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Flying with the Flomp

Twice — Thu, 28 Aug 2008 00:06:36 GMT

Decided to actually start DOING something instead of saying i was. Im looking for a house to move into with probably some of my brothers friends. I get on well with them too. So once i get that, im outta here. Decided on setting a completion date for the comic. Im aiming for October 22nd...this year :D:p

Nothing to share. More pages would give away story and i cant have that sort of thing ^_^

Nude drawing Wip2 Top less NSFW

Revliss — Wed, 27 Aug 2008 15:43:23 GMT

continuing

ok line work done mo painting. in photoshop or open canvas ?

Things and stuff

mute209 — Wed, 27 Aug 2008 08:15:13 GMT

Hi! It's been a while since I've said anything. So, what's been going on? Well, 3dbuzz-wise, I turned in my Space Fighter about 10 minutes before the deadline for the XSP. Judging from the radio show from last Friday, I probably wasn't the only one. But it makes sense, in a way. There's no real/clear ending to a project like this. You can always tweak and add and optimize and improve. My Space Fighter is by no means finished.

I was really impressed with how streamlined and easily expandable the engine that Logan and Buzz created was. What's even cooler is the fact that it all made sense to me as they were building it. It's good to know that the lessons seem to be sticking.

So, what else has been going on? Yesterday, I was in San Jose for Nvision 08. Terry made a post in the news section a while back about how Tricia Helfer (of Battlestar Galactica fame...like you didn't know) would be there. Being a fan of the show (and a heterosexual male) I kind of kept that in the back of my mind at the time, since San Jose is only a couple hours away. When I checked out the details of the conference, I found out it was only $10 for general admission!

Anyways, I went with my brother. It's a three day event, but we could only attend the first day. I wish we had arrived sooner. They cut the line for the meet-and-greet with Tricia about 20 people in front of us. We did get this close, though:

I've met plenty of musical celebrities, but I've never met an actor. It would have been cool to get to say hi, but oh well. I still had a good time. The keynotes were entertaining and they had some cool new technologies on display. I also caught some of the Unreal 3 Tournament they were hosting.

Oh, and there were a few booth babes there too. haha!

Aluminum Can

Heather — Wed, 27 Aug 2008 07:52:40 GMT

My pattern making class moved to the Sheraton two blocks away, and as inconvenient as it is it's nice to have a change of scenery. Still it sucks lugging around all the stuff with me...

Otherwise I have a speech on human mutation tomorrow.
or "zombies"
I'm excited seriously even though I get a little nervous talking in front of a large audience every now and then it only builds up into excitement.
Especially when I know what I'm talking about or doing.

Fun fun fun ^___^

Otherwise my roomie is buying me milk and a new curling iron tomorrow which is good.
For multiple reasons. Everyone is sleeping though which is what I should be doing, but in a bit I need zombie pictures!

Erotic story, Full version.

Command0-182 — Wed, 27 Aug 2008 01:00:49 GMT

It's not really and erotic story per say, I just call it that as a little bit of a joke. Anyway, it was originally written as a final project from my english 221 class. Here it is...the full version. Yeah...I know...it sucks :meh:...but its like one of my first real attempts so...whatever. :rolleyes:

PS
C&C totally welcome! :D

PPS
It's not violent, but I'm rating it PG-13...cus it's not for the too young.

Attached Files

Waking Wilderness.zip (24.7 KB, 6 views)

I passed!!!

DigitalDemigod — Tue, 26 Aug 2008 20:36:37 GMT

My portfolio passed the committee and I am accepted into the Media Art and Animation program at my school.

I can't wait til my stupid Speech class is done now!! Because that means my next classes are going to be things I love! Like History of Animation and oh, this one will be an easy class... 3d modeling fundamentals! lol

Well, I expected that a lot of this will be a breeze since I know so much thanks to 3DBuzz, and it's ok. The more classes I can breeze through means more time spent HERE learning.

