Ever wonder what I do when I'm not working on VFX projects?  Me too.

Merry (belated) Christmas and happy (almost) new year, everyone! My second of two posts fact checking predictions for 2020 and further is up on Zoom Times! This one focuses mainly on transportation and space, though it also has a segment on VR; please check it out here !

As a kid, one of my favorite childhood educational books was DK Publishing's "Future" , with many of its predictions focused on a specific year: 2020. It was quite a long wait, but we're here in The Future and it's time to see what the writers got right and what they didn't! This was a pretty cool research project, and my early interest in technology was a huge part of what propelled me to get into digital art and eventually VFX! The full post is up as a guest post on my family's blog, Zoom Times ; please check it out !

Hi, As you may have noticed, I'm not updating my blog, let alone Mirai, very often.  Right now, that's because I'm currently beginning a college class, along with another project unrelated to CGI, some more Japanese, etc.  I haven't forgotten Mirai, but it may take a while for me to get back to it.  Thanks! In the meantime, here's a picture from Bill and Ted: 

This is a Haiku. Haikus don't always make sense. Refrigerator.  --Klenda As I lay dying, What carries me off? Sasquatch. I smile thinly. —The Emperor Haiku for Oob-y. Hee hee hee hee hee hee hee. I'm bad at haikus. — Me Tree one says to two, “Maple, I would pine for you.” I pick up my ax. —Klenda One, two, five four three. 'Tis awesome—I'm on TV. Why. Even. Bother? — Myself

Well, I do tend to be a little bit original with my celebrations.  I even came up with a song for this one! On the first day of Doomsday my true love just told me that the Earth exploded on the TV!  On the second day of Doomsday my true love just told me that there were two giant earthquakes and that Earth exploded on the TV! On the third day of Doomsday my true love just told my that there were three exploding cars, two giant earthquakes and the Earth exploding on the TV!  On the fourth day of Doomsday my true love just told me that there were four hurricanes, three exploding cars, two giant earthquakes, and the Earth exploding on the TV! On the fifth day of Doomsday my true love just told me: there were FIVE KAIJU THINGS!  Four hurricanes, three exploding cars, two giant earthquakes, and the Earth exploding on the TV! On the sixth day of Doomsday my true love just told my that there were six alien landings, FIVE KAIJU THINGS!  Four hurricanes...

I have returned from Summer Camp and I am back.  I know I haven't been posting pictures lately, but soon I'll be ready.  The hardest part about mixing the audio and the video of my movie is that I "borrowed" the sound effects from Bejeweled 2, and that those sound files, .OGGs, weren't meant to operate on anything except the game [2018 update: whoops; turns out .OGG is a more common audio format than I'd thought, so I must have run into a separate issue, or else it was just too obscure for Blender's notice at the time].  However, I recently figured out that I may have been doing it right some of the time.  You see, when I made a video with only audio/only visual, I think I created both at the same time--two files, the sound and the sight.  I think I'll be able to mix those together without much problem at all. By the way, another Non Sequiter ... Ι γαν σπελλ Βλενδερ ανδ Σγυλπτρισ ιν Ενηλισθ γθαραγτερσ! Blender and Sculptris in English...

I can spell Blender and Sculptris in Greek characters! Βλενδερ ανδ Σγυλπτρισ ιν Ηρεεκ γθαραγτερσ!