Last year I donated money to the next Blender project. At that time it was called project gooseberry. The goal was to make a full length movie in blender.
Blender Project Gooseberry.
November 10th, 2015iTunes Album Rating
November 7th, 2015Recently I started importing a large number of CDs into my iTunes library. I set up an “Unrated” playlist to play the songs/tracks that I hadn’t rated yet. As I was rating songs I noticed that some songs started disappearing from the playlist even though I hadn’t rated them yet. Googling this didn’t reveal anything useful other than that there was an album rating being applied to each track, and this was causing the songs to be removed from the playlist.
On to design
October 8th, 2013I’ve been thinking about doing a series of some programming topic. Two ideas came to mind. Going through Effective C++ or Design Patterns
I’ve read both books and either would be really neat to do a series on. However currently I’m at a place where I think design patterns are a higher priority, and I will start going through the book and work on my own solutions to the patterns.
My goal is simple. Just to improve on my knowledge of design patterns and be able to apply them when they are needed.
I’m crying; well not really
July 5th, 2013Nine months ago the Blender Foundation released it’s latest open source movie Tears of Steel. This short intermixed live action with CG elements. The acting and the script are a bit cheesy, and some of the effects didn’t quite work out, but overall I feel that it looks pretty well.
Take a look if you haven’t already.
Simple Star Field Tutorial in Blender 2.5
November 5th, 2010Creating a simple star field is pretty easy in blender. I recently found one for 2.49, and decide to make one for 2.5 since a few locations and buttons had changed.
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Blender 2.5 python introduction
October 12th, 2010While playing around with blender and python for blender 2.5 I found this site Introduction to blender python api. It provides a fairly descent introduction to using python in blender.
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Sintel released online
September 30th, 2010The blender foundation has release Sintel. It’s latest open source movie. Visit http://www.sintel.org to learn more about it.
These guys did a wonderful job for this short movie.
Art Exhibition of the Century
August 9th, 2009Last week my father-in-law, Placido D’souza, had an art exhibition in New York City. The exhibition featured pencil drawings that he did of leaders and other famous people while he was an ambassador for India. Here is a nice article describing the event.
I missed the event because I was busy with work and other stuff, but I’ve heard from others that it went well. Mr. D’Souza was pleased with it.
MontaVista logo Animation
December 20th, 2008I made this awhile ago with a co-worker while we were at MontaVista. We were hoping that it would be used for a graphics demo at a trade show, but it wasn’t.
I decided to post it to youtube and see what people think of it.
Enjoy
First tomato of the season
September 1st, 2008This spring a tomato plant started growing in my garden. I must have thrown some rotten tomatoes in the garden because I certainly didn’t plant anything. Anyway, I recently plucked the first tomato from that plant.
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