Alchemy – Digital Inspiration Creator
Tweet Thanks to Dan Laczkowski for getting me to seriously check this out. Alchemy – An open drawing project
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Ubuntu Linux 10.10
Tweet Ubuntu version 10.10 is coming out soon! Why release on 10/10/10? Appears that 101010 in binary is 42. Is this not the meaning of life? -
More Houdini Created Environments
Tweet Although I do update my “Recent Thoughts” (forwards from my identi & twitter feeds), I shouldn’t let me think that can be considered “keeping my website updated”. Because it’s not. I just ran across this video at odforce.net. A VERY slick road generator. Now what CAN’T this program do. -
3D curve sketching
Tweet With a tool like this, maybe there wouldn’t be such a strong aversion towards using NURBS in the entertainment industry. ILoveSketch from Seok-Hyung Bae on Vimeo. Thanks to Drawn! for the link. -
Softimage’s ICE
Tweet Softimage has introduced ICE (Interactive Creative Environment) in XSI 7. Taking strong cues from Houdini’s procedural workflow, ICE finally brings XSI a particle system and much much more. Despite what the general public thinks, there is a LOT that can be done on a 3D production that does not... -
Big Buck Bunny
Tweet Big Buck Bunny, Blender’s open source movie has been released! Yes, I know I’m a little late on this announcement, but better late than never. I received my DVD in the mail a few weeks back and was stunned at the quality of the short. The story is a... -
UI Design: BumpTop 3D Desktop Prototype
Tweet Could this make file management tasks enjoyable? They just need to throw in some batch renaming tools and pretty much anything that ACDSee does, and it’ll be purrrrrfect. -
NaturalMotion’s Endorphin
Tweet I’ve heard of this as an “Animation Synth”. Being able to take keyframed animation and then applying it to a dynamic dummy. Why haven’t I played with the demo yet? I’m disappointed that I haven’t yet animated a cartwheeling fool roll off a cliff… and then drop a safe... -
King Kong Dynamics
Tweet Without a doubt, there’s going to be some serious destruction in Peter Jackson’s rendition of King Kong. Word is, Weta Digital is currently using BlastCode to handle some of the tricky dynamic simulations. I’d highly recommend checking out some of sample movies they have in the gallery. Yeah. YEAH!... -
Plastic Animation Paper
Tweet Finally gave Plastic Animation Paper a try and HOT DAMN is it fun and simple to use. The free version functional enough to have fun with although it doesn’t include the blue sketch pencil or the ability to import sound. I hear that the application runs in 8 bit...