1. Using Flailing Water Hoses to Thwart Pirates

    http://www.gizmag.com/anti-piracy-curtain-water-hoses/22337/

    This is a pretty funny, yet eye opening story. It's weird that a company would use the same technology as a summertime children's water toy for defense of a shipping vessel. The other interesting part of this story is that most of the defense system relies on water jets that can fill the enemy vessels with water as they are trying to board. The flailing hoses are mostly a psychological deterrent. #blog

  2. 50 Photoshop Tricks for a Fast Paced Work Environment

    Here's the latest blog post from the awesome +Jessica Moon at digital-telepathy:

    http://www.dtelepathy.com/blog/articles/50-photoshop-tricks

    My favorite tip is the fill opacity shortcut:
    Holding down shift and tapping 1 through 0 will give you fill levels between 10% to 100%. The same applies here where tapping multiple numbers in quick succession of one another will give you specific fill percentages.

    Please re-share and +1 if you like the post!
    #blog

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  3. Freebie: Cinema 4D Motorcycle Chain Rig

    Cinema 4D Editor

    A simple Xpresso motorcycle chain rig for Cinema 4D. This rig was originally created for some of my higher polycount bike models. Its purpose is to provide an easily poseable motorcycle/bicycle/chainsaw style chain that uses Instances to replicate the links.

    The length of the chain can be adjusted by adding additional link instances, and the spline that the chain rests on can also be easily manipulated and animated. There is also an animatable value that can be used to make the chain progress.

  4. Featured Model & Interview on TurboSquid

    R6 on TurboSquid Home Page

    Recently, TurboSquid has been featuring their artists on the home page of their site and posting interviews n their blog.

    I was lucky enough to be chosen for a feature! My motorcycle model was paired up with another talented artist’s motorcycle rider model, and they were rendered together for a (more…)

  5. 15 Amazing Examples of Mood Evoking Animation

    Here's an awesome post from one of my co-workers. #blog

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    15 Amazing Examples of Mood Evoking Animation
    It’s quickly becoming apparent through its increasing popularity in mobile and web UI that designing transitions as well as crafting movement and

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  6. Final Gallery for the 2000′s Generic Sport Bike

    2000's Generic Sport Bike - Orange

    My first generic sport bike is finally complete, and there’s not much left to say about it. Check out the final (for now) gallery of images for this machine. Do you think I made a good looking bike here? Does it remind you of another bike? Let me know by commenting below. (more…)