Here’s what I’ve been up to lately: Been playing around with Blender . . . And here’s the “Jack-O-Lantern” that resulted: Special thanks to Blender Cookie and Jonathon Williamson for sharing their invaluable knowledge.

So you need a tab system for your site. You want something flexible, cms-friendly, and a little fancier than just “click-change”; something with a little animation flare, but still straightforward.

Well, a blog called “Queness” has offered up just the thing, not to mention being filled with a few other jquery goodies. (feel free to poke around; I did). Gimme More »

. . . And now, introducing the “battle ax animation”, here it is (finally)!

In a previous post, I gave you all a “sneak peek” of Tron 2 “smuggled” out of Comic Con. That same trailer has now been released to the public, so I can give it to you. With this higher quality public version, nuances of the “virtual” mechanics of the story and the special effects—that were [...]

First snapshot of battleax 3D model using newly learned “glow effect” in Blender 3D.   view

Recently a friend of mine asked me about a special technique that can be used in Photoshop to paint fur. The technique was originally shown to us by an artist at Dreamworks, Richard Daskas. Mr. Daskas used this technique to paint the fur for a concept painting of “Monkey” from Dreamwork’s Kung Fu Panda, to [...]

Wordpress 2.8 is here. With improvements in handling themes and plugins, as well as marked performance and speed. Also, better handling of sidebar widgets, including the capacity for duplicates.

What do you do when you want the homepage link to be a link to the posts page, and not a static page? For anyone that has used Wordpress before, you know that this is nearly impossible to pull off. Well, Wordpress 2.7 has offered a rather clever solution . . .

I have recently discovered the power of WordPress, and I am loving it! Its capacity as a CMS (content management system) is very robust—much more versatile than I had ever imagined. It is almost limitless what you can do with it. But there was one catch that I ran across in my endeavors to bend [...]

What’s this? Tron 2? Yep, it’s real. Disney has given the “OK” to begin the making of Tron: the sequel. Called “TR2N” for now—though an official title has not yet been chosen (I have my own list of suggestions below)—Jeff Bridges, and Bruce Boxlightner will be returning to the film. It is slated to be [...]