too 3d-ish and not realistic enough for me so I re-composited it using the cube's occlusion as the base.
[8] Then I overlay the previous cube's diffuse pass over it. The result looks better already. //Enough, I want to skip this!
[9] Reflection pass
I love love love rendering reflection passes, they are easy to render and gives a pop to the final composite. Don't ask me what is a pop, I don't comprehend how my brain works either. Now the black lines and the sides of the font have a nice reflection to it.
[10] Reflection Pass
Still at reflection cuz I love it so much, this time I put in the reflection for the water. The water looks better now, eh? I also realized that putting occlusion on the water makes it look really bad and based on research, I realized that water's shadow areas are actually highlights instead of shadows. So I inverted the occlusion for the water and used it as a rim light pass instead.
[11] Global Illumination Pass
Final touch ups left, I added a glow to the cube opening and some bokeh sparkles around that area. Then I overlay the GI pass which added some reflections of the fonts' colours onto the cube and water.
So, this is the final laptop skin. Am I tired? Yes. Am I hungry? Yes. Is my head swinging? Yes. But oh-so-definitely worth it. :D I'm one step closer to winning the laptop after 12 hours, what bout you?
If you like my design, you can download it as your wallpaper (also available in the Free section). There are lots of empty space on the right so you can arrange all your folders, icons and shortcuts there without it hurting your eyes:
Downloads here
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Jan 2, 2010
Blushberry Version 2
Blushberry is relaunching on January 6th!!
I have decided to keep this blog. Only updates will be available here. The full content of the text will be available at the new domain. Comments will be disabled.
There will be makeup tutorials once more! A new competition will also be scheduled for the launch! I will not share much bout all the new features, yall have to see for yourself when the time comes!
See ya soons.. can't wait to blog actively once more!
Dec 28, 2009
An Evening Out with Ciki
I recently wrapped a wordpress design job for cumidanciki.com. You can view the Ciki and I decided to go out for a dinner to celebrate since her husband, Josen was out of town. I was late for an hour due to the horrendous traffic in Bukit Bintang. And what's worse is that I had stomachache while driving and my gear shift choked a few times. There were many drivers around me and I bet they were thinking I went nuts or something.
Ciki went to drink at Japanese bar nearby first while waiting for me. After I arrived, she announced that we will be going to a new restaurant just at the back of Changkat Bukit Bintang. I was like, "So, this is how food blogger operates.... lol.
We reached Albion to be greeted by the most unusual greeting.
"I am sorry mam but we are not open today. This is our first day. We do have a limited menu but there are no prices yet. Please feel free to pay any amount that you think the food is worth."
We began chatting and chatting up to the point where we conveniently forgot bout the time or the priceless food. Ciki gave me a cute souvenir from London. Sob T_T I never had anything from London before, so touched. Life is wonderful. I brought my Nikon SLR to do some shooting and try to get into the character of a food blogger.
Its not easy, I tell you. First, you have to scout for new restaurants that other food bloggers have not reviewed. Note down the address and name of the restaurant. Once the food arrive, you must not eat. You must first, take photographs of the food. It goes against human nature. You know you did a good job when you upload the photos, you feel hungry just by looking at the food.
What wonderful dishes, delicately arranged. The tough part is eating the food. It is like writing on a brand new leather bound notebook that costs a few hundred bucks. Its a waste to eat it, its just too good.
When we were ready to leave, we signaled to pay. Ciki wanted to pay with card but to our amazement, they do not yet have their credit card payment system installed. The dinner is free. 0_0 We just have to take a photo with the nice owner after that. They started charging the Tuesday after that.
Since the dinner was free, we were feeling unusually rich and pampered. We dropped by the Japanese bar again for drinks. Plum wine!! It is awesome (impossible to get drunk by it though). We also had this new experimental drink called the Pink Geisha. That tastes marvellous.
I shall put in the name of the restaurant(I know, I fail as a food blogger.) when I get it from Ciki.
This was the souvenir that Ciki gave me, it is dearly wrapped in a pouch to protect the necklace. It also has an 'A' initial. I wonder what does it stands for, maybe its my grade for my performance as a blog designer. :)
This is the necklace inside, a quaint vintage necklace. (No, its not a locket.. everyone that saw this tried to open it) I am so happy and proud of this! Thank you Ciki!! Muaxx.
