I was pissing about with Cbasicore64 tonight and decided to try and release an album, 10 songs of beautiful 8-bit music, created in the program, and then converted to mp3 in iTunes. I don’t know what style they will take but I’m guessing it’ll be dance music as it’s easier to have the same pattern repeating, I wish there was a way to make it play banks in a row. that way I could have some varied synth meoldies and stuff. Anyways look out for a march release…
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I Are 1 Byte
Sunday, March 1st, 2009
Today is a good day!
Friday, February 27th, 2009I got my uni grades today, I got a first for Design For Simulation and a borderline first for Computer Graphics and Animation, my Double Project isn’t marked at this point so, so far I’m heading for a first 
. I’ve been told that Tom Corby was one of my moderators, and he seemed to enjoy the fact that my work with PaedoBot was very technical and that I understood it all, the only criticism was that the project may have been a bit too unethical, but I have no regard for ethics so meh. I’ve also been told by Mark that I have to take the paedobot website down. This is going to give me and excuse to have fun in photoshop and make an awesome website, about how the paedobot was caught.
On the CGA side of things, it seems that Mark and Andy loved my movie, I was even told I would not need to re animate any of the movie for my show-reel. And even though I’m at work as I type this (after working a 6-10 on my day off) I am a very happy bunny
Home Delivery almost finished!
Monday, January 19th, 2009
Home Delivery v2 from Colin Wren on Vimeo.
Heres v2 of Home Delivery which has a few improvement that Andy and Mark told me to make to it. I’ve added wind and made the fly bigger, I’ve added some fade outs to make it kind of sleepy. I still have to create the opening and closing sequences but that shouldn’t be too hard. Enjoy!
CGA
Friday, January 16th, 2009So now I have got somewhere with my paedobot stuff I can start doing my CGA, I’ve spent the whole week rendering out my sequences and now I can start putting them together, I went to college today and showed Andy my new and improved Home Delivery and he liked it, though he suggested I make the background a sky colour, but that’ll just involve masking so nothing tooo big.
Home Delivery Panel 1 with wind from Colin Wren on Vimeo.
Home Delivery
Sunday, January 4th, 2009w00t! I finally uploaded Home Delivery to Vimeo for everyone to watch. It’s been a long 2 weeks of modeling, rigging,rendering and post production but I’ve finally got it out of the way. I’m quite happy with it though there are a few things I would have liked to have done but couldn’t have due to time limits. All the models and textures (apart from the plants which I exported from Vue e’spirit) were made inside Cinema 4D using photographs I had taken when on a trip to kew gardens as a reference. Once I had modeled it all up I put it all in one giant scene added the plants from Vue e’spirit in (this really made my mac pro groan) and got to animating the fly’s movement, and then after that the spider’s. Using a picture I had taken of the sky on the day I had taken the other pictures I made a sky object and set up the HDR lighting, I also added 2 lights into the scene to help with lighting issues. Once everything was in place I rendered out TIFF images of the camera positions I was using at 1280 x 720. I then used the sketch and toon render settings to add a light blue background to the renders. Using this setting I rendered just the fly moving across the screen. After these clips where rendered I put it all into After Effects where I did a colour range key to take out the background on the fly clips, added any overlays (such as the tree branches in the first shot) that were needed and exported it all out at 1280×720. I then used Final Cut Pro to edit the clips together (this was important as I had to match the shots to my animatic) and to add the music in the background.
But enough technical mumbo jumbo just watch the clip ( I suggest watching it over at Vimeo as that way you can see it in HD)
Home Delivery v1 from Colin Wren on Vimeo.
Home Delivery environment
Wednesday, December 24th, 2008I have some great advice for anybody looking to make some awesome plants, download the free trial for vue espirit. I did and it’s awesome, I don’t know how to use it properly so I just exported the plants and used Cinema 4D to make my little garden. As I type I have finished the environment the Home Delivery will be set in, and I rendered out a beautiful shot of the opening scene (though it took 30 mins to render!) which will be at the end of the post. The file is killing my Mac Pro but I think once I have all the elements in and have the primary animation path sorted out I can then split the main file into the different camera angles then delete the stuff I don’t need for that particular shot, also I haven’t baked the lights yet so that will definitely cut down render time. I doubt I’ll be able to get it done tommorrow but I think after that is sorted I’m about 3/4 of the way there, so I should have it finished by the end of the week. MEGA HAPPY!
Gallery Monday: Cold War Modern Design
Monday, December 22nd, 2008It’s gallery monday again, which means I dragged Leanna up to London to sample the delights that it’s many exhibitions have. This week we went to the V&A to have a look at Cold War Modern: Design 1945 – 1970. I wanted to go see this because I like soviet design and this seemed like a good place to see it. I got to see some nice posters from that era such as a great french anti-communist poster which I wanted to get print of but at £16 a pop I chose not to. The exhibition itself was a combination of furniture made to survive in a post-nuclear climate and futuristic depictions of space. There were some spy gadgets which were quite intriguing (like a camera in a book, amazing it was disguised given the massive hole in the cover so it could be used) and loads of material on how the art world dealt with a nuclear threat. The thing I enjoyed was looking at the furniture, they had a flat pack idea from the early fifties, which would have put IKEA to shame and all the ‘womb’ chairs, I’ve never sat in one but I love the shape they have. Overall the exhibition wasn’t as exciting as the SATCHI visit due to it’s lack of interactivity but I got to see some architects models of futurist ‘living on the moon’ colonies so I was happy
The one down side of it all was the fact I couldn’t take my camera in so I can’t show you the art, which is a bummer. Another part of today that’s worth noting is the installation in the central garden. They have a digital art installation that reacts to music running in the centre of the pool there. Was quite fascinating to watch, though the fact it didn’t interact with audience let it down a bit.
All Textured up and nowhere to go
Sunday, November 30th, 2008Finally finished texturing my fly model, I still think the wings could do with some work, but for my distance shots this model will do. The body is just near-black all over apart from the eyes which are light red (should add highlights on the spec map at some point). I then made a specular map which has light green,purple,and reds blended in to give it that awesome fly-y look. The bump map is just a simple eyebrow brush all over.
The wings are a bit cartoony, I had originally planned to use an existing picture from the web but I decided against that as it wasn’t a good picture. I’ll probably go back and do them properly with splines so I can make sure everything looks awesome.
I did a test render and tried to match it up to a photo I had taken of my desk.
A final comp of my fly model made in photoshop
I made it in photoshop from a render pic and the image I mentioned earlier.
ARToolKit Tutorials
Monday, November 17th, 2008I’ve been trying for a while now to get these videos done but due to ‘camera shyness’ and the fact that my dad goes to sleep at 9pm I haven’t been able to record until today. I’m just editing the first one which goes through installing ARToolKit on your Mac and how to set up the VRML enhancement, I plan to record a few more detailing how to change the VRML models to ones of your own and also looking at OSGART if I ever get it to work again 
so yeah if you want you can have a butch by clicking on this wicked-kool link
CGA Week 6
Friday, November 14th, 2008I decided to not go in today as I wanted to get to grips with z-brush (which I refuse to pronounce zee-brush, it’s zed-brush!!!) as I plan to use it to make my CGA models shit hot.
Now I know this app is sacred among CGI artists but my god does Zed-Brush have issues with the viewport, its so hard to just switch from a side view to a front view, I also had issues with the x mirror option. But I shall continue using it in the hope I might get the hang of it. Then I will be awesome at it and my CGA animation will look awesome
Talking of which I really need to pull my finger out, I haven’t even started texturing my models yet and havent modelled some of them 
But first I have to work on my interactive mannequin idea