Friday, August 28, 2009

Life Story

Just a few hours ago, something emotionally struck me and made me realize something in life.  My friend was telling us a story, a chapter of his life experience, a loss.  A loss of a loved one.  The story felt so heavy and it almost left me crying.

I just wanted to tell you all that life is not about how fast you get there, nor how many times you spend together, it's about why you'll be there and how you spend time together.  Every moment now might seem a bit rough between the two of you, or you're just spending time just for the sake of it.  Nothing hurts so much than to lose the one you love the most, by lost, I mean for eternity, lost from this world.  So while you still have time, tell them how much you need, love, and appreciate them.  Show them how much they mean to you.  Because you never know, this might be the last time you'll ever see him/her talk and hold you again.

-Reyn

Thursday, August 27, 2009

Most Complex 3D Model I Did


Here's the most complex model I have ever done and rendered from within Blender.  Whew! =p

More to come! ^_^


P.S.

Meet Suzanne, Blender's official mascot?


All hail Blender devs and artists! Geez, I can't channel my excitement elsewhere but here.  Yay. ^_^



Follow-up! ^_^

Hi, everyone! This is a follow-up to BlenderNewbies post about the Twitter feed.  Hehehe! Since I read that very cool post here > http://blendernewbies.blogspot.com/2009/08/news-finally-added-my-twitter-to-blog.html, I just wanted to inform all of you too that I have added (I think a month ago) my Twitter feed over to the right part of my blog.  ^_^

Twit twit twit! =>

Monday, August 24, 2009

100 Ways to Live a Better Life

Just a few minutes ago, I came across this article by Dragos Roua on how to live a better life, I know it might sound corny or repetitive at first, but trust me, even though you might or might not have done some or all of the advices, it does help.  I started to think that I missed a lot on the list and it does make sense.

Here's a direct link to the article > http://www.dragosroua.com/100-ways-to-live-a-better-life/

Saturday, August 22, 2009

Button Finished!

After two weeks of arduous and persistent editing, I finally called one of my animation tests titled "Button" done.  There were so many things I wish I had done differently and better, but correcting them would probably take another two weeks again of grueling efforts.  However, the learning process was incomparable.  So here it is, Button. ^_^


Button from Reynante Martinez on Vimeo.

And so the classic ball animation is here again. ^_^



Made with Blender and GIMP.

Sound mixed with Audacity.



Sound effects and music from soundsnap.com and flashkit.com. =)

Wednesday, August 19, 2009

GIMP 2.7.0 Dev't Release

Holy cow! I never thought that after a long time of absence, The GIMP is finally releasing something fresh and new.

Here's more info: 

http://gimp.org/release-notes/gimp-2.7.html

http://developer.gimp.org/NEWS


^_^

Tuesday, August 18, 2009

Monday, August 17, 2009

Oh my gosh!

Oh my gosh! My girlfriend just gave me a present! Hard-bound Billions & Billions by Carl Sagan! =O

Saturday, August 15, 2009

GIMP 2.6.7

Wohoooo! At long last, the slumbering GIMP website has uploaded some interesting news!  I literally thought it was naturally dying.  Good to know there's something new! WeeeEe! Thanks GIMP devs. ^_^

Here's the release log > http://developer.gimp.org/NEWS-2.6

Friday, August 7, 2009

Blender Article Now Up!


Hi there!  My first Blender article is now up.  I'm so glad I made it through.  The article is about creating good-looking (uhhhh) images with the use of Blender's internal renderer and some lighting, staging, and compositing tricks all from within Blender itself.  ^_^

I hope you'll learn something from it.  If you have any suggestions, comments, reactions, or just anything you wish to say, feel free to drop by a note or email me at reynantem@gmail.com.

And by the way, I really need some of your thoughts on how I would go about on my next article or better yet, suggest a topic that you would like me to write about.

Thanks, everyone and thanks so much to Packt Publishing (hey, Sanjay! ^_^) for the opportunity. ^_^

Here's the article link: http://www.packtpub.com/article/creating-convincing-images-blender-internal-renderer-1