A little piece I did, shortly after the movie was released on DVD. My version of the movie poster features United States president, George W. Bush and danish prime minister, Anders Fogh Rasmussen, in a tender moment.
6.12.2007
Foghback Mountain
A little piece I did, shortly after the movie was released on DVD. My version of the movie poster features United States president, George W. Bush and danish prime minister, Anders Fogh Rasmussen, in a tender moment.
Salad fingers
Everybody loves salad, especially during the summer. So here's a few animated shorts about salad fingers...
6.11.2007
Let's ride!
Some older work, relocated to polygonpoop :
Project ID : MAXforums.org "Let's Ride" workshop - low poly vehicles.
During autumn 2005, a workshop at MAXforums.org was launched. Under the name "Let's Ride" the participants were to make one (or as I did more than one) vehicle for a little minigame of the racing kind.
The workshop was launched by Ronan Hayes (Edge) and Timothy Hanslow (Timpa) - primarily to test some dynamics features for Edge's upcoming game "1944 D-day".
The rules were simple : Max. 4000 polygons (triangles) pr. car - make stuff breakable or detachable at will. Use whatever textures you need - up till a size of 2048x2048. Take advantage of the advanced shaders supported by the engine - as well as normal mapping - if you feel like it.
- I didn't. I decided to keep it simple.... and humourus. I've always been a fan of games like Mariocart, Crash Team Racing, Twisted Metal and the likes, so i decided to make my cars a bit toony.
I've also placed drivers in each of them, and they are as follows (from left to right) :
1. Monkey Pooh, driving the heavily modified VW Barndoor (Monster) Van - used for delivery of yummy crates of Monkey Chow
2. Ollie (from Vomic.com) driving a souped up VW Beetle.
3. King Pin-guin, driving the I Scream Truck
- they all conform to the 4000 poly limit, and they all use 3 textures at 1024x1024, with or without alpha masks (for windows etc.)
They were all made during a month or so, whenever I had a few hours to spare. These are also my first real attempts at texturing anything, based on a UVW unwrap. All in all it was a great learning experience - a great way to test some of my newfound skills, developing content for games, on a personal project.
There's TurnTool versions of each car available :
Ollie's VW Beetle
Monkey Pooh's VW Barndoor monster van
King Pin-guin's I Scream Truck
*TurnTool interactive scenes unfortunately only works with 32 bit version of Internet Explorer, and to my knowledge, none of the newer versions of Firefox or Chrome.
- or you can just have a look at the "turntables" below.
Project ID : MAXforums.org "Let's Ride" workshop - low poly vehicles.
During autumn 2005, a workshop at MAXforums.org was launched. Under the name "Let's Ride" the participants were to make one (or as I did more than one) vehicle for a little minigame of the racing kind.
The workshop was launched by Ronan Hayes (Edge) and Timothy Hanslow (Timpa) - primarily to test some dynamics features for Edge's upcoming game "1944 D-day".
The rules were simple : Max. 4000 polygons (triangles) pr. car - make stuff breakable or detachable at will. Use whatever textures you need - up till a size of 2048x2048. Take advantage of the advanced shaders supported by the engine - as well as normal mapping - if you feel like it.
- I didn't. I decided to keep it simple.... and humourus. I've always been a fan of games like Mariocart, Crash Team Racing, Twisted Metal and the likes, so i decided to make my cars a bit toony.
I've also placed drivers in each of them, and they are as follows (from left to right) :
1. Monkey Pooh, driving the heavily modified VW Barndoor (Monster) Van - used for delivery of yummy crates of Monkey Chow
2. Ollie (from Vomic.com) driving a souped up VW Beetle.
3. King Pin-guin, driving the I Scream Truck
- they all conform to the 4000 poly limit, and they all use 3 textures at 1024x1024, with or without alpha masks (for windows etc.)
They were all made during a month or so, whenever I had a few hours to spare. These are also my first real attempts at texturing anything, based on a UVW unwrap. All in all it was a great learning experience - a great way to test some of my newfound skills, developing content for games, on a personal project.
There's TurnTool versions of each car available :
Ollie's VW Beetle
Monkey Pooh's VW Barndoor monster van
King Pin-guin's I Scream Truck
*TurnTool interactive scenes unfortunately only works with 32 bit version of Internet Explorer, and to my knowledge, none of the newer versions of Firefox or Chrome.
- or you can just have a look at the "turntables" below.
