Posted in Digital Tutors, facial animation on March 26th, 2007 by admin
This is the first pass…. I’ll probably record some of my own dialogue for the next one.
For some reason, youtube makes it look crappy with a weird 2 frame delay… not ideal for the purpose of this test
Posted in Massive Crowd Simulation on March 6th, 2007 by admin
Learning Massive at work. Its a very complex crowd simulation package, first used in the Fellowship of the ring.
Weta used it for all the major crowd scenes and battles, and now its my turn. Myself and a colleague have to get thousands of angry crowd members to run, interact and stuff…. and I am struggling with what can only be described as Massive’s DIRE learning materials…… They certainly are not Gnomon like in their approach, which is a real shame.
Still, I’m getting somewhere with it, but Fuzzy Logic is not something I excel at (or even fully understand at this point). In fact, the last time I was aware of something having fuzzy logic, it was an old Akai tape deck…..
Anyway, its making a lot more sense to me this week than it did last week, and I am hoping next week it will make more sense to me then, than it does now… so on and so forth.
Posted in Uncategorized on March 6th, 2007 by admin
Well, not a lot to report at the moment because I am feeling somewhat deflated due to the fact that I have no camera. My Digital Camera came to a sticky end when the contents of a Fanta Bottle decided to make a break for freedom, and basically soaked the camera in orange residue, rendering that and the MP3 player non operational. Fortunately, Barclay’s insurance stepped in and I am just waiting to see how quick their turnaround is.
Its been a week and nothing yet, and to be honest, I was hoping for a quicker resolve.
A couple more action Man dolls arrived…. but alas, I cant take pics of those OR the fantastic Retro 70’s HiFi that I am building from ebay wins, including a 1974 Teac 3440 4 Track reel to reel.
So, lets just hope that I get the camera issue sorted sooner rather than later.
I met an old friend for coffee last week…. that was fun, and always good to catch up with people every now and again… but other than that and the fanta incident, its same old same old!