What better way to ring in the new year than with a good, hearty, “Hello World”?

Enjoy Raul Domingo ringing in the new year!

Hello World (Test Walk Cycle/Wave/lip sync) on Vimeo
Hello World (Mr DeMille Version) on Vimeo

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.

As I work on editing and uploading all the pictures I took during the holidays, please enjoy Penguin Flight!

Penguin Flight on Vimeo

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

On the same principle as I presented yesterday, I thought I would embed part one of my brother’s Sims 2-based machinima, 10 Little S’mores, so that, instead of having to go to Some Sort of Productions, my readers could watch it from the comfort of my blog.

Please enjoy this great, funny little movie from my brother and his girlfriend, Tamlin. Oh yeah, the first 3:18 minutes are an intro into mapping the characters in the short film to their real life counterparts. (This was originally an inside joke film, which I convinced Dave to share with the world) So if the first few minutes leave you confused, just watch a little longer.

I finally found out that all I need to do is to disable the WYSIWYG editor in Wordpress (which I hated anyway!) and now I can get my Vimeo clips embedded. Sure, I could point you to www.dropthebombproductions.com, but people tend not to like to leave their page if they don’t have to. I’d love to be able to embed video. Now I can!

As a celebration, here is one of my earliest videos, “Anime Hurricane”. (Follow the vimeo link to get more information on it)