Burn baby, burn...
Current office temp. : 32.5 degrees celcius. Thats 90.5 degrees fahrenheit. 4½ times hotter, and the paper would start burning.- of course we'd be dead before that happened...
The turbo fan next to me, can only blow the already way too hot air in my face at high speed. It kinda feels like I'm biking through a firestorm or something...
6.10.2007
Children of the light
It's odd how summer always sneaks up on me. There's a few wam days in May, and then some cold, wet and windy weeks, and *poof* all of a sudden, it's 30 degrees celcius, high sun, and no wind. Happened again this weekend. Yesterday marked summer for me - well, maybe it was friday night, where we wen't to the first barbecue of the season.
Today however, we packed some breakfast, and 15 past 9 we got on the bikes, and headed down to Lake Brabrand. It's a nice and partially wild nature reserve, and about 3 or 4 years ago, they opened up a second section to the public. The first half part is really popular during the summer weekends, and everybody is down there. People on bikes, skates, foot - kids, adults, elderly people - some are there for the excercise, some for the nature. It's a favourite among many.
But we picked a nice spot for the breakfast, and continued around the 2 lakes, which comes to a bikeride about 25km I think. Later on we headed down to the local marina, for some lovely italian ice cream. I had 4 scoops in mine : Banana, Mint & Lemon, Mocca, and Chocolate & chili. Very tasty, although the chocolate & chili one, was a funny sensation. Rich and sweet chocolate, that left you with a hot throat.
I brought the cam along, to grab some shots of the lovely danish summer :
Panoramic shot from the little patch of grass, where we had our breakfast.
Supergreen!
Panorama from a lookout post following a rather muddy part of the trail.
This is the "new" lake, and it only has gravel trails, where the old lake has (seperate) paved walk and bike paths.
Summer colours...
The local EPO dealer. Apparently she catered to the celebs : Marco Pantani, Bjarne Riis, Pim de Keysergracht...
What's really missing, is some water posts along the trails. And we thought we overheard someone talking about a little lookout where there was running water. But there wasn't. Boo-hoo.
This final image really sums up the danish summer to me. The cows, the sky, the colours. It's just so darn danish.
It was really nice outside today, and we've been out for 6-7 hours or so. And I am not tired, but I'm.... full. Full of the heat and light and fresh air. I'll be sleeping like a baby tonight (and not one of those babies that scream alot because they're teething...)
Today however, we packed some breakfast, and 15 past 9 we got on the bikes, and headed down to Lake Brabrand. It's a nice and partially wild nature reserve, and about 3 or 4 years ago, they opened up a second section to the public. The first half part is really popular during the summer weekends, and everybody is down there. People on bikes, skates, foot - kids, adults, elderly people - some are there for the excercise, some for the nature. It's a favourite among many.
But we picked a nice spot for the breakfast, and continued around the 2 lakes, which comes to a bikeride about 25km I think. Later on we headed down to the local marina, for some lovely italian ice cream. I had 4 scoops in mine : Banana, Mint & Lemon, Mocca, and Chocolate & chili. Very tasty, although the chocolate & chili one, was a funny sensation. Rich and sweet chocolate, that left you with a hot throat.
I brought the cam along, to grab some shots of the lovely danish summer :
Panoramic shot from the little patch of grass, where we had our breakfast.
Supergreen!
Panorama from a lookout post following a rather muddy part of the trail.
This is the "new" lake, and it only has gravel trails, where the old lake has (seperate) paved walk and bike paths.
Summer colours...
The local EPO dealer. Apparently she catered to the celebs : Marco Pantani, Bjarne Riis, Pim de Keysergracht...
What's really missing, is some water posts along the trails. And we thought we overheard someone talking about a little lookout where there was running water. But there wasn't. Boo-hoo.
This final image really sums up the danish summer to me. The cows, the sky, the colours. It's just so darn danish.It was really nice outside today, and we've been out for 6-7 hours or so. And I am not tired, but I'm.... full. Full of the heat and light and fresh air. I'll be sleeping like a baby tonight (and not one of those babies that scream alot because they're teething...)
6.09.2007
Berlin - New Years 2006/07
2 days before New Years 2006/07 me & Liv went to Berlin together with Ida & Esben, and Anders & Mette. We'd gotten a sweet deal on train tickets and accomodation for the 6 of us.
