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P1PF3: The Flour Sack Section | aka P4

Timing.

The essence of animation. The sculpting of existence. The Big When. The difference between daily intervals, monthly intervals, and posting in March 2016 and again in January 2018.

Spacing.

The stuff above this sentence. Timing and Spacing are the two main principles of animation and had the medium been as ancient as these core ideas then Greek twin deities would have danced through the cosmos in analogy. Timing is knowing that I want this paragraph to end in seven more words, spacing is deciding which. Continue reading

Ladies and Gentlemen, Start Your Search Engines

 

SaxoLaxo-Illuminated-Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet — is how I might have not only begun this post but continued onward had I not thought this out further. For the unfamiliar, these bastardized words of Cicero have become common filler text to get a pulse on the graphical potential of a written work in progress; if you have a place for text, don’t write, test the layout with this “greeked” Latin instead. A wikipediable practice long used by printers and typesetters, I look at that grabbable premade block of illegibility and wonder if I have so convenient an option available. Deluded of course as its role is solely to uncloud their workspace for their actual expertise it nonetheless presents a compelling approach for beginning something. Here is your starter kit; you will find Lorem ipsum next to the manual. Because staring ahead, blinking casually at infinity, you find yourself with a question: when you start, what do you start with? Have I started yet?

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