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Jun. 10th, 2007 01:56 amSomething me, and meteru have been hashing out in private for a long time that will be making an appearance at some point. One of the things we have been working on is convincing weather within 3d artwork without having to postwork it in. Below is the first major test run....
( A Winters Requiem )
But yes, I have figured it out....and it is sweet.
meteru have been hashing out in private for a long time that will be making an appearance at some point. One of the things we have been working on is convincing weather within 3d artwork without having to postwork it in. Below is the first major test run....( A Winters Requiem )
But yes, I have figured it out....and it is sweet.
Thoughts across the airports...
May. 19th, 2007 01:15 am(Kind of a running commentary from Hartford to O'hare.)
Bored out of my mind, for starters. Flight doesn't leave until 7pm...and the rules say I can't check my baggage in over four hours before the plane takes off. I'm sitting here in the lobby of the airport right now charging up and playing around.
The day hasn't been a total loss so far though, training is done for starters. In addition I got to make the acquaintance of a very nice Scottish Terrier who was recovering his equilibrium from his first airplane flight. Both owner and canine did just fine, by the way. The only bad thing was explaining to the canine that he couldn't get out of the carrier and investigate the pickup lanes in front of the terminal.
The soundtrack for today has been weird...airline announcements, cellphone chatter, machine driven servos, the high scree sound of an industrial laser running at top speed, and The Dreamsides "The Quest" blasting at max volume through my headphones. Oh, and I almost forgot to mention the yammering of transportation authority messages that are doing their damnedest to penetrate my music.
I have no idea what the alert level is right now, though I know it was being raised to Ernie, from Bert when I was getting on the plane back in Indiana last Sunday. I still have the O'hare Airport dance to go through before I can get back and see the cat...which will make it around midnight by the time I am home for the day.
I'm getting a great deal of amusement out of two people walking around talking on their cellphones right now. Both of them are doing the bluetooth headset thing, and for the longest time I couldn't see the headsets from where I am sitting. Two people, two totally different conversations...dueling lunatics in the airport shouting their self importance to the heavens...and a group of people milling about who really couldn't give a fuck..
More than likely there will be no comic for Saturday. I'm running on approximately 3 hours of sleep...and an airport is no place to do develop anything important. Especially with the scale of what I am working on right now. To pull off the current section I am in right now...I am having to use multiple working copies of the scene files, all of which are set up for different configurations of characters and events. Just another way of dealing with the limitations of having a lot of people in a section...and only two gigs of RAM to play with.
I'm also playing with Poser right now, as well. I finally got around to nabbing the Apollo Maximus character last night and it appears to have some potential. Of course, whole hell of a lot of people have already found that out by now...but in all honesty, since it is free now I figured it was worth giving it a whirl. I need to hunt down some good textures to work with it though...or do some experimentation with some stuff I have floating around.
Did you know that, at least in Connecticut, airport cops are riding bicycles now? Personally, I find that to be cooler than the Segway riding dudes I scoped out in Ohare last Sunday.
A lady out of the blue passed me the headphones of her iPod and I found out that she was listening to Mark Knopflers "Rag Pickers Dream" album. In fulfilling my part of a fad that I thought was totally media created, I passed her mine for a listen. At the time I was running Knopfler myself: "Silvertown Blues". She gave me a smile, gave me my headphones back...and disappeared forever.
***
Cleared the gauntlet...gear reloaded...crashed out on the floor in a corner of the terminal writing. Carrara and Poser are percolating in the background as I use the time.
I'm right across from the US Airlines club rght now, and every so often a person enters or leaves. From what I have seen so far, airline clubs seem to have a clientele that is largely composed of senior citizens. Of course, that may just be a gross generalization based on age and locality. I have no statistical evidence to support my claim. But i gotta tell ya: a whole hell of a lot of people that have been coming out of there are in the Geritol set.
Off to my side are two ladies in their early twenties. Other than being absolutely striking, they are both not talking on cellphones which I find to be particularly amazing. The two of them are at one of the windows by the gate and occasionally they steal sidelong glances at me as I'm putting together artwork on the terminal carpet. On my left hand side is a business man who is crashed out about ten feet away from me, sharing the same outlet. He bares more than a passing resemblance to the Jamaican shuttle driver I was talking marijuana, and the legalization of such with earlier today. His voice though, is pure Oxford. As is the suit which shouts"Saville Row" to anybody that has the ears to hear it. Getting hungry as the last panel of Saturdays strip finishes up. Looks like there may be a strip tomorrow after all.
***
"It doesn't even make any sense to me anymore," he said. "There's too much of a disconnect between whats really going on in pieces of the job market and the performance of the Dow."
