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 in the animation, frame 104.

First, here is the animation with a resolution of 50. This takes up about 3 MB on my computer.

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.

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 staffers. His complaint? He wanted them to stop dressing him in “gay sweaters” on the campaign trail. Wow….

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 if you want something to beat or something to laugh at. Eric XI of the Chinese would be happy!

Check out this link to see some really awesome shots of Charlie Brown - redone in manga style!

Here’s one sample:

Ilusiones from Emmanuel Tenenbaum and Vimeo.

" 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 of this year and I hope to have it done by the end of this year, although I may be able to finish earlier or it may take longer. I really want to do this one well and take the time to make good textures and as good an animation as I can. Here’s to " Wedge"!

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

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 room he could not get a wireless signal while I was able to get a nice sustained signal the entire time. It’s not what Microsoft wants to hear, but in this case Ubuntu was BETTER on wireless than Windows!! That’s right - Linux IS ready for the desktop NOW! Not next year - now!

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.