₦airaland Forum

barcanista:
he should petition the EFCC and stop disturbing the Press. God knows that I don't like Aliyu Babangida for his fraudulent ways.

Btw: Buhari has been allowing rogues off the hook

Rogues created, enabled, nurtured, nourished, and hitherto protected by your erstwhile benefactor GEJ.

barcanista:
New UK Unit Will fight Corruption and Boko Haram

I never knew that Nigeria has become an extension of the UK. The UK anti-corruption agency will be the one fighting corruption in NIGERIA, and their Military will fight BH(another Iraq). So what is the use of Buhari in power when the UK is to take care of our domestic issues? Nigerians should have been told that we are the newest British territory.

To think that paid APC trolls are hailing this is pathetic, and more pathetic that President Buhari saw no shame in retweeting it.

The UK jailed your Mr Ibori when your courts and anti corruption agencis couldnt, or wouldnt.

no country is an island, the idea of BRICS, EU, NATO, ASEAN, EC, etc are all avenues for countries to help each other. the advanced countries assist each other economically and security-wise. so what's the big deal in a developing nation looking for assistance from a developed one?

but then, being a GEJite, corruption is your stock in trade. And if this is your idea of opposition as payback for the ignominious defeat of your fallen benefactor, then you're doing it wrong.

why is Marylin Ogre still employed?

kazuna:
Damm, compositing x one more thing to learn....

Has any one tried an animation with Cycles, concerned by the noise and rendering time?

I reduced the light and its still there...

much better. need more specular highlights, and subsurface scattering especially on the elephant's ears.

see walk cycle in Cycles below. low poly model, hands need some work. the model is just a placeholder for more interesting characters. Look at the Dope Sheet. Crazy.

Check this out:

https://sites.google.com/a/cgspeed.com/cgspeed/motion-capture/cmu-bvh-conversion

A bit old but useful for quick-and-dirty concepts. i miss my Kinect.

AAinEqGuinea:
Vid was insane

sebastian is a master compositor. look for his DVD "Track Match Blend" if you really want to learn composition.

no matter how good you're in sculpting or modelling, if you dont know proper lighting, tracking, masking, and comping it wont take you far.

someday i dream of being behind some Visual FX power house to help our movie and advertising industries along.

let's hope this is a good start towards something great for all of us.

kazuna:
The track nodes? where are they?

I used 15 tracking points , with a total solve error of 7.66

Texturing phase, Critique guys....Is theTexturing okay Or the lighting bad enough to Crack ExInferis Cups?

Blender Rendering is always my portion? When will cycles be faster for Animation....

you need to use Cycles, then utilize RBG curves and color ramp to properly shade the models. Are you using sun or world lighting? the diffuse and strength are too much.

checkout this guy (time lapsed tho)


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fHSQlFBHFWQ

kazuna:
New Tracking And animation coming up shortly....improving stability of my tracks, huhuu

where are the track nodes, and how many track points are you using? because at it is, it looks like a still composition.

pepper splash

still life

kazuna:
Survivor of the Banhammer of Thor......I like you.

I like that certain edge you have, that claim to your freedom to express, sharp and not too brittle.
But a cup is still a Cup.....hmmmm, a skull can be a cup to the Abriba Warrior.

And then Art is an expression. Picasso's prostitutes were as curvy as well as Caravaggio's Madonnas, but they are both all Female autonomy and grace expressed differently.


will you foray into Character design?
You said you are mainly a compositor, can you tell me what to do , how to remove that testing platform in my hulk animation?

these are basic meshes i knock off on the fly. im less interested in the philosophy of proportions, and more into the expressionism of materials, textures and lighting. once you get the hang of luminosity, radiosity, volumetric lighting, etc and the photographic techniques of filters and even basic RGB, then one can worry about meshes and symmetry.

im testing Yafray and other renderers to see what advantage they may possible have over Cycles.

im learning composition, Node Editing isnt easy or straight forward without knowing the disciplines i mentioned above (lighting and materials) becuase proper lighting affects mood, luminance, etc.

so hang in there while i sort the stuff out.

character design? here's my ideal babe. high res, rigged with bones, posed. sculpted to enhance bumps.

lighting needs some work.

a cute & cuddly teddy. built from spheres, and particles for fur.

the follow-along is on youtube.

will rig it and make a 250 frame animation soon.

Tos87:
ok...but is ain't about photorealism... a cup is a Cup
you are welcome.

like i said, i could easily adjust the solidify values or negative extrude the rim if i was aiming for a proper cup dimensions. i wasnt.

glass cup with napkin.

the glass cup was a UV sphere cut and scaled, the napkin was a rotated plane with the cloth simulation. collision added to cup, bottom plane, and the napkin both to itself and the other objects.

took 25 minutes to render with render sampling of 2,500 on a Surface Pro 3 (core i5).

