Blender Render

May 28th, 2008

Resulting render from Blender

I’m now sold on using blender for a long time. I have many reasons now, including the following:

  1. subdivision surfaces
  2. ambient occlusion
  3. subsurface scattering
  4. toon shading
  5. fur
  6. cloth
  7. it’s totally free

The only complaint many people have is the interface. After going through a brief number of tutorials, I’m used to the interface and am sold on how it works. Everybody really did something right.

Busy Busy

May 21st, 2008

Dunes by the beach

Good news! I bought myself a new black Martin Acoustic guitar. It sounds amazing and I’m thoroughly enjoying the lighter strings. I hope I can play it here in front of my friends here before, well you know. If you don’t know, then you don’t know me that well. I know, mysterious. Nonetheless, the Martin is replacing my Gibson Les Paul Special that I’ve had for about 4 years now. It served me well.

I haven’t had the chance to shoot anything since the trip because I’ve been working full time since I got back. Long story. I lined up a sweet job and got a car. So, life is moving fast and swimmingly all at once. So, the image in this post is again from my last week in New Zealand before I came back. I’m working on getting a bit of the footage together this weekend so I can send it off to various places. I hope someone is interested. If not, I will call it practice work and will store it in an archive until I desire to use it for my own personal projects.

The Trip Revisited

May 10th, 2008

Miles of Dunes

I’ve been back in the US for over a week now, and I feel like I’m in a foreign land. I guess I never imagined that staying in Oz and NZ for only a few months would have this effect on me. It’s kinda cool too. Mind you, I’m doing well here. I lined up a contractor position and have steady job in less than a week. Crazy eh? I even got a used car in three days. Day One: find car. Day Two: buy car. Day Three: register car. I feel super blessed. I’m putting together a DVD today of samples of footage from the trip to entice companies to purchase it all. How cool would that be if I could earn money for those three months away? That would rock my face off!

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