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Trials with InkScape

InkScape is an awesome editor for creating SVG images. It's almost like drawing stuff with pencil on a paper. I never really wanted to try anything other than gimp but then.. you would not be able to appreciate what you have unless you lose it :D so i gave inkscape a try. The best part of using svg representation is that there is minimal antialiasing problem. So here is a small drawing of a person with headphones :) And here is another drawing of a samurai this was quite a fast drawing.. i did take a lot of time for doing the proms though.

Team Fortress2

Valve studios is not a new name to any body who knows or played their popular game Counter Strike. Till date the only titles i knew they produced were Half-Life and Condition zero. Half-Life 2 has been their most sucessful game i should say. They have shown the world that not only can they make use of existing game engines for creating wonderful games.. but they can actually develop their own game engine. The Half-Life 2 game engine is now widely used for benchmarking the graphics card's performance. The buzz words in their engine were hydynamic range rendering and the awesome physics. There were actually lot of demos showing off physics in the game. Well all that apart, If you have played the recent title from EA sports .. the BF2, you might have thought that the idea of having different personal in the team (medic, engineer, sniper etc.) was a new ground breaking idea.. that is where you would be wrong. You see, our beloved valve studios had another title called Team Fortress, wh