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The NEWs from Brian Gottlieb on Vimeo.

The NEWs is also available on Youtube.

What’s going on in the world today! The NEWs has your report! Staring Clay Brown and Deckar McFinnigan.

This is a short Claymation shot in a day and edited in spare time over a few more days spread out over a few weeks.

Myself Brian Gottlieb and Mark Matta shot this in one night and later Michael Dragich helped with recording the voices. I used some Royalty free sound effects by Mike Koenig I found on the web. Thanks to everyone that put in the effort. I hope to do more Fun Claymation like this in the future!

If you can’t stand this SNL garbage the Jumping stilts show up near the end of the skit. Mathew Juvet and Acrobacks are on the bocks.

Modeled this GaugeMux USB and rendered it for use at www.asdqms.com in the future.

I don’t know how to embed this flash rotate thingy into wordpress yet so I put it up here.

http://www.bg3d.com/vids/cg/GaugeMux/

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*There were a couple of miner errors like moving the wrong files all together! ha! missed a slash before the *.*

I just spent all after noon creating this backup batch file. (I’m a 3D artist not a programmer) If you do any kind of work on your computer and it’s at all any important you will probably want to back it up. There’s probably a utility in windows to do this already but for some reason I was stuck on making this.

It creates backup log folders organized by dates and tells you which files were backed up. I also only have it backing up files that are new or most recent so it doesn’t copy everything every time. (I have 100′s of gigs in 3D project files.) If you want to change these settings, do a “help xcopy” in a cmd window. Change the source and Destination DIRS to match what you want to back up and to where. just drop this into a .bat file and schedule it or run it when you want. If anyone has suggestions our you like it feel free to comment.

\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/

@Echo off
IF not exist “BackupLog\” (Echo BackupLog Folder not found
Echo Creating BackupLog Folder
md BackupLog
) else (
Echo BackupLog folder already exists.
)
Echo Beginning back up now…
Echo \/>>BackupLog\log
Echo —————————————————————- >>BackupLog\log
Echo beginning of backup %date% %time% >>BackupLog\log
xcopy /d /e /h /r /y /f /k G:\Projects\*.* D:\Projects\ >>BackupLog\log
Echo Backup Finished %date% %time% >>BackupLog\log
Echo —————————————————————- >>BackupLog\log
Echo /\>>BackupLog\log
cd backuplog
for /f “tokens=1-5 delims=/ ” %%d in (“%date%”) do set d=”%%e-%%f-%%g”
for /f “tokens=1-5 delims=/ ” %%d in (“%date%”) do set y=”%%g”
for /f “tokens=1-5 delims=:” %%d in (“%time%”) do set t=”%%d.%%eand%%fsec”
rename “log” “%d% %t%.log”
IF not exist “%y%\” (Echo BackupLog yearly Folder not found
Echo Creating BackupLog %y% Folder
md %y%
) else (
Echo BackupLog %y% folder already exists.
Echo Organizing Log into %y%…
)
move *.log %y%
pause

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So it turns out it’s really hard to make the water turn into a specific shape and look natural. Here’s 2 more samples of where I’m at.

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Yes that’s right folks I just moved bggrid.com over to bg3d.com so update your address books! (yes all 3 of you) Some exciting times. bggrid will just redirect from now on.

So there’s a show called Balls of Steel somewhere on the other side of the pond and Neg has slot called Neg’s Urban Sports thats absolutely hilarious. WoOp wOop!

You can see the rest of Neg’s Urban sports on Youtube

A friend of mine modeled this 3D Gundam Robot in Max.  I thought it was pretty sweet and thought I’d share.   It’s also available to purchase on Turbosquid if your interested.