This speedrun was recorded live at Awesome Games Done Quick 2018, a weeklong charity speedrun marathon raising money for Prevent Cancer Foundation. Awesome Games Done Quick 2018 is just one of the many charity marathons put on by Games Done Quick. For more information on AGDQ2018, find us at: https://gamesdonequick.com
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This speedrun was recorded live at Awesome Games Done Quick 2018, a weeklong charity speedrun marathon raising money for Prevent Cancer Foundation. Awesome Games Done Quick 2018 is just one of the many charity marathons put on by Games Done Quick. For more information on AGDQ2018, find us at: https://gamesdonequick.com
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This speedrun was recorded live at Awesome Games Done Quick 2018, a weeklong charity speedrun marathon raising money for Prevent Cancer Foundation. Awesome Games Done Quick 2018 is just one of the many charity marathons put on by Games Done Quick. For more information on AGDQ2018, find us at: https://gamesdonequick.com
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This speedrun was recorded live at Awesome Games Done Quick 2018, a weeklong charity speedrun marathon raising money for Prevent Cancer Foundation. Awesome Games Done Quick 2018 is just one of the many charity marathons put on by Games Done Quick. For more information on AGDQ2018, find us at: https://gamesdonequick.com
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Misty Robotics Robothon held at the Misty office on December 10th, 2017
Wingstar
After the success of Aisha and Maya from SuperWeirdos and PsyMage, Amar Chitra Katha (ACK) rolled out its third superheroine last year in the shape of Mapui Kawlim, a 13-year old girl from Mizoram who pulls off some funky gadgets by her scientist father to fight crimes under the name Wingstar.
Whilst the comic was an instant hit, little is known about the pains taken to bring it all about. How was the character conceived and designed; what’s the secret behind the making and so on and so forth.
But Vineet Nair, the chief architect of the character, explains the theoretical underpinnings that went into its development, including the costume and its appearance. He says, “The costume should be flexible and light-weight. She’s learnt martial arts. Hence, the costume should be such, it bodes well with the action moves. The same goes for the antagonist.”
Tashi Kawlim, her father, is a scientist working for the Space Development Arm of the government and develops robotic arms, rocket thrusters and iron fists. A peach of a person with friendly attributes, the Kawlim sr. is thought of as an obese and hence the round appearance.
Amar Chitra Katha artist Vineet Nair
“Shapes matter a lot in character designs. The story is set in Northeast, so the peculiarities should be incorporated accurately such as the head-shape and jaw-line of a person, the facial appearance, the Northeastern architecture etc. Also, there are a lot of bamboo trees there. Hence one can find them sketched in the comics as well, just to give it a realistic touch,” said Nair.
All the characteristics of a character are written-down before the character designing. He later gets in cahoots with the story-writer for further discussions before putting the pen to paper. Or rather, to the Wacom tablet.
Man Mountain is a henchman of Biak Solo and one of the negative characters of the series. As the name dictates, he says, the character has to be huge and burly in appearance and assistant director Sean D’Mello is at the credits for its creation.
Once complete, the sketches would go to the art director whilst also being examined by the editor-in-chief Rajani Thindiath for approval followed by colouring, if granted the same.
Colourist Akshay Khadilkar reveals the process while shading the characters – “For colouring, the traditional colour palette of Mizoram (since it is where the story is set) is taken into account. Colours like white, green are quite common; hence the colour of the character. The average time of character design colouring depends on variety of factors such as the shape and size of character, the fine details and approval time.”
“If thumbnails of characters drawn by pencil are approved by the art directors, we go ahead with the inking. Later, speech bubbles are added with all the letterings,” he further stated.
Amar Chitra Katha colourist Akshay Khadilkar
But how do you decide the colours? “We take references to get a hang of the things. For example, how the tonality of an Indian character would be; for a horror story, the colour schemes would be dark; flashback scenes would have a shadowy colour and so on. We also have the colour palettes that are used according to the requirements.”
Another important manoeuvre is keeping the colour shades of a character across different speech bubbles consistent. And whilst that’s a tricky job, Khadilkar believes experience can help you pull it off without any glitches.
He adds, “In order to make Wingstar more appealing to the kids, brighter shades of colours were used. Bigger the character, finer is the detailing.”
Even if a picture does look attractive in its digital form, the print version of the same appears a tad less alluring, losing its original gloss. The ACK designer explains how it’s dealt with when he says, “The print copies tone down the attractiveness of the graphics a bit even though digitally its looks splendid. To avoid the dullness, we sometimes make the background a bit brighter.”
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Google has announced that it has taken down 60 gaming apps from the Play Store. This development comes after security firm Check Point revealed in a blog post that many apps in the Play Store are infected by malicious software which displayed pornographic advertisements and in some cases even tried to make users subscribe to premium services at their own cost.
Going by the name of AdultSwine, the code apparently hides itself in the apps and once the users have downloaded any of these apps, it begins its operations.
Concerns over this are high because of the fact that many of the now-deleted apps were meant for children as well. According to Google’s Play Store data, the apps have been downloaded three to seven million times.
Apart from displaying inappropriate ads and making users pay for unwanted subscriptions, the code, because of its nature, can get into more critical areas such as credential thefts.
In its blog post, the security firm said, “Although for now this malicious app seems to be a nasty nuisance, and most certainly damaging on both an emotional and financial level, it nevertheless also has a potentially much wider range of malicious activities that it can pursue, all relying on the same common concept.
The malicious code simply receives a target link from its Command and Control server and displays it to the user. While in some cases this link is merely an advertisement, it could also lead to whatever social engineering scheme the hacker has in mind.”
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‘Black Panther’
With each passing week, Marvel is kicking up the gear of Black Panther promotions as here comes another video clip, the latest in the movie’s relentless conveyor belt.
Called the Entourage TV spot, the clip emphasises more on the enormous women cast of the film as right from T’Challa’s (Chadwick Boseman) sister (Letitia Wright) and mother (Angela Bassett) to the female Wakanda warriors, all are seen flexing their muscles and pull off some outrageous action moves.
The dark shadow of Erik Killmonger (Michael Jordan) and co. looms large upon the safety and integrity of the kingdom of Wakanda, and looks like the king isn’t alone in this battle to save it.
The clip portrays fight sequences taking place across a casino, in the midst of a busy city street, among the mountains, and even in the skies between a few drones, as the Wakandan women are at the cynosure of it all.
Now that’s another healthy dose of Marvel’s latest actioner and what lies in this African misadventure!
Produced by Marvel Studios, Black Panther releases on 16 February 2018.
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The human vocal tract can produce thousands of different sounds but languages use only a tiny subset of them. What happens when you try to speak a language that uses a different subset from your own? Produced for Mental Floss
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