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OK.
Full day and a half of using my iPad and I can’t get it away from my teenage daughters – hence the snappy title.

Battery Life:

Absofuckinglutely unstoppable. I’ve had it on for the entire day today, playing movies, surfing the web – ooohhh… the web surfing… and drawing on it.
As of 8:15pm, battery is at [...]

One of the cool things about living here in Pacific Grove is the wild forests.  Kenna and I took a walk with the dogs yesterday and I brought my macro lens with a flash.  It’s really hard to get the lighting correct and I’m realizing I need to hold the camera a LOT more still. [...]

Robert Rodrigues is releasing a new Predator movie called, strangely, Predators. I was never a fan of the sequels to the totally entertaining 1987 original, but this looks like a fun ride.

Really excellent facial animation work here.  I’m not sure if this is an individual (if so, bravo!) or a studio trying for some kind of viral response.

I took a walk down to the beach with my buddies Jason an Courtney a few months ago – just unloading the camera tonight.  Photoshop’s autostitch tool is amazing.
This is a seadragon viewer available from none other than Microsoft (click the full screen icon, it’s cool). Their R&D guys are also amazing. Gosh.. [...]

Working on Skyboxes today.
Skyboxes are six images that are mapped onto a cube that follows the 3D camera around in a realtime 3D space.  The skybox object is drawn first and then everything else is drawn on top of it.  It simulates a big giant sky.
I’ll post a tutorial in a while, I need to [...]

I found this cool little app for the iPhone the other day called Pano.  It’s really very good at capturing quick panoramas.
This is my morning at the Aquarium:

Get it at the App Store.

Working in Silo3D for a little bit today.  Such a great modeling tool…

Now with Fins!  Woo!

I should be working on the Climate Change exhibit today, but after discussing a role-playing game concept with my buddy Erik, I got all inspired to work on a concept piece instead.  This is the ancestral home of the Chay-Nee People of the Apocalypse.
Modeled in Silo3D, textured and rendered in Maya, tweaked in Photoshop.

It’s been [...]

Not a remake of the trippy 80’s cult film.  Looks like a good ride film,… Jude Law as a muscleboy?  Really?