I know I’m making up for two weeks of inactivity with three posts in less than 24 hours, but this was too supremely awesome not to share.
Meet William Taylor of Centreville, Virginia.
William Taylor, the unluckiest philanderer in the nation's capital
This little gem ran on Canada’s SPACE channel back in the summer of 2001 prior to the premiere of Star Trek: Enterprise.
Aug 25
Hi everyone… I know it’s been a little quiet around here since my last post so I thought I’d check in. Work continues on Act II, although a consulting engagement in real life — software consulting pays the electric bill for my render farm 
— has pushed back the debut date to mid-September.
As for the delivery mechanism, I’ve decided I’m going to post the full video here, but at reduced resolution (probably 480×320). The F/X sequences will be posted at full 480p resolution. I think this is a reasonable compromise that will conserve my web server bandwidth and keep me off Paramount’s radar.
I always try to include a little eye candy when I post a blog entry… so here’s the original image used in the new website header:
Some Tuesday eye candy (click to embiggen)
Aug 13
I was afraid this might happen sooner or later. Up until a couple of days ago, Vimeo has been hosting the Flash version of my “special edition” videos. Well, it seems that TPTB have decided that what I posted goes over the line of “fair use” of the footage from "The Doomsday Machine"… on Tuesday afternoon I received an e-mail notice from Vimeo informing me that they have removed ALL of my movies that I’ve posted on their site. They even removed my 26 second “sneak preview” video that I published back in 2007. You can view that clip below courtesy of YouTube (unmolested since the day I posted it almost two years ago), after the jump:
Aug 4
Over the weekend I made a few minor adjustments here and there on some of the Enterprise‘s surface textures. I wasn’t satisfied with how “flat” the Gray Lady looked in some of the shots in the teaser and Act I, so I went back and adjusted the specularily and glossiness settings on several of the major hull surface areas.
I’ve also added use of the extra data available in LightWave 9.6′s render buffers to my image post-processing pipeline. This will give me better control over the final look of rendered images, and it will enable me to make minor adjustments without having to completely re-render a scene.
The Enterprise
So what do you think?
Good news, everyone! Those idiotic morons at the BOX FOX Network finally caved.
Hooray!
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