http://search.deviantart.com/?q=by:AndyPrower&section=today deviantART RSS for by:AndyPrower en-us Copyright 2009, deviantART.com Sat, 19 Dec 2009 17:02:26 PST deviantART.com http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss http://s.deviantart.com/minish/widgets/apple-touch-icon-precomposed.png http://AndyPrower.deviantart.com/journal/19353435/ http://AndyPrower.deviantart.com/journal/19353435/ Sat, 12 Jul 2008 11:33:49 PDT
So recently whats been happening is that I've graduated... YaY!. Go Me !. Was like almost 2 weeks ago now as it was the 1st of July but I never updated here with it. The ceremony dragged on a bit and the weather wasn't that good but I got my diploma and went out for a drink with some of my fellow graduates afterwards. Ended up in an Australian themed bar called Walkabout in Glasgow. They have Kangaroo burgers. Thats all I'm going to say about it as the place is awesome.

Since then I haven't really been up to much. I've applied for a job working in Borders bookshop, just to get myself some cash money really, but I haven't heard anything back yet.

I've been mostly working on some 3D projects to put into my portfolio during my spare time. I'm working on a Billiard Hall scene, which is coming along nicely as well as sitting right now trying to render out an updated Bar scene which I worked on for a class in university.

So look for lots of updates with pictures of the scenes coming up on my profile soon.

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Went down there with my folks, my bro and Hazel aka =PrincessNut from here. She's put up a lot of pictures of the holiday. We got some lovely sunshine for our trip and got a lot of shopping in at the Metro Center.

The Metro Center is HUGE... like it used to be the biggest shopping mall in Europe. It even, up until recently as its being renovated now, had a theme park with a roller-coaster inside it. Me and Hazo must have walked around it like 3 times during our day trip there.

We all played mini-golf down on the sea front one day as well... Hazo almost decapitated my Dad with a stray shot that would have got him right on the temple had he not ducked in time.

Glad to be home though.

Got home and found my University results laying on the doormat. I got a Second Class Lower Division Honors degree (thats a 2-2 in simple terms). I'm pleased I managed to graduate but I think I probably could have done a little better and got a better average.

Still it means that I get to graduate on the 1st of July (Canada Day!).

Just watching the TV... watching my beloved Holland team (I'm supporting them because Scotland didn't make it to Euro 2008) getting completely stuffed by the Russians... now 3-1 with like no time left in extra-time/over-time... Totally Gutted. I'm sitting here in my bright orange Holland top with a really sad face.

For some reason though DA won't let me change my mood though... could be because I've upgraded to Firefox 3.

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Just thought I'd post up a little journal entry here to tell you all something awesome. My 3D animation work I did with the snooker table in it will be on show on June 9th in the Glasgow Royal Concert Hall in the center of Glasgow. They are holding the Paisley University End of Year Show there that day so I'll be going a long to see my work there and a bunch of other peoples from my year.

I'm really looking forward to it as I've been to one before back when I was just about to go to university. They had some huge screens there and stuff with the work on show so it was pretty neat. We all get a huge poster too above a computer with our work on it... How awesome is that ?.

Can you tell I'm excited lol.

As an aside here... I went Ten-Pin Bowling tonight, got about a dozen strikes, 3 in a row at one point !... I'll be paying for it in the morning though as my back is starting to seize up already. Good times though.

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Today at around 12... my computer gave birth to a wonderful bouncy CA4 (Computer Animation Year 4) project.

37 seconds of 3D gold... inspired by the BBC Snooker introduction on the goggle box.

So yeah it feels good to have that in a finalized state.

I'm not out of the woods yet however... as I still have the documentation to do to back it up... but I'd say I'm entering the final furlong, winning by a neck as i race towards the finishing post.

]]> ~AndyPrower http://AndyPrower.deviantart.com/journal/17865080/ http://AndyPrower.deviantart.com/journal/17865080/ Tue, 15 Apr 2008 13:39:19 PDT
Thought it was about time that I did a little Sit Rep.

I've been working my backside off recently doing university work and the shit has hit the fan... I've got 3 weeks in order to do my end of year project FROM SCRATCH.

So in scraps is how I'm coming along right now. I'm modelling a snooker/billiards table and going to do my own take on the BBC snooker intro.

Have to use maya's Dynamics and Physics to make the balls move around the table.

Hopefully I can get it done.

Andy.

]]> ~AndyPrower http://AndyPrower.deviantart.com/journal/15744798/ http://AndyPrower.deviantart.com/journal/15744798/ Sat, 01 Dec 2007 05:53:37 PST
Just to let you all know I'm not dead... I'm enjoying single life... and I'm still doing a lot of 3D modelling.

Birthday is coming up on the 14th... YaY !... I'll be 23... so if you wanna get me a present feel free lol.

Anyways... I have a ton of university work to do so I'll catch you all laters.

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As part of my University course. One class we have to do is CGI Film-making. To pass this class what you have to do is create your own 3D animation on a subject of your choice.

What I've done is taken the idea of a game of chess being like a war between two rival factions. Good vs Evil, Light vs Dark. Of course it would be pretty boring just watching a game of chess in 3D. So what I'm aiming to do is make it a bit comical. For example I've given one of the pawns a baseball bat which he used to knock the round head off of one of the opposing pawns.

