A brief holiday on “Today’s Shot”. I am spending time with my wife - pictures for each day will be posted Sunday or Monday. (Just as I did during Thanksgiving)

This morning I watch the Diebold documentary, “Hacking Democray”, on HBO or one of its affiliate networks. The basic information in the documentary was not news to me. Since I currently live in Maryland, the news that Johns Hopkins had obtained the source code to the voting machines was all over the place. I knew, even as I did my civic duty of voting this November that it was possible my vote would not count. I had also seen “Man of the Year”, a movie which has a similar theme as its main premise.

You can see Penguin Flight, my first-ever CG short subject film, at drop the bomb production’s CG Animation Page. It’s at the bottom. Read the description first and then give it a shot. It took roughly a month to get that sucker down. I expect my next one to take longer as well as be of better quality. Please enjoy it!

Now let’s see how it came out this time!

Got some advice on rendering. Apparently for the amount of frames I did, it’s much better to render them as individual frames and then piece together the AVI from that. So I chose PNGs since they are lossless. If the last render session is any indication, it’ll be nearly Thursday before I can put the finishing touches on the animation. Darn! Hopefully this works well and is just a lesson learned.

After waiting all this time, the [penguin animatin] file is unreadable or corrupted! Gah!