Monday, 30 December 2013

Swedish Space Odyssey... Kinda...

Back in June 2012, I was asked if I would be interested in working on some VFX for a possible short film a friend-of-a-friend was pitching.  It sounded like fun - with a little space action as well thrown in, I was more then interested. As part of the pitch, to get funding (which was relatively low) it was important to show that producing Space effects were going to be achievable.  In this case, part of the story revolved around astronauts...

Wednesday, 18 December 2013

And even more free scripts... Ho! Ho! Ho!

If you've already seen the previous post, you'll have likely downloaded and looked at the collection of scripts I uploaded.  Here is a second zipped archive of more of them, along with the source for a handful of C plugins I also developed some years back (199x era) Note that I'm releasing these as a free learning resource.  I'd like to think that anybody who downloads them will share updates or modifications back to the community. ...

Tuesday, 17 December 2013

Free LW scripts - Just in time for Christmas!

While cleaning up one of my hard drives, I found a collection of some of my LScripts I developed over many years.  By all means, these are not everything I've developed and I will upload more as I find them, but I figured that there is bound to be pieces of code or ideas that others can use or learn from... Note that I'm releasing these as a free learning resource.  I'd like to think that anybody who downloads them will share updates...

Saturday, 7 December 2013

The 8-bit project almost completed - A CG vision of my desktop at the age of 12.

Go outside and play in the sunshine?!  What?  When there are games to be played?!! It all started back in the 1980's...  Like a lot of kids my age, I used to hide in a dark bedroom during the day and sit and code games in BASIC or Machine Code.  The home computing revolution had started, and kids everywhere would learn to program computers as its was just the way that it was back then.  No operating system - all machines ...