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Aug
25
2014

Head retopo

Alternate title: my Blender muscles are atrophying -_-

I had a lot of work on the last three weeks and have now slowed down as I put out a call for help a couple of days ago and now waiting on a response.  In the meantime I'm slowing down back to normal and getting back into the 3d (no 3d for three weeks make bek something something).  So three weeks ago after stuffing around with the rig I eventually came to the conclusion that the topology around the hips was wrong.  After trying and failing to fix it by spinning edges, I decided to just retopo the whole thing because I wasn't sure about the loops around the face either.

Base head retopo

Aug
17
2014

New Norcia excursion

I keep forgetting to write about our day trip to New Norcia.

It was one of those things that had been suggested ages ago by mother in law as she had gone to school there and was interested in showing it to the kids (and us, though both JJ and I have been in the area previously, me on a Yr11/12 art camp and him...well he was not quite sober for most of it apparently).  This seemed like a nice little local history and anthropology/society and environment type thing (New Norcia is the only monastic town in Australia) and we finally got around to it, in the in-laws massive shiny new Toyota something or other that they'd bought as part of their retirement plans.

We parked outside the museum but decided to stretch our legs after the 2hr drive (with one pit stop past Bullsbrook for 7yo who gets motion sick after an hour or so) by looking at mother in law's old boarding school.

Aug
15
2014

If it's relevant then it's ok!

[9yo was carrying on like a pork chop about doing his maths workbook.]

9yo: Do I haaaaaaave toooooo [bleat whine moan etc]
me: It's on the way to stuff you'll have to know to be an engineer.

[9yo's eyes light up]

9yo: Oh in that case it's okay!

[9yo hits the books]

Aug
06
2014

The Angus Saga

This is my 7yo and her dog Angus (aka "Angillian and "Ningle Nangle Jangaloid" and permutations thereof, don't ask, I don't know).

7yo and her spaniel

Jul
27
2014

Three eyes

5yo: Mum when can I play the old Minecraft that we used to play?
me: ...? ...tomorrow after bookwork.
5yo: Mum when can I have  computer?
me: When you can show me that you're responsible enough to have one.
5yo: When can I have a third eye?
me: ...I guess when medicine and technology advance enough.

This was all part of the same conversation.

Jul
15
2014

So much dumb things on internet

[5yo is sitting on my lap watching Youtube, he watches a clip I have a very low opinion of]

me: That was really, really dumb.
5yo: There's so much dumb things on internet!

As he said it in a rather sing-song voice I'm wondering if he is parroting that from somewhere and if so, where :)
 

Jun
29
2014

History overload, and vague career plans

We binged out on history recently.  I can't remember if I mentioned instating a docos-only-before-bookwork rule to stop the kids from gluing themselves to screens and routinely refusing to come do the bookwork, but it's been working reasonably well.  Horrible Histories was the recent favourite, I think they've watched every dvd we have now as well as anything on iView at the time, and favourite dvds have been repeated with them singing along.  As well as watching Horrible Histories, 9yo has also decided to have me read him the books for bedtime story.  We're also still very slowly working our way through the very thick Ned Kelly book.

Jun
27
2014

Drupal 7 notes - getting a Views block with a pager to remember what page it's on

While building this gallery for this client, I ran into an issue where if you clicked on the next page in the navigation block and selected a project on the second page, when the new project loaded the block would reload back on page 1.  The Designer and I thought that pagers really needed to remember what page they were on but as of four years ago it was a feature Views and the core pager didn't support, so at the bottom of an issue someone else opened up four years ago asking for this to happen some kind soul provided this code:

Jun
06
2014

Semi-rural days

We've had a couple of days going semi-rural this week.  The first was a picnic at a friend's 12 acre block in Bullsbrook where a great time was had by all children and I caught an awesome photo of my friends' kids and pretended to be closer to a master of iPhone camera composition.

Pretended to be closer to a master as it was a very, very quick "whip phone out of pocket aim try to get horizon lines and vague rule of thirds thing happening press button before kids move" kinda photo.

Jun
01
2014

Rainbow Assassin

Minimal photomanip cleaning up the pic a little bit ( and seeing as I'm not perfect I'll leave the bit where my jacket bunched up) and adding the white "glow" as though my UV strips are still intact (they lost an altercation with dryer temperature).

Then I wrote this acceptance/tolerance thing to go with it, started decorating the words, decided that it sounded wanky and pretentious and just put my sig on there (which of course required much resizing to try to pretend I know anything about composition and colours and stuff).

Then I started toying with various brushes tring to make a grungey abstracty type background...and ended up leaving it with a minimalist slightly noisy background that I fade into because that's what I do.

I showed the pose to quadrapop (who made me the bell) and she said something about so many conflicting messages. 

Yep.

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