Movie info summary:
This is the official website. After Nov 15 you can buy tickets to the advanced screening.
www.woodyiswatching.com
This is the link to demand Black Hills in your area. You can put in your own zip code.
http://eventful.com/performers/black-hills-/P0-001-000239209-2/top-demands?tbc
Rough teaser trailer: The official one should be released around November 15th.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=43ix1eM1YXU
DVDs will be released at a future date based on how many theatres pick up the film. I make a percentage on all of the copies I sell. So you can either tell me you want one and I will buy them in bulk to distribute (like taking orders) or you will be able to buy it yourself and mention my name. More info to follow as I have it.
Thursday, October 28, 2010
Friday, October 15, 2010
See me get killed!
Not programming related, but I just wanted to share this. Recently my wife was given a role in the upcoming horror film Black Hills (aka Woody). At the last minute, they needed someone to fill in for a role, and they asked me to come be a victim. Filming was awesome! Please click the below link to request a showing of Black Hills / Woody in your area.
Friday, September 10, 2010
Why I like Blender, and Ubuntu, but not together
This will hopefully serve as a cautionary tale to any budding 3D animators out there hoping to produce something on Linux.
I had upgraded to Ubuntu 10.4 (Karmic Koala) when it was released, having skipped a few releases. I think I had previously been using Intrepid. Anyway, when I finally got around to trying Blender in the new Ubuntu, I found that the popup menus did not work properly. The textbox inputs didn't usually work correctly either. Sometimes I could get a popup to appear by clicking a menu, moving the mouse, and waiting for the menu to appear. Sometimes I could click on a text box, type blindly into the empty box, press an arrow key to change the Frame of the timeline, and changing frames would cause the text box to repaint and show my text. It was pretty awful.
I went searching for a solution on the nets, and found this:
Now, granted Blender 2.5 is still in beta. But I just downloaded the 2.53 build, and so far I'm impressed. If you had the same problem that I did, or just want to see the slick new UI, I suggest you grab it and try it out. I had nearly forgotten how to download and unzip software, having been spoiled by Apt for so long in Linux Land. Being able to bring down a built-in menu of available software is still one of my main reasons for switching, so I'll be extra excited when Blender 2.5 is available there.
I had upgraded to Ubuntu 10.4 (Karmic Koala) when it was released, having skipped a few releases. I think I had previously been using Intrepid. Anyway, when I finally got around to trying Blender in the new Ubuntu, I found that the popup menus did not work properly. The textbox inputs didn't usually work correctly either. Sometimes I could get a popup to appear by clicking a menu, moving the mouse, and waiting for the menu to appear. Sometimes I could click on a text box, type blindly into the empty box, press an arrow key to change the Frame of the timeline, and changing frames would cause the text box to repaint and show my text. It was pretty awful.
I went searching for a solution on the nets, and found this:
Blender 2.49 still had front-buffer drawing code that poses problems for some cards and drivers...
Blender 2.5 has a different drawing approach in that everything is now drawn in backbuffer.
Now, granted Blender 2.5 is still in beta. But I just downloaded the 2.53 build, and so far I'm impressed. If you had the same problem that I did, or just want to see the slick new UI, I suggest you grab it and try it out. I had nearly forgotten how to download and unzip software, having been spoiled by Apt for so long in Linux Land. Being able to bring down a built-in menu of available software is still one of my main reasons for switching, so I'll be extra excited when Blender 2.5 is available there.
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