The plan was to celebrate new years eve at Brandenburger Tor, with a million+ other people. And boy was it crowded - SOMEONE even managed to get herself lost in the crowd, trying to summon beer. So I had NOONE to kiss when the clock struck twelve.
But it was party insane. About a mile of tightly packed people, booths with food, alcohol, karaoke, dj's, oversized lollipops, obscure german folk clothing and what not. It was a bit much at times.
But since we were there for almost 4 days, we did get to see some really nice places, like The Jewish Museum, The German Cinemathek, and the Stasi Museum.
The Jewish Museum was pretty good. They had some rather amazing documents and letters from ww2. Fascinating stuff. And they had this installation where you'd walk out of the hall, and into a completely dark room, 25 meters tall, and no more than perhaps 30-40 square meters. The only light was coming from a small opening at the very top, from where you could also hear the streets. This installation should illustrate the exile of the jews. I think it did a pretty good job. And there was this installation where you'd walk over small faces, cut from 1-3 cm thick sheet metal. It was quite unpleasant.
But two things stood out more than anything else : The Stasi museum and The Potato Cellar. I love potatoes. I love the many things you can do with potatoes. And although the new years dinner on Barist was really, really nice, I think the best meal I had was the plate of 8 differently stuffed, baked potatoes at the Potato Cellar. It was just a bit more german somehow.
Anyways - here's a few pictures from the trip. Enjoy.
That's me on New Years eve and some hot chick with a weird taste in fashion accessories, judging by the spectacles.
Resident dictator of Esbenland, and his mistress.
This is as close to Brandenburger Tor as we could get before they announced that the areas was packed, and they had to close the gates. It was MADNESS (yes, madness - not Sparta).
... packed.
This was the office of Erik Mielke - one of the Stasi top dogs. The white blob on his desk, is the death mask of Lenin, which was presented to Mielke as a gift from their friends in Russia.
Man those blue chairs were so.... blue.
A typical office in the Stasi headquarters. With state of the art telephone switchboards, and electronic filing cabinet. Snazzy.
Even Stasi emplyoes were being monitored by Stasi (and the ones monitoring them we're most likely also being monitored, and the....). The white strips on this radio (which was in a small Stasi office), marks the radiostations that were allowed. Woeth he, who was caught in the act, listening to western rock'n roll propaganda. If someone entered the room, he or she would instantly be able to tell, if some illegal radio usage was going on, by looking at the strips and the position of the dial.
/begin heavy german accent
Bring in ze prisoner, for kvestioning.
/end heavy german accent
- although it looks as if Esben is being dragged through the stasi headquarters, he is merely observing a closed of section of the office.
Had he in fact been captured during the "good ol' stasi days", he would most likely had been interrogated, and while being interrogated, Stasi would "record" his smell.
Pieces of cloth placed under the seat of a person being questioned, would pick up a persons perspiration, and this was then stored in glass jars. Stasi officers would then later be able to use tracking dogs to pick out potential troublemakers in larger crowds. Very clever. And very paranoid.
Stasi was big time cloak and dagger, and at the secret R&D labs of the Stasi, they were definetely not without imagination (are you watching this, Q?). Take for instance this camera cleverly hidden inside a piece of wood.
- or how about a key pouch, with built in camera?
Beware of the gardener - he is most likely spying on you. Maybe using this little gizmo. See the little hole where the handle ends? Yup - there's a camera behind that hole. But most of Stasi's "tools" were cleverly designed. If something was really a camera in disguise, they made sure the primary function was still.... in function. So this one would actually hold water.
Most amazing piece of spyware however, was this one. It's a door from a Trabant (a small DDR-produced car). But the outside is made from glass. And inside it, where you'd normally roll down your window, was placed 9 or 12 infrared lamps. With this device, Stasi could drive around at night taking pictures of people, without arousing suspicion, since infrared light is not visible to the human eye.
- a BIG thank you goes to the young woman, who took pity on us poor saps, and let us in even if the museum was closed, and even gave us a personal guided tour, despite her obvious new years hangover.
But we had to get back home again, so we stacked up on nutricious foods (I TOLD you guys, we should've gotten TWO boxes...), and found our seats in the train.
- and yes, compared to the insanely fatty czech food they served in the dining cart, the Dunkin Donuts actually was the better alternative...
- some of us couldn't handle the massive amounts of sugar, as seen here where Anders has clearly gone into some kind of frantic sugar seizure.
... others. Well, they clearly couldn't cope with the sugar either.
