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I can haZ new skeeL

So if you watch my youtube vids you've seen the visuals I do for my homies Panthelion ... whose bassist is a fucking musical genius and who happens to be writing the score for HSM ^ ^ but anyway I've been doing visuals and last night was the first show for which I did visuals + lights... its was awesome and according to the peoples there I can haz a knack for like lights and colors and shit... but yeh... this is all leading up to the opera version of HSM that we will take on tour in 2011...oh wait I didn't tell you that....

Ahh I love messing with these uptight 3d guys ^ ^

So yesterday some d00d posted on the c4d forums on cgtalk about how Cinema 4d was "worthless" for animation and a "joke" So I replied with links to my recent work in an attempt to show that it is not worthless for animation and that quality work can be done with it.... and then some 3d guy with poor self confidence got offended by my mega E_go ^ ^ I'll probably be banned again within the day... but here's the details so far XD ------- M dot Strange wrote: (A bunch of links to my animation) Troyan Turner wrote: I say it after sitting through every animation festival. Most 3D artists shouldn't be story tellers. Lots of great technical execution, but I can only take this kind of masturbation in small doses. M dot Strange wrote: Are you so out of touch with younger audiences that you would call what I do masturbation? You must be... In using Cinema 4d to realize my vision I have built a strong international fanbase and have become an award winning internatio

The need fer speeD

So I knew at the end of March I have to go to Ireland to do animation workshops for kids 9-12 and 12-18 BUT now the trip will last 3 weeks as I stumble back into Europe for a bit... Sooooo it forced me to reassess my schedule cause like I WILL NOT let any of this push the HSM production back at all... So the past 3 days I have done 17 character models ^ ^ I can't say enough about how much I LOVE ZBRUSH and Cinema 4d w/Bodypaint....with the two packages you can quickly and EASILY create anything you can imagine AND with the help of Cactus Dan's plugins for Cinema 4d you can quickly and easily get those things ready to animate... Oh i should say I am just modelling and texturing right now.. I'll bone/skin/rig everything in May.. So the only hiccup in the c4d/zbrush workflow has been the render times for the spd maps BUT I was planning on using bumps for all but the closeups... thats just using the spd map in the bump channel BUT I started messing with turning the spd maps int

Technology in meh way!

Didn't I write some post a while back about how much I loved computers? Haha So yeh I thought I had it fixed but no...my 8 gigs shows as 6gb and there's all kinds of weird stuff going on with the board so I'm going to RMA it tomorrow because now 3 of the 4 dimm slots dont work...well two dont work at all and one only reports half the dimm... AND this board his ruined 3 dimm modules in the process... So away it goes before I have no working dimm slots. Now looking back since I had to buy 2x 4gb modules + other small things trying to work around the board and considering the time I've spent trying to fix it... If I had to do it over I would have just bought a premade workstation from somewhere....sigh... I tried to do it as cheap as possible but I failed. Most of my work is mirrored on render node #1 which has an 8800gt in it so I'll work on that until I get the board back and reassemble... So I won't lose much time...I just lose some FACE with my inner geek.

M dot machine SUX

So after loosing 2 of my 4 dimm slots a few months ago and popping in 2x 4gb modules to get my 8 gigs back.... I was working just now and my keyboard shortcuts were going haywire... like the number pad stopped working than keys were doing the wrong functions so I rebooted... And when I did the bios said 6gb of ram available... and so does the system...Sigh... So it seems like this mainboard just really wants to die.... I haven't installed anything or made any hardware changes recently... In the bios it says 644k of system memory?! And 6144 of extended memory...wtf is that about... Well yeh it suX...So I'll have to RMA the board and not have a workstation for a bit... I've been mirroring my work directory on one of my render nodes so I shouldn't lose much time/work. I just remembered before it went haywire...the mouse was getting stuck or jumping around and doing weird things for about an hour... then the number pad stopped working... then keys stopped working correctly.

"Kakure-Oni" All kinds of awesome!

So I was sitting at the opening dinner at the Berlin talent campus and was introduced to a Japanese filmmaker named Yuki Saito... we talked a bit about samurai films and the like and he was nice enough to give me a copy of his short film "Kakure-Oni"... I got back to California and watched it and wow it is like pure win! He fuses the best things from the old samurai films with the best things from new skool anime styles and mixes in guys in monster suits BUT in the way its lit and shot its not cheesy at all...its awesome! Watch a sample on this page So Mega props to Saito-san and I hope to see a feature film by him in this style soon! The weirdest thing is that when I was in Japan last year I went to the Toei Samurai theme park...when I was there I loved the Samurai stunt show... and it just so happens that "Kaukure-Oni" was shot in the Toei theme park AND stars the cast of the Samurai stunt show! Also he told me about a filmmakers lab this fall in Kyoto where some

WhaT did I do?!?!

So I did a presentation in San Francisco a few weeks ago... I just remember it being kinda crazy... they posted the video but I haven't seen it yet because I'm in Berlin right now and the hotel interwebs connection is really slow... So that means YOU can be the first to see it and let me know if I went to far into the THIRD DIMENSION Oh yeh heres an interview I did at the same event

Coraline is Nice

I just came back from watching the new Henry Selick film "Coraline"...Selick is NOT best known for directing The Nightmare before Christmas... most people believe Tim Burton to be the director of that film but like... he wasn't... Selick is wildly imaginative... Look for his "Slow Bob" shorts from the 80's....really awesome stuff... but yeh I liked the look and feel of Coraline 9000x better the Corpse Bride... as a film I hated Corpse Bride but you can't deny the craftmanship and technique...its just the direction and writing that sux0rD ummmmm the story is going nowhere so now lets sing and dance! uhhhh yeah.... But yeh I loved the look and feel of Coraline because it was stop motion and acted like it... It reveled in the fact that it was hand made.... Yes Corpse bride was stopmtion but they did the facial animation in such a way that it looked exactly like cg stuff...I didn't like that...its like you might as well do Cg if your going for that "

Have meh shotList

So here's a shot list I'll soon be populating...along with 39 more for all the shots... So yeh from the animatic...which is broken up into sequences based on locations... i export EDL's from all the sequences than use the shot time info from that to fill the shotlist... while looking at the animatic itself to see who/what is in the scenes... The c1, c2, c3 is for Character 1,2,3...So i list the 3 main characters in each shot for my own tracking purposes... but yeH... Fill the shotlists then GO!!!

Rule #1

Rule #1: Do whatever you want there are no rules... Ya know in art as it is in life most people feel the need to explain... the need to explain everything to the nth fuckinG detaiL over 9000 its no more fun because you analyzed, quantized and quantified it to DEF...anyway... As I'm creating characters for HSM I just do whatever I want... its like yeh this d00d is gonna be made out of metal and wood and have glowing fucking magma eyes just cause thats what I want to do right now... I might want to do something different next week and I will... I'm never afraid to follow my creative instincts...those are the thangs that make you unique... I have to laugh when people tell me "you need to learn how to take critiques" because they are pretty much saying you need to learn how to bend over and be someone's beehaTCH... why the fuck should you listen to anyone else? Its your art! if they have opinions let them go and do that to theY art...oh they don't have any? then t