Nude drawing Wip1 Top less NSFW

Revliss — Tue, 26 Aug 2008 16:40:58 GMT

well yap this drawing is nude . topless. if this is offensive don't Look

i am things to keep this as testfull as posible as an artistic nude drawing. not thing bad i hope.
now the drawing i don't know is the head and Body propetion right ?? ok chick head are a bit smaller but is her body a bit big? :confused:

I'm no british dandy

Heather — Tue, 26 Aug 2008 04:50:12 GMT

I had class early this morning, and I got up at 6 am to get ready and forgot that my ex roomie took my hair curler -___-

She got all her stuff earlier, and my new roommate thought that it was hers so she put it in her bags...but she is going to buy me a new one which isn't so bad I suppose...it's just a matter of when she gets the money again.

i'm just in the middle of sewing some stuff...
finals are so close...

Thirsty for a lemonade

I'm still really tired for no reason...I sleep more than usual, and I'm still exhausted. AGH! I even took a nap earlier...

other than that I want some fried chicken...
good old homemade food, and nothing beats my mom's cooking.
Every time I go home that's the first thing I ask for...foodwise of course
fried chicken
mashed potatoes
mac and cheese
green peas or corn
biscuits
aaaah I'm homesick XD

Dods XNA Grind 91 SF Update and other stuff

dodlegion — Tue, 26 Aug 2008 04:19:59 GMT

So its been a while sense I last updated this blog. Im almost done with XNA, finally. Slacked off some, worked on other things besides XNA. Work is getting in the way a little bit. You know the stress is kicken in.... and stuff. Yeah..

Some good news. I got a friend involved in producing my Spacefighter. I have to teach him everything though. Dose'nt know programing, 3d or dosent know how to draw. But he looks like he wants to learn. I hope he's dedicated enough to do this for a long long time.

Anyway. Im working on the vids now. I got 12 hours worth vtms left to watch. I got pixel collision done, (which is the coolest thing ever :D ) sprite animation done, and the starfield. Today I got the config, and Im up to the timer overview. Im hoping to have my SF game completed in another 2 weeks or so. After that well I dont know yet.

I hope I can keep my friend interested in this kinda stuff. I'd like to have someone to share my experiences with. I guess if no one cares about what Im doing I dont care either and I work on other things. It well be good to have him around. Im lucky to find someone thats wants to learn how to make games. He wants to do 3d games. I dont know 3d yet. It'll be a goal for the both of us to work up to.

Heres a copy and paste from my SF thread in xna forum. I got my buddy to come over and we came up with ideas.

"Got my buddy to come over to my house finally to talk some ideas. We talked about SF for a little and heres what we came up with.

We're gonna have 5 levels
2 player game.
and a brief short story

Story.
A space ficilaty has dectected numereous asteriods on a collision course with earth. Two fighters are sent to earth to investigate the problem. They soon discover that a malfunctioning militarty weapon is sending out waves of pulling force that is pulling asteriods from space to earth. :P

Short story nothing epic. Next tuesday we gonna work on graphics. We plan on some cutscenes in there. They'll be made up of still images. This weekened im gonna do the coding from the vtms then go from there."

Tomorrow we're gonna work on some graphics for the game. Bout all I got. If you guys give me some feedback that be great. :)

Portfolio review in progress

DigitalDemigod — Tue, 26 Aug 2008 03:05:11 GMT

Well I was hoping that my school would get back to me today about whether or not I was getting into the Animation program. But I guess I was trying to rush them.

Truth is, I am just anxious to hear the yay or nay. I'm also nervous about what happens if they say nay. That would mean continuing to take classes for a major I don't want OR dropping out of the school, neither of which are options for me.

I think I'll get in though. They said they wanted to see my current drawing skill level. I did the best I could, so what better to showcase one's current skill level than works that show one's current skill level?

I wish I had had more time to get my ADP character concepts drawn out and submitted as well. I think that is my only regret with the portfolio. I would've liked to include some renders of characters I've made.

