Occasionally I'm writing posts specifically relevant to the VFX industry. This is being done on the blog I'm building for the Entrepreneurship in Entertainment Technology class that I teach for Carnegie Mellon. You can check out those posts here: http://www.anirama.com/eet/blog/
Facebook isn't useful to me, and I don't think it's just a generational thing. I want to connect to my friends and colleagues, I'm interested in what they're doing. I think I can share things that they'd be interested in, too. But Facebook's limited methods for organizing relationships don't give me any useful granularity, so [...]
I'm trying to get into great shape this summer, and among other things have taken up riding my bike again. I'm not an avid biker, so I haven't spent any time learning about bicycle design and engineering, but the more I ride the more I discover about the intelligent decisions bicycle designers make. My bike [...]
I'm continually impressed with the cafeteria at Electronic Arts. Thursday's lunch was this incredible leg of duck over spring vegetables, drizzled with a pomegranate Balsamic vinaigrette sauce. Yummy. Shot on my Droid.
We got a hold of this for Kevin's birthday. It took a bit to get it to flow properly, but once it did - wow. Delicious and fun. Strawberries, marshmallows, poundcake, bananas, Starburst(!?) and more were available for bathing. Eventually followed with this:
Sunday night was the annual VES Awards. This year we honored Jim Cameron with the Lifetime Achievement Award, and Ed Catmull with the Georges Melies Award. Bill Paxton did the introduction, which was part honor and part roast ("Jim calls his parents on his birthday to congratulate them."). Read more about the Visual [...]
Shared with me at the NAMM show, and I thought I should share it with you. Important stuff.
I’ve been living with my Droid for about a month now. Friends have been asking for a review, so here it is. Note, I haven’t used an iPhone so I can’t do a comparison between them. […]
Trino is the result of two quarters worth of work by one of my student teams at Carnegie Mellon's Entertainment Technology Center (ETC). It's a wonderfully fun game for the XBOX, and you can download it from XBOX Community Games. Everyone on the team is graduating this Sunday, and we're going to miss them a [...]
Shot with my DIY intervalometer on a Canon 40D. I shot at 2816x1880 (Canon medium resolution) and panned across the image in After Effects. Still playing with output compression in AE, there are some banding artifacts that aren't there in the original images. Frames shot at 20 second intervals, put together here at 24fps. Sunset [...]