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How Does This Happen? Note too, in the background, what looks to be yellow overspray...
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Cinema4D UV Mapping Sometimes I even amaze myself! ;)
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Cinema4D UV Mapping You continue to amaze me!
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Oakland Skyline Panorama I have a client that would like to use this image on their hom...
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Category Archives: Work
Cinema4D
You will likely see a bit more 3D work creeping into thedude.com as I learn to master Cinema4D. You may have already noticed the new chocolate masthead. Here’s a screenshot of the awesome program in action. Much more to come!
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You Can Do It Too!
I made this totally original motivational poster for my company last weekend. Model Marina was awesome. She really nailed the part.
Shot with a $95 lens and hand-held FourSquare against a yellow wall in the office. PhotoShop makes it perfect.
Posted in Design, Photography, PhotoShop, Work
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Happy Halloween!
Meet Guanine, Cytosine, Adenine and Thymine — who sometimes pose as Grace, Shauna, Lauren and Phoebe.
Posted in Holidays, Work
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The Chip is the Machine
Practicing with materials and lighting. Fun! I think I may I need to try to render something that could not exist. Hm…
Posted in Computing, Design, Shameless Self-Promotion, Work
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Another PGM Rendering
Most of you have noticed that I haven’t been posting a lot lately. The main reason for this is that I am so busy at work. When I’m not tending to IT tasks, I use every spare cycle rendering one thing or another. I really love doing this work, but it consumes a lot of time I might otherwise spend blogging. Sorry!
This latest rendering of the Ion Torrent Personal Genome Machine will be used in a very cool brochure. The image will stretch from the front to the back of an 11 x 17″ brochure. Woo-hoo!
Rendered with the fabulous Thea Reneder.
Posted in Computing, Design, Thearender, Work
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The Personal Genome Machine 360 View
Swipe your mouse left and right for a 360 view.
This 3D Ion Torrent Personal Genome Machine was rendered using TheaRender from a .3DS file exported from the original SolidWorks file. Raw PNG images batch resized with Irfanview, combined using a custom python script, (Thanks, Josh!) compressed into JPEG format with Photoshop and “animated” with the fabulous jQuery Reel plugin. Piece o’ cake!
Posted in Computing, Design, Shameless Self-Promotion, Thearender, Work
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Ion Torrent West
I feel extraordinarily lucky to be working with these fabulous folks every day — without a doubt, the best team I’ve ever worked with. It’s truly amazing what you can accomplish with the right group of people.
Posted in New Friends, Work
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New Job, New Commute
The first thing you’ll notice is that it covers a lot more ground than my previous commute. And a bridge. Compressed to 38 seconds, this works out to about 1,700 miles per hour. If only it were possible to get to the office this fast!
I love my new job! The commute? Not so much.
Click to view a neat high definition version. (48 MB)
Here’s a shot of the high-tech rig I used to shoot this. One frame every two seconds. I would have liked to shoot one frame per second, but the camera’s intervalometer maxes out at 1,000 frames, and I can not possibly make this drive in under 1,000 seconds. The trip took 1904 seconds this Sunday morning.
Posted in Bay Area, Time-Lapse, Video, Work
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Busy Boy
Whew! What a month it’s been! The lack of blog activity only hints at how busy I’ve been. My new job is chewing up every free moment, and I love it. If you know me, you know that I’m happiest when I’m busy. The new job is a blast. I have control over lots of things I only wish I had in my previous job. I’m able to make an improvement almost every day. What a great feeling. I am sooo happy to have made the move.
And it’s not just work that’s keeping me busy these days. It’s also my home network, which I’ve been steadily upgrading. The network in my loft now surpasses most small business networks in speed and reliability. This morning I finally got WAN failover working between two networks – my blazing fast fiber connection to Paxio and a slower, but super-reliable DSL connection to Speakeasy. This will ensure that our uptime is as close to 100% as possible. Awesome!
Despite feeling busier than ever, I still manage to squeeze off a shot now and then.
That last shot was taken last night at the fabulous Walk in the Wild fund-raiser at the Oakland Zoo. I was pleasantly surprised to find the fabulous Matt Venuti hangin’ under a tree. If you haven’t yet heard the Venusians, I suggest you give them a listen. Very nice!
Posted in Computing, Just Blogging, Work
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Neomorphic Ten Year Reunion
Ten years ago I got a job at Neomorphic, Inc. — a small start-up with a big idea and a fabulous group of individuals who, as a team, definitely got ‘er done. I am extremely lucky to have been part of this amazing team, led by Martin Reese, Cyrus Harmon and Gregg Helt.
Thanks to hosts Hari Tamanna and Joe Morris, grillmeister Erik Burns and especially to Sara, for all the hard work and for taking the fabulous group shot. It was awesome to see all of you again.
Posted in Old Friends, Work
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An Exciting New Direction
After ten great years at Affymetrix, thedude is moving on to what will hopefully prove to be greener pastures.
Posted in Bay Area, Computing, Shameless Self-Promotion, Work
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