Something...

...to make me feel better.

been having a wicked bout of hay fever this weekend. not as bad as they can get, but bad enough

i dont know how or why, but for some reason my antihistamine doesn't always work. almost as if the stuff that causes my allergies collect and reach a critical mass.
and BAM, i'm sick. usually i'll be sick for about a week. this time it was only 2 days. but still, it blows big hairy donkeyballs.
another great thing that evey bit of physical conditioning and stamina that i built up, has gone POOF...

which also blows.

but if that's the biggest problem i have right now, i guess i dont have a lot to whine about.

first world problems, i suppose.

Laptops...

...dont last forever.

Sometimes they need a fresh coating of windows. so today i'll be spending a good while reinstalling my laptop.

should be loads of fun :S

Concept art...

...is one of the new classes this year. That sounds really cool, right? It is, but...
we're supposed to draw something more then just a pretty picture. We need to convey a feeling, a mood. The final drawing has to be able to function like a pitch for a story, a movie, etc.

The problem is, I've never done something like that before. I have no idea how to do that and I am stuck. I just can't get a good idea. Nothing seems to fit.

Very annoying. Stupid brain....

Anatomy...

...is pretty damn complex.

But also really very fascinating.

We just started a new year at IGAD and one of my courses is human anatomy. We basically need to learn all of the bones and most of the muscles that humans have, in order to accurately portrait and animate a human.

The main project of this course is to re-create a piece of the human body, using nurbs and polygons. That should be interesting.  

Hardrives...

...do die.

A couple of weeks ago, one of my harddrives died on me. Apparently, yesterday another one did the same. Windows didn't crash or anything, but a program did and would not be killed.

This morning, I start my computer and want to open some files, only to notice I'm missing a harddrive.
Seems like I need to start replacing them ASAP, since they are all more or less the same age... :S 

Weird lyrics...

...and finally understanding them.

I'm pretty sure most everyone knows the song  "Fell in love with an alien".

And I wonder how many people thought: "why the hell would he fall in love with an extraterrestrial?"

It took me several years to get to a level of English understanding to understand what the freakin song was really about and that it WASNT in any way related to sci-fi...

Texturing...

...and resulting render.

I just finished my texturing assignment for this block. The model I textured was a model I created for the 3D modelling class we has last block.

The car is a Shelby Mustang GT350 H from 1966. The model itself is pretty low res. It only contains 3900 triangles in all, so that's pretty descent. It has 1 2048 texturemap, with several shaders like bump and specular mapping.

While nothing too exciting, I am pleased with the final result. It looks like I intended, which is always a good thing for an artist. I wanted the car to look as if it were in good condition and had been taken on a road-trip along Route 66.
Sadly, I lacked time to make a Route 66-sign. Still, it looks like a car that's been driving along a desert road :)

Enjoy the render.