July, 2011
Iron Sky – Day 54
I managed to get some sleep earlier yesterday night. I finally figured out at least in part while I am not sleeping beyond the obvious metal rack/cot of death thing I’m laying on when I do manage to pass out. Normally I sleep with a computer on or several if I’m rendering and I usually sleep from around 3PM-6PM to mid-night or so and work from there on in through out the wee hours of the morning because its cooler. At the place I am at the only sound isRead More
Free LScript: HierClone
It has been quite some time since I posted a useful LScript. This draws knowledge from scripts by Chris Peterson and Mike Green, using the built in Clone Hierarchy plugin in LightWave, combined with the visitnodes() function in LScript. It clones a hierarchy repeatedly while maintaining the correct targeting of its internal target items as well as parenting the hierarchy to its “correct” parent. Please feel free to improve and share. http://vimeo.com/26289782 Download: http://mentalfish.com/lscripts/MFHierClone.zip (Includes Alesk’s fix for the problem of clones numbers described in the video)
Iron Sky – Day 50
It finally rained here in Tampere this afternoon. It was an amazing and flash flood style deal complete with “big old fat rain” drops -and then it stopped. Joy. Frankly I wish it would have rained a bit more because the city streets here really need it. On the subject of 3D graphics and this show called “Iron Sky” that I am working on – well, technically today is my day off. Which would be appropriate all things considered I suppose. Luke, Phil and Tuomas are here though and IRead More
Iron Sky – Day 48
It’s been a rather productive day here, depending on how you look at it. We are still fighting a bit with the models that have come to us from Maya. However Tuomas has been working with the Maya artists who know the models (the original guy isn’t here any more I guess for one model case) to get them into “production ready mode”. Previs from the week has gone very well and we are on schedule now pretty much. The next challenge is to get everything rocking and ready andRead More
Liberty3d Independence Day Sale
Just in case you haven’t seen the big banner at the top of the page, we have a great sale on right now. Use “Liberty4th” as the coupon code and get 30% off on everything currently available in the store including UberDeals! Now is your chance to expand your collection of L3D products at a great price. More videos and products are coming soon, so check back often.
Iron Sky – Day 44 (And an Independence Day Hello!)
Happy 4th of July, everyone – even if you are not American. We are just about done with previs of a very key and significant “battle sequence” for Iron Sky. Tomorrow, our Director, Timo comes and gives us a few notes and hopefully he likes the shots thus far. I have to say its impressive watching Luke, Philippe and Tuomas work even if its just over the last few days while we have all been in the same room. It’s night and day in terms of our ability to pushRead More
Iron Sky – Day 41
Ah yes, Tampere heat. It’s HeatWave3D here in the office at Energia, but someone had the radical idea today of shutting off the A/C and opening the windows and letting the heat out. And yes, it works. And double yes, it was my idea from 3 weeks ago. 😛 Samuli is funny. I think the heat got to him earlier in the month and its just letting off now. I nearly died yesterday after eating indian buffet while in the indian restaurant which was at least as hot as theRead More