The plan was to celebrate new years eve at Brandenburger Tor, with a million+ other people. And boy was it crowded - SOMEONE even managed to get herself lost in the crowd, trying to summon beer. So I had NOONE to kiss when the clock struck twelve.
But it was party insane. About a mile of tightly packed people, booths with food, alcohol, karaoke, dj's, oversized lollipops, obscure german folk clothing and what not. It was a bit much at times.
But since we were there for almost 4 days, we did get to see some really nice places, like The Jewish Museum, The German Cinemathek, and the Stasi Museum.
The Jewish Museum was pretty good. They had some rather amazing documents and letters from ww2. Fascinating stuff. And they had this installation where you'd walk out of the hall, and into a completely dark room, 25 meters tall, and no more than perhaps 30-40 square meters. The only light was coming from a small opening at the very top, from where you could also hear the streets. This installation should illustrate the exile of the jews. I think it did a pretty good job. And there was this installation where you'd walk over small faces, cut from 1-3 cm thick sheet metal. It was quite unpleasant.
But two things stood out more than anything else : The Stasi museum and The Potato Cellar. I love potatoes. I love the many things you can do with potatoes. And although the new years dinner on Barist was really, really nice, I think the best meal I had was the plate of 8 differently stuffed, baked potatoes at the Potato Cellar. It was just a bit more german somehow.
Anyways - here's a few pictures from the trip. Enjoy.
That's me on New Years eve and some hot chick with a weird taste in fashion accessories, judging by the spectacles.
Resident dictator of Esbenland, and his mistress.
This is as close to Brandenburger Tor as we could get before they announced that the areas was packed, and they had to close the gates. It was MADNESS (yes, madness - not Sparta).
... packed.
This was the office of Erik Mielke - one of the Stasi top dogs. The white blob on his desk, is the death mask of Lenin, which was presented to Mielke as a gift from their friends in Russia.
Man those blue chairs were so.... blue.
A typical office in the Stasi headquarters. With state of the art telephone switchboards, and electronic filing cabinet. Snazzy.
Even Stasi emplyoes were being monitored by Stasi (and the ones monitoring them we're most likely also being monitored, and the....). The white strips on this radio (which was in a small Stasi office), marks the radiostations that were allowed. Woeth he, who was caught in the act, listening to western rock'n roll propaganda. If someone entered the room, he or she would instantly be able to tell, if some illegal radio usage was going on, by looking at the strips and the position of the dial.
Bring in ze prisoner, for kvestioning.
- although it looks as if Esben is being dragged through the stasi headquarters, he is merely observing a closed of section of the office.
Had he in fact been captured during the "good ol' stasi days", he would most likely had been interrogated, and while being interrogated, Stasi would "record" his smell.
Pieces of cloth placed under the seat of a person being questioned, would pick up a persons perspiration, and this was then stored in glass jars. Stasi officers would then later be able to use tracking dogs to pick out potential troublemakers in larger crowds. Very clever. And very paranoid.
Stasi was big time cloak and dagger, and at the secret R&D labs of the Stasi, they were definetely not without imagination (are you watching this, Q?). Take for instance this camera cleverly hidden inside a piece of wood.
- or how about a key pouch, with built in camera?
Beware of the gardener - he is most likely spying on you. Maybe using this little gizmo. See the little hole where the handle ends? Yup - there's a camera behind that hole. But most of Stasi's "tools" were cleverly designed. If something was really a camera in disguise, they made sure the primary function was still.... in function. So this one would actually hold water.
Most amazing piece of spyware however, was this one. It's a door from a Trabant (a small DDR-produced car). But the outside is made from glass. And inside it, where you'd normally roll down your window, was placed 9 or 12 infrared lamps. With this device, Stasi could drive around at night taking pictures of people, without arousing suspicion, since infrared light is not visible to the human eye.
- a BIG thank you goes to the young woman, who took pity on us poor saps, and let us in even if the museum was closed, and even gave us a personal guided tour, despite her obvious new years hangover.
But we had to get back home again, so we stacked up on nutricious foods (I TOLD you guys, we should've gotten TWO boxes...), and found our seats in the train.- and yes, compared to the insanely fatty czech food they served in the dining cart, the Dunkin Donuts actually was the better alternative...
- some of us couldn't handle the massive amounts of sugar, as seen here where Anders has clearly gone into some kind of frantic sugar seizure.
... others. Well, they clearly couldn't cope with the sugar either.
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