Posted in Art Updates on Sep 1st, 2010
There’s a certain amount of satisfaction to be had from building something with your own two hands, especially when you don’t really know what you’re doing. Over the weekend I helped my friend Jim repair a rotted portion of his roof. We originally expected to have it fixed in a single day, but with our [...]
Posted in Art Updates on Aug 26th, 2010
A couple weeks ago, I was asked if I’d be willing to do an art trade. I’ve only been asked once before, but this was different - this person can not only draw, but I’ve been following his work for at least a couple years, and have even wondered at times what Mary or [...]
Posted in Art Updates, Rants & General Insanity on Aug 24th, 2010
For six years, I animated every day in 3DSMax, using Biped. And for the first year or so, I complained on a near-constant basis about it. Maya was the superior tool in my mind, and to this day I still think a great many things in Max are ass-backwards. Over the past week I’ve finally [...]
Posted in Art Updates, Rants & General Insanity on Aug 20th, 2010
When you need to get some animation done, only have a couple days to do it, and just went through a hellish rigging experience, the last thing you want is for anything to go wrong. Life is not nearly that kind, however.
While I set up the primary character, the other characters on this project were [...]
Posted in Rants & General Insanity on Aug 16th, 2010
Maya is getting to be pretty persistant in making my life hell. I’m currently working on some freelance animation, and part of the deal was that I would also rig the main character. Nothing fancy, just a simple biped rig, without any face controls. When I agreed to it, I figured it would take me [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Aug 6th, 2010
How is Michigan better than Florida? This is my brother’s back yard -
In Florida, it’s not a good idea to have large trees near your house or even the road, because one good hurricane will knock them down and possibly cause an insurance nightmare. The worst you have to worry about in Michigan might be [...]
Posted in Art Updates on Aug 3rd, 2010
Thanks to my 9,000 hits image, I’ve now reached 10,000 hits on Deviant Art. Nutty thing is, I only did the 9K image because I thought it’d take at least until the end of the year for me to reach 10K, and I didn’t want to wait that long.
Like all my recent renders, this one [...]
Posted in Art Updates, Rants & General Insanity on Jul 23rd, 2010
True story - I’m out for my morning walk, and this woman pulled into a driveway ahead of me, strikes up this exact conversation about GPS, then pulled a nasty seat cushion out of the garbage and tossed it in the back of her car, hoping it’d improve the reception.
That’s one thing I kinda miss [...]
Posted in Rants & General Insanity on Jul 16th, 2010
Something I’d planned on doing while in Michigan, was take plenty of reference photos around my brother’s house. It’s a heavily wooded area, which is perfect for what I have in mind for the area around Mary’s cabin/shack. Thanks in part to the horse flies eating me alive, I started thinking that I’ve [...]
Posted in Rants & General Insanity on Jul 8th, 2010
My computer caught herpes the other day, just as I was getting ready to drive up to Michigan. I don’t know what it was specifically, only that my virus scanner didn’t catch it. Once it was clear my computer was screwed, I shut everything down and started the backup process. I should [...]
