Too Many Ideas - The impworks Blog
How Much Does a Character Need to Explain
Saturday, March 24th, 2007The main character of my Noir Fairy Tale is given to contemplating the nature of the universe he’s experiencing and the impact of the plot on that reality. I’ve started wondering if he may be explaining a bit too much sometimes. I can see it’s going to be an interesting edit process deciding when it’s […]
Thursday Thirteen #2
Thursday, March 22nd, 2007Thirteen Things about Mark’s graphical workflow… 1. Vue 6 Infinite: for creating landscapes and producing 3d images. 2. Poser 7: to create characters that I use in Vue. 3. Paint Shop Pro 7: for post work and texture making. 4. Expression 3: for creating vector art, post processing and texture making. 5. Serif Page Plus […]
When Muses Go Bad
Thursday, March 22nd, 2007I cracked on past the 45k words of my Noir Fairy Tale last night. The hero had a chance encounter with a group of toga wearing, gun packing Greek Muses who had little sense of decorum. The nearest I can come to describing their attitude would be a fusion of a hen night with the […]
The Futures Orange; the Futures a Distopian Red Tape Filled Hell Hole
Tuesday, March 20th, 2007Well Orange it would appear don’t like losing customers. They don’t mind not providing a service. They have no problem with rubbish tech support. They don’t like letting go though. I’ve just tried, again, to cancel the broadband contract I had with them. The first time I couldn’t do it till I’d transferred my service. […]
New Vue 6 Hot Air Balloon Render
Monday, March 19th, 2007I thought I’d share a recent render I did in Vue 6 Infinite of a hot air balloon in front of a glorious spectral atmosphere. I set up the scene and then created an animation moving the camera vertically at a very small frame size to find the best camera position for the final picture. […]
Habbits
Monday, March 19th, 2007Until my broadband problems I was a habbitual blogger. I’m finding it hard to get back into the habbit of blogging every night. Each post may not have had a huge amount of value and sometimes the signal to noise here was probably a bit low but the habbit kept me focused on delivering things […]
Thursday Thirteen #1
Thursday, March 15th, 2007Thirteen Things random things about Mark Caldwell 1… I remember far too many useless facts for my own good but can’t remember a thing if I’m on a quiz team. 2… Being in high up places doesn’t bother me. My fear is unsteady high places I may fall off. 3… I’ve just joined the moderating […]
Back Online
Thursday, March 15th, 2007BT sorted out the problem Orange were determined to say was with my hardware today so I’m back online. All it took was a line test to confirm I didn’t have a problem at my end but Orange were strangley against performing the same test and wouldn’t explain why. After getting everything set up I’ve […]
I'll be Back
Tuesday, March 6th, 2007Bad, Ugly Orange (there isn’t anything good about them at the moment) have had a week to try and fix whatever they’ve done to their service. Tech support has been a joke of doing the same set of tasks that assume I’ve got a fault and refusing to actually run a line check. Since I’m […]
Tim Berners-Lee v Congress
Friday, March 2nd, 2007I was checking some technical documents on the W3C web site and ran across this news report earlier " Tim Berners-Lee Speaks on Future of the Web to US Congress". The image reminded me of the footage of the House Un-American Activities Committee that was used so effectivelly in Good Night and Good Luck. So […]