After four months without updates, I’ve finally gotten around to updating the gallery on blender.org. I couldn’t have done it alone. I got a huge amount of help from blender user and developer, ZanQdo. We went through the submissions and ultimately selecting a total of 74 images to be added to the […]
So now I’m back in Richmond from a week of travel and adventure. SIGGRAPH was phenomenal and I had an excellent time. Once I get situated and properly re-acquainted with my bed, I’ll be sure to make a nice in-depth post about all that went on. Great stuff, really.
…kicking and screaming, well sort of. A few months back, Hand Turkey gained a presence on MySpace. We were fighting a losing battle against social networks and we ultimately caved to the “go where the people are” rule. Each studio member got an account and the studio itself got a page. […]
I’ve had a couple tabs open in Firefox for a while now and it’s time for me to clear them out by posting them here and sharing them with you all.
Human Pixel Perform Huge Real-Time Animation - That’s right, this Samsung-sponsored dance troupe of [some large number of] people actually perform like a live LCD […]
So yesterday I went to see Paprika, an animated film by Satoshi Kon. If you ever saw the series Paranoia Agent (it ran on Adult Swim a while back), then you’re familiar with this guy’s work. He likes to play with his audience’s brain. This movie is no different: intelligent, well-written, and […]
You may or may not know it, but I occasionally write articles for Blender Nation, the primary site for Blender-related news. Most of the time I write fairly small articles or make announcements. However, recently, I did a book review on Claus Höfele’s Mobile 3D Graphics: Learning 3D Graphics with the Java™ Micro […]
Here’s something interesting. Apparently there’s been a recent study suggesting that people have a generally unified consensus on what kinds of faces match certain names. That’s right. If you think someone looks like a Bob or a Frank or whatever, chances are good that most other people think the same thing. According to the study, […]
So this past weekend had me just outside of Cleveland, Ohio for a conference called Defrag. The stated purpose of Defrag is increasing Ohio’s involvement in “rich media” with an explicit focus on education and workforce development. And boy, they weren’t kidding. These people are serious, and great to talk to. […]
Not too long ago, fellow Turkey, Warren, pointed me to a site that he was pointed to from Warren Ellis‘ website… with one of the longest, most bizarre URLs I’ve seen in recent memory, Geostationary Banana Over Texas. That’s right. This team of artists and engineers is planning on inflating a 300 meter […]
So yeah… I’m gonna be all over the place this year. It’s going to be expensive, but fortunately a lot of it is work-related, so I should be able to deduct some of the cost at the end of the year. Not to mention the fact that every last one of these excursions should […]
