Posts by DavidSchwarz

    For a start, it doesn't look bad. Her upper head seems to be a bit larger, maybe her intellect gets underestimated. Her arms and legs never were that rubberhosey, maybe she even lost some weight since her golden days?

    I think the entries such as Chaplin/Einstein shouldn't be allowed, because let's be real, neither is attached to the 1800's, Chaplin in particular. I don't think it's being picky, both are known specifically for what they did in the 1900's, they don't belong in this contest.

    I probably would also be more strict, but when the majority of submissions got disqualified that could at some point demotivate people to participate at all. We already have the jury as an additional quality control. Such borderline cases probably won't make it far, anyway.

    And I continue to be annoyed with the people who can't follow the very clear and simple contest rules that have been laid out. 74 is nearly half the entries. How hard is it to follow the rules?

    I wonder, if the people who took more liberties were at least more creative. Otherwise I can see no point.


    Maybe some people just don't do the research. When you're young, Chaplin or Einstein might be historical figures like many others. But then again, one cannot assume that everything from the past took place exactly in the 1800's. Where there submissions of dinosaurs or the like, Janina ?


    A quote attributed to Einstein just comes to my mind about the dimensions of the universe and the human intellect. There could be some truth to it.

    But to be honest... the reactions to the search bar idea were nearly non existent.

    You didn't ask for opinions but rather announced the implementation. I guess, people where waiting to see the final result before giving feedback. I actually found the idea interesting but then forgot about it.

    I didn't know where to put this, as this problem actually isn't related to SP-Studio. Since Saturday my Laptop can't access the Internet via WLAN anymore but even via wire only some websites can't be accessed. This really puzzles me.


    YouTube or Wikipedia seem to work and obviously also SP-Studio, but some other forums that even use the same forum software as SP-Studio don't work. This occurs with all browsers I have at hand. I can use Google Search, but when I google for solutions the links I want to open also don't work. On YouTube I didn't find useful videos so far.


    Generally, I don't see any logic behind the sites that work and those that don't. For example, Instagram works but Tumblr doesn't. LinkedIn works but Xing does not. Wikipedia works but not WikiHow.


    Can anyone of you make sense of this?

    I could switch to working entirely in Animate, but for some reason I am used to the feeling of the drawing tool in the old Flash versions. Maybe it's just in my head.

    Generally, the newer versions of the Adobe suite seem to have a different interface. Some people seem to like new stuff just because it's new. I normally stick to what works for me, too.

    That's why I still use my old copy of Flash which I bought from Ebay years ago. It's great for drawing! But it does not support SVG export. Adobe Animate works well and adds the svg export, but the price tag is not low, and so I guess it's no option for you.

    I also work with old versions of InDesign and Illustrator that I also got from ... somewhere. They already offer incredible possibilities and I managed to use them for things they probably weren't conceived for. Adobe surely has the best and also most diverse solutions, and products from the same supplier work best together. But it's also quite expensive with its subscription model. Affinity seems to be a good alternative but only to the programmes I already have. And so far I didn't get the impression that its programmes have a wider ranger of features.


    SP-Studio offers a download as SVG so I would assume that your Flash has some sort oft vector export. The images look too crisp to be vectorized bit-maps, although they often seem to have conspiciously many control points.