Too Many Ideas - Archive for the ‘My Stuff’ Category
Cell Shading Tutorial from Brady Mac
Wednesday, March 28th, 2007I got a sneak peak at Brady Mac’s new Toon shading tutorial for Poser and Vue this week. It’s a very simple and effective way of bringing the two applications together to produce a different type of image. The picture above is the first one I made following the tutorial after a few quick test […]
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 […]
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 […]
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. […]
New Vue Python Script: Cloud Builder
Sunday, February 25th, 2007Here is a new Python script for Vue 6 Infinite and Vue 6 xStream. It places a meta cloud sphere at the same position as all of the objects selected when it’s run. See the readme file in the zip for more information. As always I’m releasing it into the wild as a Beta here […]
Curvy 3D 1.0
Saturday, February 24th, 2007Curvy 3D is an interesting freebie on this months 3D World magazine. Modelling by sketching the shape of the object you want. Finer control by painting on the resulting object. You can also paint colour onto the object. The tool set is limited but it’s a fraction of the price of many similar tools that […]
Cop Night #4
Friday, February 23rd, 2007Not a huge amount of cop (or other stuff done) today. Spent the morning at the eye clinic and the rest of the day in a darkened room recovering. What I can’t figure out is why every time I go there I come away with a bad back. Did do a little bit of polishing […]
Cop Night #3
Thursday, February 22nd, 2007More robbers than Cops tonight really. Just finished watching The League of Gentlemen which arrived from Amazon today. Not the situation comedy but the film from 1960 that the series took its name from in which Jack Hawkins and a hand picked crew of ex soldiers stage a bank robbery. The focus is on the […]
Cop Night #2
Tuesday, February 20th, 2007So tonight wasn’t quit as good a cop show night as expected. My VCR tried to eat the tape I’d put in for Life on Mars. Did get to see CSI which continues to be enjoyable fluff. Got one with the equipment section of Serious and Orgainsed and also made notes for descriptions of British […]
Cop Night #1
Monday, February 19th, 2007I feel a Cop Show theme coming on this week… So Waking the Dead’s run ended with a romantic twist for Boyd. Slightly subtler than CSI’s Sarah/Grisham matching dressing gown crime scene and foreshadowed a little more in the plot too. I’ve also been working on Serious and Organised. Boring equipment list creation. I’m torn […]