Samiam's Scribble Pad

I just realised that I havent blogged in a while.

As a kid my Dad worked aboard in Algeria in a small community of Ksar Chellala

We are here in Wellington, here are some photos that Anna put up of us around the place

http://picasaweb.google.com/pipika71

I am working at Weta until late November.

after weeks of cutting stencils with precision, a windy night and poor lighting and poor workmanship have left my artwork for SALA not quite matching my expectations in my mind

at least I can resuse the stencils and have another go

But not before I leave for New Zealand

Sam

I found a reasonable solutionhere:

On Sunday, at 11:30 in the morning I presented to a group of about 30 hardcore sci fi fans about the visual effect production process.

It was basically a matter of telling the audience what goes into making visual effects, from the business, direction and technical.

They seemed to be fairly interested.

Overall I could have paced myself a bit better, but I probably could have played the reel for an hour and they would have been happy with that too

Last night we all trundled along to see the forth Terminator movie "Terminator Salvation"

Having worked on it from January through to the start of april for 12 weeks it was good to see our work on film for the first time.

My main gig was shader work as well as technical support, and lighting of the shots while the hunter killer laid on its side.

I was so busy scouting around the credits for people I knew, I missed my own name, so if you see it let me know.

I saw a few others that I knew from around the traps, Spanner, animating at ILM and Noah Vice at ILM

Yesterday, Dan Thompson, Fred Chapman, Cam Langs, Sara Henschke and myself from Rising Sun went for a visit to the students from AFTRS (Australian Film Radio and Television School) in Kensington.

Its in the same location where Rising Sun Pictures used to be.

The Students were really keen to soak up what we had to say, and for people making a start they seemed to be making a fair effort.

We went to the pub for a meal afterwards and it was good to catch up with someone in the industry in Adelaide besides colleagues at RSP.

A friend of mine was wondering about how to attach per particle expressions to particles via mel

so I wrote this script

Start by selecting a source image

This one was found on google images by searching for banana

Open the image in GIMP/Photoshop etc

Crop to 4:3

Resize to 160x120 or 120x160

Change the colour from RGB to greyscale

It should look like this now