You know what would be really handy, photos of models/objects that have depth information and/or normal directions
Depth information should suffice as from that alone you can generate a normal map and that gives you all kinds of power like relighting a photograph from different angle, shadow casting, adding reflections/specular. At the moment integrating a photo into a 3D comp either still or worse; in motion, is a real pain in the ass/impossible
2D Comp work in general just looks so flat when they try and integrate photographic elements.
I'm going to have a go at faking it, I imagine I will be largely unsuccessful, but I won't know till I try
check out ZbornToy if you want a better idea of what I\'m on about. In fact just check it out anyway, It's freaky
Heres the original photograph
Heres a real quick draft
It works better than I thought, It's far from perfect I only messed about with it for a few minutes. It definitely brings greater flexibility if you want to quickly integrate an images lighting, and you can adjust the lighting in realtime.
If it was done properly you could even change camera angle somewhat
More refined model (started from scratch using another method, It's still really basic)
Really It's amazing it works at all given how crude the model/displacement is... I\'m not even going to show the mesh as It's so bad
To be done properly/easy it should be done in either Modo 301 or Zbrush, or by someone more skilled at modelling than me
whatever way you look at it, It's a damn site faster/more powerful than hand painting in lighting changes, at least for organic shapes
Original (badly masked, just for a quick test) followed by my alterations
Again using a very rough model
Depth information should suffice as from that alone you can generate a normal map and that gives you all kinds of power like relighting a photograph from different angle, shadow casting, adding reflections/specular. At the moment integrating a photo into a 3D comp either still or worse; in motion, is a real pain in the ass/impossible
2D Comp work in general just looks so flat when they try and integrate photographic elements.
I'm going to have a go at faking it, I imagine I will be largely unsuccessful, but I won't know till I try
:-)
check out ZbornToy if you want a better idea of what I\'m on about. In fact just check it out anyway, It's freaky
Heres the original photograph
Heres a real quick draft
It works better than I thought, It's far from perfect I only messed about with it for a few minutes. It definitely brings greater flexibility if you want to quickly integrate an images lighting, and you can adjust the lighting in realtime.
If it was done properly you could even change camera angle somewhat
More refined model (started from scratch using another method, It's still really basic)
Really It's amazing it works at all given how crude the model/displacement is... I\'m not even going to show the mesh as It's so bad
:-P
To be done properly/easy it should be done in either Modo 301 or Zbrush, or by someone more skilled at modelling than me
whatever way you look at it, It's a damn site faster/more powerful than hand painting in lighting changes, at least for organic shapes
Original (badly masked, just for a quick test) followed by my alterations
Again using a very rough model
funny.. high school biology, how was it several years later till I found about a whole new organ I did'nt even know we had..
makes me wonder what other organs they forgot to mention in the curriculm
jeez you leave school thinking people have a heart a brain and lungs
and some miscelanous blobs
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lol to computers that advertise dual core so you can virus check and work at same time
woo! faster computer, more virus checking, who wouldn't buy for that reason!
surely.. faster cpu = more viruses
buy a dual core! 1 core for your viruses/adware/trojans the other for your apps
perfect, what a way to sell a computer
huh... It's alright for some... £1000 for 8 hours...
Link: www.simondanaher.com
He is good though, not that there's much of his work on his site
Funny what difference a bit of makeup can make:
Now that's just silly
Tech: General
Went go-karting this week, was great!
We had planned to go on the slower carts but when we arrived they were running late and instead of waiting we joined with 2 other people on the high speed karts, we warned them that we would both die, but they said 'no no it will be fine'
well fortunately the high speed carts were capped from the top 85mph to probably around 65mph, which is probably why I\'m still here today.
My girlfriend went off on the first lap straight into a wall of tyres *shakes head* so much for training her up on Forza!
i didn't crash I did however get warned for going too fast round the hairpin (even though I was doing it just fine till he warned me thus distracting me causing me to spin)
I then found out why I was going too fast as I had cooked my breaks after 13 laps so I had to roll in and get a replacement kart, then I cooked them again pretty much after another 13 laps when time ran out.
Had a good lil battle with one of the other drivers, over taking then being overtaken, then getting too carried away and spinning off, I decided to calm it down to save my breaks and for fear I would be called off the track for being too awesome/dangerous
Next time I go I plan on learning how to drift/trail break/lock breaks/etc which could be interesting :-S
Ill make sure everyone is warned beforehand
Afterwards I had pretty much no use of my arms, they were dead, lack of power steering and any kind of forearm muscle meant both of us were rather broken afterward, then my bum really started hurting possibly deep bruising from all the vibrations
:-D
Got my shiny new Harddrive! woop
320gb (300 after formatting boo to that)
no more scrounging for space, however I\'m not going to use it for anything important for a month or so, as if a drive fails it fails in It's first few weeks of life if ever. I'll have to exercise the same caution when I get my new Mac Pro (whenever Apple refresh the line)
