A month left until Burning Man 2011,
so I thought I’d get around to posting my pics from 2010…
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All posts by Sterling Ely
The Mountain
The Mountain from Terje Sorgjerd on Vimeo.
The Singularity is Near…
Time Magazine recently featured a great article on Ray Kurzweil and the Singularity.
Illustrative as the article was, I especially liked the above graphic, which clearly shows how closely past technological changes have adhered to an exponential curve, which is the foundation for Kurzweil’s main argument.
Oddly, it was not included in the online version of the article, so… here it is.
The Wanderers
Reference & Blocking: “You stole from my kin!”
For a scene I just started animating, I shot 3 versions of reference and combined them with my current blocking pass.
A bit lengthy on the setup, but it should help me really nail the timing and poses.
…And it was a pretty fun approach.
Reel-in-Progress
Aggie Christakis
Aggie Christakis adapted the skin from her old Flash website into the templates I gave her, and I cut it into a WordPress template for her.
Commenting via Facebook
After fiddling with the CSS for the WordPress-based commenting system on my site, I stumbled upon a nifty little plugin that replaces WordPress’ default commenting system with a Facebook commenting module that also allows visitors to “like” a page.
It seems to work pretty dern well, and since most of the modern world uses Facebook these days anyway, it seems like it may be a better option.
Thoughts? Comments work on any page, but this is kinda where I’m trying to test this out… so please, write a comment or hit like. Thanks! 😉
Classic Blunders
Definitely getting there, but *really* gotta slow down the monkey’s timing after the drop. After that, it’ll be mostly about tweaking all the poses and tweens, and then more overlap, and fixing the lip sync.
Video: Uncontacted Tribe in Brazilian Jungle
Incredible (Original Wired article)