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Motion activated interactive window projection system Interactive Video – Final project on Kiosk from Dennis Malcolm on Vimeo. Here is the prototype E-Book for my final project. I did some kiosk research for the installation piece I wanted to have. The technology used for what I’m interested in is pretty expensive as it turns out. [...]

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Demo animation reel

Animation Demo Reel

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Character Design Reel

Character Design Demo reel.mov from Dennis Malcolm on Vimeo. Greek Figure from Dennis Malcolm on Vimeo. Start from Mudbox Build character’s body in Maya Bring in body from Maya into Mudbox & sculpt fine details. UV Mapping Bring back to Maya & add accessories & sub surface scattering. Done! Yay!

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Running Maya on an iPad

Here is an interesting iPad App I found that can run a full functional version of Autodesk Maya on it via “Cloud” super computing. They call the App Onlive, which can be used on mobile devices as well. The president claims that their supercomputer can run faster then the current world record holder Tianhe-1A system [...]

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Natural hallucinogen

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Computer Code Programming: Paddle Ball Game

Here is a paddle ball game that I wrote the coding for. The programming was all done in a software called “Processing”. It was quite interesting working on this project. I had to get used to using “classes” in Processing language which helps to speed up the production work flow. I had to rethink the [...]

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International Dance Party

International Dance Party! The full length video of this crazy and funny party machine! from Niklas Roy on Vimeo. Sax Guy

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Processing Programming – Creating a paddle ball game

Hi everyone, so today I’m going to be talking a little bit about my programming code for Processing. My challenge this week is to create some code for a paddle using the class feature of Processing. I basically had to create a paddle, make it move on the y axis & create some constraints for [...]

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5 in 5 Project #3 – Digital inking of figure – Analog/Digital

Time constraint – 1 hour Okay everyone, so today I’m going to be talking about my #3 project which is to converting a hand drawn pencil figure & inking it digitally. Believe it or not, I actually don’t really do a lot of my inking by computer. I usually ink my drawings by hand. But [...]

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5 in 5 Project #2 – The outline pencil figure drawing – Analog

Okay, so today I’m going to talk a little bit about my outline figure drawing or what’s most commonly referred to as “line art”. Line drawings usually show the outline of the subject, and not the volume or mass of an object. Lines or contours are a way to describe the edge of a form [...]

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