I wanted to see what Unity3d was all about. In less than a day I was able to create a 3d character with a walk cycle animation, add an environment with a collision mesh, attach a character and camera controller and some lights. It’s an amazing, super speedy, visual development tool. Click [...]

I had an amazing field trip experience recently. A friend, who is in the video game business, took me to this “lab” yesterday in Marina Del Ray. Partially funded by USC and DARPA?? I saw some of the most amazing gadgets — almost to complicated to explain — but one of the [...]

The latest Guerilla Drive-In event. Held at the West Chester Historical Society. Great Movie. Good Times.

In the spirit of Halloween, I did a little Anaglyph test using Maya and After Effects. Unfortunately, the full resolution version looks a lot better than this H.264 encode, but you’ll get the idea. Obviously you’ll need a pair of red/blue (Left/Right) glasses to see this. I used a paper pair that my [...]

My high school friend, John Young, and ringmaster of such social media events as Guriella Drive-In, recently invited me to attend a Green2Steam II party, where we started with green coffee beans, roasted them in a hot-air popper, ground them up by hand and then brewed them using a siphon and camp stove. The [...]