I nod sagely, and do my best to pretend to know what the hell he's talking about. Things can get a little surreal when you have had only seven hours of sleep in the last 48.
I'm sitting at a little airport pub called "Last Resort". Of course, calling it a pub is definitely risking giving it delusions of grandeur. It's a small, open air bar crammed with tables and chairs and a whole passel of business types. I'm sitting next to a financial rep from Deloit and Touche with a Sam Adams in his hand. He's been making it last as we both wait for food and watch the financial reports. Silver is resting on top of my feet as my new single serving friend is tapping away at a Thinkpad in front of him. The waitress calls out for a"PeeNO" at one of the back tables. The surrealality meter goes into red line as the TV flicks over to FOX NEWS and pictures of Joey Buttafucco and Amy Fisher assault my consciousness.
"We're coming up on 9 billion people, a whole hell of a lot of them don't even have safe drinking water, and we're worrying about what these two fucktards have to say," I comment to my drinking companion.
"Its just obfuscation," he says. "Things happen, we notice and get mad, and then somebody throws something on to the news to distract us from lynching someone. You just wait, James. The next time the government screws up, or we find out that we're now all eating soylent green and that it is really people...just wait, we'll have another sextape from some starlet...or somebody will throw something out there."
I thought about that for a couple minutes after he settled his tab and left. I did my best to put it out of my mind, I don't need to be any more bitter and cynical. In the process of putting it out of my mind, I got my comic done.
***
Waiting in line at O'Hare Airport in the hopes of obtaining a tasty beverage for myself, when I heard the intercom inform us that Homeland Security had changed the threat level to Orange. At the end of the message, as I was reaching for my soda, I heard a number of different, unconnected people in the crowd around me say loud enough to be heard: "...and as always, England prevails."
Me thinks that the American people are getting little cynical about the war effort.
***
And in the end...the motherfuckers lost my goddamn luggage.
Bored out of my mind, for starters. Flight doesn't leave until 7pm...and the rules say I can't check my baggage in over four hours before the plane takes off. I'm sitting here in the lobby of the airport right now charging up and playing around.
The day hasn't been a total loss so far though, training is done for starters. In addition I got to make the acquaintance of a very nice Scottish Terrier who was recovering his equilibrium from his first airplane flight. Both owner and canine did just fine, by the way. The only bad thing was explaining to the canine that he couldn't get out of the carrier and investigate the pickup lanes in front of the terminal.
The soundtrack for today has been weird...airline announcements, cellphone chatter, machine driven servos, the high scree sound of an industrial laser running at top speed, and The Dreamsides "The Quest" blasting at max volume through my headphones. Oh, and I almost forgot to mention the yammering of transportation authority messages that are doing their damnedest to penetrate my music.
I have no idea what the alert level is right now, though I know it was being raised to Ernie, from Bert when I was getting on the plane back in Indiana last Sunday. I still have the O'hare Airport dance to go through before I can get back and see the cat...which will make it around midnight by the time I am home for the day.
I'm getting a great deal of amusement out of two people walking around talking on their cellphones right now. Both of them are doing the bluetooth headset thing, and for the longest time I couldn't see the headsets from where I am sitting. Two people, two totally different conversations...dueling lunatics in the airport shouting their self importance to the heavens...and a group of people milling about who really couldn't give a fuck..
More than likely there will be no comic for Saturday. I'm running on approximately 3 hours of sleep...and an airport is no place to do develop anything important. Especially with the scale of what I am working on right now. To pull off the current section I am in right now...I am having to use multiple working copies of the scene files, all of which are set up for different configurations of characters and events. Just another way of dealing with the limitations of having a lot of people in a section...and only two gigs of RAM to play with.
I'm also playing with Poser right now, as well. I finally got around to nabbing the Apollo Maximus character last night and it appears to have some potential. Of course, whole hell of a lot of people have already found that out by now...but in all honesty, since it is free now I figured it was worth giving it a whirl. I need to hunt down some good textures to work with it though...or do some experimentation with some stuff I have floating around.
Did you know that, at least in Connecticut, airport cops are riding bicycles now? Personally, I find that to be cooler than the Segway riding dudes I scoped out in Ohare last Sunday.
A lady out of the blue passed me the headphones of her iPod and I found out that she was listening to Mark Knopflers "Rag Pickers Dream" album. In fulfilling my part of a fad that I thought was totally media created, I passed her mine for a listen. At the time I was running Knopfler myself: "Silvertown Blues". She gave me a smile, gave me my headphones back...and disappeared forever.
