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Small update

Wednesday, 04 January 2012 09:13

Only one month between updates? humbug

Anyway, i bought myself a cintiq 24hd for christmas(unboxing image), and for some testing I sculpted a face in it, which i then rendered in maya with mia_mat_x and sss_skin hooked up to it. Here's a example picture.

And here is a link to a .mov file of a light-spin around it.

beyond that, I might as well try to give a link of a side-project I've worked on in Flash, which is a skill-calculator for the tabletop RPG GURPS(which I personally am not a very big fan of, but a lot of friends play it). It saves me time in calculating cost of skills and the likes. it can import xml files from the textbox in the bottom tab.

Right now It only has a few skills from A. because I'm a bit sceptical about the legality of loading up and storing those skills online. So you might have to add the skills manually... but there is functionality for doing that in there too. so once you've done that, there should be nothing stopping you from storing that for future parsing :-)

Anyway, here is a late alpha edition of it. There should be no crashable bugs, unless you want to find them though, there are many minor ones around :)

The second half of 2011

Thursday, 01 December 2011 14:11

Huh, Freelance might just be profitable after all. Not something I'd expected one year ago. 

Been doing relatively well, kept my days filled with work. It hasn't been as much 3d as you could have hoped for, but the market isn't that big and I think I've done pretty much compared to the average 3d-freelancer.

I've been doing a lot of flash development, actionscript3 and php/mysql interaction with those flash files. I also have done some tablet "development", where I basically just embedded these flash-files onto a Samsung Galaxy 10.1. There were frustrations, but java isn't that different compared to as3 and other languages I've written so it was easy enough to understand. The main problem was some sandbox problems with flash. Where, after a week, I figured out that setting the sandbox settings to local-only in flash was not good enough, so I had to double-apply it with a external application. It's not fun when things pretending to be okay are not okay in the coding world. :/

Anyway, Here is a link to a demo of the stuff I've made, norwegian film and text though, but the buttons should be understandable. Mainly its the flv/swf player with xml playlists, but also the questions are classes I wrote, so it took some time.

Anyway, my main point in making a new article here was that I was going to post some pictures of the 3d stuff I have been doing: I'll post the rest when I'm done eating pancakes with grandma:

Alright, here we have some of the work I've been doing for a local firm called Storvik. Well more specifically with a sub-firm called Storvik Aqua. I also have been doing some other things for a firm called Storvik Biofloc but I haven't asked if I can show that to people yet, so maybe next week.

Multiple jobs here. The first job was the boat/float in the first four pictures, with focus on the remote-controlled hatches named "hatchman".

This part is a visualization of diffusor hoses in a plastic-wrapped "merde"(merde!), which are used to feed the fish with oxygen while they infuse the water with medicines and whatnot. plastic-wrapping a merde is not something you do if you have no plans for adding oxygen to the system.

There was also an animation done of the steam coming out of the cables, but its just a few seconds with no camera movement. Quite a bit of compositing adding waves and reflecting light though, so it was fun.

This is one of the last jobs I did for Storvik Aqua, where they wanted a geographically incorrect area to visualize the different products they produce in their environments. There was also some talk about making a interactive flash-picture where you could click and get information about the different elements, so we'll see if I that happens as well.  

This was a quick job for a local gang that wanted to visualize an idea they had for downtown Sunndalsøra. The main hotel (block on the far right of the page) is not a work of art, so someone came up with the idea to build a new one on this

Thats all for today. It might just happen that I will update this again next week, when I have double-checked that I'm allowed to show the rest of the pictures I've made. If not, we'll see what happens :)

New Server

Thursday, 26 May 2011 17:45

Now we are officially on a much better server than the one i was on before. No more 30-second page-loading!

Anyway, I did not bring any of the new things I've been working on lately with me for this update, And I don't really have the rights to publish any of it right off the bat. But I got a few wips of things and some images here and there, so we might get some stuff to show tomorrow.