I’m all for kinetic sculptures that look like they could disembowel you, devour you, the move your remains through their undulating, kineticly cool structure. U-Ram Choe who is know for amazing metal work mixed with an array of glass, coils, resin, electronic bits and movement has a new sculpture showing in New York at the Asia Society Museum until December 31, 2011. If you happen through the Big Apple, you’ll want to see it. If you don’t, you’ll want to see this mesmerizing video.
The dust tumbled off the sill of the open window as his boots fell one after the other against the plank floor. “Why you’re full of nothing but prunes and palaver!” came the voice from the corner, “Going on as you do with this and that and the other and I’ll tell you what, you…
This is a special guest post from Sky Greenawalt of School Street Design who writes about CAD/CAM tools and the process he goes through in the quest to create high-quality composite parts at BetterLivingThroughCNC.com. Catch his webinar on T-Splines V3.3 retopo tools and applying T-Spline surfaces to mesh data, November 29th. Register here.
Well folks, here it is, the thing I’ve been dying to blog about. T-Splines version 3.3 is nearly here, and for some reason the stars have aligned with my purchase of an EXAscan laser scanner and this newest T-Splines version. I must be lucky, but whatever it is, I have literally been doing happy dances around the shop. Here’s what all the excitement is about.
Hear that noise? No? That’s because it’s the sound of stunned silence emanating from all those who’ve been waiting and clamoring for their favorite real-time rendering program to bring the simplicity and ease of photo-rendering to their world of… animation. Well, prepare for the shock-wave that’s about to peel your keyframin’ fingers right off… Luxion releases KeyShot 3 today, and it’s about to get real interesting in the radical world of rendering. Hot off the presses:
If you were to wad up a piece of paper, throw it in my face and yell, “what’s your favorite artistically represented graphical element!” I’d have to wipe the blood from my lip, pinch my elbow skin and scream from the depth of my lungs, “A decent, yet imaginative typeface!” Nothin’ better in my mind, and it’s with much thanks to a fine young Italian designer named Riccardo Sabatini that I find myself gaping in face-wrinkled glee at his succulent san serif typeface of steam machine succulence, Mekkanika. Dine.