- Posted by Christopher on June 1st, 2008 Comments Off on On the verge…
Well everything is on the verge of being done, now over the the past few months I have told people about this animation I have been working on which has been in developement for over 6 months, when I started it was suppose to be an animation test, then someone (they remain annonymous) gave me a idea, so I put forth that idea, not realizing that it was going to take alot of work to complete including, Rigging (for those that don’t know Rigging is when you give a character bones so that it can move like how us humans are made of) the main character a few times due to things, I did wrong, learning from all of this made me much more confident in my abilities now.
If you read my previous post you’ll read that I am offering to do a animation\design project for free so you may want to pass me up on this deal if you are looking for professional work that is of excellent quality without paying one cent then this is a deal for you 🙂
For those 3D Animators\Designers out there reading this blog I am offering a tool that has been sitting on my harddrive for a very
long time it is called “Displacement Creator” it’s a very small executable file in which you load your normal maps and it converts it to a displacement map you can download it here:
This is a little off topic but not by much as we use computers almost everyday so I wanted to post this the “>Top 10 Greatest PC Inventions of all time” from Maximum PC December 2007 Issue if you purchase a back copy you can read the list of 100 but I am only posting the Top 10 🙂
10. Direct X
Why?: Microsofts Graphics API has evolved from a tricky method to fool Windows info playing games into a sophisticated, indusy-standard PC graphics platform
Yes that Microsoft
9. DOOM (the game)
Never mind Wolfenstein 3D, it was Doom that put 3D PC gaming on the map – so to speak. The game is so insanely popular it’s been ported to just about every platform imaginable, from cell phones to workstations
8. IBM 5150
With 16KB of RAM and up to two internal 5.25-inch floppy drives, the 5150 was the first modern PC. While it was priced out of reach of most consumers, the technology (obviously) endured. Many 5150s are still running today in 2008
7. Hayes SmartModem
Hayes pioneered consumer modems, which let patient PC users speak to another PCs in the pre-broadband Internet days. Though few people use them anymore, they’re still intergrated into virtually every desktop and laptop you buy today.
6. QUAKE (the game)
Earlier titles like Doom and Duke Nukem 3D hinted at what the future of gaming would look like, but Quake finally fulfilled the promise, replacing 2D sprites and maps with real 3D models and environments.
5. Windows XP
Is XP the best Windows of all time?
Windows95 and 98 were both influential, even groundbreaking, but the stability and speed of XP have already made it endure far longer then either of those OSes. XP’s additional features, like Remove Desktop, device ddriver roll-back, ClearType, and better multi-user support make it a must-have upgrade, but the general reaction to XP’s successor, Windows Vista, really pushes WindowsXP into the classic territory. The widespread rejection of Microsofts latest bloated OS will give XP even more life the nit might otherwise have had.
4. NCSA Mosaic
If one application had a more profound impact on modern-day computing then any other, it is Mosaic, the first web browser, which was developed by the National Center for Supercomputing Applicaitons. Before Mosasic, the closest you could get to a graphical internet was the offasional spot of ASCII art during your Telnet session. IN conjunction with the HTTP protocol, the interconnected, fully graphical World Wide Web was born. Bits of Moasic code are still found in most major browsers.
3. Intel Pentium II
With the Pentium II, Intel tried something different, packaging the CPU along with a daughterboard and a heatsink inside a slot-based package instead of an exposed-pin socket. The trick let Intel seperate the L2 cache from teh CPU, which increased cache size, while keeping prices down. The Pentium II significantly outperformed earlier CPUs, particularly when running then-hot “multimedia” functions. The chip cemented Intel’s lead in the CPU market until the rise of AMD Athlon 64.
2. 3DFX Voodoo 1
The PC graphics market used to be even messier then it is today. When it got its start in 1996, with 3dfx’s Voodoo 1 chipset, getting 3D graphics on your PC meant having an add-in card in addition to your standard VGA board and daisy-chaining them together, but gamers will put up with alot, and the Voodoo 1 became an instant hit, powering must-have titles like Quade whhich turned gaming from the pseudo-3D Doom era into a new realm of complexity and realism. Without the Voodoo 1, you’d probably still be playing Castlevania
And (has Mr.David Letterman would say)
The #1 GREATEST PC INVENTION OF ALL TIME IS…
USB
– USB is EVERYWHERE and almost EVERYTHING
No connectors has proven more useful and reliable then USB, the first step away from teh dog-slow legacy of serial and parallel ports. USB offered some unheard-of features for it’s time: the ability to connect peripherals whichout turning off the PC FIRST (the new term is Hotswapping) daisly-chain up to 127 devices together, and draw power without a seperate AC connection. Though USB later upgraded throughput to 480MB/s, it shrewdly kept the same formfactor, which effectively relegated competitor FireWire exclusively to DV apps and Macintoshes.