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About Me Premium Member 3D Modeler Brent O'Gara32/Male/United States Recent Activity Deviant for 2 Years
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Devious Info

  • Current Residence: High Desert
  • Interests: vertices and texturemaps, also fonts
  • Favourite band or musician: Giants, Al, Mozart, Bach, Vangelis
  • Favourite artist: Shirow, Michelangelo, Satou Daisuke
  • Favourite poet or writer: Pratchett, Baxter, Brin
  • Favourite photographer: James David Liles
  • Skin of choice: pale with freckles, fine red hair
  • Favourite game: preying on people's unfounded expectations
  • Favourite gaming platform: Pencil & Paper
  • Personal Quote: No
  • Tools of the Trade: XSI 7.01, CS3, Wacom Graphire4 6x8, AMD 5200+, 3GB Ram, Radeon 8800GT 512Meg, Audigy 2 ZS

Back to Life

Fri Jul 24, 2009, 11:28 PM
  • Mood: Lazy
  • Listening to: my fan
  • Reading: Cyteen, by C. J. Cherryh
  • Watching: Warehouse 13
  • Playing: Il2 Sturmovik 1946
  • Eating: Cupcake with Coconut Pecan frosting
  • Drinking: Fruit Punch KoolAid
So, we're more or less finished with the move in. Got a few boxes left to unpack, but the internet is once more at my command, and mere cardboard is hard pressed to compete. I took a spur-of-the-moment road trip up to G-Ville to visit :iconyak-blithering: and :iconlianthvoltarin: , their baby is actually cuter than her pictures. When you pick her up she immediately attempts to peel off your face... lips, eyes, nose, beard, ears if she can reach them. Both hands going at once, testing the limits of the flesh, probing for weak spots in the integument, clawing for purchase amidst the follicles... you get the idea. Praise the LORD they keep her fingernails short.

A real cutie though... and her Mommy and Daddy are cute too. :iconyak-blithering: has done some real neat stuff with 2 tiny scanner lenses and a pinch of Sculpy, you should check out his Macro images made with them... I had to watch him take a photo with the setup before I believed it was really possible.

Anyway, I'm mostly playing with Apophysis and Flam3 right now. Flam4 renders SUPER fast by using the CUDA rendering engine built into my Nvidia 8800GT, but it sometimes corrupts my video driver instead of giving me a fractal... it's like Russian Roulette for your GPU. Flam3 is twice as fast as the Apophysis internal renderer, and outputs much smoother/crisper images, but it does not support all the flame variations... but I can work around that most of the time. It's a lot of fun to run a random batch, find 1 good one, tweak it, render it out huge at 5000 quality overnight, and have something cool to see in the morning before work.

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Comments


:iconcganimation:
Thank you for the DevWatch
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:iconbrentogara:
Thank YOU for some awesome 3D art. you really deserved more than 100% for that Victorian/SteamPunk Time Machine!

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Thanks so much for watching.

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B

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hi :iconretardiloveitplz:

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