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Just a quick word about HD

Sunday, July 26th, 2009

HD looks pretty cool. I’ll admit it. But I find it’s use in period pieces to be very jarring. I feel that it looks too home movie like and that distracts me from the film. I enjoy HD in scifi or fantasy style pieces, but for past times i don’t like it. So please stop it.

District 9 Trailer out

Thursday, July 9th, 2009

I can’t wait for this. When I saw the original trailer I was very very excited. I went back and found Neill Blomkamp’s past works and just drooled. This may just be a full length film of Alive in Johansberg, however I remember when I first saw that I wished that it was a trailer for a film soon to come out. And at last it’s here

Marine Painting Progress

Saturday, June 20th, 2009

And then there was texture paintings! Here’s the diffuse and specular maps I painted for each of the the parts of the drop ship. These images are only 512×512, but the original textures are 4096 squares, but are dropped down to 2k for the actual geo. Basically cause I was killing Mental Ray, and I didn’t actually need the full 4k res.

marines_textures_engine_diff_1.jpgmarines_textures_engine_spec_1.jpg
marines_textures_runner_diff_1.jpgmarines_textures_runner_spec_1.jpg
marines_textures_strut_diff_1.jpgmarines_textures_strut_spec_1.jpg
marines_textures_shipbody_diff_1.jpgmarines_textures_shipbody_spec_1.jpg

TotallyLooksLike.com

Monday, March 16th, 2009

The Dalai Lama looks like a happy llama. Awesome

Yes I am a geek

Monday, March 16th, 2009

Not only because I’m into scifi crap but also because I find this sort of thing interesting.
Scale of International Space Station
Just like the series of photos that show the scale of planets and stars.

Intro

Tuesday, March 3rd, 2009

Right so I’m not quite sure what this will be but I suppose it will contain links, drawings, videos and who knows what else.  I guess I’ll just have to make it up as I go along.