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Godwin’s Law
Yet another awesome xkcd comic:
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Fluid Simulation
Here’s a pretty neat fluid simulation render I did yesterday. I’m pretty happy with the results. It’s based off a tutorial I was doing. I intend to make one that’s a little more involved. This is really computationally intense and although it’s not VERY difficult, it’s not trivial either. Enjoy! (Oh yeah, it’s about 4…
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Virtually Done
Alright, all of the video portion of “Jose’s Dinner” is now complete! All I’m missing now is the soundtrack. I’m currently emailing some people I think would be interested in providing the musical accompaniment. Once I get that in, it’s just a Cinelerra render command away from becoming my first animated short. Yay! I now…
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Stop Motion Studies by [[- charetteprod -]]
The beat was stuck in my head for days. My youngest brother says it’s a Daft Punk song. Having done some of these on a small scale all I can say is that this must have taken them HOURS (if not days) to do! stop mo’ studies from [[- charetteprod -]] on Vimeo
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The End is Near [for Jose’s Dinner] (Part 7)
YAY! Finally! The jittery frames have been re-rendered and everything is now A-OK. I now start production on the credits (opening and closing), the music, and possibly the sound effects – depending on how the music comes out.
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Yellow Fever
A really fun mockumentary about why Asian girls are always dating non-Asian men by the team at Wong Fu Productions:
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The End is Near [for Jose’s Dinner] (Part 6)
I figured out the reason for the stuttering video – one of my render nodes in the farm had Blender 2.43, while the others had 2.42. Something changed between the two versions that caused the camera to be at a slightly different place. So, don’t mix Blender versions!
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The End is Near [for Jose’s Dinner] (Part 5)
The render took about 6 hours this time, thanks to the laptop participating in most of it and the fact that I gave the Windows computer even more frames to render. It still finished about 30 minutes before the *nix boxen, so I really need to get it integrated into drqueue. I worked on that…
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The End is Near [for Jose’s Dinner] (Part 4)
Ok, I’m about to start what I hope is this time the final render of “Jose’s Dinner”. After this it’s off to post-production.
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OPA
If you want to see a REALLY, REALLY good animation, check out Three Legged Legs’ Samurai. It’s about 2-3 minutes long and it’s a wonderful little cartoon set in a stylized ancient japan. A pretty interesting animation was done on Blender by an Arabic team. You can watch it here.
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Relient K Concert
(all of these are pictures of Relient K, even in the sections when I’m talking about other bands) My wife and I went to the Relient K concert yesterday in Baltimore. We were the oldest people there as I’ve been following them since their first album (which came out around 8-10 years ago), while many…
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The End is Near [for Jose’s Dinner] (Part 3)
I reviewed last night’s render today and I found a few little gaffes here and there. I made a list and fixed them up. I’m pretty confident that the next time I will be rendering the definitive version of the film. I’m pretty psyched. All that’s left now is to start up on the credits…
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The End is Near [for Jose’s Dinner] (Part 2)
Well, the rendering is now done for “Jose’s Dinner”! Quite an improvement over 25 hours! Thanks to DrQueue, it only took 9 hours and 36 minutes! That is quite impressive! And, it would have been even better if my Windows computer had actually had DrQueue installed. I did a calculation that had me rendering 283…
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The End is Near [for Jose’s Dinner] (Part 1)
Well, today I finished up all the animation details on “Jose’s Dinner” and set it to render. I’m excited to see how long the render will take. I started it at 1438 today. However, it hasn’t been without hitch. Due, I think, to the wireless card trying to kick in, the laptop rendered for a…
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Gotta use that extra encryption
Another wonderful comic from xkcd: