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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…
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Directions for the Train
Live near a big city with mass transit? Need to know how to get somewhere? Then use the RandMcNally of trains, HopStop.com. Also available on my blogroll, under the links category.
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Thanks System76!
System76, which sells customized Ubuntu laptops allows you to write in an get a free set of “Powered by Ubuntu” stickers. Thanks for offering this service! It was annoying me that my computer said it was perfect for Windows Vista Basic, when it’s running Ubuntu! So, I now have my Ubuntu stickers.
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Vimeo Version 5
is out! The good news is that it looks slicker. That bad news is that I no have no idea where the heck anything is! Check my stuff out at: http://www.vimeo.com/djotaku/videos
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Yafray
I’ve heard about Yafray so much and I’ve seen that it can deliver VERY photorealistic shots. The Blender internal renderer is not bad – as a matter of fact, it’s awesome. However, for all the really realistic stuff people tend to use Yafray. I tried to use it before, but all I got was a…
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A brief respite from computer animation
I’ve spent a pretty good amount of my free time to try and finish Jose’s Dinner. Now that I’m done, I am taking a bit of a break from animation to do some of the other things I like to do, such as play civ4. The new expansion pack is coming out and I’m extremely…
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Jose’s Dinner is finally complete!!
Thanks to my wife, Danielle, and my brother, Danny, for providing voice talents for the film. What are you waiting for? Go see it here. And check back over the next few days, I have some stuff I’ll be adding there.
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Babalu Grill in Baltimore, MD is a horrible dance club
Their food may or may not be worth the price, I’ve never been there for dinner. However, I do know that their club is crap. I would have to say that tonight was definitely the worst experience I’ve ever had in terms of going out for a night of fun. First of all, I got…
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Dilbert Movie
Looks like, mentioned a couple of times in this post that there will be a Dilbert movie. This one seems to hint that it will be a live movie rather than a cartoon. I think that would be a horrible idea. Cartoon/newspaper comics make lousy movies – see The Flintstones movies and The Dennis the…
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Some pictures from The Brooklyn Botanical Gardens
To see more shots, check out my flickr page – by clicking on any of the photos.
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flickr collection of the day
Collections on flickr are groups of sets. Today we look at my “Favorites” collection. Here is one photo from each of the sets inside. From Self-Portrait: From “1 A Day”: From “Famous” Pictures: From Most Talked About: From My Favorites: From Your Favorites: From my pictures from my “Favorites” collection, just click on the link…
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More Render farm metrics
I expected this to be an awesome triumph because I spent a good deal of the weekend trying to get blender installed on bulletbill. It finally got installed, but it doesn’t work. I had to do some editing here and there to try and get it to work and I think that’s part of the…
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Final Exam
I decided to give myself a little “final exam” and practice everything I had learned in Blender so far. So I combined soft bodies, the physics engine, and the fluid simulator. It wasn’t exactly trivial – for example – I had to tell the physics engine to consider the towel to be a ghost because…