Warning! Graphic Image!

Oh dear lord what is that growing out of your hand??!!?!??! Oh a second head? No, actually it's the result of my accident yesterday. If you're at all squeemish you might not want to look at this picture......

.....Ok I warned you.......

No seriously......

Last chance.....

Oh god!!! It kinda looks like a sillhouette though right? Anyways, have a good one :D

(Insert Explitive Here)!!!!!

So tonight I went over to my dad's house. He has been wanting me to go over to his house and fire up the grill. He's never used it before and we both thought it would be a great idea to make it a father son thing. It started out pretty good. We had the steaks, some potatoe salad, and some beans in a can. What could be better? So I went to start up the grill and..... nothing. The grill didn't do a thing. I looked at the propane tank and it turned out that the guy who had put in the grill and the patio that it went with had forgotten to turn off the gas when he tested it out..... nice dude. Anyways, there was no way to cook the steaks on the grill so we decided that we would cook them on the stove inside. I asked my dad, "do you have a frying pan I can use?"
He said, "Sure, let me find it."
He was having a little trouble so I started helping him look. Unfortunatelly the one that he was talking about was barely big enough to even holod the steaks in them. I was already committed to cooking the steaks and I absolutely HAD to cook them if my life depended on it. Half way through I paid dearly for my attempts at pathetic steak cooking. As I was flipping one of the steaks a HUGE splash of grease went all over my hand. There were a few explitives, needless to say. The rest of dinner went well and the steaks were actually pretty amazing but, MY GOD! My hand feels like it is going to explode!!!

The Run Cycle

Here's the run cycle now.

Oh My God I Can't Waaaiiiiitt!

I'm rendering my run cycle right now for my robot and started on another robot guy. I'll post the run cycle for those who are interested. I had to post something though while it was rendering. I'm just too impatient not to! So in the mean time, for all those Tim and Eric fans out there....

Juggling..... Sweet, Sweet Juggling

Recently, very recently.... actually yesterday me and val decided to start seriously juggling. I had done it before in the past and wanted to start doing again. While I have started traditional juggling, Val decided to take up contact juggling.

Here's some sweet juggling that Val found and showed me.


Annnddd here's some contact juggling.



We're working on it every day so once we get good I'll post some videos.

Walk Cycle

I'm taking the next step in my animation. I'm using this walk cycle in order to study things like weight. In this first walk cycle the robot seems to have a decent amount of weight to it. I don't really like that and want it to appear to seem very light weight. I want this to be some sort of scout bot so being heavy at all would not be good. This is also why there is very little armor and why there are many cameras on the front. After making a short animation using environments and such I'll start making other types of robots.

Slacking..... a lot : /

So I've been putting off rigging for a REALLY long time. However, today I took the initiative. It's not that I don't want to do it.... but it's just so much easier not to do it. Aaaaaaannnyways, I had some of it done but decided to finally finish it out. So here it is (drum role)..... the first test video of the legs.