Spiral Pocus

One of my former students.

Well it isn’t really complete; it needs a lot of tweeking and fixing but I am not going to work on it any more.  I need to move on and learn some more about 3D max – cameras, materials, lighting, etc….  This has  been a good project and it came together better than I expected [...]

Yes I am still working on animating a chess game. I finally modeled the knight and I am not real pleased with the result but you can’t see the modeling mistakes in the animation. I played with animating the camera some more and it is really hard to manipulate it just right to [...]

Here is my third in a series of animated chess moves. This project is enabling me to learn more about 3D max – the god software I will be teaching next semester. Today I made an effort to refine the lighting, materials and camera moves on my chessboard. It is looking better and [...]

Here is a second video showing my progress in learning 3D max. I finished modeling all the chess pieces except for the knight. It is the hardest so I am saving it for last.  Creating things that don’t really exist is really fun.
I added a spotlight and a camera. These were done as afterthoughts and [...]

I will be teaching 3D Modeling and Animation next year.  Since I know nothing about it,  I modeled a chess board and the pawn.  I completed the first move with a targeted spotlight.  All this is really hard – meaning tedious.
When you add that third dimension, things get dicey.  Anyway this represents about three hours of [...]

Funny! Thanks JC

Cartoons were never the same after his era.

I laughed

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Not flash but javascript.  Drag your mouse from any corner and left click to flip the color – cool but probably not practical….???

Very cool physics simulation demo.  Drag the balls and adjust the settings  – nice….

Watch this animation toy ; It made me laugh.