I know, I know, I haven’t been blogging for a few days already. Don’t sue me.. I’m extremely busy nowadays with school, and various projects…
Few people have asked me why I like Lucky Star. Well, for one, it very much mimicks my conversations in real life (yes, I talk about Chocolate Coronets, and I dare you to tell me you haven’t played a game that was meant for a more mature audience when you were still young. Ahem.. GTA?)
I guess, that’s what’s so interesting about randomness (and yes, I know Lucky Star was shown last year). Now, here’s a slice of the random conversations I get into (and ooh, it has annotations!): Continue reading On Randomness
The reason why I’m a suitable candidate for the Virgle’s Project is because I’m originally from a borderworld called Xen…
Yesterday, Google announced an April Fools’ Hoax (or not), that the would be teaming up with Virgin on a joint project called Virgle. This is one of Google’s newer, participatory April Fools’ Day joke (or not), seeing that they’ve motivated more than 100 people to post video replies on the Virgle YouTube channel.
Naturally, I too, posted a response:
I wonder how many of you caught the multiple references in the vodcast.
A few days ago, I posted a teaser picture of a female shaver. I asked my readers to guess what I was going to use it for, and offered a prize. Well, now it’s clear.
I watched AvP:R two days ago. And in the span of two days, I made a video review of it. I’ve been planning this video since before I started the Headcrab Zombie chronicles. The only reason why I didn’t do it then is the same reason why the video is a bit crappy.
Anyways, watch the video review:
Technical Information and trivia:
The tracking of the facehugger was done almost entirely by computer.
Which is why there are some parts where the tracking doesn’t match – because my eyes move.
The most challenging part is of course the chestburster scene where the headcrab jumps out.
The reason why this was shot day-for-night is because there are some parts where the facehugger didn’t track well. Shooting it day-for-night hides the flaws.
It is physically impossible for Bacall (that’s my headcrab) to jump out of the body, because a typical headcrab like Bacall is 2 feet long.
The reason why my voice slurred is because I did the dubbing on my bed after I woke up this morning.
And the canned laughter is added to help those who didn’t watch my previous vodcast.
I’m bored, and hyper-productive, so I made another vodcast (after my previous atypical vodcast).
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Technical Information and Trivia:
Work + Rendertime: 4 hours.
I originally rendered a version with fur, but discovered that took too long.
The original version had a real 3D-hair fake beard, but also took too . . . → Read More: Vodcast: Merry Christmas!
Ola. Today’s vodcast is not your typical headcrab zombie vodcast. Today, I’ll attempt to answer the Davos Question.
Here’s the video:
If you’re wondering why its so lame (with the headcrab so stiff and all), its because this is actually the longest video I’ve made so far – 4 and a half minutes as opposed to the typical 1 minute stuff. Also, if you’re wondering why it doesn’t feel like the older vodcasts, its because I was lazy and didn’t hand animate the whole thing. In fact, what you see is almost entirely machine generated.
Technical Information and Trivia:
This is the first video to be completely computer tracked, and no hand animation involved. I did this because there were more than 7000 frames, and it’d be next year before I finish hand compositing it.
The video took roughly 90 hours in total to render. It’s roughly 50 hours per render, and with 16 hours remaining, my 3DS Max crashed. So it took another round of rendering before I could get it done.
I didn’t move much. For a reason. It was 3 a.m. when I made the video. I was quite tired
I thought of just uploading it straight to YouTube, but there were these horrendous eyebags.
So I rather wait 90 hours more to get it uploaded.
The reason why the headcrab looks a bit different is because I was sitting quite close to the camera this time. Note to self: Get a 35mm lens camera.
In total, I re-recorded my speech about 100+ times, because I had problems pronouncing ‘utilitarianism’ and ‘antiretroviral’, and ‘WTC’
The video and audio went out of sync at 3:09, because I miscalculated my frame rates. Bugger that, my math.
