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2018-02-03T01:02:00.003-08:00

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Hunter x Hunter color page, Chapter 351 page 07

2017-04-02T23:13:00.000-07:00

It is now done.

Color x Color progress

2017-03-24T00:26:00.002-07:00

It's the Hunter x Hunter manga but with color added.

Here's my first one, Ch. 351 pg. 12

Original http://imgur.com/a/Sslpu

Second, Ch.351 pg. 18

Third, pg. 09

Fourth, pg. 07

I'll probably make more?
link originals again Original http://imgur.com/a/Sslpu

I even made a video with sweet music

Progress!

2013-01-17T23:58:00.003-08:00

So I followed a tutorial from Digital Tutors and ended up with this

Not the greatest thing ever, but I'm relatively proud of it.

Oh here's some old stuff I did a few months ago

Feed me a cat

2012-12-22T04:30:00.000-08:00

The past few days I've been rigging this character. Thankfully, I think I only have to do this one rig, then all of the characters in the game I'm helping make will be able to share this rig and share it's animations, thus saving me a metric shitload of time.

If this rig looks familiar to you, then you probably work at Valve. I "borrowed" their rig to use on this character and studied it's innermost secrets. Appearances can be deceiving though, the only thing I truly "stole" were the fairly generic control curves, which are pretty simple to create. The real meat of this rig I still had to do myself.

I had to resize and reposition all of the curves, redo all the constraints and the set driven keys, and was inspired to write a "ZeroGroup" script by looking at the way all of Valve's control curves were parented under groups to reset their transformation values, something I didn't know about before. I learned tons more by copying their rig's setup as well, using multiple IK handles in the feet to control rotation (which, if you use orient constraints, seems to conflict with the FK orient constraints in strange ways), I learned cool stuff like showing the display handles on the curves to make them easier to select, using empty groups in the feet to set different pivot points.

It's been a pretty great learning experience overall.

Many thanks to Valve for providing so many awesome examples of professional level work in the SDK files. They've helped so many people learn your trade and we're all extremely grateful!

Maya Script Thingy

2012-12-17T01:54:00.000-08:00

I like blogs. Today I made this script in Python that takes a bunch of things (for me specifically, it was control curves for a rig I'm making), and groups them, transferring their transformations (heh) on to the group, thereby zeroing out the transformations on the curves themselves. This is especially handy when you're positioning your curves in relation to your character, and you want to zero out their rotations while keeping the local rotation axis. You can't just use Freeze Transformation because it resets the object space rotation axis, which you kind of need to animate easily. It doesn't seem to work 100% perfectly, but it's good enough for me.

Anyway, here it is for anyone to use

# Zeros out controls by grouping them, the group takes the transformations
import maya.cmds as cmds

selection = cmds.ls(sl=True)
rotation = []
trans = []
for object in selection:
rotation = cmds.xform(object, q=True, ws=True, ro=True)
trans = cmds.xform(object, q=True, ws=True, t=True)

cmds.group( em=True, n = object + "ZeroGroup" )
cmds.xform( object + "ZeroGroup", ws=True, t=trans)
cmds.xform( object + "ZeroGroup", os=True, ro=rotation )

parentObject = cmds.listRelatives( object, parent = True )[0] # first find the parent of the given object

cmds.parent( object+"ZeroGroup", parentObject ) # parent the group to the parent of the given object
cmds.parent( object, object+"ZeroGroup" ) # now parent object to the group

Enjoy!

(p.s. if there's anything wrong with it let me know!)

Cr-48, A love story

2011-06-30T15:15:00.000-07:00

Last December, Google sent me their CR-48 netbook to test out and help improve. Well I can proudly say that I stuck with their Chrome operating system for 6 solid months, but the more I used it the more I realized it's limitations. Their "nothing but net" philosophy that inspires this computer just wasn't for me, I had to have application support and a decent file manager. I had to have... Windows!

It was a long complicated road, installing Windows 7 on this thing, but now that it is I've never been happier with this laptop. What I don't understand is why Google gave this laptop such nice hardware but gimped the operating system. You can still do a lot with just a 16 gigabyte hardrive.

But who am I to doubt Google's infinite wisdom?

A Sign of Things to Come (!?!?)

2011-06-17T22:52:00.000-07:00

I've been a little inactive here lately and for that I apologize, but I hope this can make up for it! My first ever youtube video and hopefully the first of many. Someday I want to look back on this and say "Wow! That looks awful!"

More progress

2011-06-12T14:19:00.000-07:00

Will be done in the next day or two so keep checking back! Not only that but I'm going to be posting a youtube videos of an animation in this test chamber and some other projects I've made over the last few months.

The next few days should be pretty eventful here on Test Blog Please Ignore!

Prepare for CUBE

2011-06-07T01:42:00.000-07:00

It's up to you to guide Cube around the things Cube can't go through.

CUBE

Quick and dirty update

2011-06-06T15:35:00.000-07:00

Lighting is hard. That laser glow is just way too intense but it's kinda nice in it's own way and I still need to work on making the light more evenly distributed. I'm thinking about decompiling whatever map this scene is from to see how Valve set up their lights. The environment is nowhere near finished, but fret not, the final scene will be done within the week.

Panels!

2011-06-03T05:14:00.000-07:00

You can't have an Aperture Approved Test Chamber without a panel or three!

The scale of everything is all off, but for an hours work it's not so bad. Obviously there's no "room" surrounding them yet, but that's why it's a WIP.

Many more updates to come!

Frickin' lasers!