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Characters that never diE

I just watched the new Dragonball Z special (Just torrent it)... I haven't watched any DBZ for a year or two perhaps... but when watching this the characters were as endearing, lively and exciting as they ever were... The characters history came with them so I instantly reconnected with them... It got me thinking about characters and how Disney used them... and how Tezuka used them... Ya know how Mickey Mouse or Astroboy starred as themselves in other comics or animations? Hmmmmm... Hollywood is so obsessed with pre-sold franchises these days.... films based on comics, games...remakes, "Reimaginings" blah blah... People like what they know it seems... BUT also as a creator you like your characters because you know them sooooo.... hmmmmm... You might see some familiar "actors" in my new film ^ ^

Them Days...

Its 4:39am and I'm just starting to model right now... My new mainboards came in today so I was installing hardware/software all day/night... Even if you aren't able to get much work done its good for your morale to do something everyday...chip away... so I will chip righ noW... Just me and the Zsphere's......

C4dcafe tutorial guide

If you didn't know... I learned Cinema 4d by following the tutorials at c4dcafe.com I owe my C4d skills to 3dkiwi! ^ ^ Thats the guy who makes the tuts... A lot of people ask me how to learn cinema4d and I say "go to c4dcafe and watch the tutorials" then I get asked "which ones?" I realize I've been on that site since it started so there weren't many tuts back then... and now there's like... a hundred... So this is the order I remember watching the tutorials... so if your an absolute beginner you might want to try them in this order... Before you go anywhere in 3d you need to learn how to navigate in 3d space... these 2 are good for that... Navigating Cinema 4d Using Cameras Now you'll probably want to model a little something... Model a chess pawn OMG my chess model is so WIN how do I texture it? Applying textures If only I knew how to light this chess pawn Basic lighting This chess pawn needs to live how do I animate it?! Intro to animating BES

Thinking too much...

So I FINALLY started modeling some minor monsters and characters for HSM and I must say I have been thinking TOO MUCH about it because once I started modeling I just like... made some awesome shit haha... I can't fight my own style... So I'm not going too... ALSO if something looks good after 10 minutes of modeling move on... don't tell yourself... "I only spent 10 minutes on it... it can't be good" So yeh this is some e_vile str8nime shit... There's going to be some people that wished that I never upgraded my 3d skills and learned Zbrush cause I'm making some seriously fucked up stuff haha... So my workflow goes like this... Zbrush: Make base model from Zspheres--->Export OBJ Cinema 4d: Import OBJ... Additional basic modeling... Run Bodypaint to create UV's--->Export OBJ Zbrush: Import OBJ... Subdivide and sculpt---> Export Displacement map Cinema 4d: Add displacement map using SPD to model... Run Bodypaint and texture model c4d+Bpaint+Zb

AlmosT TheRRRRR

Based on a recommendation from someone at the cgsociety "technical and hardware" forum I ordered an Asus board... Installed everything... all 8 gigs of ram recognized... seemed like everything was alright EXCEPT the onboard gigabit LAN has no XP 64 driver so its using some old lame default one and running at 100mbps....sigh... yeh and I ran em all at 1000mbps last time... need the bandwith for the render farm etc... soooo... I'll be ordering 4 trendnet gigabit cards when I order 3 more of these Asus boards... I checked and the Trendnet cards have xp 64 drivers... Ah FahGET all this tech shit for today...I'm gonna update the animatic and modeL....

Animatic version 1.6

I just finished the 6th revision of the animatic... Every time you go over the animatic you get more in touch with your characters and the heart of the "story"... I mean because the animatic IS the film...just a crappilY drawn, all voiced by me version of it... I'm starting to throw the chains of "concept" off of myself... for some reason I've convinced myself the visual style of the film needs to have some concept rather than just doing whatever I want... I don't know where the whole concept thing came from but yeh I need to exorcise it... Sooooo with the concept goes the %100 3d thing ^ ^ So except crazy mixed media madness....again. I'm gonna need some humans.... Soooooo I didn't do any modeling while I was gone the past 4 weeks... and in my schedule it calls for me to complete the "easy" group of models by the end of November....sooooo I'm gonna GRIND HARD till the end of the month and catch up by finishing all the models... I&#

Pwned by lyFE

Some things I learned by being pwned by life this month... NEVER buy computer parts then leave the country for a month without testing them... My incompatible main boards were purchased more then 30 days ago so I can't return them... So I eat $400 for this mornings breakfast... and need to spend $500 more to buy the right mainboards... Always check your bank account balance online instead of running a tally in your head especially if foreign currencies are involved... I know its probably common sense but I' an animator that is pretty useless when it comes to real world stuff... Oh and foreign ATM machines cannot display a minus sign when showing your balance... cough... so like don't keep withdrawing money...cough... ahem... So yes... I was pwned by life in November 08... I could let it get me down but I'm too stupid too ^ ^ So I'm going to the bank now to take money from my film account to cover my personal money hole...

Just when you think you know (geek post)

So I started building my render boxes which I've written about before here... So I put the first box together... powered it on... NO POST Unplugged stuff ya know tried to isolate the problem... it has 4x2gb RAM sticks in it so I took two out as a test... It posted... Hmmm I said.... and started to google stuff.... Now the reason I chose this MainBoard is because it was like the only one that matched all the specs I needed... Its a Gigabyte GA-EGG43M-S2H So after doing research I've found out the MBoard will only support 4 RAM modules IF they are single sided... The modules I bought are double sided apparently... when looking through RAM specs at newegg or other online stores it does not even list whether they are single or double sided... So I wanted to use all 8gb's of RAM because the Mboard supports it BUT it won't work with what I purchased....sigh.... So my options are to either... Return the RAM (if I can?!) and look for single sided 2gb modules and buy those... or

Wait....wait...I make films?

My like 6 week international travel thang is over now as I is teh brain dead FACED... The last stop was the Waterloo animation festival... it was weird cause like in the screening there were WATS fans who knew all the lines and were screaming at the screen... I asked the projectionist to turn the sound up so loud the right speaker blew oops... during the Q & A someone asked me to totally "bust rhymes".... without hesitating I spAT a few baRRRS in the dark theater... thats the first time that has happened... but wait wait... I'm supposed to be making a film right? Not freestyling in Canadian movie theaters?!? As far as HSM goes... I reworked the schedule so that the travel didn't put me behind...AND I've made some breakthroughs with it that have been raising my like animator confidence power leveL somewhere near 8,892... I keep reworking the animatic which is making the film more WIN each time... So I'm back and will be writing in here regularly again... I