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About Blender Fox

Recreational road-runner, blender/CG rookie, linux user (LE-1, LPIC-1, SUSE CLA 11, SUSE 11 Tech Spec), programmer, avid tinkerer (I'm always breaking things), self-confessed anime & manga otaku & japanophile

Reign of Assassins – Trailer

An interesting story with some really nice swordwork and floating fight sequences near-mandatory of a wuxia film.

via Reign of Assassins – Trailer – YouTube.

Lighting in Blender

Couple of important tips when doing lighting in Blender, taken from the current book I’m reading:

  1. The wrong lighting will ruin a shot, regardless of how fantastic your modelling and surfacing.
  2. If you can light a scene effectively without any custom surfacing, you know you have done it right. If you can convey the mood and setting of the scene properly through the lightning alone, then your job is almost done.
  3. Do your lighting first, and make it good.

Fairy Tail The Movie – Priestess of the Phoenix

I watched the Fairy Tail movie the other day, and like most of the story arcs in the Fairy Tail series it plays at your heartstrings. I do like the way the story was structured. There was a separate 12-minute short which tells how the central girl (Eclair) and her stuffed animal friend (Momon) came to meet – by the time you meet them in the main movie, they’re already together.

At the beginning of the movie, for the first 10 or so minutes, there is no audio, just visuals and music. No audio means no subtitles and this forces you to pay attention to what’s going on in the screen. As the course of the film progresses, you learn more and more about the events portrayed in the first 10 minutes. You also learn more and more about the Phoenix mentioned in the title and the background behind Eclair, who is suffering from partial amnesia. Bombshells abound are revealed in the movie about Eclair and the finale is really heartbreaking…

Fairy Tail – Natsu vs Michelle and Midnight Full Fight – YouTube

Fairy Tail has an annoying habit of tearing at your heartstrings…. T_T

Fairy Tail – Natsu vs Michelle and Midnight Full Fight – YouTube.

ZR Track

Today was certainly a change. The run was meant to be 1 hour 20 minutes, so I decided a while ago to aim for a 10K run and my target was 1 hour. However, considering my current timing for 5K is 35 minutes, meant I should hit 10K at 1 hour and 10 minutes. Considering this run was 10.25K in 1 hour 9 minutes and 15 seconds, I’m pretty pleased. And it didn’t feel too bad. Yes, I stopped a couple of times as my 10K route had to cross busy roads and I’m not dumb enough to run straight across without looking. And my overall pace at 6:45 was quite good –although I terminated the run early. This run had two 10-minute blue zones, and I terminated my run at 1:09 — 1:10 to 1:20 would be the final cool down.

Blue zones are a pain because you can’t run them adequately, as they’re warm ups, but since you’re running slow, your overall pace value suffers as miCoach takes these speeds into account when calculating the overall pace.

My usual miCoach pace is around 7:00 to 7:30 per KM because of the blue zones. Take out a 10-minute blue zone, and you can see a 45-second improvement in the pace value.