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Awesome sauce.

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Absolutely No Contest!!! Well, at least it wouldn't be if I controlled the universe. Come to think of it, if I controlled the universe, she would the smallest one there! It's a shame she didn't win, but any exposure female muscle gets in the mainstream has got to be a good thing! She seems like she could far whether she goes down the bodybuilding path or makes it into modelling, acting or whatever. Anyway, thanks a lot TMM for sorting through all those pictures and sharing them.

Yes, thank you very much TMM for logging into my account and sorting those pictures for me 😉

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Awesome! Another pic with Vixen. I think that she's my favourite character of yours now 🙂

Think you could post the pencils for that one?

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My phone sucks at taking pictures too. I have to hold it perfectly still otherwise it comes out blurred. The lighting is also always horrible.

Still not as bad as Kulli's though, 😛

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I know, I just cleaned it up for myself how I wanted it, and thought I'd share the cleaned up version. I can keep them private in the future if people don't want me posting them. This was the first one I'd posted.

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I find ffdshow (google it, the official site only has sourcecode these days) to be the ideal solution. It acts as a DirectShow filter (like any other codec), but can decode most MPEG-4 content. It also has an audio component, so it can decode most audio too.

It works rather well with Media Player Classic (http://sourceforge.net/projects/guliverkli/), which also has a few of it's own built-in codecs for audio and video. Together they are a team that can decode a heck of a lot of content.

If both of those fail, I usually try VLC. The interface is pretty bad, but it can decode a lot of stuff that other programs can't. It can also directly play FLV files downloaded from Google Video or YouTube. And it can stream AVI files via HTTP and FTP. Downside is it isn't very use friendly, which is why I prefer MPC. Link: http://www.videolan.org/vlc/

And when all else fails, I use the binary of ffmpeg to try to transcode it into another format. ffmpeg is not a player, but a video encoder/decoder. It can decode just about anything. Anything that any of the other programs I've mentioned above can decode, it can decode too. I use it as a last resort, and transcode the problem file into a more standard format.

For ffmpeg, it is very hard to find a recent ffmpeg binary for Win32. I am not certain where my copy is from, but I think it is from here:

http://www.videohelp.com/download/ffmpeggui03c.zip

That's a frontend for it that includes a recent version of it, about Feb '05, I think. So a year old. Like ffdshow, they release lots of source but no binaries. So you either compile it yourself or try to find somebody else who has compiled it.

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Some constructive criticism…

It looked strange that the bottom of her other eye wasn't partially showing under the hair. On a hunch, I fired up Photoshop and drew parallel lines on her face, using the mouth and nose as a guide. According to the lines, 1/4 to 1/3 of her other eye should be visible below the hair.

Yeah, it's nitpicking, but to me it looks like she's only got one eye 😛 On the other hand, when I rotate my screen around until her face is rightside up, her eye looks really odd anyhow, due to the angle. And yet when viewed upside down the angle looks perfect.

Gah, perspectives make my brain hurt.

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I found a higher res version on AD's DeviantArt site:

http://www.deviantart.com/view/28823601/

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I know, it just looked strange to me 😛

There were other things that I wanted to fix too, though, like the face, and the background noise.

Really the arm on the pencil wasn't that bad, it was the coloured version that was odd, where there seemed to be this one part of the arm where the muscle stops and just the bone connects the upper and lower arms 😛

I just wish the pencil version had the abs as well defined, but that'd take a bit too much photoshopping for me 😛

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I'd probably faint in shock. When I woke up, I'd be speechless. Once my brain got over the shock and realized this was happening for real, I think I'd be impossibly happy.

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