Sunday – Relatively quiet.
I only have a couple of courses to attend in the morning, including Introduction to Siggraph. It may sound strange to attend this session after years of practicing computer graphics (and a few siggraphs already under my belt) but it turned out to be packed of tips and reminders about what it is we are areally doing here. Celebration of Computer Graphics in all its manifestations.
Saturday – Welcome to SIGGRAPH 2007. Only saturday and registration lines are already growing strong. Not much to do other than pick up badges and merchandise, and get the lay of the land. This year I can finally take pictures officially without fear of reprisals. Why the world’s leader in Computer GRAPHICS conference prohibits photographs is still a mystery to…
David Bolinsky: Fantastic voyage inside a cell A fantastic video about the quest for Truth and Beauty, and running commentary of the incredible movie presented by XVivo to Siggraph 2006.
Music for inspiration, without the brainwashing of ads. More signal, less noise. Support internet radios such as Radio Paradise – eclectic online rock radio or Radio Akasha These radios, like many others, are under direct threat from the music industry to fall under the weight of a royalties system not adapted to an internet age. The sad thing is that…
WHITEHURST STUDIO : CAMERA COMPUTER Hybrid between professional photography and computer graphics. And the best part of this – he uses Poser at a professional level. These images are a perfect reply to anybody in the elite crowd of CG looking down at Poser users as if they were slightly more evolved than worms. What counts is the vision, the…
Face Hunter and People I Have Asked Two fascinating collections of portraits from people in the streets. Real life appearances, fashion and expressions. These are people you may walk by every day and never notice. The photographers must be doing something right when they get these shots judging by the number of people haboring happy faces.
Sir Ken Robinson: Do schools kill creativity? A wonderful demonstration of the impact of education on creativity and the urgent need to rethink an educational model that was created for another era. Don’t let yourself be ‘educated out of creativity’. Find what you love and do it well. Ideas echoed in the famous graduation speech by Steve Jobs at…
Charles Leadbeater: The rise of the amateur professional A couple of years ago, I read an article in Wired talking about this wonderful, almost secretive conference around topics such as Technology or Education. At the time, I couldn’t find more details about the conference, so I forgot about it… until I came across some videos on YouTube referencing TED talks.…
TES4View Advanced esp Viewer and Conflict Detector Utility – Forget what I said yesterday about reducing complexity. Use TES4View with all the mods you want active in your list. Study conflicts carefully (using the filtered view if possible) and reorganize your load order accordingly. Tips: – If conflicting values are the same, load order doesn’t matter – Mods with Orange…
Here is a list of some of the ‘must-have’ tools to help you troubleshoot issues with mods. Oblivion Mod Manager (OBMM) v1.0.3 Organize load orders, update BSA files to register new textures and meshes, detect conflicts between mods, create and use omod files. Wrye Bash The ‘swiss army knife’ for Oblivion mods. Everything you need to detect issues, change load…