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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 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 [...]

Pat Watson and I are teaching a Maya Character Bootcamp this spring over at CSUMB.  Given this course outline (thank you Graffle), would you be interested in this class for $200?

There’s a need in my life for more complexity. So I’m starting a second blog.
VISICHUNK

Had a great day at E3 again yesterday – Tons of recordings and a few cool pics.  Cam and Leneb and i had a conversation over breakfast as to what the litmus test for one being a geek is.  I believe I’ve found at least one method of determination:

This is an Augmented Reality game.  Not [...]

The Hotel has an internet connection that was obviously installed sometime around the turn of the 3rd century.  I was unable to fire off last nights post via smoke signals – enough excuses.
Cam and I left Santa Barbara after a yummy breakfast at Sambos (yep.  There’s one left) and headed down to LA.  Took a [...]

Waking up.  Well.  No.  Not waking up yet.  Cam and I went out to an awesome pub last night after a huge day of riding and had enchiladas and tequilla.  Somewhat fuzzy this morning as evidenced by this image:

More later – We’re off for a Sambos breakfast.

Buddy Cameron and I rode the motorcycles down the coast today – an awesome ride.  We’re in Santa Barbara tonight and then on to L.A. for the Electronic Entertainment Expo.
Some stuff from the show so far:

Microsoft seems to have copied Sony’s Eyetoy product and industry wonks are falling over themselves.
Bioware released a frakking AMAZING trailer [...]