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Vue 6 Announced… Sort of

Monday, May 1st, 2006

So the current flurry of activity in the CGI world in a price range that hobbyist can afford is added to by e-on announcing a competition to win a copy of Vue 6 Infinite and be part of the Beta testing team. Given the panel of judges this clearly isn’t just a quick response to […]

Hexed?

Monday, May 1st, 2006

I started to get to grips with Hex2 yesterday. Certainly easier to work with than Amapi was but I’d still rather be using 3ds Max if I had the money. The biggest annoyance is the frequency with which it crashes. While attempting the first two tutorials it crashed seven times, twice locking the computer. It […]

V5I: Random Walk Script

Sunday, April 30th, 2006

A simple little script that creates a random walk for selected objects. The script can be downloaded from random walk. I’ve made two quick demonstration animations: 100 Spheres Walking Randomly A Metablob of Randomly Walking Spheres The second was made by grouping nine spheres into a metablob. Eight of the spheres in the metablob were […]

Blame Kim!

Wednesday, April 26th, 2006

Kim has been putting the metaphorical thumbscrews on at the writing group we go to for us all to submit our work to be publishers. She has a quite lurid turn of phrase for it I won’t use on a public blog because it would attract completely the wrong kind of search results from web […]

Post 100: The Story So Far

Tuesday, April 25th, 2006

So this is what 100 posts feels like and here is where I’m at… Project Status Árǽdan Second Draft DIY Pop Shield Article Second Draft Fairy Tale Noir About 50% written Inaccurate Web Clock Done Killer Web 2.0 App Thing Enhancing and Tweaking New Logo Done New Web Site In Development Underwater Secret Base Don’t […]

The Mystery that was Tonight

Monday, April 24th, 2006

Not quite certain how I’ve done everything I’ve done tonight: Hacked Secret Web App trimming 2 seconds from its speed Hacked Secret Web App’s CSS file so it looks less of a mess Wrote some more of fairy tale noir – the hero is about to knowingly cross into the dangerous and dark world of […]

Writers Databook: Tatoos and Piercings

Saturday, April 22nd, 2006

I keep a notebook of information that might be useful when creating fiction and games. Today additions include… One in five Britons have a tattoo. Most popular places for tattoos: Location % Arms 51 Back 30 Shoulders 27 Legs 17 Breasts/Chest 10 Bottom 9 Stomach 7 Hands 6 Neck 4 Feet 3 Other 3 48% […]

Fairy Tale about to go Distinctly Dark

Thursday, April 20th, 2006

Well my protagonist (calling a noir detective a hero just doesn’t seem right somehow) is about to enter the land of the flower fairies. Which is going distinctly dark and treacherous on him. Everything will be alright as long as he stays on the true path. That shouldn’t be too hard for a PI now […]

Late Again

Thursday, April 20th, 2006

Late getting this out for the second day on the trot. Edited a bit of the noir fairy tale. Worked on top-secret viral killer web 2.0 mash up a bit too (why is it when I see lines like that I always think of Gus in "Drop the Dead Donkey"). Need to figure out how […]

No Rabbit Hole for my Hero

Wednesday, April 19th, 2006

I found where my Fairy Tale Noir short story to go at least for its next section earlier. The hero is going to run into a rabbit but this one isn’t late or avoiding a hunter out looking for wabbit. Turns out he’s a snitch but will he turn out to be all that he […]

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