I saw the original TRON a few times when I was in school. The fact that it was on mildly-scratchy rented video tape, made it no less revelatory about the possibilities of augmenting film with animation, and also about the vast potential of the then burgeoning technology of computers. While I haven’t watched that film […]
This blog was more of a focussed journal when I started the first version back in 2003. At the time my two main missions with the blog were to record my progress as I revamped my site, and for it to be a notebook of my adventures with learning how to create 3D graphics with […]
I saw Spiderman 3 two days ago and just didn’t feel like writing about it. Sure, I could have gone into the post-mortem of every little piece in it that worked and didn’t work, but I realised that none of that would go far enough into explaining why I found it disappointing. In a seemingly […]
I have used Blender for professional work before, so I though it was only right to use Blender when illegal_ops put out an open call for a logo for a new Blender community site, BlenderCG.com. The logo is now up on the site as the header/masthead. It’s a new site built to provide many Blenderheads […]
As stated in the sub-head at the top of the page, this blog was born with two ends in sight: 1) Complete revamp of my web site 2) Thorough knowledge of Blender Why revamp the site? I was pretty proud of my old site (http://samir.shorturl.com/), and I still am. It was coded in raw html […]