Author: Eric Mesa

  • Darn lack of infinite power

    Power outage last night that lasted longer than the UPS could keep the computer up. Sorry if this prevented you from visiting. As far as I know, everything is now back to normal.

  • Thanks for the Help Pete

    Pete of Penguin Pete’s has recently become something of an Inkscape ace so I asked him to help me with some textures on one of my planned animated shorts. This short is currently titled “Sugar” and I’m working on it at the same time as “Wedge“. So here is the first fruits of that collaboration…

  • SimplyMepis going back to Debian for source

    For a while it seemed as though Debian couldn’t stop the hemorrhage of distros decided to be based on Ubuntu instead of Debian. For months on end people talked about whether Debian was still relevant and whether its long release cycle was to blame. Well, now it seems that perhaps some of those derivative distros…

  • Make a Splash!

    After 3-4 days of rendering (fluid reflections and tranparency take forever to render), here is the video outcome of the splash shots I’ve been showing here. Enjoy! Fluid Simulation: Creating a Splash from djotaku and Vimeo.

  • bulletbill is up now

    After literally a week of cleaning and compiling, I FINALLY have a working copy of Blender on my bulletbill box. This is the one I was most excited about because, while it’s a Pentium II, it has 2 processors! So it should be able to do two Blender frames at once when I’m rendering via…

  • Some more Water Simulation

    So, with water simulations in Blender, the resolution of the water particles can be set. Basically, you are telling the simulation engine how big to consider the particles of water to be. This can have extremely dramatic results. Let’s take the tank of water I rendered yesterday. This time I’m at a more exciting point…

  • Why do fluid simulations fascinate me so much?

    Probably for the same reason I LOVED taking these pictures: (you should view these large to get the full effect) So here’s one frame from a new mini animation I was working on today. I still have a few tweaks to make, but it took 20 minutes or so to generate this frame.

  • They Just Don’t Get It

    Politicians continue to take the gay vote for granted. Personally, with the stances that Republicans take on social issues I don’t see how anyone with an alternative lifestyle can vote republican. Well, today, while listening to last week’s “Wait Wait Don’t Tell Me”, I found out that recently John McCain fired some of his campaign…

  • Civ 4: Beyond the Sword

    Will be out either tomorrow or wednesday. Gamestop says tomorrow and Best Buy’s website says Wednesday. I played one last Warlords Game and did pretty well. I think this was my third best score in the expansion pack. So you can download it and play this last turn and add it to your high score…

  • Charlie Brown – Manga Style!

    Check out this link to see some really awesome shots of Charlie Brown – redone in manga style! Here’s one sample:    

  • A great little video….the ending is awesome!

    Ilusiones from Emmanuel Tenenbaum and Vimeo.

  • “Wedge”

    “Wedge” will be my next animated short film. It will be around 3 minutes long and will, if things go well, feature a soundtrack by my good friend Mauricio Tinoco. This is the project I was working on when I decided to make “Jose’s Dinner” I came up with the idea for “Wedge” in March…

  • Shrodinger’s Cat

    My latest attempt at computer animation is called, Shrodinger’s Cat. Check it out!

  • Why Linux is better than Windows Vista

    I was recently in a hotel room with my wife and her brother and sister. We both have the exact same acer computer – the Acer Aspire 3680-2022. I have Ubuntu on mine and he has Windows Vista. We bought them both at the same time. So this is IDENTICAL equipment. And in the hotel…

  • Stats are back in Vimeo…..

    and I’m happy to say that today I got 35 views on “Jose’s Dinner” too bad no one’s leaving comments. But perhaps most of my viewers are not from the vimeo community.