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07/13/08 - Newton's Cradle Tammy loves these things and so do I. I wanted to tinker with some more animation and this was suggested so I created it for Tammy. The speed of the animation seems wrong. I will have to get one of these toys and actually play with it to see what they really look like. I need to make the balls sway a little when they are hit to make it seem more real. It is hard to beleive that it was 2004 when I last played with animation. It is like starting all over. Watch the video 06/11/08 - Triple Cross My buddy at the office has this frustrating wood puzzle. I couldn't figure it out but the shapes just caught my attention. It didn't take too long to modle the basic shapes. The hard part was figuring out how to put the real one back together so I could repeat the process with this computer version. This is also my first use of "depth of field" which works like a real camera making some parts of the image nice and sharp while other parts are out of focus. I think it adds a very nice and more real look to the image. 02/18/08 - Five Diamonds I was just playing with light and refraction and with one gem things started to look interesting so I added a few more and adjusted the light. I hope you enjoy this little eye candy. It took several hours to render. Setting up the scene was pretty easy, but light takes a lot of computing power when it comes to reflecting and bending. 02/17/08 - Flexi-Straws I was working with flexable items and thought I would try some flexi-straws. They were easy enough to create, but when it came time to bend them, it was a little more work than I originally thought it would be. Things don't bend in the 3D art world like they do in the real world. This will be fun to play with in some future art.