I’m slowly plugging away at video tutorials in my mornings, but I am making progress! I currently have three done: Intro to Fluid Dynamics in Houdini, Intro to Voxel Fluids, and Turning Objects into Smoke. Bunches o’ more left to go!
In the meantime, here’s an image I just finished a few moments ago; it was for the Speed Modeling Challenges at the Threedy forums. The challenge was to model a vase in under an hour, and in these challenges you don’t get any sort of points for the “supporting cast” so I actually just grabbed the rose from TurboSquid and then did a bunch of manipulations to it. Did some extra fun stuff to it as well like running it through a foreach loop and colouring each petal based on the bounding box (didn’t do any uv or texture maps to get those rose petals textured!).
I also had a chance to go climbing with a bunch of people from work recently. It seems like Toronto Climbing Academy has a sadistic obsession with making the grips as far apart as possible. I’ll have to go back again though… while the climbs at TCA are stylistically pretty different from Joe Rockhead’s, it is cool that they have other gym equipment there too, and it’s certainly interesting having such different styles to the climbs.