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Hi everybody!

I just had a total brain fart and I'd like to get some advice on this.

If you have creative commons pictures of a person and you'd like to use these pictures to make "evidence" (like pictures and footage) of a murderer in a game, is there any way for this to be illegal?

The game is set up so that it's accompanied with fake websites and it feels like digging up real information on a real person, but it's still a game.

What about if you buy commercial pictures of people and use them?

Hi guys!

If you have sparetime, could you give some feedback on my portfolio website?

Mainly I'd like to know anything that sticks out in a strongly negative way or if there is some weird things going on on your browser. I'm so used to it by now that I'm probably pretty much blind to every mistake there is. Of course positive comments are not frowned upon either. In return I'll buy you a beer if you are in Tampere, Finland area and also I will answer any questions you might have on how I did something on the site.  

so here it is: www.jounimettala.com

EDIT: Nobody?

I thought this could come in handy for all of us. I'm in the middle of applying for a new job and I've been struggling to find a good source on how to apply for a new job in this new competitive world.

Of course situations may vary from country to other but I think we should have one thread where we could exchange experiences and everything related from "Can I use pencil?" to "Do they want my picture in the application?".

I would like to know that should you use graphical elements ever on your application if you're trying for advertising / what about other venues of work? Is it important to have cover letter and whatnots in a general job application you send on your own interest to the company? Ppl can always share their DO's and DO NOT's if they so choose.

[Added couple of small additional tunes for variety:]

Sorry for the delay. As a compensation I cut few days off the comp.
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It's time for:




So Justin Timbersea is in trouble again. He's coming up with nonsensical little tunes that will get him nowhere on the charts. Your boss calls you up and says he and Justin need your skills to turn these melodies and beats into something everybody wants to listen. Your boss says it doesnt matter which parts of which song you use. Just make it sound good. He then sends couple of clips for you to analyze and break apart:

Tune nro 1: Click
Tune nro 2: Click

Added couple of small additional tunes for variety:

Tune nro 3: Click
Tune nro 4: Click


Individual sample wav's of songs:

Tune nro1 (15mb rar-file): Tune nro1-sample package
Tune nro2 (17mb rar-file): Tune nro2-sample package
Tune 3 and 4 (6mb rarfile): Tune nro3 and 4-sample package

INFO

Tunes 1 - 3 are 104 bpm and the samples contain one or couple of instruments throughout the whole song (length range from 20 sec - 1 min)
Tune 4 is 140 bpm. Tunes 3 and 4 are missing drums in the sample package because I used a template and cannot be distributed.

RULES

1. You have to use atleast one of the melodic instruments for atleast a bar (4 beats). (This doesn't mean it has to be continuos. You can use two times 2 beats of a clip and so on)
2. You can add as many additional instruments as you please. The tunes are meant to act as a starting point for your own tune.
3. The song should be atleast 0:45 long but no more than 3:00.
4. You should have fun while doing this.

Bonus points for production quality and creativity as in the more you incorporate the samples with a new twist.

If there's any questions or suggestions fire away.

Trophies for the winners:

   

EDIT: Typos and added rule number 2 to clarify things.
EDIT2: Added couple of additional tunes to help you create.
EDIT3: Tune4 notes are following (the arpeggio in green and bass in dark grey. The arpeggio just jumps an octave up every now and again):

My very good friend send her video application to "Best job in the world" -thingy and if you guys have a minute to spare please watch her video and give a good rating. In the video you can see a home green screen in action with some added effects. 

Link to video here

Or something to that effect.

Give feedback if you hear something terribly off skew. Particularly if you can give any hints about mastering this better. Does this piece sound mastered to you at all and/or very top/bottom heavy. Things like that.

This is my first with an actual midi keyboard so I went mildly wild with the modulations. The actual melody doesn't change much in the course of the song. I realized pretty soon that those damn knobs and sliders are a lifesaver when automating your stuff.

Here's the jist:
PixelPerfect - SpaceFloat

I guess it's ok to ask crits about comp pieces? 

Oh and if anybody wants info on Axiom 61 I'll be glad to serve.

I'm just throwing this out there as I would find this very useful. If it's not useful to others or this is a technical impossibility then just ignore this.

Native Theora video support with the ability to:

- play next frame
- play previous frame
- loop automatically
- check the frame playing
- change the frame to whatever
- get maximum frames of said file
- resize

Also if this video plugin could be used so that hotspots and possibly sprites could be layered on top of it along the mouse pointer, well that would be nice.

Just throwing this out there. 

[Rules:]

You know it, I know it. They're here! The Worlds Assembly of Zany Undead Picturers have contacted me and you in this grandmother of all crisis. In the next 96 to 218 hours the world will become infested with this new type of undead -type of things, but there is still time if we act fast and inform the public. In our conference we were shown these photographs of the undead thingamy. But because we are picturers we will inform the public by:

1. Me drawing the outline of what we have seen is this undead (and end of all mankind). CHECK
2. By you filling in the details of this monstrosity (because you are good with colors and such). STILL TO DO

Then we will transmit this picture-information to all the people in all the lands through the FOX news network and hopefully somebody will take it seriously.



Rules:
- Draw something "undead"
- No colour limit
- You can flip and rotate the outline
- You can resize the image if you like, but no more than 400 x 400 pixels
- The outline can be modified slightly, but must be recognisable
- You can place objects on top of the outline but the outline must remain recognisable
- Background makes it prettier

- Creative ideas and good execution are rewarded

The Worlds Assembly of Zany Undead Picturers (WAZUP) would like to present these awards for the most profound breakthroughs in undead pictography.

[RULES]

Justin Timbersea is trying to make his new hot track for the masses but can't come up with anything else than this here:


Justin Timbersea's effort
(click on the little play button on the left after it appears in the image or download from the "download file" link)

So your manager calls you and tells you this is it. Timbersea sent a package with all the different instruments to the record company and wants somebody to make a good remix of that pitiful song. This is what you've been waiting for. Take the song and the instruments and make a new no.1. hit with a remix. It doesn't matter what kind of song you make as long as it makes the top spot in the charts. Now go and become famous!

Justin Timbersea's instrument package
(click on the "download file" link when it appears after few seconds)

RULES

1. You have to use atleast one of the melodic instruments for atleast half the length of the clip in the mix. (This doesn't mean it has to be continuos. You can use two times 1/4 of a clip and so on)
2. The song should be atleast 0:45 long but no more than 2:00. Preferred length is 1:30.
3. You should have fun while doing this 

The record company would like to present these honorary medals to the three top remixers at the end of the competition:



The wave files are compressed into a rar file and they are tempo synced so that whatever bpm you use they should sync itself accordingly. If your host program doesn't know how to do that you can always sync them manually. The native bpm in the clips are 80 bpm. If any problems arise, just contact me.

EDIT: Here's one pizzicato and piano piano roll to help you in the remix making: