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A Little Quality Goes a Long Way!

Thursday, March 31st, 2005

Here’s another Pixar-related post…damn, either it’s the job of their Marketing team or I happened to be catching anything that has the word “Pixar” in the the many articles I am browsing through. Pixar-related article seems to be everywhere…

“Oftentimes the people at the top are really fun and the people on your way up are really fun, but there’s something about a lot of middle managers-people that don’t have the power to say yes but do have the power to say no.”

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“The Fallen Path”- Modeling & Texuring a 3D Game Terrain

Sunday, January 23rd, 2005

“Making of the Fallen Path”, WMV file, 3.05 MBytes- Download Here!

Latest piece of work, “The Fallen Path”, depicting a 256×256 bitmap texture and a total of 632 triangles. Completed in about 7 hours from concept to textured model. The most time consuming part is the UVW-Wrapping and texturing part…it has always been a bottleneck for me. The trick is to get everything seems right, but at the same time, working with the stupid limitation of a square texture bitmap. :-P

Well, if examined closely, this terrain is full of seams…hehe…it’s where you hide it that matters!

People should start appreciating the art of low polygonal modeling. It’s very similar in a way to Professor Strunk’s preaching on the English language:

“…a sentence should contain no unnecessary words, a paragraph no unnecessary sentences, for the same reason that a drawing should not have unnecessary lines and a machine no unnecessary parts…”

The 256 x 256 pixel texture used in the terrain:

texture of the fallen path

It’s good to be doing a bit of 3D again once in a while…

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