It all started with a phone call. Some friends of mine were leaving town and shifting back to France, and I was left wondering what I could possibly give them as a parting gift. An international move is no simple task and so giving my friends a domesticated Indian elephant or anything similarly cumbersome was [...]

My memories of reading as a child and of children’s books are a little strange. The reason I mention those as two separate issues is precisely what I mean by “strange”. As a child, at the beginnings of the age at which “reading” started to make some sense, I discovered a large dusty tome stored [...]

I’m not part of the ardent business book devouring audience. I am not one of those who have a well arranged shelf of all the latest tomes featuring grinning gurus spouting the latest business wisdom. But I do read business books occasionally when the mood strikes, because when you come down to it I’m simply [...]

The listing in the newspaper sounded innocent enough: EYE YOGA… If you wish to get rid of your spectacles, attending Sampoorna Eye Yoga Camp can do it the natural way. The camp will teach you eye exercises, Vedic in origin, that will help in relieving you of eye disorders. Register for a free lecture in [...]

After a long sabatical, I have returned to the basics – read the Blender manual and strengten your basics. Being too distracted by Weekend Challenges over the last few months, I desperately needed to get back to learning everything there is to know about Blender rather than trying to get out quick fixes to random [...]

When we last saw our hero he was wrestling with a whole battalion of rebellious triangular polygons. The ‘tris’ seemed to be sabotaging the great UV texturing experiment, or was that just a red herring? Our hero was soon to find out. Now, on with the story … ahem … I have spent the last [...]

This is just a sneak peak of my progress with the texturing of this model, hence the medium sized image and no bigger version. I’m having problems with distortions of the texture on the wings because of taking the easy way out with that part of the model. I am quite sure extruding the curve [...]