I was reading Ryan Trowbridge blog A Character TD´s Random Thoughts and I really liked his idea of how you “become” a technical artist:
What is a technical artist? We are the artists that did not want to be held up by programmers so we would try to engineer our own way to finish the task, using any way possible that works. Hopefully…
I thought that was both humorous and true : )
I think it is magical when you are watching a movie and you find, or rather loose yourself to the story. It´s quite rare to find the stories that does, so I decided to collect some movies that have made me feel.
Il y a longtemps que je t´aime (2008)
Last week I started reading Mark Lutz book learning Pyhon. I can really recomend it ! It´s really pedagogic and gives alot of great examples. The main reason for me to learn Python is that the scripting capabilities of MEL is quite limited, when it comes to variable types, and alot of other things… The built in objects in Pyhon offers great flexibility and lets you process data much more easily then MEL lets you. A big thing in Python programming compared to other languages is that the variables don´t have a specific type they are just references to the built in objects which have types and methods associated to them. When “sketch coding” in Maya using Python you will never ever again get the annoying error “Invalid redeclaration of variable “$myVar” as a different type” that you get in MEL when changing the type of an already created variable. Bara en sån sak : )
Time is, as we all know, a really limiting factor of all the projects that we want to do. One thing that I will try to do more, or rather I want to do more is to post more video on current project/tutorials etc. I bought a relatively cheap microphone (JJlabs BMC-USB) from the music store Jam www.jam.se in Gothenburg. With that said time will tell if there will be some more video post : )
Who can resist a programming language named after Monty Python? Probably a lot of people, but I am really enjoying myself learning this powerful language ! Another esoteric amusement is the name of the Python IDE named “IDLE” after Eric Idle from Monty Python.
CAMBRIDGE, Mass. – November 3, 2009 — GenArts Inc., the premier provider of specialized visual effects software for the film, television and video industries, announced today a definitive agreement to acquire particleIllusion™ and all related products and technologies from wondertouch LLC. The acquisition includes particleIllusion SE, all Emitters and Pro Emitters, particleIllusion for AE, and all additional intellectual property from wondertouch LLC. As part of the acquisition, Alan Lorence, the former CEO of wondertouch and creator of particleIllusion, will join GenArts as a full-time developer.
This is pretty funny and really nerdy ! I was looking around the install directory of After Effects CS 4 and stumbled across a project called secret.aep. (C:\Program Files (x86)\Adobe\Adobe After Effects CS4\Support Files\Required\secret.aep). Of course I had to open that file to see what i was. It was a document of the people involved in developing AFX Cs 4 in the form of the periodic table. Like I said pretty funny and really nerdy and it put a big smile on my face !
