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[Jun. 29th, 2009|03:03 am] |
Just got these back from a professional photographer. You know the photographer is good when you feel a cold shiver run down your back.
We've also stayed up until 3am today editing a video we made on the day. It's now online on Stan's account. I really liked how it turned out
That's the last you've heard of that. |
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[Jun. 28th, 2009|01:04 am] |
My fav photos of geek central today
( MOAR )
I hope I'll create something new that others will enjoy for next time. |
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[Jun. 23rd, 2009|01:54 am] |
Spent the day doing conceptual designs.
Designs are based off WoW and other references.
( Moar under cut ) |
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[Jun. 22nd, 2009|02:26 am] |
I've spend too much time on these humanoids, it's time to move on to clothing, hair and accessories. |
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[Jun. 20th, 2009|03:26 am] |
This project is tearing me apart. I'm putting my complete focus into it, sacrificing my personal life for the power of art.
I can feel the negative aspects of long prolonged work eating my insides. I'm finding things I used to be into... dull. I'm not taking an interest in my friends or family. And I'm becoming very distant to the qualms of humanity. Still, the work I'm doing is really promising. I look forward waking up each day to progress on it, and I really believe that the end result of this will help people and inspire them.
It's worth it, and it's bloody hard. |
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[Jun. 12th, 2009|02:50 pm] |
That's all you really need. Forever. Allison Stokke is so fit. |
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[Jun. 11th, 2009|02:28 am] |
June
week 3 - Finish all mappings
week 4 -Clothing and accessories
July
week 1-Clothing and accessories
week 2-Skinning + Rigging
week 3-Facial Rig
week 4-Facial Rig
August
week 1-Props
week 2-Location shoots
week 3-Location shoots
week 4-Storyboarding
September
week 1-Vfx Testing
week 2-Matte Paintings
week 3-Animation
week 4-Animation
October
week 1-Animation
week 2-Animation
week 3-Animation
week 4-Vfx
November
week 1-Vfx
week 2-Animation
week 3-Animation
week 4-Comp
December
week 1-Comp
week 2-Sound music
week 3-Sound music
week 4-Edditting
Shit... I'm not going to make it. |
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[Jun. 7th, 2009|01:43 am] |
So I go to the video store to hire Twilight, curious to see what girls go wet for in our current pop culture. I was hoping there would be some young pretty counter girl to flirt with this dvd as a prop. Except there's a twenty something guy at the front.
With my tail between my legs, I awkwardly walk to him to get my copy scanned. This was going to be a good interaction.
He looks at the title and cocked his eyebrow at me. I look sheepishly back at him.
"So. This one, huh?"
"Yeah, I know..."
And he gives me this look.
"Look, I just have to know what everyone is going on about with this"
"Yeah, the girls go crazy for it"
"I know, like kill themselves crazy"
"You know the second one is almost out..."
Ok, here is a chance to redeem my masculinity...
"Oh, there's a second one?"
"Yeah, apparently about werewolves."
"What, werewolves? So it's like underworld now?"
"Kinda, they have a truce"
Just when I thought the story and this interaction could not get any gayer, he says...
"I'm up to the fourth book"
I cock an eyebow.
"So you read them then?"
He looks at me sheepishly.
"Yes I do".
And I give him this look.
Karma's a bitch, bitch. |
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[May. 18th, 2009|09:01 pm] |
I spent this morning watching HBO's documentary on Alzheimers' disease online.
http://www.hbo.com/alzheimers/memory-loss-tapes.html
Pretty much the most depressing thing in the world. It follows 7 people with different stages of the disease and seeing how they life their lives and how the people around them care for them.
I can't imagine what it's like to reach a stage of dementia where you can't recognise the closest people in your life, can't recall your own life experience and eventually not be able to do anything without help. And I can't imagine what it'll be like if someone I cared about got it. Imagine going out for a walk in a remote area, not remembering what you were supposed to do, and then disappearing in the wilderness forever. It happens. Terrifying.
So many horrible things in the world.
I think you should all watch this video when you have the time (80+ min) it'll make you appreciate what you have in life more. |
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[May. 17th, 2009|07:02 pm] |
"Ok, next weekend. Next weekend if I'm not doing anything and the weather is nice, I'm going to buy a shovel and start digging." - omglaserspewpew 2 weeks ago.
Betcha didn't think it was going to happen. But it did. And look how pretty it is. I digged that bitch out.
