Too Many Ideas - Archive for 2011
CityEngine Indie Review
Sunday, February 13th, 2011When I first saw renders of models produced with Procedural’s CityEngine I was really impressed. However with prices in the Company or Freelance Professional range I thought that, like other high-end CG software, I’d have to look longingly on knowing that only Pros and pirates would ever get to play with it. CityEngine Indie is […]
Royal Insurance Building Dome Liverpool
Tuesday, February 8th, 2011The golden dome on the Royal Insurance Building in Dale Street stands out on Liverpool’s skyline. 34m (110ft) above Street level is the highest point on the Grade II* listed building started in 1897 and finished in 1903. Sadly J Francis Doyle’s Edwardian Baroque building has been derelict for most of my time in Liverpool.
The Mechanic Movie Review
Tuesday, February 1st, 2011The latest Jason Statham action movie, The Mechanic, is a solid action flick that suffers from one major Fridge Pipe moment. On my entirely personal measurement system, The Statham Scale (where Crank is 1 and The Bank Job is a 10) I’d say The Mechanic was a 7 (so just below The Transporter). Personally I […]
Too Many Ideas – 5 Today
Wednesday, January 26th, 2011It doesn’t feel like five years ago today that I started my Too Many Ideas blog after being persuade it was a good idea by Kim Knox on a writers night out at the Everyman. To celebrate I could have baked a fruit cake or a chocolate cake but instead I had a look to […]
I was a Teenage Spam Bot
Monday, January 24th, 2011Its funny how ideas can suddenly hit from out of nowhere. Well they feel like they come like flashes of lightning but really they must simmer around in the subconcious waiting for their moment. One hit me earlier – today seems to have been a day where I’ve picked up quite a few new followers […]
Victorian House Model Extensions
Sunday, January 23rd, 2011I noticed last year that the 25mm version of my cardboard house models had picked up a steady stream of downloads. When I originally posted them back in 2007 there didn’t seem to be a lot of interest so I’d never really followed up on them. Now there is I had a dig and found […]
Accretion City
Saturday, January 22nd, 2011I’ve tried to create a picture like this for some time – a cityscape with layers of different types of building like real cities have. I started this attempt earlier today and I think its my best attempt to date. Its built up of several CityEngine created models and a few from Cornucopia 3D. The […]
The Bluecoat Liverpool
Thursday, January 20th, 2011Today was the first day this year I’ve taken my camera for a wander round Liverpool at lunch time. I’d originally taken it in because there was some really atmospheric mist when I got up in the morning and I was hoping it would still be around later. By lunch it had all burnt off. […]
CityEngine Colour Combinations and String Multiplication
Sunday, January 16th, 2011Working on my CityEngine Constructivism WiP model today I wanted to simplify the way I’m colouring the models. Rather than just assigning random colours or fixed colours I’ve created some sets of colours for my buildings. I’ve got the set of colour combinations stored as a string that I’m picking one at random for each […]
The King’s Speech
Friday, January 14th, 2011In case you’ve not already heard The King’s Speech is a costume drama based on real life events around the end of the reign of King George V, King Edward VIII time on the throne and George VI reign up to the outbreak of World War II. It’s focus is not the abdication, death or […]