But, once I am accepted the real good news is that I can get back to work on my ADP short. Between the accident that really hindered me for a good 5-6 weeks, a math class that was a lot of work for 6 weeks, and this portfolio needing to be done, I had no time for my ADP short. Now I just have one class going on and nothing else so I am getting back to it!

video TuT on how to rig & IN-port custom players for UT3

Quitin — Tue, 26 Aug 2008 00:59:55 GMT

I made a video TuT on how to rig your custom player meshes using 3Ds Max 2008
X-port from MAX then in-port them into UT3, then I set the meshes up for game play

Note that in the video I added a head bone to the boots LOL
Yeah don't do that

here is the video
http://files.filefront.com/Rigging+i.../fileinfo.html

here is the bones I used
http://files.filefront.com/The+bones.../fileinfo.html

here is the text I was working from, I did not use the b_Head
b_Spine2 on the head cuz I don't like to but that's up to you

++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ +++++++++++++

the head

b_Neck
b_Head
b_Spine2
--------------------

The Body/Torso

b_Hips
b_Spine
b_Spine1
b_Spine2
b_LeftClav
b_LeftArm
b_Neck
b_RightClave
b_RightArm
b_RightArmRoll
b_LeftArmRoll
-----------------------------

The Arms

b_Spine2
b_LeftClav
b_LeftArm
b_LeftArmRoll
b_LeftForeArm
b_LeftForeArmRoll
b_LeftHand
b_LeftIndex1
b_LeftIndex2
b_LeftIndex3
b_LeftMiddle1
b_LeftMiddle2
b_LeftMiddle3
b_leftPinky1
b_leftPinky2
b_leftPinky3
b_LeftRing1
b_LeftRing2
b_LeftRing3
b_LeftThumb1
b_LeftThumb2
b_LeftThumb3
b_RightClav
b_RightArm
b_RightArmRoll
b_righrForeArm
b_righrForeArmRoll
b_RightHand
b_RightIndex1
b_RightIndex2
b_RightIndex3
b_RightMiddle1
b_RightMiddle2
b_RightMiddle3
b_RightPinky1
b_RightPinky2
b_RightPinky3
b_RightThumb1
b_RightThumb2
b_RightThumb3
b_RightRing1
b_RightRing2
b_RightRing3
------------------------------------------------------

The legs/Thighs

B-Hips
b_LeftLegUpper
b_leftLeg
b_RightLeg
b_RightLegUpper
b_LeftLegUpperRoll
b_RightLegUpperRoll
------------------------------------------------------

The Boots

b_LeftLegUpper
b_leftLeg
b_leftAnkle
b_LeftToe
b_LeftLegUpperRoll
b_RightLegUpper
b_RightLeg
b_RightAnkle
b_RightToe
b_RightLegUpperRoll

==============================================

arms:- DualWeaponPoint - b_LeftWeapon ,
WeaponPoint - b_RightWeapon

torso:- HeadShotGoreSocket -
b_Neck

boots:- L_JB -b_LeftAnkle ,
R_JB -b_RightAnkle

================================================== ========

0.00000
0.00000
-51.000000
=

0.0000
-90.000
0.00000

===========

Weekend All Gone.

Kuanbyr — Mon, 25 Aug 2008 23:09:37 GMT

Well, today marked back to work... Blah. Starting work at 5am still blows, and to be greeted by the mess I saw this morning was even worse. But, as we all know, things could be worse. I could have to work the hours that Jason does! I sure hope you get to have some downtime soon Jason!

Nice thing is now I am at home, got to leave a bit early since I've been migraining all day today, so, it's good to be home!

