Art, Thoughts, and Adventures

I Made a Game

Braden — Thu, 24 May 2012 07:48:28 +0000

I made this for my girlfriend for our one year anniversary. It’s difficult by design. Didn’t want her to beat it too quickly. :) (If you don’t know, Unity Webplayer is really cool. It lets you play Unity games in your browser, kind of like Flash but way better) Please view the full post to [...]

Experiments with 3D Paintings

Braden — Fri, 13 Apr 2012 16:01:21 +0000

I wanted to make a painting that appeared 3D, and decided to give it a shot: Youtube destroyed the quality, but it does look a little better in HD. Once I relearned how to work Maya, it was actually pretty simple. I had an idea in my head for the painting, made a model in [...]

Movie Poster

Braden — Sun, 15 Jan 2012 12:24:34 +0000

I made this for my girlfriend for Christmas. She loved it. :)

Some Thoughts on After Images

Braden — Wed, 16 Mar 2011 09:55:56 +0000

I recently realized something interesting about after images. You know, when you look at something for awhile and an image of it seems to get burned into your vision, but in the opposite colors. If you don’t know what I’m talking about, here is an example. Give it a try. Stare at the white dot [...]

Dragons and Flowers

Braden — Tue, 01 Mar 2011 12:23:11 +0000

(click for bigger versions) Part of a painting I’ve been working on: And another painting. A few of you may know who this guy is: Details:

Foggy Park

Braden — Sun, 27 Feb 2011 10:02:37 +0000

There was a really foggy morning, and I managed to run down to the park and snap some pictures before it all dissipated. Unfortunately, half the pictures I took got deleted by an idiot (me). Here are the survivors:

Stereoscopic 3D Photos

Braden — Thu, 06 Jan 2011 13:30:42 +0000

Finally! Technology that lets you see 3D without glasses! Vivid, detailed images in glorious 3D with nothing but an ordinary computer screen and your eyeballs! …Cross your eyes. There’s no need to stress or strain, in fact it works better if you think of it as relaxing your eyes. Watch the two dots split into [...]

Lunar Eclipse Timelapse Video

Braden — Thu, 23 Dec 2010 19:48:10 +0000

My timelapse of the lunar eclipse on the winter solstice on 12-21-2010 as seen from my place in Dallas, Texas. It’s not the best one out there, but I’m pretty happy with it considering it was cloudy and I have no telescopes or fancy moon watching equipment, just a tripod and a camcorder. Luckily the [...]

Surrealistic

Braden — Sat, 18 Dec 2010 01:57:23 +0000

I haven’t been posting many pieces of art, so here is an abstract thing. Actually its from another painting I’m working on. It’s a part I decided to scrap, but I couldn’t bare to part with it, so I turned it into an surrealistic piece. Points if you can guess what it is. :)

Harry Potter Special Effects Tests

Braden — Mon, 22 Nov 2010 10:50:24 +0000

A few short clips of Austin Peel and me testing out what we can do. Behind the scenes: We used a cat instead of magic. But only in some parts. We used After Effects to enhance the magic. It helped with things like color correction and reducing lens flair. In the flying scene I wasn’t [...]