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 Uncategorized on Jul 24th, 2009
Now here’s a real eye-opener over at sunekempf.com.
A very nice reel overall, but there’s one part in particular that caught my attention: his layered-skinning demo. He was kind enough to offer up some details both on his site and on CGTalk… Not a specific “here’s how you do it”, but just enough to get you [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Apr 23rd, 2009
This weekend I’ll be going on a road trip to the ‘Burg. I hope to get some good photos of some of the city’s bridges and architecture, some panoramas of downtown, and definitely some shots of the city from Mount Washington… but mostly I’m going for good food from Sesame Inn, Primanti [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Apr 12th, 2009
It took all day for me to get Daisy’s skirt rig this far -
The theory behind it is sound - use conditional rotation to drive the skirt’s spline-IK chains. In practice though, it needs a healthy amount of condition nodes and constraints, to the point that when it’s done it might be slow and unstable. [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Mar 27th, 2009
Recently I bought a Dell Mini 9, and I don’t think I was prepared for just how small it is. I’m not even sure these pictures can properly convey its shrimpiness -
Seriously, the thing is practically a toy! Now I have to decide whether to give it to my niece, or keep it and give [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Mar 13th, 2009
The last I’d heard at work, there are only a couple more weeks to go before our game is done. Exactly what stage of “done”, I don’t know. I’m also hopeful that I’ll be done with this freelance character rig this weekend. Then, I can finally get back to Daisy… If [...]