I'm going to be doing this in Maya as I think I'm more proficient in that than the package the University is using, Lightwave. (Eugh >)

I've already completed the board already and now its onto the peices.

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I've already modeled the darts, although they could use a little tweaking, and I'm going to start on the dartboard shortly. Just have to measure it up to get the dimetions for it and then I can give it a go in 3D.

Hopefully I can make a nice scene out of it in the end.

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I just got word that half of my stuff on my DA is going to be removed as some of the Sonic images in them are all breach of copyright.

Sucks balls in my opinion. But there you go.

I've already seen 3 deviations I put up dissapear... wonder how long it'll take for the rest of them to go.

*sigh*

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Not had a lot of time to write or submit stuff but I managed to put some renders up just there of the glass bottle I had to make for my Friday class.

Anyway...

Laters Deviant Dudes and Dudets.

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I used to do most of my renders in just plain bog standard software renderings... but I've started to get the hang of Mental Ray now... worked out some settings that seem to work really well and I've even worked out how to get rid of that nasty blur that Maya puts on the textures I've been using.

Should have a couple of new peices of work being put up soon... untill then... enjoy !.

SCOOOOTAAAAR! ^_^ ]]> ~AndyPrower http://AndyPrower.deviantart.com/journal/9699804/ http://AndyPrower.deviantart.com/journal/9699804/ Sat, 12 Aug 2006 08:05:53 PDT
For some unknown reason... even though the new deviation I've submitted "AAA Battery" shows up on my profile page.

Whenever I click on my acctual gallery page... its not there. 0_o

No idea why that is... ]]> ~AndyPrower http://AndyPrower.deviantart.com/journal/9646230/ http://AndyPrower.deviantart.com/journal/9646230/ Tue, 08 Aug 2006 11:07:25 PDT
Loaded it up and it looked like this today.

Anyway. Just thought I'd point that out. lol.

Laters... GIT-R-DONE ! ]]> ~AndyPrower http://AndyPrower.deviantart.com/journal/9163335/ http://AndyPrower.deviantart.com/journal/9163335/ Fri, 23 Jun 2006 20:35:05 PDT
Up untill now I've been more or less relying on creating textures using photoshop, however when you render them out they don't have the same look as I would have liked. The dice in my Poker Night scene for example is just a transparent red lambert texture... would have been nice to make it look a bit more like clear see through plastic rather than just transparent.

So I've been working through these tutorials and I think I'm getting somewhere with it. I created a really nice looking steel texture today which I'm pretty proud off so hopefully by the time I'm finished I'll have some cracking textures saved for future work. ]]> ~AndyPrower http://AndyPrower.deviantart.com/journal/7703229/ http://AndyPrower.deviantart.com/journal/7703229/ Wed, 25 Jan 2006 10:26:55 PST
So it only seems fitting I should upload some of it onto here...

After a long hiatus...

I finally have something to put on here. LOL. ]]> ~AndyPrower http://AndyPrower.deviantart.com/journal/4354287/ http://AndyPrower.deviantart.com/journal/4354287/ Tue, 18 Jan 2005 17:51:06 PST ~AndyPrower http://AndyPrower.deviantart.com/journal/2924222/ http://AndyPrower.deviantart.com/journal/2924222/ Tue, 20 Jul 2004 05:39:33 PDT
Biggest things going on right now, I passed my Driving Test and I'm trying to fix my car up... this is taking an age however as the car just doesn't want to run no matter what I do to it.

Anyway... I've had a few ideas for some artwork so when i get a chance i'll try sketch them out.

Laters Allbodys... ]]> ~AndyPrower http://AndyPrower.deviantart.com/journal/2038540/ http://AndyPrower.deviantart.com/journal/2038540/ Thu, 18 Mar 2004 17:38:22 PST
I have a few things I want to draw in mind... plus one thing I drew that I know could do with getting put up... so hopefully , HOPEFULLY , I'll have some new stuff. ]]> ~AndyPrower http://AndyPrower.deviantart.com/journal/1925085/ http://AndyPrower.deviantart.com/journal/1925085/ Sun, 29 Feb 2004 04:42:53 PST
I got my scanner fixed, finally found the driver disk and it works again now... so this means I can now start to scan in all my art again and paint it up in photoshop like before. So look for some new stuff comming in the near future. ]]> ~AndyPrower http://AndyPrower.deviantart.com/journal/1792100/ http://AndyPrower.deviantart.com/journal/1792100/ Wed, 04 Feb 2004 08:39:38 PST
This should make things a little easier cos trying to draw with a mouse, it's absolute hell.

Just gotta figure out whats wrong with my scanner now and I'll be good to go !.

Laters,
A.P. ]]> ~AndyPrower http://AndyPrower.deviantart.com/journal/1787024/ http://AndyPrower.deviantart.com/journal/1787024/ Tue, 03 Feb 2004 08:44:16 PST
I'm starting with the oldest stuff and working forward and there about 17-18 files I wanna add in.

So keep your eyes peeled for the new old stuff (if that makes any sense) hehe.

Laters,
A.P. ]]> ~AndyPrower