Now, I am going to get some video editing finished up, when I had lost one of my computers to a hard drive failure, one of the things I couldn't find for awhile was, the midi video a friend of mine and I shot. This video was sitting on the failed drive... Argg! Nice thing was, I was able to recover it, so now it's on my portable drive, DVD, and my main drive on this computer. Ready to edit. So, I am now off to edit, so I can have it ready for Jason when he needs it!

august 25th

Mtg_Kirin — Mon, 25 Aug 2008 17:20:53 GMT

Well my employers cut everyones hours again (only 8 now....) so guess who is on job hunt again :meh:

School starts the 2nd, so some jobs should open up. Talking about school..... ya thats a week away and I still haven't bought my books.... crap.

other news Im going to an amazing concert this sat.

august burns red - devil wears prada - as I lay dying - norma jean.

Should be a great day if the rain holds back.

other news... Im working on a fun game project with some friends. After months of talking about it we are finally starting it. Hopefully I will have some updates to talk about with that.

so work - school - fun project thats been my life lately.

Band of the day Zao:

Holidays are fun...?

Dark_Drake — Mon, 25 Aug 2008 17:13:33 GMT

I've just realised that the above statement is no longer true! I've been on holiday now for the last, I dont know, 3 months? And i'm getting bored out of my brain. I want to go back to university! Yea, theres some odd words coming from my mouth.

Anyway, i've been meaning to post to this thing for weeks now but I really don't do anything that interesting, nothing you guys would want to hear about although I don't think anyone reads this. I wouldn't... I think for the next one I'll make something up..

I have been learning Vray from a book, it's suprisingly hard to learn something without actually being able to use it but it's giving me something to do, I would post renders but they are in my head... And you don't want to go there!

Birthday fun...

DigitalDemigod — Mon, 25 Aug 2008 13:33:41 GMT

I turned 33 yesterday. It was definitely an interesting day. I was looking forward to my birthday this year because it was the first time in a while that my birthday was on a weekend day which was also my day off.

I slept in pretty late because I was up very late Saturday night putting the final touches on my portfolio for transferring majors at school. Well, when I was done with that I decided I needed a little relaxation time so I played the Force Unleashed demo and UT3 on Xbox for a bit.

Sunday I had to finish putting my portfolio pieces into a PDF to send to my school. I also had to learn Premier so that I could edit a video I had to make for my speech class. Recording the speech was a pain in the butt. If my wife wasn't trying to communicate with me from across the house, the phone was ringing. Took me 5 times to get it done and my final time was the worst one.

Then we went to dinner. My in laws always pay for our dinner on our birthdays and we get to pick where we want to go. I chose Urban Flats because that place just frelling rocks. I got my favorite appetizer, Loaded Potato Dip, which is sour cream, cheese, and bacon dip with fried red potato slices. For dinner I had a Chicken Alfredo flatbread pizza. I was full, but my son wanted dessert so we had Fondu. The waitress must've thought we were crazy because we were using our table's candle to roast the marhsmallows that came with the Fondu. :D

My inlaws bought me a couple things too. They got me Boom Blox for the Wii and an Xbox Live Vision camera. My wife must've seen those things on my list of stuff I kinda want but don't have the money to pay for really.

We played Boom Blox a bit last night. I have to say that finally a 3rd party developer has made a very fun Wii game. We loved it.

Later I played around with the Xbox camera. I took pictures of my face to map onto my Rainbow Six Vegas character. It was taking a while to map the photos, so I was doing something on the computer. When I turned back to the tv and saw my exact likeness on the character I laughed harder than I have in a long time. I was literally rolling on the floor. I actually fell out of my chair and was breathless on the floor with tears coming down my face too. I'll have to use it again tonight to put my son's face on his character. It was so funny, partly because it looked exactly like me if I were dressed in full SWAT gear, and also because the unblinking eyes were just so creepy that they were funny.

So this morning I open my office and take off my sunglasses and my office is just trashed. My boss and some other people decorated for me. There is confettie EVERYWHERE. There are balloons all over the floor. And best of all there's food! I am starving. So that was great that they surprised me like that. Made my crappy morning commute nightmare disappear. :D

And my wife says that I'm in my last year of my early 30s. Next year starts the mid 30s. She needs to shutup. :p