( MOAR ) |
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[May. 14th, 2009|03:04 am] |
Another 3am night. I eat, shit and sleep the "My Time Here" project. Everything I think about is to do with this movie and the little bits I could add to make it better, to the point of obsession. I'm up to my 16th script just because there are so many ideas that grow and evolve over time the more I dwell on it. When I envision it while listening to the temp cue music score, I cry like a baby. It's just too powerful.
I've gone too far and put too much emotion into it now to not see it all the way through, so the only way this will not happen is if I die prematurely.
The stuff I'm planning, it's ambitious. If it stays close to my vision then it's going to blow minds. I really should have started this sooner, but maybe now is the perfect time to work on this during the recession.
I wish I had a time machine so I could just go to the future to see what the finish product will look like. |
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[May. 11th, 2009|01:29 pm] |
So it turns out the reason why one of my invoices has not been paid is because the company I freelanced for is now in liquidation. I don't think I'll be seeing my $3000 anytime soon, if at all. Kind of sucks.
Apparently, the staff there were informed by three men in suits to pack up their belongings and leave. What a way to go. Give them forty hours of your life per week only be told to be GTFO. The staff were paid no entitlements, they weren't paid the last month's wages. I remember those water cooler conversations with the full timers that worked there - the cute new thing their kids were doing with the house loans they were repaying off. None of that now likely.
It's hard to be angry at the management while other people got it a lot worse off. I'm lucky to love living with my mum at my family home with only myself to feed.
The kicker is, I hated that place on the first/second day. I could tell I this would be a mess and that my contract role was already filling up with holes. I wanted so bad just to walk off and desert them. The only thing that stopped me is knowing that I had made a commitment and it wouldn't be the right thing to do.
That'll sure teach me for doing the right thing. |
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[May. 7th, 2009|01:58 am] |
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If I wasn't working on my movie, I'd be living in Melbourne by now. |
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[May. 3rd, 2009|05:07 pm] |
Right so check it:
I was thinking of bringing my flash design skills over to landscaping. I'll have some rich soil as the HTML background colour, border it up with some colourful annuals that have a pretty bloom, and as the centrepiece some strong native fauna that doesn't grow too high. Maybe like wattle or a bottle brush. The centrepiece would be partnered up by two lesser plants that work with the complete picture, and not steal the show by themselves.
I'm a bit concerned that because this is going to be on council area around my home I might not be allowed to do this. If that's the case I'll blame the tv show and do it anyway. Otherwise I'll give it like 2 weeks before some kids we'll think it'll be funny if they destroy it.
But bugger that - it's going to be epic. |
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[May. 3rd, 2009|04:41 pm] |
Did I just spend early morning today watching a sunrise in someone's garden again? Yes, I think I fucking did. I'm further isolating myself within the group by being weird but it's so worth it. This time I had my itunes listening up some Jeremy Soule while that was going down. Or while that was going up. And Jeremy Soule is good for the Soul.
I can never tell where I stand with my rave circle group thing. Most of the time I think they don't really care for me and bring me along just to get trashed all the time. I suppose that's how it goes when you bonds are based on happycore and uppers.
But the blue mountains were so pretty. Like so pretty. I was driving down that and felt my heart ache by the rows of cliffs and canopy and all the wonderful colours.
Coming home and walking around the lawn was just depressing because there's no garden there. I have to garden up that bitch. Ok, next weekend. Next weekend if I'm not doing anything and the weather is nice, I'm going to buy a shovel and start digging.
I can't wait to garden. |
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[Apr. 28th, 2009|02:49 am] |
Here's how we're looking with the big project:
( +2 )
I'm up to surface detailing after doing the UV maps. It's exciting how this is coming. I'm aiming for War3 cinematic standard - this is looking up to par. This is the most content I've ever been working on a project. If all my projects were like this - especially the ones I get paid for - I'd be the happiest boy in the world.
Still a god-damn long way to go though. Next comes texturing and then clothing/accessories. I'm not looking forward to designing the clothing and accessories because they can't be naked, but they can't be really clothed either - they are demigods. They are above fashion and armour but they need some extra detailing to sell the character.
I remember going into Games Workshop at Miranda and flicking through the codex's for designs I could rip off from. I mean inspire off from. I was talking to my friend there and I'm giving him the run down of the plot.