***
Cleared the gauntlet...gear reloaded...crashed out on the floor in a corner of the terminal writing. Carrara and Poser are percolating in the background as I use the time.
I'm right across from the US Airlines club rght now, and every so often a person enters or leaves. From what I have seen so far, airline clubs seem to have a clientele that is largely composed of senior citizens. Of course, that may just be a gross generalization based on age and locality. I have no statistical evidence to support my claim. But i gotta tell ya: a whole hell of a lot of people that have been coming out of there are in the Geritol set.
Off to my side are two ladies in their early twenties. Other than being absolutely striking, they are both not talking on cellphones which I find to be particularly amazing. The two of them are at one of the windows by the gate and occasionally they steal sidelong glances at me as I'm putting together artwork on the terminal carpet. On my left hand side is a business man who is crashed out about ten feet away from me, sharing the same outlet. He bares more than a passing resemblance to the Jamaican shuttle driver I was talking marijuana, and the legalization of such with earlier today. His voice though, is pure Oxford. As is the suit which shouts"Saville Row" to anybody that has the ears to hear it. Getting hungry as the last panel of Saturdays strip finishes up. Looks like there may be a strip tomorrow after all.
***
"It doesn't even make any sense to me anymore," he said. "There's too much of a disconnect between whats really going on in pieces of the job market and the performance of the Dow."
I nod sagely, and do my best to pretend to know what the hell he's talking about. Things can get a little surreal when you have had only seven hours of sleep in the last 48.
I'm sitting at a little airport pub called "Last Resort". Of course, calling it a pub is definitely risking giving it delusions of grandeur. It's a small, open air bar crammed with tables and chairs and a whole passel of business types. I'm sitting next to a financial rep from Deloit and Touche with a Sam Adams in his hand. He's been making it last as we both wait for food and watch the financial reports. Silver is resting on top of my feet as my new single serving friend is tapping away at a Thinkpad in front of him. The waitress calls out for a"PeeNO" at one of the back tables. The surrealality meter goes into red line as the TV flicks over to FOX NEWS and pictures of Joey Buttafucco and Amy Fisher assault my consciousness.
"We're coming up on 9 billion people, a whole hell of a lot of them don't even have safe drinking water, and we're worrying about what these two fucktards have to say," I comment to my drinking companion.
"Its just obfuscation," he says. "Things happen, we notice and get mad, and then somebody throws something on to the news to distract us from lynching someone. You just wait, James. The next time the government screws up, or we find out that we're now all eating soylent green and that it is really people...just wait, we'll have another sextape from some starlet...or somebody will throw something out there."
I thought about that for a couple minutes after he settled his tab and left. I did my best to put it out of my mind, I don't need to be any more bitter and cynical. In the process of putting it out of my mind, I got my comic done.
***
Waiting in line at O'Hare Airport in the hopes of obtaining a tasty beverage for myself, when I heard the intercom inform us that Homeland Security had changed the threat level to Orange. At the end of the message, as I was reaching for my soda, I heard a number of different, unconnected people in the crowd around me say loud enough to be heard: "...and as always, England prevails."
Me thinks that the American people are getting little cynical about the war effort.
***
And in the end...the motherfuckers lost my goddamn luggage.
Random thoughts...
May. 8th, 2007 11:45 pmFrom artwork last night...to a case of the blahs tonight. Mind running at twelve millions miles a minute...and sleep is a long way off. Still twelve million things for me to take care of and a long way to go on other things as well. A couple of special projects to do, plus some ideas to bat around. Trapped in your own head is a terrible place to be.
Three more days of work and then it is the weekend and out of town for me. I'm hoping that will help.
Three more days of work and then it is the weekend and out of town for me. I'm hoping that will help.
I swear man, you and I just feed off each other at times ;)
As a result of our conversation about replicators...
( Lord of Ruin )
As a result of our conversation about replicators...
( Lord of Ruin )
I'm still around...
May. 3rd, 2007 01:19 amI'm still here...
Things have been quiet for the most part the last few weeks or so. I've been spending most of my last few weeks dealing with Plasma and Oxygas cutting machines long distance. Most of what has been running through my head lately is the same type of scattered observations that make up my internal monologue.
Things have been quiet for the most part the last few weeks or so. I've been spending most of my last few weeks dealing with Plasma and Oxygas cutting machines long distance. Most of what has been running through my head lately is the same type of scattered observations that make up my internal monologue.
- I've got Connecticut the week after next...if it wasn't for business...I would be hard pressed to come up with a reason to go there in the first place.