Tos87:
ride on... nice. but have to work on the cup the more... the edge is kind of not the moderate size.

it began life as a cube primitive. the vertices were extruded along the z axis and modified with the solidify modifier. i was not aiming for photorealism.

thnaks.

1. Engadget (tech news)

2. Nairaland (local news, gossip, tribal fights, mods tyranny)

3. xvideos (daily p0rn fix)

4. dilbert (light humor)

5. yts (torrents)

i normally use Maya and Cinema4D but ive gone back to Blender ever since i abandoned my game project. i love the new Cycles engine which i use far more than the default rendering engine.

Cycles places Blender on par with the best.

I modeled the cup then used the Node Editor to design the cracks (see below), since im into compositing so im just getting to grips with the editor.

im seriously into Tracking and Compositing, so ive left modelling for the noobs. Cycles and the Node Editor are heaven sent!

attached are creating:

1. initial render

2. adding the cracks effects using the node editor

3. final render.

model not UV unwrapped (normal materials, not bitmap textures)

kay29000:
Hmm! if you have problem lasting long in bed, hit me up on BBM- 7C22F6EC.

i dont have a problem lasting in bed. it is beds that have a problem lasting under me.

OREMUSSANCTUS:
God go punish dat woman, if she open mouth say she luv oshiomole
Women and money re positively related

amazing! you've finally made a post that contains neither buhari nor APC.

didnt know you'd the capability.

i watched Chappie last night with elevated expectations (me being a sci-fi buff) and i must say the experience was terrible. After the brilliant District 9 i had high hopes for director Neill Blomkamp, i even forgave him for the tepid Elysium, but this...this is a travesty. who ever funded the production of chappie needs to be shot, along with Blomkamp, his wife, sigourney weaver, and hugh jackman.

this film is so bad, so terrible, so useless, so riddled with gaping plotholes they literally appear like sinkholes in every scene.

without much ado, here is everything wrong with Chappie in bulletpoints:

1. Future south africa decides robocops are a good idea, but neglected to have a backup plan in case the machines--being machines--failed. Also the government didnt care much for supervising the main armament and robotics manufacturer.

2. Tetravaal, the company making the robots, looks more like an accounting firm than a robot mass producer. its chief scientists and enginners huddle over desks instead of research labs. Heck, even the singular brains behind the company's only successful product has a small table in the midst of the clerical hoi polloi.

3. Tetravaal is the most bullsh1t company ever when it comes to security. The main Guard Key, the master key to the robots firmware is a mere USB key, which is very much copyable, and is kept in the most unsecure room with nary a guard nor camera, nor alarms, nor any sort of protection. evidently anyone can just walk in and pick it up.

4. the engineers have a great degree of latitude within the compoany. they come and go as they please, access any facility, open any door, enter any level, access every computer and programs, and run whatever code, even malware. all the while there are no guards, no cameras, no alarms, no forms to sign, no permissions to be asked.

5. Tetravaal fully funds the Moose program run by the villain vincent but yet discarded it because it was "big, lumbering, over powered". Er, didnt you see the AutoCad before commission millions, probably billions, to build a fully functional vertsion of the darn thing?

6. Appaerently Tetravaal emnployees, even the ones who work in high security and sensitive projects, are not under protective surveillance.

7. in the wacky and improbable world of Chappie, a computer programmer can create a fully functional "human consciousness" in a matter of hours. And have said program ready for deployment without test running.

8. Deon is apparently the only human being capable of writing complex code completely free of bugs. im a programmer, and even for a few hundreds of lines of code, i spend a great deal of time debugging. i tried creating a first person shooter game with Blender and later Unreal and tons of prefab resources, with only 15 thousand lines of code but the scripting (in python) nearly ruined me after countless cans of Redbull. gave up after 2 years and just one serviceable map barely 500 square meters.

9. so after the bullsh1t "consciousness" update (ChappieConsciousness.dat file, haha) chappie started off as nothing more than a curious child who could only mimic gestures and parrot spoken phrases. a few scenes later he was blabbing nonstop and questioning human propensities with none of the mental progression expected.

10. If the moose robot was controlled via telekinesis using a daft VR-like contraption called a "neural helmet", why was vincent using a HOTAS stick to control the stup1d thing?

11. so all the robocops were wiped out via a malware and the wonky USB guard key thingy, and the police has no contingency plans so criminals are free to roam and cause bloody mayhem. so where was the army? the national guard? anyone? why was there no sense of panic in joburg and even within tetravaal iteself?

