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 News on Mar 10th, 2008 No Comments »
I added a little thing to the wordpress theme I’m using that rotates a quote or phrase in the site header. I’ve had a few people ask about the phrases, so I thought I’d present them here with their source:
“Feel the Love” — frequent statement of the Right Reverend Love Master Mr. James Markham
“Practically Perfect […]
Posted in News on Mar 9th, 2008 No Comments »
I’m using Farmerjoe for rendering The Beast. The three elements about the software that have lead me to choose it are:
I was able to get it working with minimal grief. It comes with Perl sources, plus compiled binaries for Windows, OSX and Linux, as well as a Python script for Blender for job submission.
It allows […]
Posted in Beast, News on Feb 26th, 2008 1 Comment »
While the cloth simulator that just made it into Blender is great and easy to use for demos, I’ve found it more difficult to use in a production fashion. The Mom’s skirt in The Beast was scheduled to get the cloth sim treatment, but after fighting with it for several days, I’m going to have […]