A quick thanks to whoever wrote this “Realtime lip-sync in Flash” tutorial with code over at Pixel Envision. I’m sure it was not somebody named “Admin,” but ... Read more

Something I used to say at the 3am stage of a party: “What if the color blue that I see is not the color blue you see? Because… like… our eyes or brains are different.” Dude, that’s so deep. ... Read more

The first time I saw Tom Goes to the Mayor, the animation pissed me off. It seemed almost contemptious, like some asshole had graffiti’d my television. It’s as choppy as a slide show. ... Read more

I spent the evening working through how to render with algorithms the same artwork I painted on a pipe in Spain last year. The idea is to cut down on the art assets needed for animation and ... Read more

Wide-area motion tracking (or “wide-area motion capture”) is detecting the positions and movements of objects over a wide area. That was a pretty general and useless definition. Now ... Read more

Machine Court will have a large amount of animation scripting. So I wanted to work out a system of describing character-dialog-centered animation that is quick, simple, and covers the type of ... Read more

Sweetening the pot on my Kickstarter for Machine Court: Even if my project is not 100% funded, all backers will get a reward. On Kickstarter, rewards are normally “all or nothing”. ... Read more

There is this theory that that if you get your Kickstarter project 30% funded, you’ll probably make it to 100% funding. The idea is that you reach a tipping point where people will start ... Read more

Okay, Machine Court is now up on Kickstarter. Whether Machine Court lives or dies, is all up to the crowd. Hey, what if the crowd used the cloud so much that they merged into a… ... Read more

Man, there were a lot of hoops to jump through, and things to wait on. I finished all the little steps for Kickstarter project submission of Machine Court. Now I am waiting for them to review the ... Read more