I am back home in London and it's awesome!! I haven't been here in a really long time so it is cool to be back. Looking forward to seeing people from high school while I am here. Good times!
I'll get some pics from my time here of old friends and post them if I get a chance.
Thursday, September 29, 2005
Sunday, September 25, 2005
Houdini Assignment 1
Just finished my Houdini Assignment 1 "Still Life Arrangement", this is a test of our new knowledge of Houdini and also a chance to play around with lighting and shadows.
Front perspective view
Side view with soft shadows
Another crazy angle
Front perspective view
Side view with soft shadows
Another crazy angle
Friday, September 23, 2005
Still Life Assignment draft
Here is where I am at the moment with my first FINE 328 assignment, this is the Still Life Arrangement. I still need to fix the lighting on the back panel, it is way too bright at the moment.
For this assignment we are only allowed to use 3 primitive types and flat lambert shaders. This is an exercise in learning Houdini but also in developing an eye for scene layout and more importantly a sense of lighting a scene in an interesting manner to "increase compositional interest."
I still have a little ways to go but this is where I am at the moment.
Still Life Assignment project 1 so far...
For this assignment we are only allowed to use 3 primitive types and flat lambert shaders. This is an exercise in learning Houdini but also in developing an eye for scene layout and more importantly a sense of lighting a scene in an interesting manner to "increase compositional interest."
I still have a little ways to go but this is where I am at the moment.
Still Life Assignment project 1 so far...
Tuesday, September 20, 2005
Houdini Render Tests
This term I am taking FINE 328, Advanced Electronic Imaging at Waterloo and it is AWESOME so far!! Our first assignment was a Photoshop assignment and basically just a review. For the second assignment, we need to create a Still Life Arrangement using only Houdini Primitives.
Here are a few render tests I did tonight to test out the lighting and shadows. I need to figure out how to soften the shadows and I will likely use shaders in this first assignment (although this wasn't allowed in the past, our Prof said we are allowed to use shaders in the first assignment now to dim the specular highlights on the objects and add colour to the scene.)
Pretty interesting assignment possibilities here and I am pretty excited to build my artistic abilities over this term! Here are some initial render tests in Houdini.
Inital render test with bright cone light, fast shadows
Second render test with softer light, same shadows
Here are a few render tests I did tonight to test out the lighting and shadows. I need to figure out how to soften the shadows and I will likely use shaders in this first assignment (although this wasn't allowed in the past, our Prof said we are allowed to use shaders in the first assignment now to dim the specular highlights on the objects and add colour to the scene.)
Pretty interesting assignment possibilities here and I am pretty excited to build my artistic abilities over this term! Here are some initial render tests in Houdini.
Inital render test with bright cone light, fast shadows
Second render test with softer light, same shadows
Monday, September 19, 2005
Rock Climbing at John's house
This weekend I went to Toronto to hang out with some old friends from Alias and also to see Matt and Alex and hang out with those guys. Good times!!
We went to Spring Rolls (a Thai Restaurant) 3 times in 3 days, so that was pretty sweet, that is some good food. We got to John's house to go rock climbing on his home climbing wall that is along the outside of his house, crazy eh?! It rocked and it was definitely a good time.
Matt workin' it 'ol school
Alex before the wall climbing
John excited about his new shoes
Me on my first climb of the day
Matt making it look easy
Alex trying to figure out where to start!!
Matt getting some expert advice on the routes...
Alex taking a well needed break
Me on the white taped route
Trusting very much in the sturdiness of that huge orange foot hold...
Sweet! Around the corner of the house
John doing the low route
Matt after lots of sweet climbing
We went to Spring Rolls (a Thai Restaurant) 3 times in 3 days, so that was pretty sweet, that is some good food. We got to John's house to go rock climbing on his home climbing wall that is along the outside of his house, crazy eh?! It rocked and it was definitely a good time.
Matt workin' it 'ol school
Alex before the wall climbing
John excited about his new shoes
Me on my first climb of the day
Matt making it look easy
Alex trying to figure out where to start!!
Matt getting some expert advice on the routes...
Alex taking a well needed break
Me on the white taped route
Trusting very much in the sturdiness of that huge orange foot hold...
Sweet! Around the corner of the house
John doing the low route
Matt after lots of sweet climbing
Thursday, September 15, 2005
Waterloo Black and Gold Day
Here are a few more pics from Waterloo's Black and Gold Day. (Black and Gold are our school colours.) This was the last day of Frosh Week and it was awesome, got lots of food (Pizza again, sweet) and face painting etc. Then lots of people went to the football game and Waterloo won! In the evening we had the Toga party which was amazing as usual. Good times.
Hangin' out at Black and Gold Day
Mmm... McDonald's Orange Drink
Waterloo face painting
Gotta love the Waterloo "W" painted on everyone...
Word up
Dana and I lookin' sharp
Waterloo... whhhatt upppp!!
Morgan in his Top Gun pose
Great pic of me with David Schwimmer, I mean, Joel
Rachel, Sarah and Ashley
Sumeet and I looking like a force to be reckoned with
Mark looking both confused and as if he is about to hop over this handrail
VOC crew
Cute pic of Me and Dana
Hangin' out at Black and Gold Day
Mmm... McDonald's Orange Drink
Waterloo face painting
Gotta love the Waterloo "W" painted on everyone...
Word up
Dana and I lookin' sharp
Waterloo... whhhatt upppp!!
Morgan in his Top Gun pose
Great pic of me with David Schwimmer, I mean, Joel
Rachel, Sarah and Ashley
Sumeet and I looking like a force to be reckoned with
Mark looking both confused and as if he is about to hop over this handrail
VOC crew
Cute pic of Me and Dana
More Siggraph pictures from August
Hey all,
I am at my buddy Alex's house in Toronto at the moment and we finally exchanged the rest of the pictures from Siggraph. Sweet!!
Here are a few more cool ones from Siggraph last month in Los Angeles.
Me walking the streets of Hollywood
Hollywood Blvd
My hands are the same size as Tom Hanks' hands, sweeet
Rock on, it's Steven Spielberg's hand prints!
Me next to the best star here!!
Hangin' out at the Kodak Theatre
Hollywood sign on the hills
Our Hotel in LA
Walking around at Siggraph
Matt and I at Siggraph
Sony sketching booth
Someone in a light suit for motion capture
The Apple booth
A cool motion capture Pirate dude
More motion capture pirate action
Super cool rotation screen in the Emerging Technologies exhibit
Cool portable map screens in the Emerging Technologies exhibit
Alex heading back to Canada
I am at my buddy Alex's house in Toronto at the moment and we finally exchanged the rest of the pictures from Siggraph. Sweet!!
Here are a few more cool ones from Siggraph last month in Los Angeles.
Me walking the streets of Hollywood
Hollywood Blvd
My hands are the same size as Tom Hanks' hands, sweeet
Rock on, it's Steven Spielberg's hand prints!
Me next to the best star here!!
Hangin' out at the Kodak Theatre
Hollywood sign on the hills
Our Hotel in LA
Walking around at Siggraph
Matt and I at Siggraph
Sony sketching booth
Someone in a light suit for motion capture
The Apple booth
A cool motion capture Pirate dude
More motion capture pirate action
Super cool rotation screen in the Emerging Technologies exhibit
Cool portable map screens in the Emerging Technologies exhibit
Alex heading back to Canada