I have finished the long part of creating my artwork for South Australian Living Artists Week 2010.
The piece will be either titled "Industry" or "Hive", im still trying to make up my mind.
Last week Anna, Maia and Myself travelled to Sydney to spend some time with my sister Emma and her wonderful partner Yann.
I have been introduced to HP Lovecraft but i recently found this instructional video for the kiddies
I hope you enjoy this introduction to the world of HP Lovecraft.
To me this author has an awesome mix where you can get enough description of his horror so your imagination can fill in the blanks.
Its surprising how much of this stuff has already leaking into popular culture without having ever read any of the original texts
A couple of weeks ago at work we discovered a neat trick in Nuke where you can take the RGB values from an image and mix them with the XYZ values from a position pass from renderman to create a point cloud of the front surface of a render. You can also use a P-reference pass to put a creature back into bind pose as a bunch of points. Which allows you to do neat things like 3d roto.
As a result we started thinking would there be a cool way to also display the backfacing surfaces and encode them into RGB and XYZ.
Tommorrow I fly out to Tokyo to show off the RSP reel and do a little bit of a demo Look Development on films.
In a few weeks time I am giving a technical demonstration in Ebisu Tokyo to the Vantan Design School.
I have decided to put together a little demonstration of look development that I can complete in front of a crowd of people.
I think I may have just found my answer that the control points are not points but face points
Like the difference between samples and points in Softimage.
I have never like the term texture verts or face normals, the term samples is a lot easier to swallow and less likely to confuse
This takes the in mesh and duplicates it and shuffles it around.
Its just a glorified instancer at the moment
I am trying to get the seed and random attributes on the outside of the code rather than the inside, but they wont budge
I made my first attempt at playing with the Maya API using Python as my C++ is still too sketchy, and doing stuff in python is far quicker, no need to reload Maya.
Anyway the example is lifted from the animCubeNode.py from the maya dev kit
I just added a new input plug.
The intention is to add three mesh inputs, and output a final mesh using thier properties as a feather/scale system:
