(Flea + Bunny) / 2 = ? - 20080128221838 
Zap! - 20070921142657 
I've spent the past couple days working on a lightning macro for Shake. The code is super messy as I was in a rush to get it usable and I started coding immediately without giving method much thought. Anyway here is a beta release. I plan to rewrite the whole damned thing when I have some time to clean up the code and improve the speed/look. I stole the idea of creating a base "skeleton" shape then adding detail noise to it from this paper by Andrew Glassner: ftp://ftp.research.microsoft.com/pub/tr/tr-99-17.ps.
Oh! And I added an RSS feed thing for the site. http://brainfaucet.com/feed.php
Silo 2 - 20070811164906
I'm really digging Silo 2! I don't think it's quite as snappy as Mudbox or Z-Brush, but for the price it's super awesome pants! Now that I think about it, I've never used Z-Brush or Mudbox on my home system, so maybe my computer is starting to show its age. But on a Athlon 64 3200 with 1 Gig of ram and a GeForce 6600, Silo is quite usable.
1 hour head:
2 hours of messing with an old base model:
Whew... Been busy. - 20070810170528 
New article for Chromey:
http://brainfaucet.com/funarticle.php?Article=12
Technicolorish macro up: (It's now called Oldify)
http://www.fxshare.com/shake/downloads/macros/filters_effects/Oldify-4859.html
Finally finished with some serious craziness. I've been using After FX 7 for some freelance projects and I must say the new ui is a huge improvement. It didn't make me cry when I wanted to make the timeline larger or move the viewer. The graph editor is also an enormous improvement. I still think it's a stupidly bloated program (Oi, Adobe! How about not loading up all ten billion fonts and plugins at start up?!) It seems slightly more stable though it still crashed about once a day. Granted this was on a Windows box with Norton installed, so it may have just been the box. Anyway, this wouldn't have been a problem if AFX had auto-save enabled by default (WTF?)
My work place has also updated to Adobe CS3. I got the oportunity to try out Photoshop's new video editing features for some wire removal. Very nice! I wish it was a little more intelligent with the caching, but it's far superior to Shake's quickpaint. Anyway, great to see Adobe is actually improving stuff again instead of duct taping a new brush on top and calling it a new product. It's also cool to see Flash bundled in with Creative Suite, I haven't played with Flash in forever. It is kind of scary that Macromedia is gone though. I wonder if Avid is next.
Ooo! And Nevercenter finally released Silo 2! The awesome news: It's now usable on Macs so I have it at work. The even more awesome news: Their license allows for 3 installs so I also have it on my windows box! I haven't had a chance to do anything with it yet, but I'm hoping to take it for a ride this weekend or something.
