I can celebrate a tiny bit today because I've finally finished this stupid dragonfly I've been working on for the last few weeks. A simple import of the original video footage file onto a plain, much like a projection, and I could more or less move the dragonfly left and right, making it look like it was flying. Chuck it behind a blue-screen, and by that I mean a blue background, and three hours of rendering later, we're done. Hooray. Once the whole thing's done, I'll post it up on youtube, and be thrilled at the little bit of the video which is mine. Despite our shoddy subject matter I'm actually thinking it might look really good, so here's hoping.

Till then, have a look at this Batman picture I did yesterday. It didn't look like that all before but I got bored, messed around with colour and levels and it became this. Might work on the flowing cape and a better background and all that some other time, but for the meantime enjoy that. Here's what it otherwise looks like

I've managed to get a "downloads" page on this blog, which seems a bit pointless as I've only put one thing up there, but there it is. You can find at just underneath the header, or here. I've put up Dial M for Mephistopheles in all its textual glory, and I added a "videos" section, only to realize I don't really have any video to play.

Speaking of videos, by the way, I have finally finished rigging the dragonfly and it is fully functional and ready to be animated. Only problem here is I can't actually texture the thing without it looking really off and fucking the rigging around heaps, so I have to start panicking about that. Hurrah hurrah.

Here's what it looks like. It's just a little grey at the moment.

In other news, nothing. Nothing's happened, and that's probably a good thing. There's a new song by songstress Amanda Palmer about Lady Gaga, herself and Madonna on Youtube here. I like it. It's about art and pop music which is pretty cool. Oh, and for videos, here's something I found to be rather hilarious, and amusingly enough something I was thinking about making some time back, but was too lazy to do anything about it. But congratulations Britanick, yours was faster and considerably better than anything I could have done. 

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Why can't I bloody find anything to write? I need some inspiration somewhere. I need some art. But first I need to sleep cos I have to be up at 7. Bah, I don't like this early class.