I know you’ve been waiting in anticipation to see part two. That is, unless you went to vimeo and watched it already.

10 Little S’mores (Part 2 of 3) on Vimeo

For any creator of content, be it music, photos, or music, the greatest praise is to have people experience your content. This is why I care about how many views I have on my photos on flickr. It’s not that I want to compare myself to others - there are many who gets thousands of views on each photo they upload. I just want to know people are looking at my photos.

While I was at my parents’ house, I wanted to show David, my youngest brother, how quickly I could generate I could a humanoid while also practicing the principles I learned with Raul Domingo. (Thus Danny’s extremely blocky midsection) Then I moved on to some more advanced topics, such as light. I had always been a little bit dissapointed in the light in my renders, but I never knew what was wrong. After going through the lighting tutorial from the Blender Summer of Documentation, I realized what the problem was. A twofold problem, it was a matter of power. You see, first of all, I needed to have a sum total light intensity of 2, not one. Second, the designers of Blender envisioned most scenes to have, at least, two lights. Below are some renders of my experimentation with flashlight light and sunny light. Click on them if you want/want to see the full res version.

Which means “do Bhangra!” or “dance Bhangra!” Bhangra is a wonderful and catchy style of dance from the Punjab region of India. View this clip from the introduction to Pao Bhangra 1 at Cornell University! You can follow the link to Vimeo to see the rest of the clips, go to www.dropthebombproductions.com or come back to this blog over the next few days when I post the next part.

In order to get my video to fit within Vimeo’s upload limits, I had to split up the video into different parts. This is also from VCD disc 1 that I created for them. Pao Bhangra Disc 1, Part 1
Pao Bhangra 1 Disc 1 Part 1 on Vimeo

David has created a wonderful new bit of machinima entitled S’mores Night Movie. It was originally intended as an inside joke between friends. He, with his girlfriend Tamlin as the screenwriter, put together a 35 minute movie incorporating different episodes of what has happened with their friends into a remake of “10 Little Indians”. I was thoroughly impressed as this was his first scripted movie and his first machinima. In fact, he didn’t even know of the movement called machinima, he just happened to feel that the Sims 2 provided him with a great set of premade characters and items for him to use in his movie.

I have registered the above domain name for my video production group. I’ve recently overhauled the website (an understatement, if you ask me) and have plans to continue to fix it up. I figured if I plan to continue to work on my videos and computer animation, it makes sense to have a domain to bring people to see my work.

Check it out! www.dropthebombproductions.com

I came across this page today where someone has posted a video entitled Suburban Plight. The movie is a combination of live action and computer graphics created with Blender! The result looks very nice. I’m glad the author decided to share it with us. Check it out!

Just wanted to talk about Vimeo, a flickr-like site for videos. You can see my videos at http://www.vimeo.com/user:djotaku/clips . Some of my readers may notice that I have these clips on my server (except Pao Bhangra). So why would you go to vimeo? Because my server has limited bandwidth. I think it uploads at 2 Mbits per second, while these people download a lot faster. So check them out! Then check out some other people’s work.

here’s a link to the video at youube -> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bpZ4yYrsilc

I think it’s hilarious!

http://www.ultimateshowdown.org/

It’s a mix of very funny and a bit juvenile. Enjoy!