Stylized Depiction

No, I do not have too much time on my hands, but I couldn't help myself and started building kind of extensive shader node networks in Lightwave for a class on one of my favorite subjects: Stylized Depiction (better known as Non Photorealistic Rendering).

Posted an image on the class blog

Creative Commons

Now that everything on change.gov is licensed under a Creative Commons license, I have finally added a similar one to this blog (again: thank you Boing Boing)

Canada blames itself.

Living in the U.S., it appears we have reasons (or a reasOn) to be hopeful. But I should maybe pity my sister who lives in Canada who has a slight internet addiction, while here country might become a digital getto according to their own public broadcaster's site! (found this on boing boing)

Softimaya

I thought there were things like anti trust laws and the like, but now that Autodesk acquired Softimage from AVID they have three out of the four leading 3D animation packages. Kind of scary, isn't it? Well, there are of course the Apples like LightWave and Cinema 4D. Or will it be 3D studio Softimaya versus Blender?

Level of Detail

So I have been "off the grid" for a bit. I did start a blog for my students to use as digital workbook. I'm teaching two Lightwave classes right now, and for the one on lighting and rendering I just created this test, using level of detail in Lightwave. Hope to return to regular posts soon!

Too bad internet video does not have an adequate image quality to show off the results of my efforts! Also uploaded it to Google video, but as was to be expected: exact same quality...