For fun, I like to animate.

I use Animation Master by Hash Inc for creating 3D animated movies, check out Hash Incs Home Page for the coolest 3D Character Animation program around, SoftImage for $199!

I've also been playing with 3D Studio Max and Character Studio lately, not sure I like the 'click and menu intensive' Max interface, but it is powerful for some things, even if it is a total memory and resource hog!

I still prefer Animation Master for my character animation work and Blender for the more general animation stuff, especially mechanical modelling. Lightwave has some possibilities too, but I haven't had enough time with that as yet, I'm still struggling with the interface.

Other recent toys are some of the Metacreations stuff, Poser 3, Bryce 3D and Painter 3D. Imainly used these to put 3D geometry into the other programs at present, as pure animation packages they don't quite cut it

I also do a bit of digital video work using Adobe Premiere and others.

Computer Geek stuff

At home I'm running a small LAN consisting of my old Pentium 100Mhz as an NT4.0 server, 2.3GB of IDE disk, 9GB of SCSI disk, a Yamaha OPL2A sound card, 150MB tape drive, ZIP drive, CDROM recorder and a 3 year old Matrox Millenium VGA - still hot stuff and going strong! This is also configured as a netrenderer for Max and Animation Master (and Lightwave too once I can get around the Screamernet weirdness)

The main 'production' system is now a Pentium II 266MHz, 128Mb, with 4.3GB EIDE disk, 8MB Permedia 2 AGP card and various other fruit. This system is the main graphics station for 3D Studio Max + Character Studio 2.1, Lightwave, Animation Master and all the Metacreations stuff like Poser 3 and Bryce 3D, Painter 3D etc. not to mention Photoshop and Paint Shop Pro and all the others...

Last, but not least, there is the R4400 SGI Indigo Elan with 5Gb of disk and DAT tape that I use for Alias|Wavefront and Blender, a great freeware modelling and animation package for SGI and Linux systems well worth checking out and supporting.

Oh and there's an old IBM 486SX and a couple of unused 386's laying around in pieces in various places too, the 486 still sees some use, it will probably end up as a Linux server one day.

I also make MPEG videos.

Talk to me about that if you'd like to do that too. I have a direct AVI capture to MPEG converter you might find useful.


Sometime soon I will have examples, pictures and all that here but right now I'm too busy making them! Yeah right! Too busy chatting online I think....

But, for the impatient, here's some old work that I have hanging around right now.

This is the beginnings of my Portfolio Page.