Japanese Melon Pan

Japanese Melon Pan

Tools Used: Dinner rolls Pre-made Cookie dough Sugar What is Melon Pan? Melon pan or melon bread is a unique sweet bun from Japan. After trying it while visiting Japan I sought to find an easy way to make it back at home. Melon pan is essentially sweetened dough...
Berkeley Crew Redux

Berkeley Crew Redux

Tools Used: Wacom Intuos Comic Tablet (Small) Manga Studio 5 This post is both a Tool of the Trade and How To. I had recently received the Wacom Intous Comic Tablet for Christmas 2015 along with the software Manga Studio 5. To test out both the tablet and software I...
Computer Chair Makeover

Computer Chair Makeover

Tools Used: Car Seat Cover While this may seem like an unusual article for a web design focused website it involves a bit of creativity in solving a problem I had recently. About two years ago I purchased what I thought was a pretty inexpensive leather computer chair....
One Man Band

One Man Band

Tools Used: Akai EWI-USB Canon Powershot SD600 Garritan Aria software Audacity TMPGEnc Video Mastering Works 5 It had been nearly a decade since I had picked up an instrument and nearly two decades since I had played in a band, when I decided to purchase my Electronic...
Mario Paint Movies (What’s the Neroes)

Mario Paint Movies (What’s the Neroes)

Tools Used: Mario Paint VCR Portable Stereo System Recently THQ announced an upcoming peripheral for the Nintendo Wii called uDraw which employs a tablet and pen in order to paint on the screen. This brought back fond memories of my time making movies using Mario...
The Art of Anime & Adobe Illustrator

The Art of Anime & Adobe Illustrator

Tools Used: Adobe Illustrator Swift3D Wacom Digitizer Tablet Website References: Bako Neko’s Anime Drawing Tutorials Manga University Mohammad Haque’s 3DTotal Tutorial In 2004 I went about redesigning my testbed website Switched Services. I sort of keep...