For Contents Sake!
By WastrelMay 2nd, 2005
So while bored at work... uhhh I mean constantly working hard at my
demanding job... I decided to do some gmax tutorials. Our fiscal
year ended on march 1st so for the month of march I had a lot of
down time. I realize we are in may now, but come on I do do some
work, and I'm not going to post tutorial created work as my
content.
In short and getting back to the point... I decided to experiment with lip-syncing in 3ds max. I used the model head I created from gmax for doing this, and unfortunately the mesh did not export and reimport so well and I have no desire to spend lots and lots of time to go back and reedit a head I shall never work with again (at least anytime soon). So if the mouth doesn't look quite right... well tough it, this was just experimenting, and I figured some content is better than no content. Also the compression is super high so I've noticed that the playback will skip (i.e. the mouth freezes up at times). In the meantime I have also created some other model heads and when I finish with them you will see some more fabulous content filled updates!
So here is your do not forget to read your webcomics link and of course your link to content!
(you'll need a divx codec to actually view the video, and this can be found here.)
-peace
In short and getting back to the point... I decided to experiment with lip-syncing in 3ds max. I used the model head I created from gmax for doing this, and unfortunately the mesh did not export and reimport so well and I have no desire to spend lots and lots of time to go back and reedit a head I shall never work with again (at least anytime soon). So if the mouth doesn't look quite right... well tough it, this was just experimenting, and I figured some content is better than no content. Also the compression is super high so I've noticed that the playback will skip (i.e. the mouth freezes up at times). In the meantime I have also created some other model heads and when I finish with them you will see some more fabulous content filled updates!
So here is your do not forget to read your webcomics link and of course your link to content!
(you'll need a divx codec to actually view the video, and this can be found here.)
-peace
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Graduation!
ByMay 13th, 2005
Can you believe it!?! Tommorow afternoon I am going to GRADUATE
from NC State University! Well, almost. But think! I'm the last of
the gang to finish up here at State! You other guys are probably
pretty old by now; I mean hell it took me five years and a lot of
you were done before I started!
Ok Ok, I know when enough's enough. So I get to walk the walk tommorow but unfortunately I have a single humanities course to take this summer which I intend on retaining zero information from. Personally, I think they should just check that requirement off and let me go.
On the plus side, I made the Dean's List one more time and was oh-so-close to a perfect GPA. One stupid B+ kept me at a 3.933. Of course my cummulative GPA is still a lowly 2.9, but thats not bad after 3 years of farting around.
Some of you may have noticed the "edit post" links below the icons in the message board. I was hoping to get that done by tonight but as I keep getting closer I keep writing messy crappy code that makes me want to hurl. I just can't do it. You've waited 2 years to edit, you can wait another few days/weeks/months. Besides, have I ever announced a project completion date that I met? It would be out of character of me.
What wouldn't be out of character is for me to tell you how cool it's gonna be! Oh man it's so close. I've done so much work on this admin tool, it's almost a full blown website. I think if you had to log in through it to edit posts people might not use the fancy layout you see here. For that reason, we'll have the ability to edit posts in both the admin tool and the main curvy layout.
Alright, now send me an email or post a new thread congratulating me on this most difficult task that all of you have already completed with less effort (or at least in less time) I'm sure. Get to it!
Ok Ok, I know when enough's enough. So I get to walk the walk tommorow but unfortunately I have a single humanities course to take this summer which I intend on retaining zero information from. Personally, I think they should just check that requirement off and let me go.
On the plus side, I made the Dean's List one more time and was oh-so-close to a perfect GPA. One stupid B+ kept me at a 3.933. Of course my cummulative GPA is still a lowly 2.9, but thats not bad after 3 years of farting around.
Some of you may have noticed the "edit post" links below the icons in the message board. I was hoping to get that done by tonight but as I keep getting closer I keep writing messy crappy code that makes me want to hurl. I just can't do it. You've waited 2 years to edit, you can wait another few days/weeks/months. Besides, have I ever announced a project completion date that I met? It would be out of character of me.
What wouldn't be out of character is for me to tell you how cool it's gonna be! Oh man it's so close. I've done so much work on this admin tool, it's almost a full blown website. I think if you had to log in through it to edit posts people might not use the fancy layout you see here. For that reason, we'll have the ability to edit posts in both the admin tool and the main curvy layout.
Alright, now send me an email or post a new thread congratulating me on this most difficult task that all of you have already completed with less effort (or at least in less time) I'm sure. Get to it!
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Conta wha? Grada who? Yay more content!
By WastrelMay 24th, 2005
So as promised more content! In honor of wayne's recent
accomplishment I decided to revamp my original idea and add a
little flare to the concept. I could continue on and rant about dvd
burners that do not work and wasted money, but less talking more
content.
And for your useless random link click here.
Latas,
And for your useless random link click here.
Latas,
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