visiblog

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.

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

Darren Naish, Tetrapod PHD fires off a really interesting scientists view of the creatures of the planet Pandora from James Cameron’s Avatar.

Kenna and I went to see Daybreakers last night on a whim.  If 70mm over-the-top blood explosions are your bag, this is the movie for you.
Directed by another Hollywood  brother team, Michael and Peter Spierig, I got the feeling they watched Zombieland and the last Rambo movie a bunch of times before they shot this. [...]

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