Hey everybody. It's been a while since I've produced anything that I've shared around here, and there are a few things that I want to let you guys know about that aren't specifically TG related; some excuses, if you will, for not being around so much
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Firstly, since last summer, I've been putting together skyboxes in Terragen for a video game being published by some indie German developers. It's not my best work, but I'll link you all to it when it is released so you can check it out
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I'm also spending a fair amount of my time on some stuff I'm doing for Xfrog. Can't say a lot more now, but I do have a good excuse for not working with Terragen recently
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Right now, I'm on an off campus trip with my school that's about Photography. All of my camera and photography gear was stolen two weeks ago, and I'm only just now getting back in business. Until the end of this week, I'll be in Rome, I'll be in Vienna for a few days in mid-May, Prague until the beginning of June, and then I'll be spending a few days of vacation in Paris after the program ends in Prague. I mention this because, if anyone lives in these areas, it might be fun to meet up and hang out at a café for a while.
After that, though, I'll be rushing back to the states for what is sure to be my best summer ever: I got accepted into an internship at Pixar! I'm convinced that I got in almost completely the strength of my TG skills, so I want to put out a huge thank you to everyone who has advised me and critiqued my stuff. I want to especially thank all of the people who really helped me get started when I first joined Ashundar (now
terragen.org) - terrabill, h00nta, wholehog, RealUser, Mandrake, RedSquare, IronGoddess, and many more. Also a huge thanks to all of you for helping me along and keeping the bar set almost unimaginably high. The biggest thanks, though, goes to Oshyan: he has helped me out with everything from my first Terragen scenes to my latest ones, from web programming to photographic advice. In fact, he helped me compose and render the flagship animation that I put on my demo reel that I sent in to Pixar. If you're curious, I've posted the reel to my website:
http://www.craftycarpenter.com/pixar/reel_2009.mov (200MB).
That's about it
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