Rocco Bone

Thursday, July 21, 2011

Dwarf, midget, little person walk cycle

Started working on a dwarf walk cycle.

One day this scene from Total Recall popped into my mind:

I looked for it on youtube. Found it. Wanted to have the Dwarf, midget, little person (choose your PC term) hooker do a walk cycle.
Problem is I knew nothing about dwarf (I already chose my PC term for the purposes of this blog entry) anatomy.
Never thought I'd see the day when I'd have to do some research to do a walk cycle right.
And I still don't know if it looks "natural" but this is my first go at it.
One problem down, 99 problems to go.
Total Recall's getting remade? Get the fuck outta here!

Sunday, June 26, 2011

Blogger Title Meta Tag And Individual Posts Meta Tag

This applies to Blogger blogs.
A WARNING: BEFORE YOU TINKER WITH THE HTML CODE, CLICK ON "DOWNLOAD FULL TEMPLATE" AND SAVE YOUR CURRENT TEMPLATE SO THAT IN CASE YOU SCREW SOMETHING UP WHILE CHANGING THE HTML CODE YOU CAN REVERT TO YOUR OLD TEMPLATE.
You don't want to learn that the hard way.
So, I've spent these past few days fiddling around with my blogger.
I had to change a lot of html and in the process of doing so, added some meta tags for the sake of Search Engine Optimization.
Log into your Blogger account, go to Dashboard->design->edit HTML and check the EXPAND WIDGET TEMPLATES box.

Look for:

<head>

RIGHT BELOW IT PASTE THIS:

< b:if cond='data:blog.url == "http://YOURBLOGURL.com/"'>
< meta content='BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF YOUR BLOG' name='description'/>
< meta content='KEYWORDS, RELEVANT, TO, YOUR, BLOG, SEPARATED, BY, COMMAS' name='keywords'/>

Save your template.
If a warning pops up telling you that your template could not be saved don't worry... after all, you did save your old template, didn't you?
If everything goes well you will see a message saying "your changes have been saved. View blog"
After you've done that and whenever you feel compelled to write a worthwhile blog post you can add meta tags to individual blog posts thusly:

Go look for that meta tag you just put into your html:

< b:if cond='data:blog.url == "http://YOURBLOGSURL.com/"'>
< meta content='BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF YOUR BLOGGITY BLOG BLOG' name='description'/>>
< meta content='KEYWORDS, PERTAINING, TO, YOUR, BLOG, SEPARATED, BY, COMMAS' name='keywords'/>

and IMMEDIATELY ABOVE IT PLACE THIS META TAG FOR INDIVIDUAL BLOG POSTS:

<META CONTENT='YOUR BLOG POSTS TITLE' NAME='Title'/>
<META CONTENT='YOUR NAME' NAME='Author'/>
<META CONTENT='BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF YOUR BLOG POST' NAME='Description'/>
<META CONTENT='KEYWORDS, RELEVANT, TO, YOUR, BLOG, POST, SEPARATED, BY, COMMAS' NAME='Keywords'/>
<META CONTENT='All' NAME='Robots'/>

Save your template and that's it.
I post this because I've looked for the individual blog post meta tag everywhere and I've tried many versions of the individual post meta tag but, so far, the meta tag I just shared with you is the only one that doesn't give me an error message when I save the template. But, like everything else in life, it all comes down to trial and error.
Häppy blogging.

The Yogi's Magic Chart

The Yogi's Magic Chart
From The Yogi's Magic Chart
The Yogi's Magic Chart
"Paste one of my photographs in the centre. Even if five thousand miles separate our bodies, place your thoughts upon this paper and our spirits shall meet at night"
A Search In Secret India - Paul Brunton

El Diagrama Mágico del Yogi
"Pegue una fotografía mía en el centro. Aunque nos separen ocho mil kilómetros, concentre sus pensamientos en este papel y nuestros espíritus se encontrarán en la noche"
La India Secreta - Paul Brunton