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I am playing Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare on the pc. This is just practice for when I get my copy of CoD:MW2 for christmas. Anyways. In the beginning of the game, you have to go through a training course which based on your final time, suggests a game setting for you. They say in the game the record from one of the NPCs is 19 seconds. I played it for about 10 minutes and got extremely close, 19.5 seconds, then 19.25 seconds.

I had a short talk with eidred about it and he says:

Frozen: i cant get less than 19.25 seconds on the training thing
Eidred: it's not possible
Eidred: lol
Frozen: says you
Eidred: no it isn't actually possible
Frozen: i got 19.5
Eidred: they did that just to make that SAS guy sound cool

But i tried again. and sure enough, i beat it. and not just by a fraction mind you! but a whole second!

Frozen: 18.25!
Eidred: oh wow
Eidred: lol
Frozen: son of a bitch
Frozen: i got it.
Eidred: you seriously are determined i take it
Frozen: "that was better. not great, but better."

Screenie for mah proofs.

I am proud.

I finished my 3D lighting and texturing project, waited till the last minute to do it and used every minute I had to the moment I left the house to drive to class. I began seriously working on it this past Saturday (11.28). I had 4 weeks to complete it, and I started the first week I got it, but I didn’t put enough effort in at that time to get any considerable amount of work done. I thought the process through too many times and let that get the best of me, thinking that it will go quick because “all i have to do is texture and light!” easy. But no! Once I actually made an attempt to do it, the work did not stop. I would finish unmapping one piece, feel all proud, zoom out.. and realize I still have to do 30 more pieces.

Unmapping a 3D model (or making a UV map) is basically making a single picture which shows all sides of the object so you can paint it. (Like a coloring book.) Once you color it, the mapping is already registered to that particular object and when you reapply it, it wraps back around the model and your coloring is displayed in the exact spots, making it look like a believable object and not just a gray blob.

So! This post is about my 3D lighting and texturing final. Have a look.

Day and night final renders.

I want to become a better artist on paper, so I am going to be going through tutorials and practice with the goal of being able to do realistic representation pieces.
Here is an eye I did based off the tutorial posted here.

I am also changing my theme up, and I will be posting more frequent starting today.

Hello internet. I have been gone, I am aware of this. I have had a busy week with work, school, and doing things socially. This weekend I got about 10 hours of sleep from Friday night till Monday morning here. That is just fun, isn’t it? I am feeling pretty good too if I do say so myself. Anyways! I am going to be busy again this week and probably the week after as I work on some final projects for classes. I have to learn a guitar piece to perform and be graded on (Spanish Study) and about 4 pieces for a class concert we are doing. Those need to be learned in less than 2 weeks. I also have a paper due Wednesday and a final exam the following week. Gotta read 7 chapters for that, it will be fun. I have 2 government quizzes and an exam in the coming week or so as well, I’m not worried about that class. I have to finish a presentation for a product I have been designing for my Interaction Design course all year next Thursday, I think that will go smooth as well.. and finally…. I have to put in about 30 man hours of work into my final lighting and texturing project. I am supposed to by this week have most of the texturing done, and i am still only unwrapping it. Here is a picture.

Wish me luck.

I figured I would take this time to update you all with my classwork from my lighting and texturing course. The previous week i had to create realistic lighting for an outdoor scene for both day and night. The scene was already modeled for me and had textures. All I had to do was place the lights. Not too hard…

Here are the pictures from both the day and night that I did.

And for this weeks assignment that is due tomorrow (I actually finished it before the day has started!) I had to take my night and day scene and render them into a 1 second animated zoom clip. Which is one of the simplest forms of animation I have done, i had to make the water move and zoom into the scene. Not hard. The only pain is I have to render the scene frame by frame (Thank you for being automatic!) and it takes a while. My computer is (not surprisingly) extremely faster than the school computers. What would take those 1 hour to render 30 frames, takes me only about 15 minutes. Granted.. tonight I made a lot of mistakes and had to render the day scene out 5 times before I got it right (I had some weird settings on that was making it grainy) but! The speed of my computer has allowed me to perform those renders and be able to make changes before the due date has come around. If it took as long as it did at school, I would have to settle for something mediocre!

Here are the links to the YouTube. 1 second long, nothing special, you will get a taste though.

Day: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R-GYnKsQ6L8
Night: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jS6KFgXjzBY

I got an email from the main 3D modeling/animation instructor at my college inviting me to an instructor-invite-only course next spring. The class will be doing texturing, lighting, and rendering of an animated short lasting anywhere from 30-60 seconds. It is a collaborative project with another class overseas in Germany doing the modeling and animation part. So.. class is going to be 8:30am, lasting till 11:15am so we can communicate with them. Thats gonna make for an early Thursday for me as I live a good 30 minutes away, meaning I gotta leave house at 7:30 to be on time with traffic and such.

I am contacting you because you have either done great work in my 3327
class or the section which Crystal instructs. I would like to offer
each of you an invitation to join the animation studio course this
coming spring to gain invaluable experience in animation production.
This class will not be open to the public and I am hand picking
everyone based on their past work.

The email was sent to only 12 students (thats including myself) and only 4 of the 12 are from my class (Crystals). My class has a good 30-32 students, and im sure his has something similar, so out of say 65 students, I was picked.

That is awesome.

I have been eating at my local Panda Express for years. I started the day it opened, and I make at least a monthly trip for some good eats. The grand opening was pretty memorable to me, with a person chilling in a panda costume waving at cars driving by, my family and I decided to stop there for lunch. I even remember what i got! White rice, their famous Orange chicken, and a side of Beef and broccoli. I went home full as can be, and still hungry for more even though my stomach couldn’t fit it. A few hours later, i decided to grab it for dinner as well. Thats right. Grand opening, i get lunch AND dinner.

It is right down the street from where I live, and I loved their orange chicken so much I started going in every time I had the time for it. Dinner breaks at work, I would be there. Weekends for lunch, I would be there! Summer time, nearly every day. I was obsessed! Sadly. They changed chefs, and that irresistible orange chicken changed flavors slightly and I was no longer hooked. I still love it and all, but its just not as good as it was. Oh well!

So I am pretty simple when i go there. All i want is their orange chicken, and some white rice to go along with it. Cool thing is once you get your receipt, their is a survey you can take to improve your local Panda Express and get a free entree the next time you come in when you buy another 2-entree plate. Unlimited times you can do that, I save my receipts and do it every time.

I don’t go nearly as often as I used to, generally the only times now are whenever Eidred and I decide to hang out. Which just so happens to usually be around lunch time. Here is an old picture I took a few months back from my phone of mine and Eidred’s plates. We both get the same thing, and this is just the 2-entree plate. Pretty damn massive for the price we pay, which is just under $7. To walk away full and satisfied, its worth it. No way can you get the same feeling from some other fast food place like McDonalds. Those type of “fast-food” services just make you feel sick when you eat too much.

Yesterday I was sitting in my car between classes. I pulled out my convenient pocket camera and decided to make my first vlog! I recorded 10 mins of talking, but it wasn’t that entertaining. I need topics for my vlogs! They will get better. It starts with the first one anyways. Well. Here you are!