Break Wk2 – Rendering 12-20 September…
I’ve been setting up and monitoring renders for the last 9 days in 3000 frame batches… I’ve done 33,000 frames now. It has taken 9 days, 21 hours. Multiple render…
Break Wk1 – Ordered White Strong and Flexible
I did it! I couldn’t help myself. I’ve ordered my Hollow Mandelbox online in the White Strong and Flexible material. It was $98. Fingers crossed that it is worth it…
Break Wk1 – Physical Possible!?
So, after installing the Collada plug-in, I was able to export from Maya into the DAE format, which when zipped came down from 87MB to 19MB I imported the model…
Break Wk1 – Spycam + Balloon = Crazy!
So… I got a tank of helium and 30 balloons from toys-r-us. Once I figured out how it worked… it worked a treat. It only took 3 balloons to make…
Break Wk1 – Mandelbulber Slices to Cube…
I was showing David the ability for Mandelbulber to only show partial cross-sections of a fractal. He gave me the thought of mixing the displacement idea with slices, captured front-on.…
Break Wk1 – Renders to be calculated.
Position and render path calculations page2 Render position calculations After the 50000 frame render test took so long… I decided that I’d go with 9000 frames from beginning to end,…
Wk7 – SpyCam arrived! :D
It took a bit to figure out how it worked but it seems to work a treat. Amazing technology these days. Naturally, I attached it to the dog, to my…
Wk7 – Photofly was a bust…
I tried twice to use Photofly to make the model. In both instances, the path I used was a circle, rounding the top, then down around the base. First attempt,…
Wk7 – Physical Object Concept (Autodesk Photo Scene Editor)
I was looking tonight at Autodesk Photo Scene Editor 2.1 (Autodesk Photofly)… I’m thinking that this might be a better way of producing the model of my physical object… Just…
Wk7 – GoPro + R/C @ Night = Some success. Fun.
It was a bit chilly and damp out tonight but I had a heck of a good time driving around ANY with the GoPro attached to the front of the…