The sheer count of "I'm back" messages can sometimes be a bit disconcerting and I'm no exception apparently.

However, the reason I haven't updated much in the last years is because I've become weary of animating. While I almost always love the end results and while the creation process starts out very creative and fun, 99% of the rest of the time is often neither interesting or creative - more like production work.

So what now? Well, I've recently (re)started with something I haven't done for over 10 years - Photography... Yeah I know, the last thing deviantART needs is another photographer, but honestly I don't care. I've had ridiculous amounts of fun getting back into photography these last few months and will post the (better) result here in the coming months / years / forever. Animating on deviantART might be more of a niche and I definitely don't expect any large amount of followers for my first (re)attempts at photography... but maybe in time - you too will very much enjoy my photo's - I can only get better (I hope).

All I know is I love being creative again and look forward to becoming part of the deviantART community again. Any professional photographers that want to give me any pointers - PLEASE DO!

Thanks for putting up with me.

-Werner.


First 4 photo's uploaded:

The13thSin 2.1

Happy Holidays Everyone!!!

Till soon?
*The13thSin


.-=[ Tools of the animation trade, by The13thSin: ]=-.

- Adobe After Effects CS3 -> This is where most of the action takes place, only you also need some extra plugins to get access to the real cool effects.
- Trapcode's Plugins (Particular, Shine, 3D Stroke, Form) -> These professional plugins allow some really amazing things to be done in Adobe After Effects.
- Adobe Photoshop CS3 -> Stills and other stuff
- Gif MovieGear -> for uptomizing the gif animations and making them as small as humanly/computerly possible.
- Macromedia Flash 8 -> Cos longerand bigger animations don't really work in GIF... and everyone has flash anyway...

'-=[ Tools of the animation trade, by The13thSin: ]=-'

The13thSin 2.1

Just a small update: I'm still here and I'll slowly be adding stuff the next couple of weeks. I have tons of work to do for my company, but if I can I'll try to do 1 or 2 avatars.

Bla, till soon.

Till soon?
*The13thSin


.-=[ Tools of the animation trade, by The13thSin: ]=-.

- Adobe After Effects CS3 -> This is where most of the action takes place, only you also need some extra plugins to get access to the real cool effects.
- Trapcode's Plugins (Particular, Shine, 3D Stroke, Form) -> These professional plugins allow some really amazing things to be done in Adobe After Effects.
- Adobe Photoshop CS3 -> Stills and other stuff
- Gif MovieGear -> for uptomizing the gif animations and making them as small as humanly/computerly possible.
- Macromedia Flash 8 -> Cos longerand bigger animations don't really work in GIF... and everyone has flash anyway...

'-=[ Tools of the animation trade, by The13thSin: ]=-'

Get ready for The13thSin 2.0

Allright then, I was finally able to figure out my software issues and convert & submit the first 2 devArts since a loooooooong long time. Brainstorm 4's the only decent one though, be sure to check that one out. Second one is a mediocre attempt at an avatar... man I really need to get back into this, cos originality used to be my thing... I'll get it back though, I'm sure.

To my great dismay, I found out most of my devFriends have been gone for 1/2 a year or more, probably never to return. Fortunately, some of them are still alive and kicking fortunately, hope to hear soon from you all!

So, you ask, what have I been up to since the last time I was active here? Well, I've been studying really hard (no wait, that would be partying really hard), finding out I didn't really like to be only doing theoretical stuff, changing to a different major, finding out again I still don't like only doing theoretical stuff, starting my own business with some coding genius (Morose Media -> Webdevelopment), finding out I really like it, also finding out it takes 60 hours a week to run your own business, expanding the business, putting university on hold for a year (starting now), getting back to deviantArt. ... Yeah that's pretty much it in a nutshell.
So why am I back? To get a bit more insperation for my designs. I you want to see some of the work I've done as a webdesigner, be sure to check morose.nl (english) and under "project" there are a couple of projects for you to see. Leave any feedback in this journal if you did.

Oh and since I've been MIA for over 2 years, I'd like to take this oppurtunity to thank the following deviants for adding me as a devWatch: ~sportygirl04r, ~markuspennington, ~jody-mits, ~cy-in-tis-s, ~Crashie, ~disfractional, ~straydandelion, ~raptured-prince, ~DaRk-keNSHiN, ~dark2, ~coolmarvin, *instag8or19, ~skye-wonderr, ~Lexiness, ~nusferatu, =RaAnan, ~redaxxe, ~swandiave, ~Davuzzz, !SaintClairAginCourt, ~mellow-d, ~Badspot, ~Jupit3r, ~anubis-ayani, ~SiLik, ~intelligentjerk, ~Sage3k, ~zanenkim, ~hotaru-kitsune, =shoo, ~CarlosDan, ~KA-Arad, ~ljweeman, ~z7archangel7z, ~captokyo, *Acier, ~ADDadamD, *Silverunicorn, *Mozmanson, ~deepskyD, ~Squamata, *Anvanya1981 (My niece!), ~Sycur & =AngelLymisty. (Sorry if I messed a few up, I typed them manually and it's late, and I'm not as sober as I'd like .)

Well, that's it for now, expect some more animation goodness later this week.

Till soon?
*The13thSin


.-=[ Tools of the animation trade, by The13thSin: ]=-.
- Adobe After Effects CS3 -> This is where most of the action takes place, only you also need some extra plugins to get access to the real cool effects.
- Trapcode's Plugins (Particular, Shine, 3D Stroke) -> These professional plugins allow some really amazing things to be done in Adobe After Effects.
- Adobe Photoshop CS3 -> Stills and other stuff
- Gif MovieGear -> for uptomizing the gif animations and making them as small as humanly/computerly possible.

There I go again... getting sucked back in...

I'm really back, but I'm having some software issues that will be resolved shortly, this weekend, I promise

Till soon?
*The13thSin


.-=[ Tools of the animation trade, by The13thSin: ]=-.
- Adobe After Effects CS3 -> This is where most of the action takes place, only you also need some extra plugins to get access to the real cool effects.
- Trapcode's Plugins (Particular, Shine, 3D Stroke) -> These professional plugins allow some really amazing things to be done in Adobe After Effects.
- Adobe Photoshop CS3 -> Stills and other stuff
- Gif MovieGear -> for uptomizing the gif animations and making them as small as humanly/computerly possible.