Art

Let’s dispell with the myth that creative folks aren’t technical.

I found a free wooden table sitting on the side of the road while I was walking my dog. Now, it’s no longer a table. It’s a big ol’ carving of a lion’s head."

I’ve been carving a lot more, both with the bent wood rings that I make, but also in general. For carving the rings, though, I need a stable mount to do that detailed carving work. Engravers have something like this, but they’re expensive and quite overkill for my needs. So I went about designing and 3D printing my own…

A few folks have suggested make the “It’s Vertex Not Vertice” shirt available for sale. To that I say… OK!

So I’ve found myself another fun and interesting distraction. Bent wood rings…

I got myself good and distracted from my regular project work and ended up writing the start of a little script that I’m calling JungleBook. It’s makes images that are pretty and interesting… and might just provide a little bit analytical benefit.

OK, OK… I know that I haven’t posted anything new here since May. However, it only looks like I’ve been on a summer vacation. In reality, this has been a surprisingly busy summer for me. And the approaching last quarter of this year doesn’t appear to be slowing down. Not one little bit. So what have I been up to? Let’s scurry through the the list…

One of the rewards for my Kickstarter campaign is a daily tear-off calendar, with a lie from Definitely True: Year One on each page of the calendar. It’s actually at the printer being made right now (woohoo!). One of the fun things about a tear-off calendar is that it’s built exactly like a simple flipbook. So I couldn’t resist adding a little animation to the bottom of each page…

You may or may not have noticed that I have a little graphic to accompany my daily lies (now being shared over on Definitely True). Well… I made that in Blender. And for fun, I recorded a timelapse of the whole process. Of course, I didn’t have any epic music to lay over the video, so instead I hastily recorded a voice over to describe the various steps I took in the process. It’s quick n’ dirty, but I think it does the job pretty nicely for now.

Note: This blog post was made back in 2014… quite a long time ago in Internet and software development time. While the techniques described here still certainly work, the updates to Blender’s 2D animation workflow and Krita’s animation tools have made the process much more simple. A couple months ago, I was contacted…