More Blender stuff

I've been working in blender some more, creating assets that I'll use in The Battle for Axis Mundi. I don't feel like giving away everything as I make it, so I'm not going to post pictures of any of these models. Just thought I'd let you know that I was making something. As far as the Warrior of Light goes, I'll work on him some more when these new models start to become boring to work on. But for now, since I've got something new to work on, the newer models are more exciting.

Texturing

I made a little bit of progress texturing the warrior of light today. I'd say I'm almost halfway finished with his shirt; I got his back and the sides of his chest done. Now I need to do his sleeves.

I don't want to over do it with the screenshots, so just picture it in your head.

2 year anniversary!

The title says it all! My blog is now 2 years old. I think it has been all that I've wanted it to be. I know I don't exactly have a huge audience, but I still feel like I have done a consistent job with updates on my projects. Hopefully it will be more of the same going forward. Thank you everyone for your support!

SCAD Film Challenge results

So they finally managed to post the results of the SCAD contest. Unfortunately, I was not one of the top 3, nor was I one of the top 20. And neither were either of the videos in my previous post. It seems that the judges must have very different cinematic preferences than me. Either that, or they did not pick the finalists based on actual merit, and instead chose the films which best suited the genre that they wish to promote at their film festival. The truth is probably somewhere in between.

To give an example, they chose this atrocity to be a part of their top 20. Now, I honestly can't see why they would choose this film over Caleb Diaddigo's "A Bigger Picture."

Another example is this film, which seems of markedly lower quality than the brilliant stop-motion animation "Being," by Isabela Dos Santos.

A final point of confusion for me is that not only are many of the top 20 films of lower quality than their non-placing counterparts, but a good portion of them also use copyrighted music! I don't understand. The way I see it, they are punishing originality, and rewarding cheap, lazy behavior. Well, some of the judges were from apple.

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SCAD Film Challenge Update

It turns out that it didn't matter that I was gone for a few days, as they have decided to push the announcements back until Monday. So, tomorrow I'll post again with the results. For your entertainment, here are the other 2 videos (besides mine, of course!) that I would choose if I were one of the judges:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yg10Fi17GOs

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=flMKfOTr55g

Not surprisingly, both of my picks are animation. For some reason, live action is almost always inferior to animation, unless the live action is done by professionals. At least that's my view.

So, yeah. Waiting till tomorrow.....