12. vincent, in the ofice on a monday morning, physically attacked Deon the star employee of tetravaal and even threatened him with a gun in full glare of every one. and vincent didnt even get a query from HR?

13. Deon finds out that vincent was responsible for bricking the robocops, and instead of reporting to the CEO or whoever, deon fumingly storms to vincent's pathetic workstation, an in front of everyone, deon threatens to spill the beans and expose vincent. he never did.

14. the gangsters of joburg are a joke. so is joburg law enforcement. a couple of villains and chappie robbed a bullion van on TV and no one bothered to trace the villains.

15. why do both deon and vincent have unfettered access to their robotic creations? why should vincent have full access to a militarily formidable and fully armed robot without any checks and balances or oversight?

16. why is a fully functional robot (the one chappie gets transferred into at the end) a prototype?

17. how can chappie, a robot running off a hard disk, transafer his consciousness using a neural helmet? isnt a neural helmet meant for reading human brain scans?

18. if the USB key needs to be physically plugged into the robots to be firmware upgraded (or virus infected), how come vincent only needed to plug it into some random Acer desktop only to upload his malware?

19. as regards 18 above, how were they able to upload Yolandi's consciousness remotely? didnt they need the master key again? and why is the preoduction facility still powered and online since the government banned all further output?

20. so Tetravaal has the most insecure network and computers that can logged into remotely to design, build, and program a robot? if it can be done remotely why does anyone come to work?

21. so how do they plan on getting yolandi out of the tetravaal facility after building her, seeing as robot production was banned?


these are just some of the plotholes, inconsistencies, and poorly realized internal logic of chappie. the acting is even worse, the theme hammy and handfisted, the motivations questionable, the plot tedious, and the endless deus ex machina laughable in its frequency and absurdity.

in a word, chappie is a terrible movie, the year's worst after jupiter ascending.

chappie is for sado-masochists only. please avoid

so he DID build the 2nd niger bridge!

They're just playing Angry Birds during GMB's speech.

Sweetguy25:
You took my post too serious.

true. but there was no emoji.

20pounds:
What an amiable gentleman. Welcome home great son of Nigeria and Africa's greatest man alive.

To those cursing him, what if he had refused to acknowledge the result of that election? What if he had refused to handover to Buhari? What would you all have done?

Nigeria would have been at war now and we all know it. Why don't we celebrate this man for this singular act so that others coming after him would emulate him. If we keep painting him a loser, then we are not encouraging others to be patriots like him.

PS: here is something I have observed, these APC people seem not to have respect for the office and person of Prof. Yemi Osinbajo.

he didnt do anything magnanimous, so stop exaggerating. when you lose an election, you hand over and move on.

thats the law.

there was nothing else for him to do. playing the Gbagbo card would likely have cost him a great deal more than just his freedom.


you people make it seem like he won, but then decided to generously hand over. holding on after losing wasnt an option, not in these climes.

Sweetguy25:
The only man that made history with a telephone call. Goodbye Sir.

obviously you dont know much history.

Alexander Bell made the first historic phone call.

Richard Nixon also made one....to the moon!

crownprince102:
Several Dignitaries will be present at the Eagle Square today.

wow, really?

thanks for telling us what we didnt know.


#StatementOfKnownFact

53cur3m0d3:
Hello boss, U didn't reply my pm.. I need Ur help asap...

sorry ive been tied up in something. mail me everything.

neoteny7@yahoo.com

JavaPrince1:
I tested on tecno p5
lol tried it again this morning and it did not ovride my orrientation again. nice app

Thanks! working on something amazing...

Hell NO!!

Unlike most things, women were designed but for one purpose only.

Thanks Adam! So glad when you got lonely, you didnt ask god for an iphone to play candy crush!

icansimi:
Hmmm. You must be a Gadget Whizkid!

no, just a f00l easily parted with his money. im so broke right now!

Get both! As i did!

iPhone 6 plus (128gb), Galaxy S6 Edge (64gb), Note 4 (32gb, dual sim)

Top: Microsoft Surface Pro 3 (Core i7, 256gb SSD)

JavaPrince1:
You really made this app ExInferis? I downloaded it and it automatically landscaped my phone, I hate landscape views.

it's set to override your default orientation setting, shouldn't behave that way. may i know the phone you're using? Thanks.

a very basic app i made which converts text to speech. Also, shaking the device triggers a sensor event (accelerometer).

http://www.megafileupload.com/G3d/talktome_neoteny_apk.zip


working on something pretty cool (hint: location, Tinydb, OSM)