- I have come to the conclusion that I like bluetooth cellphone headsets. Especially when you don't notice them at first, and you assume that what you are seeing is some lunatic talking out loud to the voices in their brain. It seems to me to be an accurate portrayal of the world :)
- If DAZ would make a human realistic figure that was a low on resource use as Aiko 3, I would be a very happy panda. V4 sure as hell ain't it...it definitely uses a lot of horses....I'm definitely apprehensive of what this is going to mean for the upcoming Micheal upgrade.
- I don't watch all that much in the way of televison...but I have definitely become enthralled with "The Wire".
- I am cursing the gods over the fact that Coca Cola discontinued Black Cherry Vanilla Coke. Cherry Vanilla Dr. Pepper is a decent substitute...but BCVC was my favorite soda of all time. When I am in an experimental mood, I think I may try to put together my own. When I get it done, I will post the recipe :)
- The one fashion weakness I have is for wristwatches...and I must admit that I absolutely lust after the Tag Heuer Carrera. Absolutely flawless workmanship from what I have seen. It's just a pity it costs so damn much.
- And furthermore I curse everyone who was in favor of making my section of Indiana go to Eastern Daylight Time. We are 90 fucking miles from Chicago, we do not need to be on the same time as New York City.
- I'm trying to get over the fact that Requiem is coming up on it's 1000th comic. In retrospect, it kinda blows my mind a bit, looking at all the different pieces of software I have went through so far in the making of this nihilistic epic ;)
- I am noting with a great deal of sadness that my local area is slowly running out of abandoned buildings to explore. Urban renewal has taken most of the cool ones away.
- The techie side of me is mourning the discontinuation of the Dell Axim PDA line. Probably the best thing to come out of Dell too...a great value for the money. The thing is it's all about the smart phone now. Despite the fact that they are underpowered on the CPU side and you can't check your notes and contact list while you are talking to someone...or the fact that not everybody wants or needs a cellphone....Still ebay has a number of them in good shape still available...and there is an interesting one at HP that looks good too...It may be time for me to step up to something like a Treo eventually. The idea of broadband conectivity with an actual usable pda type platform is very appealing to me.
- Does anybody do a smartphone that has an 802.11b connnection in it?
Art night tonight...followed by a three day weekend that starts tomorrow.
Oh, and crab stuffed baked potato from the Madison Oyster Bar is one of the things that makes life worth living :)
I may be heading out to Connecticut here soon as well for more job training here soon. Things are going exceptionally well on that front at any rate...I just hope that when I get out there, it is warmer than it is here.
Oh, and crab stuffed baked potato from the Madison Oyster Bar is one of the things that makes life worth living :)
I may be heading out to Connecticut here soon as well for more job training here soon. Things are going exceptionally well on that front at any rate...I just hope that when I get out there, it is warmer than it is here.
That was weird....
Mar. 31st, 2007 12:24 amI just had a five minute staring match with a local racoon while I was out on my smoke break.
After five minutes had passed we declared it a draw and both, politely, went on our merry way. Oh course, you know you're standing still when the racoon gets within twenty feet of you before he notices you are there.
The weekend is finally here though...and I think I am finally going to go see 300 this weekend. :)
After five minutes had passed we declared it a draw and both, politely, went on our merry way. Oh course, you know you're standing still when the racoon gets within twenty feet of you before he notices you are there.
The weekend is finally here though...and I think I am finally going to go see 300 this weekend. :)
Things have over all been quiet lately.
Lotta work, lotta art, lotta music going in the background lately. I've been spending my time rediscovering a lot of music I had forgotten about over the years, watching my cat play, and thinking.
Maybe too much thinking :)
Renderosity did a feature on all of us cartoonists for the two year anniversary of the comic page. I've also gotten a number of friendly comments about the Star article as well.
As for me...I've come out the other side. Now I just gotta figure out what came with me, and what stayed behind.
Lotta work, lotta art, lotta music going in the background lately. I've been spending my time rediscovering a lot of music I had forgotten about over the years, watching my cat play, and thinking.
Maybe too much thinking :)
Renderosity did a feature on all of us cartoonists for the two year anniversary of the comic page. I've also gotten a number of friendly comments about the Star article as well.
As for me...I've come out the other side. Now I just gotta figure out what came with me, and what stayed behind.
Requiem made the newspaper today!!!!
Mar. 7th, 2007 11:42 amWe got mentioned in an article on webcomics on the front page of the Indianapolis Star today!!!
