Welding

A simple exercise to test the pipeline from 3ds max to the internet.

This was supposed to be a simple animation test to simulate the welding process.  The original recipe seemed simple enough: an object animated on the path, with a look-at constrain emits particles which are then converted into blobmeshes.  The sparks should have been even easier. Finally, a simple expression would drive the light intensity to get the flickering effect.

Then a quick render, conversion into an animation and posted on the blog.

Well, it wasn't so simple.
The blobmesh update is not efficient - the mesh generated is continually updated as new particles are added creating a really bad flickering effect. I didn't mind so much as the light would flicker it would hide that bug. But still: this put a serious dent in other ideas I had about this. 

The Animation Curve is - well  - buggy.  I can't convert it to a Bezier, so I ended doing a very linear animation. Correction: it's not buggy: 3ds max simply decided to put a linear controller  instead of the default Bezier controller as the path constrain default.

The sparks generated by Pflow stopped working at some frames - I'll have to investigate to see if this is due to a memory limitation, a bug or a problem between the screen and the chair.

I wrote a simple expression using the noise function. For some strange reason, (might have something to do with the update time of the particles system) but the expression kept returning a value of 0.5.  I had to go around rewriting the expression around a sine wave instead.

Extrait d'un carnet de croquis (#35)

Croquis ultra-rapides en attendant des débuts de rencontres hier.  Le style varie grandement dépendant des heures de la journée (ou bien de la ou des  personnes que je vais rencontrer ?).

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Le boxeur
Petite vignette rapide dans Photoshop CS3.  J'ai l'idée d'un dessin (ou d'une page) à la Darwyn Cooke: Un boxeur qui attend un adversaire dans le ring.   Le style serait un pastiche de Darwyn Cooke - son type de dessin me semble totalement approprié pour ce concept.

Ça pourrait être un boxeur forain à l'époque de la grande recession: Tenez 3 rounds contre "ConcreteHand Johnson".  J'aimerais montrer un personnage qui est visiblement drogué par l'idée de se battre et qui se demande pourquoi personne ne monte dans l'arène pour l'affronter. 

Ça pourrait être une illustration  ou une page complète.

Carte de Noël - prise 1

Une elfe...  À la manière de Dickens...

Sur le thème "carte de Noël"

Croquis rapide, environ 90 minutes incluant la couleur, puis un autre 20 minutes dans photoshop. Tout est relativement "bof" mais c'est une bonne mise en forme.

Haiku

Katsura

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L'inertie est un état du mouvement.
L'incertitude, une forme de décision.
La roche de mon jardin croit.

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Montréal

Le 23 juin 2011

Megaptera Novaeangliae

Un dessin fait en moins de 45 minutes.  Je cherchais un fini à l'aquarelle et une certaine naiveté dans le rendu. 

J'inclus dans le 45 minutes les quelques retouches dans Photoshop pour compenser aux limitations du numérisateur. Ma technique pour jouer avec les blancs ne semble pas très bien réagir avec la lumière du balayage.

Urban dictionnary : UpFuck | DownFuck | ParallelFuck

Upfuck can be use as a verb or a noun.

One can go for an "upfuck" (or "downfuck" or a “parallelfuck”). 

For example, one could say that Louis-Paul upfucked the barmaid at the new hip and trendy lounge yesterday.  The challenge of landing the barmaid while swimming with the overdressed, overcoked, underbrained posses defines the “upfuck” vector.

The term is used when someone is trying to or successfully scores someone in a class perceived above his. Or in an hostile environment.  Up/downfucking is a more a challenging term, more a state-of-mind, than a social statement.

"Paul was really feeling in the zone yesterday night; he ended upfucking the Dolce Gabana girl at the bar."
"Sure she is superficial; she has no taste and no social conscience but what an upfuck in the sack."
"At the last board meeting, my data completely upfucked the team lead in front of our boss"
"I took on an Elite at MW3 and seriously upfucked him - He won't log in for a few weeks".

Downfucking is used in the same manner, usually referring to the lower instinct, getting more primal.

"I really need to downfuck with a biker badboy tonight"
"Some punks were harassing my kid brother on facebook - I went online and downfuck with their network."
"I really want to downfuck my wardrobe"

Bukowski and Miller, in their essay about social network in the new millennium (Bukowski, Miller, 2010), implied that downfucking is really more a woman attitude as upfucking would be more masculine. Originally a byproduct of the tabloid trash scene, it made a return via the bar scene, upfucking and its derivatives began to be used by corporate and universitarians alike.

Trying to score in a class where there is no perceived added value is called a parallelfuck.  GothBoy finally got down on his knees and parallelfuck EmoGirl.

Up, Down and parallelfucking are not to be confused with the depressing and pathological pityfuck. On occasion parallelfucking could be confused with the concept of “friends with benefits”.