I somehow forgot, but my short friends? was accepted to the Siggraph computer animation festival.

Too bad I can’t go to New Orleans, that would have been a blast.

Seems VFS has decided to put my film on Youtube, just to let the world know.

Link to Friends? on Youtube

While I was making friends? I wrote some useful maya scripts that did all sorts of tedious things (like creating 100 bend deformers and controlling them with one control and a dash of randomness). I’ve decided to put some of those scripts online and you can find them on the new Maya scripts page ( there only two there right now ).

Some of those scripts are written in Python, some in Mel, although I do like Python way more then Mel (somehow using backticks as an integral part of a programming language doesn’t strike me as a good idea).

Two weeks until I hand in my final reel. Two weeks.

Well, it’s been pretty quiet around here for the last couple of weeks (months?) but now something happens; a new mel script.

sjtNotes is a supersimple script that simply allows you to have some notes inside your scene that are saved along with your scene file. The script is ridiculously simple and opens this window:



Then you type your notes and hit “Save & close” and then run the script again and edit those notes and again save and close. You get the drift …

Anyway, here’s the link to this awesome script:

sjtNotes v1

If there is anything wrong with this script or you actually can use this then please let me know.

In other news I’m just busy working on my demo reel at VFS mostly spending my time rigging and learning stuff about maya that I didn’t know, like the deformation order, which I like a lot and has saved my ass on one occasion. Oh, and I’m dabbling with RenderMan, it. is. awesome. (so far at least).

1. Term 3 just started and it looks like it will be a busy one.
2. I might try to keep this blog a tad more active while working on my final project. Or not.
3. For other news see my twitter page or just check out my tweets here (look in the right column, and scroll a little bit down)

Well, I’m finally here in beautiful Vancouver, British Columbia. Actually right now I’m sitting on the Starbucks just down the street from where I and my girlfriend are living. Yesterday I accidentally bumped into Helgi, an Icelandic student in 3D Animation & visual effects at VFS. That lead to an informal tour of the Burrard campus. We went to see several computer labs, classrooms and students busy trying to complete their projects in time.

Now I really can’t wait to go to orientation day which is in 9 days. What to do until then? Maybe get an apartment?