A New Plan!

This blog site is my personal blog.  In addition to actual useful information, I also occasionally blog personal stuff.  Seeing it all mixed up here has confused even me…  So I’m making some changes.

This site will be about me.  What I’m up to, things I’m learning, examples of my work, and my personal opinion on [...]

Catching up and cleaning up

A new decade has begun and I was long overdue for backing up my data.  I bought a few new hard drives in December, but never got around to setting them up in my external RAID backup.  So, I finally took care of that. I now have four 2 TB hard drives in my external [...]

Shades of the past

A little less than a year ago I upgraded most of the components of my computer, including a new quad core processor and 8 gigs of RAM.  Prior to my upgrade many of my animations would take two to four days to render.  But with the new machine even when rendering in Cinema 4D with [...]

Experimenting with Cinema 4D

I’m tired of driving for hours a day to shoot 20 useable clips…  And I’ve had some ideas floating around my head for some new 3D projects, so I fired up Cinema 4D today and started playing…

This clip is a movie theater with a countdown playing on the screen:

YouTube messes with the gamma of uploaded [...]