My first attempt in blender at using physics to create an animation. Thanks to Super3boy for the fine tutorial that explained how to do this.

Hilarious!!

Becoming a hair stylist

Well, as promised, I've been working for a couple of hours tonight on Blender's particle system to create hair. Yesterday, I managed to create a simple ball that emitted hair from everywhere...tonight I've managed to take a monster's head I'd earlier made and give him a stylish 80's mohawk! It took awhile, and a little trial and error, but the end results are worth it. Next up, I need to work on my "box modeling" skills and create a good looking head with a little less geometry. Although I'll probably start working on improving my lighting skills next.

I know this doesn't look like much, but after much hardship I've finally gotten a "small" handle on the new hair and fur system in Blender 2.46! Next step is to take a model of a head that I've been working on and see if I can give it a realistic looking head of hair and maybe a beard.

Wassup!

I don't know...I'm having a totally weird evening. I've been sick the last couple of days, missed work and everything. Actually my whole family has been sick. First my son came down with something? He mostly had a stuffy nose and sore throat. Then my wife and I both came down with symptoms. She's been achy, sore throat, headaches...while I've been runny nose, achy, weird stomach. I've ate a couple of times today, but I still feel like I could use something, but don't know what. Nothing that we've got sounds good, and gas is sure way too expensive to be trekking out just to satisfy a craving, especially when I don't know what for!

I've been doing a lot of learning the last week or so on a 3D program called Blender, a free 3D program that's been around for a few years now. It's basically a professional level 3D creation tool like the one I've paid for to use called Truespace, only much more powerful. I've tried using it in the past, but it's user interface is extremely daunting. I recently bought a book called, "The Essential Blender" edited by Roland Hess. It's extremely well written and has already got me doing some pretty amazing stuff. I hope to be posting some examples here soon. Anyone interested into getting into 3D CGI, I higly recommend that you look into Blender, which can be found HERE If it looks like something you'd like to try, I highly recommend getting Roland Hess's book, and just follow all the tutorials in order.

Alex graduates from Anthis Career Center