New videos for the summer – hopefully more entries

May 17th, 2012

GreyScale Gorilla has a pretty cool CityKit for Cinema 4D, there are several new features in Cinema that I am just now getting opportunity to visit.

Hopefully, more blogs this summer, and hopefully some Camtasia sharing ~

 

http://www.vimeo.com/42302091

Daz 3D – check out the splash and the cool user stories on this WebForU2 site

April 18th, 2012

http://webforu2.com/daz3d

 

DAZ 3D – check out the splash and the user experiences

hey, the new kid on the block … really isn’t new but check out what you do with DAZ and what DAZ can do to you.

Photorealism ? Bridge to Photoshop ? the most sophisticated modeling and morphing ‘out of the box’ with complexion, texture and animations

creations that would take hours to create … with their easy to learn, easy to use software and models that … well … take a look at DAZ

 

With fbx file format compatibility, Photoshop Bridge, and export to Maya – DAZ can completely change your workflow and creativity.

http://www.vimeo.com/27997129

January – New Season – new subjects … like DAZ Studio .. 3D

January 17th, 2012

We are greeting the new Season at WebForU2 and Santa brought us some new toys … like DAZ3d Studio.

It’s splashy, it sexy but what might not be obvious at first is

DAZ Studio 3D is very sophisticated offering ‘out of the box’ models you can customize to your own needs.

Let’s meet DAZ3D , DAZ 3d Studio that is ..
the animators friend with fiery models, Victoria Poser suite with the just released ‘Smart Content’ – morphing wonder of’Genesis’ -

Gypsy fire. Introduce yourself to DAZ 3D … for free

http://www.vimeo.com/35174663

Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever. –Gandhi

September 12th, 2011

Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever. –Gandhi

Roland Cessna ~ a little different day

August 23rd, 2011

well, I did something a little different today.

My good friend Roland took me for a tour, in his classic Cessna, that is

- with original instrumentation, original panel and a view of the horizon that takes your breath away

http://www.vimeo.com/28036258

 

Grassmere Park

August 17th, 2011

what can I say …

 

if you haven’t been

http://www.vimeo.com/27795842

The home was built by Col. Michael C. Dunn and was completed around 1810, making it the second oldest residence in Davidson County that is open to the public. It was built in the Federal style, or without the ornate front and back porches it has now. Michael Dunn’s son-in-law, Lee Shute, purchased the farm for $10,000 in 1846. Several years later, Lee sold the 346-acre property to his son, William Dickson Shute, for the sum of $5, as “a loving gift” to William and his new bride, Lavinia.

William and Lavinia renovated the home after the Civil War, changing the style from Federal to Italianate and adding the porches between 1876 and 1881. Also added at this time were the smokehouse, kitchen and three-tiered garden. Primary crops were sweet potatoes, corn, wheat and hay. Swine and cattle were raised, and flowers and apples from the gardens were sold. The farm prospered late in the 1800s.

William and Lavinia had four surviving adult daughters: Leila, Maggie, Venie and Kate. Kate married her husband, William Croft, at Grassmere in 1888 and had two daughters, Margaret, born in 1889, and Elise, born in 1894. William Croft moved his family to Cuba in 1902 for business, but Margaret and Elise returned to Grassmere every summer to stay with their grandfather and aunts. In 1931, Margaret and Elise returned to Grassmere and stayed until their deaths: Margaret in 1974, Elise in 1985.

In 1964, the Croft sisters entered into an agreement with the Children’s Museum of Nashville (now the Adventure Science Center). The agreement stated the museum would pay property taxes and assist with the upkeep of the home while the sisters lived the remainder of their lives at Grassmere. After their deaths, the museum would become owners of the property and buildings. The sisters placed one stipulation in their agreement with the museum – their property would be maintained as a “nature study center,” preserved to educate Nashvillians about animals and the environment.

 

I mean really …. Costa Rica was about the wedding

August 14th, 2011

well, we had too much fun in Costa Rica with the monkeys and crocodiles and Iguanas but

I mean, really … we were there for a wedding … and … it was beautiful …

and I promised myself I’d capture as much as possible.

when you return … so do your routines and the unresolved monkeys you left behind

 

but …. I do have a collage of this beautiful event

http://www.vimeo.com/27692093

Double Intenders Slide

August 5th, 2011

 

 

a new vimeo show for the Intenders

 

 

International Ducks

July 26th, 2011

love my International Harvester ~ had to go 2 weeks waiting on big tire and there’s not much you can do but wait on the Coop

but I’m almost caught up again.

Take a hot summer day, a cool International tractor, some fast Cartoon effects from After Effects, and we get a soft surreal ride on top, replete with sound, splash, blue sky sighin’, dragonflies cryin’

thanks … to Tennessee

 

 

CS5.5 …. and Harry … and Warp Stablization

July 16th, 2011

we have a new visitor now. Harry.

I get a good zoom with my Canon but I think this is a call for special lenses.
A little stumble and bounce as I try to get a good angle

this calls for Warp Stablization CS5.5

this seems like it was made just for situations like this … a little bounce, a riding camera …
we’ll see

I think Harry visits mornings and evenings