Posted in Beast, News on Jun 30th, 2008 1 Comment »
Right now, I have both my laptop and desktop rendering away on the HD version of The Beast, with the main files housed on the laptop (they’ll be transfered to the workstation later). Both Blenders just hit the shot file over the network. Now, on to the Linux stuff. While both machines are on teh […]
Posted in Beast on Jun 26th, 2008 No Comments »
The book manuscript has been with Focal Press since the middle of last month. Since then, we’ve finalized the DVD, and they’ve been sending me .PDFs of the final book for review. As soon as that process is done (this week), the book will be off to the printer, which takes a looooong time. I […]
Posted in Beast, News on May 8th, 2008 3 Comments »
I’ve handed off the last chapter of the book to my technical editor, the excellent Andy Dolphin (andyd). The book also has a page up at Amazon.com, although it’s not going to be shipping until September. As for The Beast, there is only about 15% left to render and edit. Things are nearing completion!
Posted in Beast on Apr 19th, 2008 1 Comment »
I’m in the final stretch of writing the book. Next week, I write the rendering/compositing chapter, followed by the “final edit” chapter. Then, the manuscript goes to Focal Press, who edits, etc.
On the topic of The Beast, I think it’s going to be a great learning tool. It’s not unbelievably complex like Elephants Dream was […]