"Oh, that sounds like what happens to Galactus in Silver Surfer"
"wut"
"Have you seen Fantastic Four part 2? That's what the silver surfer is all about"
fuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuu
So I go to BigW to buy the dvd and I'm lucky that movie really sucks otherwise I would have been in trouble. |
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[Apr. 27th, 2009|12:21 pm] |
I'm owed thousands of dollars from a number of agencies and clients around Australia. This is the part of freelancing that sucks - people treat you as expendable and feel as if they can pay you whenever they'd like because you are an outsider.
My business practice is that I send out an invoice and allow for a month grace before I follow up on payment. But it's in my experience, and when I say experience I mean 90% of the time, that they don't do anything until I bug them for money. I dislike this part of freelancing, you change hats from designer/developer to debt collector.
What I really hate about this is that I spend a considerable amount of time and effort to make sure they get a quality product/service - and they dick around with payments until I make some noise. It's such a waste of time and good energy being on the phones and writing out emails to account departments when it's unnecessary. It's quite a test to remain polite and professional when I just want to leer at them like in wogboy and go 'WHERES MY MONEY FARKIN". Yeah Emily - I'm talking about you guys. I'm just trying to earn enough to eat here.
I'm considering changing the way I do things... even as far as keep my files as hostage. I'd send something that's broken and only make it work once ransom (payment) has been met. It's an ugly way of doing things, but it's either that or remain at mercy of these accountants.
Or maybe this is just how the world works and I should just accept it. rant rant rant |
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[Apr. 19th, 2009|06:09 pm] |
I'll put some funny rave pictures up soon, but before they come in...
I went to lexus' place with a dozen others after the rave was over, and while they were drinking and being silly as kids do, I took pleasure in sitting in her dad's garden on my own and just feeling it. I must have sat there for a hour doing nothing but thinking. It was incredibly relaxing and fulfilling to hear the sounds of nature, to soak up the greens of the plant life, and to smile at the colourful flowers that had bloom. I was talking to her dad for quite a bit about it while escorting him around in my car for errands. Funny that you can have more bonding relationship with the parents than the girls you used to date.
It such a great contrast, to work on design and development on the computer for most of the week and then retire to a garden to meditate and unwind.
I'm just dying to create my own.
The problem is we don't have a backyard, it's cemented in because my parents are Greek. But I'm going to try transform the dead council area around our home into something much more prettier. I can't wait to start on it on a weekend. The most exciting thing about it is that I almost have no idea what I'm doing, so I'll be learning this whole new thing.
It's time to be a hippie. |
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[Apr. 15th, 2009|01:37 am] |
If I could blog about something more adult related... you are all over 18 so it shouldn't be a problem. Except you Jenny, you might have to skip this one, minor.
Sometimes, when you are lucky, you experience something that challenges everything that you thought you knew about something. Like Neo did in the Matrix.
And just like Neo did in the Matrix, I've managed to orgasm without touching myself using the power of my mind. Remember that part of the movie?
You see, on /b/, I randomly found this mp3 of an erotic hypnosis. And what she does on this audio track is spend 20 minutes getting you in a trance, and the other 20 minutes telling you how good to feel. And damned if I know how - it works. I must have looked strange, but I was cramped up in blissful agony, listening to this girl with my arms to my sides. It was like being relentlessly teased by a real seductionist in the flesh, only not...
I really don't understand the science. You go into a trance, and then your body responds to her words. The first time I listened to it, I didn't really let go in fear of the ending going "Ok, now jump off a building, slave". The second time, I opened myself up and bloooooddddy hellll. It ended with me feeling really good, and also me staring up at the ceiling in total shock going wtfman.
You see. Not only that this is awesome. But it also demonstrates something else. Something more powerful and maybe scary. Your fears, your strengths, your personality. It's all bullshit. They are layers of brittle identity that are waiting to be unravelled. You are as only relevant as your will. Otherwise, you are just some hypnosis junkie toy. Like I was. What makes you you can be challenged, tweaked, manipulated, overthrown.
I love that movie I <3 Hickabees for this line: "When you get the blanket thing you can relax. Because everything you could want or be - you already have and are". First time I heard it I was like lolwut. But I later learnt that this very principle is what is in the heart of Buddhism and Confucianism (inner peace). Perhaps even the key to world peace if humanity would ever achieve it.
If you can use your mind to orgasm without physical contact, then you can use your mind for just about anything else. Especially when it comes to internal battles. And everything in your life is affected by your internal battles and emotions.
Consider this mind blown. And I didn't even use drugs that time.
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