Posts Tagged ‘3d’

Gathering dust

Wednesday, November 23rd, 2011

This place really needs to be cleaned up…

Ah well, one thing at a time.
And the first thing seemed to be reuploading HD version’s of some of my videos.
Here’s one of my animation projects from uni :)

Snakes Alive

 

If that didn’t do it for you, here’s a few of my favourite videos since I last appeared.
Some nice portal related ones seeing as my last post was portal.

Want you gone – Portal 2 fanmade video

Fan Animation film clip for Want you gone

Portal: No Escape

A nice fan film re-imagining of portal, not just some game story clone

What’s been happening (start rambling…)

What I’ve been playing:

  • BF3
  • Minecraft
  • Portal 2
  • Deus Ex
  • SWTOR beta (almost)
  • LIMBO
  • Voxatron (great indie game) and a bunch of other great humble indie bundle games.

Recommended listenings:

  • The Getaway Plan – Requim
  • Sum 41 – Screaming bloody murder
  • Blink 182 – Neighbourhoods
  • Jezabels all the EP’s
What I’ve been working on:
  • …
  • does trying to setup a VPS for minecraft count?
What I want to do:
  • Start prototyping new game ideas
  • Work on intro animation for DoubleJump
  • Play around with ZBrush or Mudbox
  • Start a 1-drawing-a-week routine
  • Start a 1-simple-game-a-week routine
  • Overhual this site…  (i.e. upgraded and integrated, none of this lazy default template and separated website business)
..end ramble

I’ll end with the this, probably the greatest cat on youtube:

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YouTube’s Gone 3D!!

Saturday, February 5th, 2011

So since when has youtube done 3D?? anyway this is awesome (prob best in full screen):

MysteryGuitarMan has a few other 3D video’s too.

What’s so awesome about 3D youtube, is that its not just someone uploading stereoscopic anaglyph 3d video, it actually supports some kind of 3D video format, meaning you can change the method of 3D form anaglyph, 3D tv/monitor, and even side by side (which I had no idea worked until Joe explained it, and its awesome! 3D without glasses, never even realised it. You just go cross-eyed until it lines up).

While on the topic, here’s a 3D Carol I whipped up a few months back when I wasn’t blogging. Cant believe how easy these things are to make. (Oh and everyone needs a pair of red and blue glasses lying around :P )

3D Carol

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Epic (FAIL) Update

Saturday, December 11th, 2010

Yeah so that stream of updates failed..
Sooo lets start again for the next post!

Here’s a list of interesting links that I was planning to post about but its so old now its not worth making a full post.

FLARToolKit

So other than trying to get my new website designs up (I did the homepage, now just need to find time for the rest) a few months back I had a look at Augmented Reality for work, and there are a plethora of libraries out there for all different platforms and programming languages, but I thought the most accessible (and being for the public it kind of had to be) would be Flash.

Fortunately for me there are great Flash AR API’s out there, one in particular was this open source API called:
FLARToolkit

AR totoro
This is a quick test demo I did with a custom model (totoro), but I stress “quick test” :P I still used the default marker and didn’t even bother printing it (just displayed on iphone), but you can create your own (see below). You will need this marker

Now the main website isn’t a great place to start, firstly it’s in Japanese, and the documentation is a little tricky to get into for Newbies, but i found a great tutorial, and website where they combine it all in a nice template, where you can almost just drag and drop your own 3d models into.

http://saqoo.sh/a/flartoolkit/start-up-guide?lang=en (Ok, I swear that page used to be in english)

I created 3D models using Maya and Blender3D, both export to Collada DAE. Maya needs a plugin: could be this or maybe openCollada I forget, but Blender supports it natively.

Any way I’d love to help, but it was so long ago, it would defeat the purpose of getting these old posts out of the way :P
But if you need more info, I think I had a look at this dude’s blog tutorial http://www.mikkoh.com/blog/2008/12/flartoolkitflash-augmented-realitygetting-started/ when I was working on it (as well as the english version of that saqoo tute).

Oh lastly, to create custom AR markers use:
http://flash.tarotaro.org/ar/MarkerGeneratorOnline.swf

CSS Sprites

Also a neat little trick I learnt a few month’s back (like 8 months ago now LOL), and something all good web developers should know (besides all the new CSS3 and HTML5 stuff coming around) is CSS sprites.

First google link about it here:
http://css-tricks.com/css-sprites/

Basically it both reduces extra http requests to the server, reduces page load times, and removes any graphic flicker’s for mouse over effects on buttons and the like.

Any way, now that’s out of the way, back to quicker updates :D (hopefully)

Oh and new homepage at pud9y.com and/or akurn.com

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