So lycos died today and they provide the name servers for my blog. So my server, all tripod, and all angelfire pages were inaccessible today. Didn’t see anything about it off their home page, but the roughly 6 hour outage was annoying as heck!

Glad to be back!

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.

My wife gave me the idea to have some budgies star in my next short, my first true short after understanding everything I learned from " Penguin Flight" and " Hello World". So I started work on modeling them last night around 2200.

At first I figured it would be very hard and was getting quite discouraged. But then, I figured out a shape that seems to approximate the bird enough for a cartoon. After all, I’m not making a scientific textbook or something. I still have things to add (such as eyes) and texttured materials, but I think I’ve made some amazing progress.

I wanted to play a little with particle systems in Blender and see if I could get some realistic fur. I came to the conclusion that I need a lot more practice before I try to implement it. Sure, making a furry sphere went very well.

I even got a little bold and added some color to my furry sphere.

But things got a little messed up when I tried to add fur to Danny!