Back at it again with a cheeky two-in-one:

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(668 replies, posted in Creations)

BigDamnArtist wrote:

Henry, if you run into any problems let me know

Taking you up on that, I'm getting low framerate on animation playback due to mesh complexity. It's not a render issue, as rotating the viewport with the animation paused still gives silky smooth updates, so I reckon it's just the time it takes to compute where all the vertices need to move to in order to match the rig is longer than 1/24th of a second.

Any way to speed up this computation without decreasing mesh complexity? Maybe some sort of progressive refinement on vertex position calculations, so you can get a fast-but-jittery playback at 24 fps?

Is it considered bad forum etiquette to post again when you were the last one to post? Regardless, here's this:

In the spirit of no perfection allowed, we now go beyond the self-referential event horizon from which no actual quality can return. As such, I'm not even editing out the part where I try (and fail) to find the key:

I even put on my best backwards hat

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(2 replies, posted in Creations)

Like any long-term creative endeavour, the University of Auckland Engineering Revue has more highs and lows in its history than even the most whiplash-inducing of roller-coasters. Started in 2008, the show was originally an opportunity for a group of engineering students to make dick jokes on stage for their engineering student mates to chuckle at. As time went on, the audiences became larger, the content became more varied and occasionally more respectable (though the core principle of dick jokes can never truly be exorcised), and eventually, I got involved.

First as Matty McFry in the 2015 Engineering Revue: Hack to the Future, gradually making my way up the ranks to Assistant Director in 2017, and finally Executive and Creative Director of the 2018 Engineering Revue: Pirates of the Curriculum.

I'm really proud of this show, it's the largest creative project I've ever made, with over 70% of the final show written by me (including some parts that in retrospect should've been cut). Of course, all creativity is collaborative, so that number should probably be watered down a decent chunk by the input of the many fantastic members of the executive team, cast, and crew.

I don't expect many of you to sit through a two-and-a-half hour recording of an amateur stage show featuring references to a university you don't attend, so if you do decide to give it a watch and any skits start to drag for you, you have total permission to skip ahead to next one.



PS: I'm Derek

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(668 replies, posted in Creations)

Dabbled with animation years ago, recently got back into it with Blender 2.8, and as a result, this emerged:

This project is mainly just teaching myself how to make IK rigs. The fact that this isn't even a render but a screen-capture should be a good indication of how much of a 'when I have some free time' side project this is.

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Teague wrote:

How long have you been playing guitar for, anyway?



(...)

(Fifteen years, right? Please tell me it's 'fifteen years.')

Might be wrong on this one, but I believe I first started at around March 2005, which rounds up to, you guessed it, fifteen years.

On a semi-related note, I picked up a MIDI keyboard and have been noodling away at learning that since August this year, so maybe when I'm competent enough I'll try put together a lil multi-instrument cover or something.

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Decided to bust out the guitar and see which songs I could still play without looking up the lyrics, so here's a quick-and-dirty rendition of Who's There:

Video link

Hopefully that link should work, I'm rusty in the ways of forum-fu.

Update: Also gave Literally a crack, but didn't quite remember it as well as I thought I did.
Linkity Clinkity

A long time. But of course I know it, it's me.

So I was reading through some comments on the reddit post for the most recent Adventure Zone episode, when I saw one by user teaguechrystie. The comment itself wasn't particularly interesting (sorry Teague), but I was shocked. Surely it couldn't be that Teague? The friend in my head from years ago?

It was like running into an old friend from high-school at a party in a different city, being surprised that they still existed, let alone had social circles that could overlap with yours. Long story short, I hopped back on the forum (good thing my password was still saved, because I have no idea what it is) and have spent the last few hours going back through old posts, thinking fondly of how much has changed, reminiscing about how much hasn't, and checking out a lot of cool stuff that's happened since I last logged on, which the site tells me was in 2015.

Since my last post here, I've got a Bachelor's Degree in Engineering, directed two pretty major stage productions, and joined the Air Force (that last one pretty recently, training starts in January). I'm sure that a lot of people have fallen away over the years, but I'm surprised at how active this old forum still is. And if none of you remember me, don't feel bad about it, I don't think I posted anything particularly memorable.

Not sure how long I'll stick around here, might be that this post is just a shout into the void before I retreat back into being somebody that you used to not even really know. Either way, it's good to know that you all still exist.

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This episode is like the spiritual sequel to the Wanted commentary. Which is interesting, because no one wanted to do it.

I'll show myself out.

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(668 replies, posted in Creations)

And here it is, not really finished but enough so that you can be like 'oh yeah, I see what you wanted to do there'

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Source filmmaker indeed. I'll post the animation itself when I get it to the point of at least having no glaring patches of yet-to-be-animated such as it is now

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http://api.ning.com/files/LMZbfjT5Z7NDxKKCcN9Wz*kgV8wtvMTxLPnRQlMlppAbAJzmHf7xx8qzOKF5P7Hu9kLZ2-*XQhkFaxekzdKq7Mt9i24ikXY5/Hoverthingv2.png

My current desktop background, a frame from a source animation I've been working on

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(209 replies, posted in Creations)

Holy shizzle, I didn't even know that was a webcam you were singing into until just now. How have I missed that on all of the other pictures, including on my iPod?

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https://fbcdn-sphotos-a-a.akamaihd.net/hphotos-ak-prn1/1009084_796199623739967_2090261996_o.jpg

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I know this is more for the Half Blood Prince, seeing as that's the one which can be used to actually show it, but using that film you can find that the Leaky Cauldron and Diagon Alley are in the alley between 12 and 13 Great Newport Street

Is there gonna be an icon thing for the long-haul chat peeps, like the ring for the LOTR marathon?

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https://fbcdn-sphotos-f-a.akamaihd.net/hphotos-ak-ash3/q71/s720x720/547039_725317120828218_1297117343_n.jpg

Boredom is the mother of creativity. I am the mother of Obamakitty.

I'm alittle drunk right now, and I thought this was the Attack the nBlock thread, so I was very confused as to how any of the thing s people were saying related

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(27 replies, posted in Off Topic)

Genius, billionaire, playboy philanthropist.
Even his name sounds kinda like Iron Man...

Hogwarts aint a magical land, it's fricken Scotland

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(27 replies, posted in Off Topic)

HYPERLO- oh.

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(25 replies, posted in Episodes)

I do agree. In fact, I used the audio from this in a school project once:

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(25 replies, posted in Episodes)

BigDamnArtist wrote:

I'd like to introduce you to vlogger Michael Aranda

Is this your example of Teague's Law in effect, or an exception?

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At my school camp in 2009, we watched three movies.
They were That Thing You Do, The Princess Bride, and Muppets From Space.
That was a good camp.