Hardware woes

So I cannot do anymore 3D work on my laptop. I've now had my macbook pro for nearly 4 years. And it's now about ready to quit. I think the thermal requirements finally got to it. It's common knowledge that these things run hot and those reports are true. It's a shame, I have had a lot of good memories with this laptop, but it's time to get something that can handle my need for extreme processing power. Once I find some money to do that with anyway. Who knows... all it takes is a decent summer job and I might just be able to an i7 iMac. Untill then I'll be trying to run maya on anything that I can. Hopefully I'll be in luck.

Projects

So here's the new idea. 1 month, 1 project. Seems simple enough right. So where to start. In honor of the FX Wars challenge on CG Talk, I'm going to start with a Nuke. Yeah I know that was over 6 months ago. I'm just a little slow starting. Anyway, things are going to heat up in the kitchen. Maybe when I'm done I'll have a neat little tutorial on Fluids. Or not. You never know.

Azureus Rising

So, I have some exciting news! The super secret project that I have been working on is finally finished! And for you viewing please is here. So watch it. Right now.

Demo Reel 2010

So, I've now just finished my new demo reel. Yay for me. Anyway right now I have to keep the video private until some of the content becomes public. So if you are an interested party, please email me for a password.

Demo Reel 2010 from Calibrix on Vimeo.

Impact

This is one of the two projects I'm working on right now. I'm calling it Impact. Impact is a 4-5 second clip strictly made for my demo reel. It'll cover most of my skills as an effects artist including: explosions, smoke, rigid bodies, sparks, etc. The premis is a tanker truck being hit with a missile. Anyway here is a quick little render I made of the truck and some of the debris.

FX rebirth

So, FX blog... Not writing... didn't see that coming. Ok here's the deal. Working on two projects right now. One is a couple shots from a school project that I didn't finish, which is required for my diploma. Politics. The other is this cool little fluid test that turned out really cool, that I'm going to make demo reel worthy and post a tutorial on. So yeah that's cool right? Anyway AZ is still waiting. But until then, I'll post the progress on my two current workings. How about that?

Insert Generic "Lack of Update" Title Here

Yes, I haven't posted anything on this blog for nearly 2 months. And for good reason. Yes, I still plan to learn Houdini, but no I haven't done anything with it for nearly 2 months. There's a couple of reasons. First, while we have a copy of Houdini at my school, the IT department has been dragging it's legs in getting it up and running. Yes, I am a month into the semester and Houdini still isn't accessible at school. I'm a little pissed. 2nd, I can't run it on my Mac since I was cheap 3 years ago and bought a 1st gen MacBook Pro used and don't have 64bit processors. My windows 7 hasn't running Houdini very well. Which brings me to my last hurtle. I just got an internship at Black Sun Entertainment, working on Azurues Rising. This has soaked up most all of my time. I do have Houdini ready to install on my Windows XP and begin working with it again, but it may be awhile.