03/28/02 - 2:44 AM - Well I'm on spring break now so unless something really cool comes up on the movie there probably won't be any posts until april 7 when I get back, until then have fun and....umm.....sleep well.

03/27/02 - 10:05 AM -Ok so I was looking at the sand storm sequence and I kinda wondered what the robot would look like if it were kind of a coroded copper. So I made a new one, this image is alittle smaller then the last, but anyway here it, my robot in a sandstorm, in copper!

03/25/01 - 11:54 PM -We finaly have a working title for the film so I have somethign to refer to it as it is (drum roll) Relics of Creation. Ok there that is now also i have a nifty screenshot of the robot in a sand storm,The video file of this sequence will also be posted shortly as soon as I convert it to a smaller video format. thats all ENJOY!

03/25/01 - 11:04 PM - Well I know I'm not posting very much lately and there is good reason for this I promise. The reason is that while I have been getting alot of work done I'm not sure I wanna post it for all of you too see. Cause if I do let ya see it, it might spoil some stuff, so there may be some new files posted in the files area but they are mainly for the writer/editor Dan. So they are there if you want to go see, but beware it may ruin it(but not likely cause they'll have no context). So to sum up I will post the new files and will tell ya what it's called but it is up to you to decide if you wanna see it. (this only aplies to video, not screen shots.)

03/21/02 - 8:07 PM - Okey doke the second jump scene is done it is still alittle big but it should be ok I'm gunna go get pizza so **FILE REMOVED**

03/21/02 - 11:27AM - Well hello again. I have been hard at work trying to get the scenes of our little friend jumping towards earth. Well I have a preliminary video of it but be warned it is a pretty big file, i tihnk it is in the range of like 150Mb. I will try and make the files smaller in the future. I may permanantley switch over to using MPEG instead of AVI just because it is about a 1/10th the size. Well anyway without further blabering here is the first shot of a perfectly good robot, jummping off of a perfectly good ship.

03/18/02 - 11:50AM - As promised I made a little raytracing demo. Keep in mind this is a very simple scenes just a bunch of spheres and only four shaders with two light sources. Actual scenes are much more complex and therefore, I think, look much cooler but this will atleast give you a pretty good idea what I'm talking about when I say raytraced. So here ya go a bunch of raytraced spheres.

03/18/02 - 11:00 AM - HAZAAH!! The skeleton is complete, damn that was a pain. Well our little friend is all set to begin learning how to walk and all kinds of other fun stuff. ofcourse that will take even more time and probably some frustration but hopefully it will be worth it. Later today I will post an example of raytracing because I keep mentioning it and I'm bettin some of you don't know what I'm talking about so I'll post one after I finish running the new skeletion through some tests. okey doke see ya'll later.

03/18/02 - 10:11 AM - Well no new screenshots just yet but I do have good news the skeleton is almost fully implemented in our robot friend so good news there. Pretty soon I may have a brief motion clip for you, but there is still lots to do ok bye bye.

03/17/02 - 9:22 PM - Happy St. Patrick's day! I have decided that I am going to take down the trailers. They are not to the caliber they can be and they are rather large so because of this there will not be any trailer updates anounced until the final edited trailer is completed which will probably be sometime in April. However I will still be posting new screenshots as I start raytracing the models and coming up with new shots, etc. I'm putting one up right now to demonstrate raytracing, this is just a little taste of what it will look like fully raytraced with full anti-aliasing. anyway this is a cut from the flyby scene.And one other one from within the hanger looking out.

03/13/02 - 12:56 PM - Today I re-rendered alot of stuff as promised and put together a new trailer, it still looks a bit cut together but ya know what I'm not the editor so there. eitehrway I decided to compile this one into and MPEG2 because that way it wont be 200Mb like it would have been, instead it is a lovely 14Mb. The quality suffered a tiny but but hey thats ok it's a work in progress right? Anyway here it is!Oh YEAH!! I also added a link to a wonderfull marmot site that could use constributions. They are a great foundation so please visit their site and if you can donate some money or buy a lovable stuffed marmot. =)(the link is in the upper left)

03/12/02 -7:43 PM - Ok the first little teaser trailer guy is up but it sucks so I'm re-rendering alot of it, but atleast this way you can kinda see what I'm going for. Dan I'll have the effects free version ready for ya probably before thursday. Ok thats it for now.

03/11/02 - 1:24PM - Alright then real quick update here, I added a quick screen shot, the fantastical first screen shot of the robots on the ship I'm having some trouble lighting this guy BUT I tihnk it's ok, just have to modify a couple things and I think we'll be set. Eitherway check it out and as per usual tell me what you think.

03/11/02 10:22AM - Okey dokee I've started texturing the robot the curent version I think I'm gunna dub shiny toaster. Initially I wanted to see what he'd look like all shiny and crap....yeah that looked stupid so I added some carbon fiber lookin stuff or if you prefer teflon. So here he is in all his non stick toaster glory. (full body) I'm gunna asume that noone likes this look but me so I'm working on other shaders and textures right now. So again tell me what you think and that is it for now.

03/10/02 3:44 PM - Hello there again, Some of you have been complaining that the scenes were too dark and that you could only make out very vaguely what their shapes were but could see no details. I made three new screenshots from the various scenes to test out with some new lighting.They are of the earth flyby scene , the exhaust shot , and the flyby sequence . Email me if you have any thoughts on the shots.