A Bug in My Ass

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So I’m animating an ass for Seder-Masochism, so the Hebrews have something to carry their stuff out of Egypt so their arms are free to let them walk  jauntily and leap around. I export a test and see this weird artifact on the upper foreleg. Flash is rendering the shape as it looks in vector editing mode. If you look carefully you’ll see the point on the upper right has a little bezier handle. Weird, right?

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It’s a bug in Flash (pre-Adobe Macromedia Flash 8, the only Flash I use), the likes of which I’ve never seen before. To make the artifact go away I had to re-draw the foreleg. Below is a render sans bug.

ass3What’s great about this is it solved my problem about how to best use “ass” in a blog post title. I was considering “What an Ass” or “A Fine Ass” or “I Made Myself an Ass,” but this is much better.

 

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Author: Nina Paley

Animator. Director. Artist. Scapegoat.

3 thoughts on “A Bug in My Ass”

  1. Blink, blink. I missed it. But at least my eyes are moist. Please, please, keep up this Beautiful work. But I repeat myself, again.

  2. Hey, i just love your work. this blog post was awesome and explanation in the end was to the point…. Laughing….

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