Here’s an excerpt:

The concert hall at the Syndey Opera House holds 2,700 people. This blog was viewed about 11,000 times in 2011. If it were a concert at Sydney Opera House, it would take about 4 sold-out performances for that many people to see it.

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To fix this :

• Go to System Settings -> Additional Drivers
• Activate NVIDIA accelerated graphics driver (version 173)
• Reboot your computer

A more graphical how-to can be seen at http://askubuntu.com/questions/66652/windows-go-blank-when-resizing. Credits to the guy who was able to solve this!

Moving on, I animated Bill Cosby’s Noah’s Ark for an assignment in class. What I did in the first pass is that I modeled simple props and focused on the Carpenter’s (a.k.a Noah) movement first.

Then on the second pass, I keyed the neighbor’s story poses in stepped tangent and arranged some of the timing and spacing on the Carpenter Rig.

I still have a lot to learn though and I’m learning a lot during these few months in school. Hopefully, I could continue improving in the future.

I am currently stumped with connecting the Eclipse Maya Editor on my macbook. It always shows a “Bad version number in .class file” error, that’s why the Maya Editor Prefs Page throws a NoClassDefFoundError whenever I load Eclipse. I tried checking the jar file which was unhelpful because it was producing “non-human readable” ASCII characters. I also changed my Java Preferences to version 1.6 which caused the JVM on Eclipse to crash after I rebooted my macbook. I am hoping I could make this work without installing Bootcamp so I won’t waste my time installing Windows 7 (and Maya later on). I’ll try looking for other solutions on the forums but it seems that installing Bootcamp is an optimal solution right now.

Eclipse and Project Euler

Anywhoo, I decided to take a break on working with Maya and try to do a little bit of coding in Java. I am solving some of the problems on ProjectEuler even though I haven’t done much. My goal for doing this is to develop my logical thinking and to come up with efficient algorithms in the long run. I will be using Eclipse as my IDE for the exercises so it should be fun! Yaay!

Problem 1

If we list all the natural numbers below 10 that are multiples of 3 or 5, we get 3, 5, 6 and 9. The sum of these multiples is 23.

Find the sum of all the multiples of 3 or 5 below 1000.

In Java…

public class NatNumMult35 {

	/*
	 *If we list all the natural numbers below 10 that are multiples of 3 or 5,
	 *we get 3, 5, 6 and 9. The sum of these multiples is 23.
	 *
	 *Find the sum of all the multiples of 3 or 5 below 1000.
	 *
	 */

	private int num;
	private int sumMult=0;
	public NatNumMult35(int num) {
		this.num = num;
		sumMult = this.sumOfMultiples(this.getMultiplesOfThreeAndFive(num));
	}

	public int[] getMultiplesOfThreeAndFive(int num){
		int[] multThreeAndFive = new int[2];

		multThreeAndFive[0] = (num-1)/3;
		//Determines how many multiples of 3 in a given number;

		multThreeAndFive[1] = (num-1)/5;
		//Determines how many multiples of 5 in a given number;

		return multThreeAndFive;
	}

	public int sumOfMultiples(int[] temp){
		int sum=0;

		for(int i=1; i = temp[0]; i++){
                   // Adds up multiples of 3; 
	           sum+=(3*i);
		}

		for(int i=1; i = temp[1]; i++){
                  // Adds up multiples of 5 which are not divisible by 3. 
			if(((5*i)%3) != 0) {
				sum+=(5*i);
			}

		}

		return sum;
	}
}

Pose from the movie, Dirty Dancing

Tripping on Floors

Rockstar Pose

“Say Cheese”

“Huh?”

Gymnastics Pose

Filed under: 3D / Maya ]]> http://ruzette.wordpress.com/2011/06/05/poses-with-norman-rig-part-1/feed/ 1 rururu http://ruzette.wordpress.com/2011/05/21/last-months-drawing/ http://ruzette.wordpress.com/2011/05/21/last-months-drawing/#comments Sat, 21 May 2011 19:05:04 +0000 rururu http://ruzette.wordpress.com/?p=707 ]]> This was something I have drawn unconsciously at Life Drawing last month. I couldn’t redraw something similar to this one right now. Nothing’s impossible though! It just needs a little bit of practice and application of a wider range of techniques/styles.

Honestly, I’m afraid of tangible anatomical representations – whether it be real or not.  Good thing that we’d be drawing the muscles from reference materials and not from real ones. I just hope that no one suggests that we’d be going to a morgue for our field trip. (Gulps) T__T

I roamed around the second floor and I couldn’t find a good spot where I could put my stool down and draw. I entered the Birds section and found that there were fewer people who pass that area. So I sat in front of the bird models and drew away. It was until later that two of my classmates joined me in that section. 

Such a copycat that I was, I saw my classmate drawing just specific parts of the bird. This time, I drew the wings and added a little bit of texture using my blue animation pencil.

Later that day, we handed our drawings to our life drawing instructor. He gave his assessment of our drawings then we headed back to school because we had class that evening. Overall, it was a good drawing experience for me at the ROM. I’ll try to come back when I get some free time.