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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.
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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…
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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…
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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.
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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…
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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…
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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:
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A great little video….the ending is awesome!
Ilusiones from Emmanuel Tenenbaum and Vimeo.
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“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…
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Shrodinger’s Cat
My latest attempt at computer animation is called, Shrodinger’s Cat. Check it out!
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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…
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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.
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Infinity on High is Worth the Money
Often the biggest gripe people have about CDs is that they are two or three hit singles packaged with a bunch of crap to justify selling it to you for $12 or more. I’ve felt that way many, many times. The phenomenon is a large part of the reason behind models like iTunes. In fact,…
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What I wish I could do to politicians
“Wikipedian Protester” from the great mind behind xkcd. Every time politicians speak, I want to question their numbers, to force them to quantify where it came from. No one has the balls to do this out there other than Colbert and John Stewart who will play back to back quotes of politicians contradicting their selves.…
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Some neat computer animation
I don’t like posting too many videos because they could be removed at any time, leaving this post worthless. However, here are some neat cartoons I found. The first one, “Wanted”, I found because it was featured in issue #92 of 3D World. It was the final project of some German film students. It took…