Air Force Flash Orchestra

I like to post at least one Christmas related video, and a little early doesn't hurt...
Beautiful video!

Rowan Atkinson

The last video posted was of Rowan Atkinson, or Mr. Bean as he seems to be more commonly known.

Here he is performing at the 2012 Olympics.

Invisible drum set

More drums, but comedy this time. Watch for the (invisible) cat at the end!

Top Secret Drum Corps

It's been a long time since I posted anything on here, so I'll soon have several more posts in short succession. Here is the Top Secret Drum Corps.

Blender

Blender is amazing! Here's their 2013 demo reel which should serve well as inspiration:

Every year it just gets better!

More good advertising

This is good advertising, at least in concept. The video is somewhat sub-par.

I guess this reduces the possibility of a leaking liquid cooling system ruining your motherboard/CPU.

My first thought is that the coating will trap heat, but I guess some silicone based coatings have decent thermal transfer.

It also makes open air cases more attractive, though I like the ASUS Sabertooth armor too.

Now I'm just waiting to hear of this for laptop motherboards!

Strandbeast

An impressive bit of mechanical engineering.

Why Atheists are Irrational

This was another video I liked on YouTube.

Global Warming

The whole global warming thing is pretty ridiculous. I think people are starting to realize that, and it's quieted down some, I don't hear about it as much as I did a few years ago.

I think they've also labeled it 'climate change', which is more believable. A few years ago we had two snowstorms back to back that each dropped about two feet of snow, and the next year the temperature hovered around 50 most days. Still, trying to mess with the climate is rather pointless.

Good advertising

I was looking through my likes on YouTube, and noticed that I hadn't posted some of them here, so the next couple of posts will just be some of those.

Here's one that was interesting, this is also good advertising.

For when you really have nothing better to do...

This is really pretty cool.

Ice cream!

I've been pretty busy, and I really need to start posting here again. Here's a snippet from some of what I've been working on. (Take Back the Land video)

How do people think of things like this on the spot? Amazing! (And funny)

YouTube fun

Try this: play the video, (it's just one of mine that I used) and click once on the screen to pause it, and again to start it. Now push and hold the right arrow then press the down arrow. If it doesn't work, try watching it directly on the YouTube page. Enjoy!

Classic game of snake!

Merry Christmas!

Merry Christmas Y'all!

Also, this is kind of fun: http://www.google.com/santatracker/

Project London

Project London is now on Kickstarter!

Haven't heard of Project London? Click here, or watch the trailer below!

Project London: Official Trailer from Phil McCoy on Vimeo.
(made with blender)

It's really amazing how this was made, and the graphics and sound effects are amazing!
Here is the speech from the screening: http://projectlondonmovie.com/wp-content/uploads/PhilsProjectLondonCastCrewScreening-speech.pdf

Here is the kickstarter page: http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/philmccoy/project-london-help-us-release-this-movie

And here is the official website: http://projectlondonmovie.com/

YouTube view counter

This is a really well liked video...

I wonder when YouTube is going to fix their view counter problem?

(Really awesome video by the way)

Even more impressive is that they filmed it in less than 24 hours!

The elements...

While on the topic of chemistry...



And, more recently, something like I would love to do: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9cbgAELAX18

Youtube

And here's one of my ocean sim tests:


I moved the red ball manually to (hopefully) make it look like it was floating, and partially succeeded.
Water is hard.

Youtube

Project London Movie downloads are available! Here's what I have done so far with one of them:

It's pretty neat that they have them available for free. Again, it's a little on the fast side, but that's O.K. At some point I want to add smoke, dust, etc., and maybe a background scene.

Youtube

O.K., I haven't posted anything for a while, but that doesn't mean I'm not active! It probably means that I'm too busy to remember to post here :) Such really hasn't been the case recently, but I have been doing things. ;) I've been doing Blender, woodworking, HAM radio, video editing, guitar playing, and piano playing. I'm going to put separate things on separate posts though. Starting with Blender... I learned how to use Dynamic paint (at least the water part of it) in Blender. It's really powerful. It will give realistic water effects without the long compute time. In fact, it will preview in realtime! (or close to it, more like 15fps on my computer, but I had the resolution really high) Here's a demo:


There are a number of problems with this animation, one major one being the speed. Animating things too fast is a common problem of mine. Also, it's showing me in the preview frame that the background is pink, which it is not.When I uploaded it to YouTube it was grey. It was rendered in cycles. I only did 100 passes per frame, so there's a lot of grain, and I think I set the ball wrong, because the water sticks to it too much, but you get the idea, and I did get it working!