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5 days = 2 minutes of low poly 3d madness from meH

So it ended up only taking 5 days instead of a week ^ ^ Now that I'm finished with the video I can show you some stills! Check here for full size ones Now this is something I did from START to FINISH is 5 days... It was 2 minutes long not 2:30 like I wrote before... BUT after seeing it you'll know I wasn't nuts when I said I was going to take a month and make a WATS sequel OVA after I finished HSM... after doing the 1600 shots of COMPLEX 3d I did for HSM this low poly stuff is SOOOO EASY!!!! So I might just get started on that ^ ^ Looks like with HSM I might be waiting on the sound... I can't edit without the music so...if there is a delay in getting the music I'll make that WATS OVA ^ ^ I can't sit around for too long without a new challenge! Well I finished this gig with a bumrush so I'm tired.... but tomorrow I'll look into creating some proper tutorial stuff for it... let me know what you want to know!

New M dot Strange album "AWARE_I_LIVE" 2010

I just wrapped up a new album "AWARE_I_LIVE" get it on my music page ... scroll down to current albums #12... It's made up mostly of the live sets I've been posting on youtube...stuff like this... This was a new thing for me because I did the whole album live with Ableton Live... all my other music was pre-programmed with a little live stuff for the drums and the like here and there ...but this one is mostly made up of me banging everything out live on the pads of my APC40 so its more minimalistic than my previous stuff but definitely more freewheeling and insane ^ ^ Cause its just me banging on the pads after finishing animation work  ^_^ If you've got to stay up all night working on something it might help you there...it's definitely not meditation music 0_0 Oh yeh there's THREE and a HALF HOURS OF PSYCHO MUSIC 0_0 So its a big download... if all that didn't scare you away download it directly here In my recent survey a few people said tha

Making a 3d animated music video in a weeK: Part 1

M dot is back to weRK  So I was recently hollarED at by my pal Jimmy Urine to do a music video for a track for his side project the "The Left Rights" Since I was on break when he gave me the gig and since I'm in the middle of prepping the compositing phase for my new feature film I gave myself a week to do the whole video from concept to final output... the song itself is about 2 minutes and 30 seconds so I was pretty confident that I could handle that within a weeks time... The song is called "Genesis:16:12" you can hear a sample on they page here I think I was BORN to make a music vid for this song ^ ^ as it's about 16 bit video games... BUT my new animation look/style has NOTHING to do with games at all so I had to sort of revisit my old look for this project BUT since I would get bored with doing the same thing twice I had too try something new... TONS of people have started doing 8 bit pixel stuff in 3d so I didn't want to do that as I was doin

Wait... I'm modeling and animating AGAIN 0_o

Just when I thought it was OVER DUN DUN DUN.... These shot reduX/Fx shots for HSM are taking FOREVER to render...they've been going for about 3 weeks straight and there's still about 100 shots in the queue at this time 0_o good thing I have other stuff to do... As soon as I got back from my break I had to perform some hardware upgrades (New GFX card + RAM for main machine(maxed it to 16gb)..  After Fx and Premiere Pro don't like ATI cards so I got a GTX 460 for the comp/editing phase) BUT I've found this Nvidia card doesn't play very nice with C4d...lots of weird display issues... but yeh... might have have to pop my Ati 4870 back in to animate this music video.... BUT the Nvidia card makes After Effects much smooth and quicker to work with AND it activates the mercury playback engine in PPro which makes shuttling and playback super smooth which is nice when you edit super fast like me.... These GFX card standards are kinda annoying though... its like people use

HSM SurveY

I'm trying to figure out the best way to release this film and the like so I made this short lil survey.... it would be awesome if you could take a sec to fill it out! thanks! TAke the survey Here Please only take it once so its like a good representation ...as this is the only research I can doES nah mean...sankS!

Wise from yo GWAVE!

Contrary to unpopular belief I r not dead 0_0 After completing all animaton + shot fixes + fx shots I took a 2 week break away from all my computerS... I r back now... My pal Joseph Chen up at the AWESOME Waterloo animation festival asked me about going up there next month for the fest... I told him I might be able to do a little preview since everything won't be ready by then... but I sent him a few images and this is what he said... The aesthetics and style in these pictures are effortlessly grotesque.  This is gorgeous work. So I have to talk to him I might be doing an exclusive preview up in Waterloo next month....BUT my first order of business since I got back is to make a 3d animated music video for my pal Jimmy Urine... they like hired me and stuff so I has to get this done asap...asap for me is by Nov 1st... So we are now back to TOTALLY NORMAL business over here...morE teh SOON.

Professional tools - Amateur Ideas

I was listening to an episode of "The Business" awhile back about how in Hollywood they were getting rid of all these older, experienced writers and hiring younger people in they place simply because they were younger... Now with the timelines they described this seemed to run in parallel with the shift from fictional narrative shows (actual stories) to the wasteland of "reality" based crap that clogs the channels today... they have no stories to tell so they try to emulate "reality" or rehash things that have already been done over and over... they'll take something an older writer did and just make the characters "hotter" or more current or some bullshit... My thought is DIS... Strong stories are tied to emotions... emotions are tied to experience... experience can only be EXPERIENCED not simply read about on wikipedia with shiny facsimile output as the result... To be a storyteller is to be experienced... If you haven't experienced a