After working on it for over a year, I am declaring an end to the “Principal Photography” portion of Something’s In The Air. When I started this project I had in mind a 6 story visual novel. It got whittled down to 4. One (a “romantic” story) was dropped because I couldn’t figure out how to make it interesting. Another
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A few months into this project, I upgraded from Poser 7 to Poser 9. One of the new features of Poser 9 was a new skin rendering model called Subsurface Scattering, or SSS. It is a form of Ambient Occlusion. If you don’t understand this stuff, well neither do I. All I know for sure is that it can sometimes
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As predicted I am back in “creative” mode, and working on Something’s In The Air most of my spare time. My current project is to create an outdoor Sci-Fi/Fantasy Festival, a “Comic-Con” type festival, though that name is TM so I can’t actually call it that. Even worse is that these festivals often have a lot of people dressed up
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In the past 6 weeks or so I have got two characters all the way up to 80, and the weird thing is that I almost never duplicated content doing it. One character is human and priory, and stuck to Human and Sylvari zones. The other is Norn and Order of Whispers, and stuck to Norn and Charr zones. Except
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As expected, I have been playing Guild Wars 2 for most of the month, and as in times past when I get occupied with a new game, the blog suffers. I’m in a temporary hiatus with the SITA game, and while I have some new stuff about GW2, I think I’ll save it until I actually get a character to
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This weekend is the head start for Guild Wars 2, the official launch is Aug 28th. I have been involved with beta and thought I’d throw out some advice to those looking to join the game. Let me just say that Guild Wars 2 is an MMORPG, a type of online game that has been dominated by World of Warcraft
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I know there hasn’t been a lot of posts this summer, in truth there has not been a lot of news to share in the topics I usually blog about. In between various distractions, I have been working on Something’s In the Air, and have now finished story 5 of 5, with story 4 only half way done and story
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I have been doing “Principal Photography” on Something’s in the Air now for a full year. By my guesstimate, I’m about 2/3rds done (unless I come up with a brilliant plan to add to the project), so maybe another 6 months? Maybe? Anyways, here’s some random spoiler free screenshots of what I have been doing for the past year. Come
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Telling the world that the internet is not destroying society is probably not going to get me a ton of hits, because who wants to read an article that is stating the obvious? So I thought I’d draw attention by misspelling internet. If I really wanted to get hits, I’d lead with some bald face lie like “‘The Demise of
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As I have mentioned numerous times before, the “sequel” to Date Ariane, known as Something’s In The Air features an updated model of Ariane, that took quite a bit of work to get right. Redoing over 1000 pictures from Date Ariane is out of the question for the foreseeable future (but I’m not saying never). But if I ever got
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