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Kasper-V

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  1. Another video! When I lived on the Isle of Wight, we could hardly move without falling over a Morris Dancer. As a folksinger, I naturally met and made friends with a lot of dancers and musicians there. Some years ago, a lady name Helen Akitt wrote this funny song poking gentle fun at her Morris chums, a parody of the lovely song The Whitsun Dance, and I've been singing it ever since I discovered it. The assets in this still--the grass, trees and flowers--actually came from DrawPlus. I saved them as svg and imported them into AD. The unusual format with decorations down each side is because I made the 'pages' in A3 format with a view to printing them some time; YouTube resizes everything to 16:9, which would leave black bars at the sides. And now I'm going to have a rest . . .
  2. Another one! You may know the old cowboy song, The Streets of Laredo, and you may even know of some other parodies, notably by the Smothers Brothers. This one is possibly older than the SBs'; writers' details in thevideo titles. All made in AD and Serif MoviePlus. (I came across this version on the Mudcat Cafe (https://mudcat.org/), a great source of serious and humorous songs, and a great forum too.)
  3. I began the illustrations for this in AD V1, but it went on the back burner for ages. I recently finished them -- all in V2 -- and yesterday I put the video together. Billy Bennett was a very popular 'comic turn' on the Variety stage in the 1920s and 1930. He specialised in songs an monologues, includng parodies of well-known 'straight' monologues.
  4. Thanks Callum -- I've done that. A little bit of background: two of the layers were linked files, so I've rasterised them, and the brush is a freebie I had from Frankentoon (the layer has the brushe's name).
  5. A page from a project I've been working on. The violet curve is a spiral with a vector brush applied. Is it possible to keep the appearance when exporting as a PDF without having to rasterise either the whole artboard or just the curve? (If you're wondering, it's from a comic monologue by Billy Bennett, called The Collier's Daughter; you can find it on YouTube and other websites.)
  6. "Up to a point, Lord Copper"!
  7. I could have called this Many hands (and feet) make light work. We're all getting browned off with Artificial Intelligence stealing copyright works. I thought it was time I made a stand and made my own AI image. In this case, it probably means Astonishing Inaccuracies.
  8. Thanks @GarryP. I either give far too much or far too little by way of explanation -- I can never strike a happy medium!
  9. Thanks for the compliments, Ashcat! This is in the northern hemisphere, and the sun moves across the dial from right to left, so the shadow moves the other way. Clocks came after sundials, so I don't know why 'clockwise' is actually 'widdershins'!
  10. Yes it would, William. But the angle of the gnomon and the position of the hours will depend on your latitude and the direction the wall is facing. This one is about 53 degrees north and facing a little off south.) There are websites that can give you the information and some will explain how to work it out yourself.
  11. I found a pic of a wall-mounted sundial at Norbury Manor in Derbyshire in my old photos. (It's a National Trust property, and open to visitors from time to time.) It was erected as a memorial to (I think) the former owner, who died in 1987. I've changed all the inscriptions in the foolish hope of looking clever. The base colour is 45/38/71 in HSL . . . and I found a grungy texture in my collection (this is a reduced copy) . . . and after some playing about, I found an opacity or 25% and a blend mode Colour Burn gave me a pleasing marble-like effect. For the incised text, I darkened the fill slightly and applied an Inner Bevel/Emboss FX using the first (triangular) profile, inverted. I adjusted the radius till the bevels met in the middle, making the letters look as though they'd been carved.
  12. The Green Eye of the Yellow God, aka The Green Eye of the Little Yellow God, is a dramatic monologue written in 1910 by J Milton Hayes. Despite one or two comic parodies, it's still a Ripping Yarn if delivered straight; you can look up the words, or a recitation on YouTube. Meanwhile, I thought it would make a good subject for a 1960s-style pulp paperback cover (though it would be a very short book, as it will fit on a single page). Made in Designer, with a couple of pixel texture layers.
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