Head Modeler

Worked on modeling the head of the guy for >Hello World, amongst other things.

Not quite half res test render

There is so much stuff in Maya that you learn something new every day. You can test render at half resolution by selecting Rendering → Render → Test Resolution → 50% Settings. Real handy. So why does the batch render of the entire scene is still take more than 12 hours? The batch rendered at full res. Here is an image from last nights render (if you click on it you can see it bigger but scaled down to half res).

All progress is slow. But we should hit the next dimension in about a week.

Chair Model

With the semester over I should make some headway on my animation projects. Here is the current state of the model for the office chair that is to be used in one of them: >Hello World.

Documents moving mysteriously on Windows 7?

Even though I switched back from Os X when I bought this laptop, I have been pretty happy with Windows 7 so far. Yesterday I ran the usual updates and cleaned up the startup settings, killing useless background processes like some Windows media player internet thing which I did not even know existed and is of no use to me since I do not use Windows Media Player (and if I did I would not want it to connect to the internet without my explicit consent). Then I booted my machine this morning and my entire documents folder was gone!

I was using a "documents" folder and not "My Documents" as I find that name silly for everything on my computer is mine. I frantically looked in the recycle bin, fearing my infant son may have pressed delete. No luck finding my stuff there either. I did finally locate everything: all my files were moved to "My Documents"! Aargh! The weirdest thing: all references to "documents" still work, probably because there is a library (an addition to the OS for which I have found no use yet) called "documents" which points to "My Documents"

I guess I need to conform to the Microsoft conventions and use "My Documents"… Sigh.

I am wondering: is it just me or did this happen to anyone else? A quick search did not reveal anything.

Pixels

A tweet from my friend Wooksang pointed me to this amuzing and really well executed animation. Note the Commodore and Atari signs. The creators must be old school themselves!

PIXELS by PATRICK JEAN.
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