Anyway, here’s me in an Auto (rickshaw) driving through an intersection. In total it took about 5 minutes to drive ten feet; here’s the final minutes of claustrophobic, smelly traffic chaos. Par for the course in India.

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A lengthy interview with her has surfaced on the web. She’s a very eloquent, brainy spokeswoman! She is certainly role model material, and I’m glad the Firefox people do what they do.

Check it out.

I’ve added a 3D portfolio page, mostly as a sort of online resum√? while seeking employment with non-local companies. It also has some old drawings from highschool(!) and some prints from art school. Many employers want to see drawing skills, and while I don’t really draw any more, I definitely could at one time.

It turns out employers want to see wireframes, clean edge loops and textures, too, so forgive the abundance of those things.

I have a couple of projects on the go and will update the page as often as I can. A lot of the 3D on that page is kinda old now.

High Bandwidth version (40MB, Quicktime): Mirror01 | Mirror02 | Mirror03

I’ve graduated the 3D animation program at BCIT, and Industry Night has come and gone. Massive thanks go to Christian Vondruska, who had my back while I was experiencing bizarre technical issues at Industry Night! I owe that guy several beers. Anyway, my reel is not truly ‘finished’ (are they ever, really?), but it’s about as close as it’s going to get for now.
It also uses pretty much everything I’ve learned… modeling, texturing, lighting, rigging, weighting, particles, fluid effects, soft body dynamics, etc etc. It’s got it all, in one short film!

I hope you like it! I’m kinda sick of looking at it, to be honest, but then, I’ve been working on it for four months…

Many people have expressed interest in how my 3D work is progressing. I’ve got just over a month of classes left, and just over two months until Industry Night – when my classmates and I unleash our skills upon the world, and in particular, potential employers. I’m pretty excited.

Part one of my demo reel is just about finished. I’m modeling the final character, and am well underway with rendering out my final movie sequences.

Here’s some random clips and screenshots of part one – tentatively titled The Floating Islands. Yes, the little boy bears some resemblance to me as a kid ;)

You can get Democracy, and ‘Internet TV platform’ for Mac, Linux and Windows. It’s free and open source; give it a try!

Edit: As a cool aside, it uses hooks into your computer platform’s native media players to play the video; on Mac, click a playing video to switch to fullscreen Quicktime playback. Neat!

My original idea was to create a complete Japanese garden, circa feudal Japanese times. I put a tremendous amount of work into modeling and texturing the bridges, lanterns, lilly pads, trees, gates, etc. But it became clearer as time went on that I had bitten off more than I could chew… long story short, time constraints dictated that I pare back my idea to a simpler scene. Which is what you see here.

It turned out pretty nice. I’m going to finish it at a later date, as it’s going on my demo reel as a background for a scene.