You can read the article at the link below.
http://www.indystar.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20070307/ENTERTAINMENT/703070426
You can read the article at the link below.
http://www.indystar.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20070307/ENTERTAINMENT/703070426
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Mar. 5th, 2007 09:39 pmMade it to Cincinnati in one piece...other than getting caught in late lunch rush hour traffic on 465 in Indianapolis that is ;) Car ran fine...and Sirius Satellite Radio Channel 22 Firstwave kept me company the whole way down :)
It's dark in Ohio right now...I'm up on the northwest side of the city, watching the traffic on the Interstate below. Right now it's comics and the Carusobot on CSI Miami assaulting my consciousness.
Also got my first piece of fan mail from a gentleman in Beijing today. It's nice to hear that we aren't being blocked by the Great Firewall of China.
It's dark in Ohio right now...I'm up on the northwest side of the city, watching the traffic on the Interstate below. Right now it's comics and the Carusobot on CSI Miami assaulting my consciousness.
Also got my first piece of fan mail from a gentleman in Beijing today. It's nice to hear that we aren't being blocked by the Great Firewall of China.
Hey meteru
Feb. 7th, 2007 10:23 pmDo you know of anybody who has put together a model of a zippo lighter? (And one that doesn't cost in excess of $50?) I can find disposable ones...but they don't look quite right for what I want to do.
It's almost staggering to me just how many people have resurfaced in one way or another out of the past recently. News comes in waves it seems....and tonight I keep on getting word from both sides of the pond. Marriages, deaths, impending birthdays, and brushes with cancer. I know this stuff happens everyday...it's just seems like the last two or three days I keep on getting word and news on all kinds of things all at once.
Changes come whether we like it or not, and it seems like everyone I know is in some kind of flux right now. I'm glad as hell for a bunch of them...it's nice to see some people finally figuring out what they want to do with things. It's like seeing them finally figure out what that deep sense of dissatisfaction that has been fucking with them for years is. Congratulations on the impending nuptuals as well R.H., I'm just flat out amazed that a lady actually managed to tie you down with out using superglue and bungie cord.
Other changes have just blown my mind...the last of the surviving grand uncles on my dad's side of the family has just made his 100th birthday, one of the Swedish family members is undergoing cancer treatment, I've seen fires and floods, and exploding air hoses in the last few days. And to top it all off, our smirking chimp of a president lied to us yet again.
Me and the Mighty Misfit are still here though, and still writing as well. There is a lot to go on a number of projects...and a number of things that need to get squared away on a number of fronts. BUt we are still kicking it though, that I can guarantee.
At any rate, all the best to everyone...and keep out of the dark places, you could be eaten by a grue.
Changes come whether we like it or not, and it seems like everyone I know is in some kind of flux right now. I'm glad as hell for a bunch of them...it's nice to see some people finally figuring out what they want to do with things. It's like seeing them finally figure out what that deep sense of dissatisfaction that has been fucking with them for years is. Congratulations on the impending nuptuals as well R.H., I'm just flat out amazed that a lady actually managed to tie you down with out using superglue and bungie cord.
Other changes have just blown my mind...the last of the surviving grand uncles on my dad's side of the family has just made his 100th birthday, one of the Swedish family members is undergoing cancer treatment, I've seen fires and floods, and exploding air hoses in the last few days. And to top it all off, our smirking chimp of a president lied to us yet again.
Me and the Mighty Misfit are still here though, and still writing as well. There is a lot to go on a number of projects...and a number of things that need to get squared away on a number of fronts. BUt we are still kicking it though, that I can guarantee.
At any rate, all the best to everyone...and keep out of the dark places, you could be eaten by a grue.
Something new to look at...
Jan. 21st, 2007 10:23 pm( The Wayfarer )
A test of an upcoming comic panel...cut 'cause this is a little big...
I may end up doing a version of this as a print at some future date.
A test of an upcoming comic panel...cut 'cause this is a little big...
I may end up doing a version of this as a print at some future date.
All commitments are done for the night....
Three comics knocked out this evening....
Need nicotine, soda and sleep in that order.
And I need nurses...uninhibited, pretty, nurses...
Or maybe I just need some fucking sleep.
Good night all.
PS: Since I actually have a days worth of buffer up right now...I am not going to do the smart thing and try to build on it. Nope, tomorrow is going to be free form art day. Which means that you people out there should get something cool to look at tomorrow.
And now sleep.
Three comics knocked out this evening....
Need nicotine, soda and sleep in that order.
And I need nurses...uninhibited, pretty, nurses...
Or maybe I just need some fucking sleep.
Good night all.
PS: Since I actually have a days worth of buffer up right now...I am not going to do the smart thing and try to build on it. Nope, tomorrow is going to be free form art day. Which means that you people out there should get something cool to look at tomorrow.
And now sleep.
