First, I must confess…this blog has much less to do with video than the title insinuates. Rather, it’s really more of a math problem that is somewhat related to video streaming.

Within the last couple weeks, I came across an article that talked about Google’s new “experimental fiber network,”and mentioned some of the efforts that the city of Kalamazoo is doing to become a prototype community for the venture. It’s a pretty short and to-the-point article. But one thing jumped out at me, (more…)

If you are a photographer (or at least enjoy taking pictures) and some sort of 3D texture artist, then you might be guilty of being “that guy (or girl) over there that is getting strangely excited about something on that concrete wall.” Now there is the potential to double that “strange excitement” with a new software program due to release anytime (at the time of this writing).
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With all the improvement in home theater tech, we face both an increase, and a decrease in control over our media.
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I suspect that, in any profession, there is a tendency to get so comfortable with one’s own industry-related terminology that we become totally unaware of just how perplexing it is to those outside the industry. It may, in fact, be necessity to do so.
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Really…it’s more than just a catchy title. Everyday, there is more emphasis being placed on results, return on investment, and the predictability of success. As much as we may want to (or are encouraged to) think about our businesses as an assemblage of yes’s and no’s or true’s and false’s, each one measured and changed appropriately on a linear path to success, they aren’t.

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Part IV of the Damaged Pillar Series has bee uploaded to our Vimeo Channel.

Here is the 3D-Coat Pillar file used in the series that includes the voxel sculpt and the retopology as seen in Part IV.

Starting with the Damaged Pillar series, video tutorials will now be on Vimeo along with YouTube.

Watch on Vimeo here.
And YouTube here.

Here is a link to where I got the texture that I used in the tutorials, and also a link to the edited version that was used in 3D-Coat to do the actual sculpting.
Original image here
Edited here

Go to our YouTube channel to watch now.
You can also watch them at our Vimeo Channel.

Check out “Create 3D-Coat Turntable Videos using VirtualDub” if you haven’t already.

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A.K.A. the blog post wherein I hand out some free advertisement.

I have always been a bit of a sucker for a good documentary. Recently, after stumbling upon some documentary style commercials on youtube, I’ve fallen in love with the idea of micro documentaries. (more…)