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I just completed the High-Definition re-rendering of The Mischievous Bears short animated movie. The process went smoother than I expected it to, considering the assets I was using were 15 years old, and plus, I haven't really worked with 3ds Max in 10 years or so. It goes to show how little 3ds Max has changed after all of these [...]

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I recently began playing with 3ds Max again to see if I can load up some of my old renderings. To my amazement very little has changed with that software in the last 12-ish years since I last worked with it. Suffice it to say, I could re-render a few of my old favorites and even made 8x10 prints from [...]

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I've been dabbling with SketchBook Pro on my iPhone and iPad for over a year now. These are some samples I made on my phone (with my finger).

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I have been dabbling with Sketchbook Pro (among other drawing apps) on my Mom's iPad lately. I have to say it's pretty fun to work with. Not quite a Wacom tablet killer, Sketchbook has a few limitations, but it certainly has it's uses considering the price difference between the two. Sketchbook just needs to support larger canvases and it'll be golden. [...]

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I've been monkeying around with WordPress for the last month or so. I think I now have a pretty good handle on its inner workings, so I've been able to make this theme a little more compact and unique from the pedestrian default look, of my old theme. Anyway, I may still make some changes to the graphics through the [...]

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I just finished the winter version of my iGoogle Houses Theme (dead link). I tried to make it relatively generic in avoiding anything directly related to the holidays since this theme is supposed to last through February. I'll need to come up with a Spring theme next and after that, I don't know. I still need to make a theme [...]

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I made my own iGoogle homepage theme with Inkscape. The creation process wasn't too bad, Google's documentation was okay, but as a web designer I wish Google allowed a bit more freedom in the design of a few of the graphical elements. I'll probably update it in the future, fix a few minor things. I may even do a winter [...]

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Okay, I've got another paper cut-out and this time it's for my church, the United Methodist Church of Whitefish Bay! It's not quite as exciting as the Nott Paper cut-out, but it does have some character to it. I still have at least one more building that I would like to make into a paper cut-out, but we'll see when [...]

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While I was digging through some old magazines, I found a really neat paper cut-out and glue together 3D castle. I immediately thought, "Hey, I could make a cut-out of the Nott Memorial." So, after just a couple of hours in Adobe Illustrator, I came up with a mostly functional cut-out of the Nott Memorial. I would like to use [...]

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This is a movie I created of the Nott Memorial located at Union College in Schenectady, NY. My goal is to recreate the structure as it appeared in the late 19th century. Since the Nott was heavily renovated in the late 20th century, the interior of my model does not exactly match what is there today, but it is close. I modeled the structure [...]