Thought and Memory

Someone said that my computer must be powered on souls instead of electricity. 

I just love that ;)

Requiem is done for tomorrow, and Tunnelrunners is done for the Renderosity strip on Monday...

And now on to other art things...

The 3d content war is continuing a pace with the battle lines being drawn even as we speak.  On one side we have DAZ Studios with a huge content library, and the software catalog from Eovia under it's belt.  On the other we have E-Frontier with Poser 7 and Vue d'Esprit.

I have been watching things with a great deal of interest the last few weeks after noticing that several things that were being rendered/imported into Poser used almost double the RAM as the exact same items being used in DAZ Studio.  Now most people wouldn't call that too much of an issue, but when the size differential is 750 megs vs. 1.5-1.6 gigs, I say that there is a fucking issue.

Now tonight, I found out that the new Poser 7 breaks the Transposer plugin that Carrara 5 uses.  Transposer is what causes Requiem to be possible.  Without it, I am screwed.  Now things may end up being fixed with the advent of Carrara 6 which is right around the corner, but with the recent news that Eovia Software (the people that make Carrara) didn't end up licensing the SDK development pack from the Poser people for C6, I am more thna a bit nervous right now. 

From my perspective, it seems that E-Frontier is banking their marbles on Vue...which I think is a piece of shit.

I've ran Vue 5 and Vue 6 and have had nothing but problems.  Multiple program crashes, excessive memory use, and crippling performance have been pretty much all I have noticed on their end.  I don't care that LucasFilms is now using Vue in the production arena, what matters is what I can get out of it.

So far though, it is looking to me that an upgrade to Poser 7 will not happen for me unless C6 can handle it.  And I am looking at DAZ with a bit of uncertainty with regards to C6 as well...DAZ owns Bryce as well these days, and I am not entirely enamored with it (especially Bryce 5.5 which I bought and found to suck).

That's the state of the production line these days at any rate,  Carrara 5 Pro and Poser 6; and it looks like it will be staying that way for a while.

Tonight it has been Splinter Lake and the digital mechanics of building the perfect beach. 

Seven hours straight on a computer working, a two hour break, and then another run at the finish line.  Tomorrows comic is done, the Renderosity strip is almost nailed, and I have learned things.

One thing I have learned was how to control my temper as I listened to a global warming denialist recite the republican doctrine according to that inbred, oxycontin snorting fucktard Limbaugh in my local hangout/drinking establishment. 

Three cheers for temper control, I guess.

Oh, and according to this dick, Nixon was a good president.

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And a few other observations...

1. Has anybody out there but me noticed that singer Macy Gray sings like a female Fraggle with a really bad cold?
(oh, and in case you don't know what a Fraggle is... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fraggle_Rock   http://www.fragglerocker.com/

2. It's all about connection, and the things money can't buy...(meteru will know what I'm talking about)

3. I'm currently taking the new version of Fireworks for a test drive, and I have to say that it makes me a very, happy panda.  They actually improved it (which I didn't think was possible)

4. Obsidian canyons have recently been springing to mind lately as something I might visit in the digital art side of things.

5.  I am still working on the Requiem Tarot deck...I'm still hung up with The Hermit right now.  Yes, I am beating my head against the wall.  I know what I need to complete it, I just don't have it yet.

6.  With the recent work on Microholography and the development of 500GB's of storage on a DVD there may finally come a day when I can back up my Poser directory and comic art files on one disk.  Of course, this also means that a couple people I know will soon be making the ultimate mix DVD's ;)

7.  I have had Tracy Chapmans "Baby, Can I Hold You Tonight?" as my mental soundtrack for the last month or so.  Great song, and the memories from it are enough to almost kill me at times.

Been thinking about a few oddball projects lately...

With everything that has been going on, it's not something I need to be doing...yet the idea of a Requiem Tarot deck intrigues me.  I just might be able to put together an interesting slant on it  (especially with some of the characters and locations running through it.