Fabri's Diner Complete!

Finally finished the work for4 one exam. Fabri's Diner is done and I don't want to look at it again even if the exam was moved and I have another class before they reschedule.

Now I only have to finish Virtual Ambients (real-time), Maya, Shake, Motion Builder and Animation exams before my 3 year course is finished. Yay for me!!!

One of Those Days

I don't feel like working today.

I tried to complain to Ate, but he made me realise that his job is about 1000 times worse than anything I'm ever going to have to do. He's busy writing forecasts or something. I didn't know he was a weather man!

Today we had Virtual Ambients class. Basically, 3D for games, realtime. I hate it. Every time I think of doing something nice in that environment I can't. No reflections, no refractions, no glows etc. No way to get to photorealism, so you might as well just come up with something completely different. Bleh.

I don't feel like working. I could think about how to control the trampoline for the dog's tale, but I don't know how well it's going to come out.

I could play Sims, but I'd probably just end up feeling guilty for wasting an afternoon.

Anyhow, here's a composite of the work for the diner that I put together yesterday. It's too dark. I have to work on the lighting... and the shadows and specularity are missing. Ho-hum. I guess I could work on that.

But I don't want to. But I guess I will.

Fabri's Diner

I'm working on a rendering for my XSI advanced course. It's a burger on a table at 'Fabri's Diner'. Here are some shots of the progress. I've divided it in passes for better rendering and control in post.




This is another project I'm working in... It's for a real-time application. It's a hotel of sorts, and the hallway that goes with it. Neither of these are near finished yet.

Happy 2007!

Hey! Happy New Year! It's been ages since I've updated anything. Anyhow, here's the newer news.

Fabri and I went to Taranto for Christmas and new years. It was nice, but slow as I didn't have very much to do while there. I've been reading Moby Dick by Hermann Melville and it's been making me have dreams about whales. I've also relaised how limited my vocabulary in English has become. I've got to keep the wheels turning up there or my brain is going to rust over completely. New years' eve itself was probably the tamest I've ever had outside of Montreal and in the past 10 years, btu i didn't mind at all... I'm done with new years' eve. Not in a bah-humbug kind of a way, but in a mature, sophisticated kind of way.

I think I need to get a laptop.

Mario and Lucrezia's wedding is this Friday and I'm excited for it. I got a brown dress and brown shoes and a brown bag and a brown shawl and a brown coat for it. Hee hee hee. Lucrezia got all teary-eyed at the movie theatre yesterday when we were saying goodbye cause we started joking and saying 'see you at the church' and I guess it's the first time it sunk in for her. (I got teary-eyed too a bit... shhhh) I'll try to post some photos when I get them. That reminds me I should charge my camera.