I travelled to Greece once by accident about 10 years ago, the thing that really struck me was the old construction yards. Full of partially built structures, used rock, debris, etc. All just sitting out in the open, in the elements. I think those that spent their time in these …
The makers of Vue (e-on software) have put my “Untitled Beach” image up as their picture of the day! Very stoked. You can see it here. Over the last week or so I’ve been working on another image for a Cornucopia 3d image comp “The Glory of Greece”. I used …
I finally got around to finishing off the Sunset ID. Done in Vue (a while ago now) and then reworked in Shake. I love Shake, why-o-why has Apple abandoned me!
I spent Friday & Saturday last week at Creative tech, an Apple-centric conference held @ AUT here in Auckland. I’d been asked to be part of a panel of apple users to talk about how we use apples in our professions as an event to wrap up the conference. First …
So stoked!!! Last week I did a picture for a comp on Cornucopia, the home of Vue content and users (not sure how they are affiliated to e-on software but they are in someway). The theme was “Beach and Seaside”, I seldom enter these comps, but was up for the …
Lately I’ve been very occupied with my research project on digitising the complex form. You can read my paper which was written with some help from Brett Orams (section on procedural modelling in Max) and Nikolay Popov (on cellular automata) Download PDF here. Note that this paper is still in development …
I teach a paper at Unitec officially called “LAND 7230 CAD Studio” however it’s more affectionately known as Film CAD. I’ve been teaching this paper for over 10 years now! Students have 3 major hand-ins; a story board, draft video, and the final video. While doing the paper, students get …
Wow! Just came back from the Autodesk 2010 Blockbuster Tour which had Mohen Leo from ILM talking about Iron man 2, plus Nolan Murtha from Lightstorm Entertainment, and Shawn Dunn from Weta Digital who both worked on Avatar. Mohen Leo showed breakdowns of some shots from Ironman 2. What was esp. interesting …
If your keen on Vue you may like a tutorial I recorded that shows how to create roads on a Vue terrain using Shake. If you don’t know what Vue or Shake is it could possibly be the most boring thing you’ve ever seen. Note that this tutorial could be …
Well I’ve finally finished building the new website for the studio. Whew! Theres a forum on it so if your interested in the film/TV industry have a look. It’s been a lot of late nights trying to get everything to work, but I’m really stoked with how it turned out. …