Journals
Saw WALL-E tonight. It's way better than a Pixar movie has any right to be, in my opinion (sorry Ant, they usually just lean too much towards the "family movie" end of the spectrum for me.) The annoying kids and piss-poor seating I got couldn't even ruin it for me.
Meet the cast...again!
Ok, what's changed...I've discovered a little texturing trick that allows me to put a glow around the characters. Since this is texture based and not light based, it has a relatively low hit on the render. It also matches whatever angle the camera is at, so it's very low maintenance as well. It's allowed me to remove the toon outline shader on the ghost as well, which did impact the render time somewhat: since mental ray couldn't render the outline as it originally was, I had to convert it to polygons. These polygons would then rebuild themselves everytime the camera moved (the shader matches the camera movement so you constantly see an outline: it's more commonly known as cel-shading), which added plenty to the render.
You'll notice that the colours are more vibrant this time round as well: I embedded my LCD screen profile with this image. I'll probably end up batch processing the entire animation with this colour profile, as it gives it a much more colourful feel. At least, on my screen it does.
Now, imagine this at a twilighty/night time setting, with cool cutout trees and clouds and stuff...
You'll notice that the colours are more vibrant this time round as well: I embedded my LCD screen profile with this image. I'll probably end up batch processing the entire animation with this colour profile, as it gives it a much more colourful feel. At least, on my screen it does.
Now, imagine this at a twilighty/night time setting, with cool cutout trees and clouds and stuff...
Meet the cast!
The ghost is done and rigged, the little guy with the glasses is fully modelled and ready for rigging, and the devil is still in development.
'Been like a year since my last avatar change, so here's a new one. Max is awesome, however, Zappa's a god. One of my fav. pics with him. ^^
Well I'll be heading to the snow in about 2 days; I'll be there for a week. And yes, Frag Fence... I've changed hard drives and I haven't copied it over. Don't worry, it will be done eventually. Speaking of heading to the snow, I think I'd be able to get some inspiration from where I'm heading so I'll probably be making a snow theme map whenever I have the chance. 
As for now, I just have to survive one more school day before term 2 ends. ~Josh
As for now, I just have to survive one more school day before term 2 ends. ~Josh
HEy yay, my first journal entry. I didn't notice the journal entry feature on this site until now. :S I'm not sure whether the blog entry support HTML or BBCode. Would be great if it support a preview option, wouldn't it?
It's summer over here down in southern California and the heat is cooling off this week. That's a plus because in the past few days the temperature has been averaging around mid 90 to over 105 farhenheit. I could hardly work outside around the yard without loosing focus and feeling nuasea. At the moment I'm typing this I am also having my 27th glass of ice cold water.
Anyway, I've got a huge load of works waiting for me to finish. That includes working on Pit Worm's Nest for Source, releasing beta version of Catalysm map for Garry's Mod, working on a new texture set for public, finishing map for the Interloper Map Battle #25, finishing restaurant menus for my mom, work on websites, and cut our lawn.
I'm also learning to map in UnrealED 3. I'm quite amazed by how easy and quick it is to design a level compared to Valve Hammer Editor. I love the 'carving out' the room idea. No need to worry about aligning primitives to seal the room...
One awfully long blog by me. Yes, that's my habit.
It's summer over here down in southern California and the heat is cooling off this week. That's a plus because in the past few days the temperature has been averaging around mid 90 to over 105 farhenheit. I could hardly work outside around the yard without loosing focus and feeling nuasea. At the moment I'm typing this I am also having my 27th glass of ice cold water.
Anyway, I've got a huge load of works waiting for me to finish. That includes working on Pit Worm's Nest for Source, releasing beta version of Catalysm map for Garry's Mod, working on a new texture set for public, finishing map for the Interloper Map Battle #25, finishing restaurant menus for my mom, work on websites, and cut our lawn.
I'm also learning to map in UnrealED 3. I'm quite amazed by how easy and quick it is to design a level compared to Valve Hammer Editor. I love the 'carving out' the room idea. No need to worry about aligning primitives to seal the room...
One awfully long blog by me. Yes, that's my habit.
New avatar, aww yeah. Drew it myself. :>
So..
..anyone else find the fact that Keanu Reeves is in a film about Earth standing still hilariously ironic?
So..
I've been into blogs more and more lately. I know, I'm like 3 years behind in the blog craze.
I just found how interesting it is to hear how others feel about things, or how people report certain news with their own clever wording and style you don't find on mass news networks.
As a few weeks ago, I've been regularly following Engadget, and just yesterday I started reading Rock, Paper, Shotgun. I am also excited for TF2's new blog, which has only been updated once, so far, but am looking forward to new listings.
Before all of this, though, I read Garry's blog, the same Garry that brings you Garry's Mod. Just interesting things he has to say.
Which leads me to my next point / question:
Have any interesting blogs about technology / gaming / anything under the sun you think I'd be interested in? Even things that just have someone explaining their day to day life, much like Garry, but in a comical / amusing way I seem to like.
Anything at all.
I'd do my own blog, but my life is generally boring and uneventful, and I'm widely unknown (get it?), so no one would read it.
I just found how interesting it is to hear how others feel about things, or how people report certain news with their own clever wording and style you don't find on mass news networks.
As a few weeks ago, I've been regularly following Engadget, and just yesterday I started reading Rock, Paper, Shotgun. I am also excited for TF2's new blog, which has only been updated once, so far, but am looking forward to new listings.
Before all of this, though, I read Garry's blog, the same Garry that brings you Garry's Mod. Just interesting things he has to say.
Which leads me to my next point / question:
Have any interesting blogs about technology / gaming / anything under the sun you think I'd be interested in? Even things that just have someone explaining their day to day life, much like Garry, but in a comical / amusing way I seem to like.
Anything at all.
I'd do my own blog, but my life is generally boring and uneventful, and I'm widely unknown (get it?), so no one would read it.
I am bored. Anyone else?
Our house was flooded earlier...But I still managed to use my PC...A while ago my feet was soaked with water while i was on IRC
I went a career fair today, with basicly all the big players in the dutch gamedesign industry, talked a lot, saw a few interesting projects, got a few offers for a stage(working in a company in the 3rd year in school). And a possible freelance job, making accurate 3D models for a rescue simulator that is used by local and european governement services. Also worked on one of my flash games this evening:
Created a base for the tree, i know the leaf's are still highly oversized, but the style is what i want.
A few weeks ago three of my cats became mothers, but a lot of the kittens have died. My favourite one just died, so now it's down to two left out of nine. It's kind of depressing the way they're just dropping like flies.
My second concept.
I've been doing a lot of thinking on what kind of car I want, and I've decided that I'd happily give up one of my testicles for a 1967 Chevelle SS.
Would have to be in good condition, of course, but I just cannot get over how awesome this car is.
Fuck gas millage, this probably gets 10 miles to the gallon, if even.
Would have to be in good condition, of course, but I just cannot get over how awesome this car is.