XSI Foundation, Fare Thee Well

Categories: 3D

It has come to my attention that XSI Foundation is no longer available.  To most people who know the company this isn’t news, but for those who haven’t stayed up to date on XSI this is certainly interesting to note.  To me, this news is both understandable and frightening.  Understandable because, having used Foundation, it was severely limited and I couldn’t imagine users getting the most out of the software.  Frightening because it just goes to show how precarious acquiring affordable industry ... Read More

Carousel Back Up!

Categories: Site

After the carousel died after upgrading to the latest Wordpress I decided to keep at it since I hate my site not being perfect. The persistence paid off! I seemed to have fixed this issue with some very easy sql manipulation. Read More

New Magazine Theme

Categories: Site

It was time for a change.  In part because my last theme wasn't exactly compatible with the latest Wordpress, and I also wanted something new, different, and exciting.  I like it so far because it's not simply a static site, but dynamic since it has a "carousel" for switching featured articles around while someone is on the main page.  It also gave me a chance to clean up the pages and content a bit so if you are looking for a particular ... Read More

Feeds, Hamsters, And Colors

Categories: 3D, Computers, Site

I wanted to mention four things to anyone who would be interested, and as no one around me fits that description I'll post it here.  Hopefully I won't make a habit of posting drivel, but I think I'll allow myself to do so this time: If you visit this site you'll notice that I added a feed list to the right which is from my Google Reader "shared items."  I'm addicted to 3D related news so I'm subscribed to a whole bunch of ... Read More

Using dophassubdata To Change Colors Dynamically

Categories: Houdini, Tutorials

It's a fairly straight forward but I thought it needed to be put in video form.  Dynamics and expressions in Houdini go hand in hand and this is an example of that.  You can find the video tutorial on how to do this here and the result below: Read More