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Building a better mouse trap in 3D – part 1

Ivan — Sat, 16 Oct 2010 15:50:01 +0000

I am building this for a demo video of the NeverMiss rat trap. I am building the trap in 3D Studio Max, and rendering in MetalRay. It is still in an early stage, but I wanted to track my progress.
These renders show the main mechanics of the trap, the loading cone is used to set the trap.

I am now working on the trap casing which is a very organic shape, so I am brushing up on my nurbs skillz.

Erik Dolnack Illustrations

Ivan — Thu, 16 Sep 2010 20:44:38 +0000

My friend Erik just emailed me this illustration he created as a self promotion piece. I think it is pretty awesome! He used the 2600 version of Haunted House as the base.

He emailed these other illustrations as well, which he created a while back.

Letterhead for Sports Center 14 W. State St. in Savannah

Ivan — Fri, 22 Jan 2010 20:20:40 +0000

This beautiful letterhead was found in the “library/office” of the Sports Center 14 W. State Street in Savannah, GA. I love the text from the footer “Billiards – Snooker – Pocket Pool” and the phone number 4-2525. (Shows how old this is, only 5 digits!) I was lucky to inhabit this building from 1989 – 1996. I am going to submit this to Letterheady a neat blog about interesting letterhead.

First Avatar Picture fun – Heading towards the Uncanny Valley?

Ivan — Mon, 17 Aug 2009 17:35:40 +0000

My friends Jason Bratton (luckyfish.tv) and Scott Schroeder (psyche-digital.tv) just sent me these PhotoShopped pictures they made from the first official still of James Camron’s Avatar. They are hilarious. The top one is the original. We are all very excited about the movie but as Jason said in his email to me “I think the (photoshopped) responses express the anxiety we both feel from the initial image.” Please don’t suck Avatar.

James Cameron Discusses Avatar’s Uncanny Valley

The Uncanny Valley

My 1337 H4x0r sk111z have Pwned Wolfram Alpha!

Ivan — Sat, 16 May 2009 03:09:41 +0000

I want a Piglet Squid

Ivan — Fri, 10 Oct 2008 17:05:28 +0000

The Piglet Squid is so cool! I want one. Check out this site called Zooillogix.com it is like a cute overload for geeks.

Unintentionally Funny or How did this get past the editors?

Ivan — Wed, 17 Sep 2008 00:55:25 +0000

This cracks me up. I caught it during a flight back in 06 and keep meaning to post it.