Anyway, this post will go into my version 2. Tutorials will be coming back up by the launch of my version 2. I had just finished filling up my portfolio, next is the blog and shop section. After the launch of my v2, this blog will still be here. There will be news updates that link to the v2 but there will not be any text content for the upcoming posts here.
Dec 15, 2009
SK-II Mini Christmas Event
When I was in high school, I had a friend who suddenly decided to improve her skin. She brought a tupperware with some white yogurt-like substance, she claimed that there is growing bacterias there that would help improve her skin.
Curious as I am, I was interested! She used it regularly (she slapped them on her skin thickly) and her skin improved within 3 weeks time just by using some natural substance.
Here am I, holding a bottle of wholesome goodness for the skin containing Pitera. It is not the same yogurt, I do not know, maybe it is..maybe it is not. I was only 16 then, what do i know. But Pitera is a metabolic solution generated in the fermentation process of a unique stain of yeast.
Sounds like yogurt yet? lol.. but the Japanese had done it again, this is good stuff hence the overwhelming price but this is like an Apple product compared to the other Windows hurt-my-eyes nonsense.
I went for an advertorial at SK-II, Isetan KLCC without knowing what is gonna happen. When I found out that there will be a skin test, thought bubbles popped out in thousands-I was so scared that my skin will be reported as the worse ok. It is like going to the hospital when you are already convinced you are sick yet you are in a denial about it. lol.
I was immensely relieved when I found out that my SPQ is number 3. Its the best ok!! Eventhough I do not wash my face or apply any skincare at all. No joke. The most I use is my body shower. hehe. I am that blessed.
Nevertheless, I can see all the wrinkles building up, leading to SPQ2. It struck a fear I have never known before.
I AM AGING.
Then the nice young lady showed me the chart of products I should use to keep the current skin I have, all I could see is the prices. Its expensive!!
But then she tried the products on my hand, and god.. it felt. so darn good. looks better. fairer.
Its ironic that we sacrifice our beauty and youth for money and when we have money, we have to buy back our beauty and health.
I need to take care of my skin now!
Eiling, Redmummy and ThatGirlCynthia got their skin tested at SK-II. We were all presented with a xmas goodie bag too! Happiness**
KY dropped by from his office and was dragged for the skin test. He looked as if he is in pain. HAHA! Oops.. can't make fun of others, not good. not good. I think he is a SP3 too, but the memory was vague cuz all I could hear is, "Haze, they said I have thick skin!!"
*vain* I look good. I should be their ambassador. This could be the poster. Then I could get many many products from them and my life would be complete :D The chicken puff they served was really delicious too!
Cynthia and me, if you remember.. Cynthia and I go way back. I did her banner for herblogshop. I always thought that she is too pretty to be standing next to me in a photo. Awed from her glowing face.
Perfect group photo :
1. SK-II background CHECK
2. Pretty chicks CHECK
3. Nice lighting CHECK
4. Bystander in the background doing a peace sign CHECK
Cynthia, Red, Pink Stilleto, Eiling and Me.
Oh, yea.. bystander : Nicholas.
OK! I need to go get some SK-II products! It is TIME I have some skin care after 23 years of jakun life. I look so good right now, if I look any worse I wouldn't be able to face my mirror anymore.
Dec 8, 2009
Makeup & Hair in just 7 Minutes and 20 seconds
Rushing to an event or dinner but you just do not have the luxury to spend half an hour to do your makeup and hair? You can get similar results in less than 8 minutes!
What I do is basically cut all the finishing touches from the makeup process, I cut:
1. foundation
2. browbone highlights
3. eyeshadow colours
Everything can be done if you minimize the time spent on your eye makeup.
Enjoy!
Nov 30, 2009
Christmas is coming!!
You want sales?
Everybody love sales!
Blushberry version 2 is coming along nicely.. The design is done, coding now.. then comes new content and everything..It will be launched on my birthday January 6th 2009. There will be launch competitions and maybe an event. hint* hint*
I might not be transferring the posts here to there. Do you guys think I should transfer? Those who subscribed to my rss might be getting weird posts. those are test posts on my new blog. don't be freaked out k.
I'll fix my blog tonight. the one ur viewing now i know it floods down. sorry bout that it hurts my eyes so much i can't blog in this anymore. hence v2.
Enjoy the sales meanwhile. I m looking for a photographer. if i can't get one who is willing to be my friend n photog for free (maybe free meals) i'll be doing video makeup tutorials from v2 onwards. gimme an email if you are interested.
/*--EDIT--*/
I found my photographer!! Thanks Isabel!!
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