So I’m on Flickr and I post photos there too. The difference is that here they’re scaled down and numerous, and on Flickr they’re full resolution and more curated.
If you want to grab sexy wildlife photos at insanely high res for wallpaper or whatever, the Flickr account is the place to go. There will be more photos there soon. I have a backlog..
This is more smoke. It took about 47 minutes to render at 1440 x 1080. It is different from the other smoke. Honest. My spare computer has been rendering volumetric smoke in Cycles for literally days now.
Meanwhile, I’ve been cutting together a tutorial about using sound-driven animation in Blender.
I’m making it to enter the CGMasters Blender 2.70 tutorial competition. I don’t expect to win, partly because I just figured out you might need a Facebook account to even enter, but I do expect to have made and released a tutorial about something nobody else has made as thorough a tutorial about. So my expectations have been met.
It’s taken me a week and a half, hence the prolonged radio silence. It is a foul and all-consuming obsession. It is forty minutes long. I have quickly disovered this is too long for a first tutorial – the folly of inexperience, quite likely. Properly reviewing something of this size recorded in so many parts sucks. The narration becomes more unhinged and irritable the further it goes.
I want to watch Ikiru. I want to get to sleep on time for once this week. I want to do something that isn’t this tutorial. But it calls to me with its siren song, baked to f-curves and slaved to the emission strength of a material in a robot’s eyes…
…so I’m starting the upload the second it’s finished rendering. It should autopost to Twitter once it’s ready to view on YouTube. NO REGRETS.
This is a chuditch or western quoll. His name, as you’re probably all very much aware, is Charlie.
That’s about all the pictures i’ll be posting for now. Given it’s not the first time i’ve said that, i suspect you haven’t seen the last of me yet. Life is intervening. It happens.
I’d love to be back posting more images later in the year and if all goes according to plan, that’s when i’ll pop up again.
Thanks again to all of you for your interest in Australian animals. If you’re looking to actually contribute to the welfare of Australian native animals, check out Bush Heritage Australia and Nature Conservancy in Australia.
Brian Chambers has a fantastic blog about wildlife research in the Perth area which contains colour pictures of chuditches and all. When it comes down to it, i’m just a bloke who goes to zoos – Brian is the real deal.
If you’re in the Perth area, stop in at Perth Zoo, Caversham Wildlife Park, Armadale Reptile Park and Peel Zoo to meet some of the subjects of these photographs.
My only regret is not getting a decent photograph of an eastern quoll. Oh well. Maybe in the spring…
This is not a quoll. It is a barking owl.
This is a repost – the video never worked that well on Tumblr anyway. I’ve got a few more videos to post over the course of the week too, including two quoll videos.
Hate to break the streak but i’m ill with the flu and the only laptop i’ve got which is capable of running Blender has started suddenly powering off. I’ll be back as soon as can be once i’ve recovered.
Just for something quick to do, i’ve changed up the character i’ll use and morphed the CG Cookie Flex rig around a bit. Mainly i needed to make the hands smaller for those were some giant goddamn hands, yo.