A little soapbox for me to stand on and rant from.
Watched King Kong last night. Its not LOTR but it is not bad.
I was really disappointed with the CG in the first 3rd of the movie. It included lots of floaty/cartoon animation especially with the human figures. However the CG in the later parts of the film was very good other then some very glaring green screen bits.
Kong was very well rendered and the animation was great.
The only other problems were the pace which was all wrong and the overuse of dramatic close ups.
Overall a good film.
Found these excellent texture maps (colour, bump, specular etc) of earth, moon, mars and venus. Very nice quality and free to use. Check out http://www.oera.net/How2/TextureMaps.htm.
Gonna have to do a space scene just for fun :)
Found this great plug in for Photoshop that lets you open and save Windows Icon files (.ico). It’s from Telegraphics and can be found here along with a bunch of other plug ins.
If you don’t have access to Photoshop then try out GIMP and get the ICO plug in for it from whoop.org.
These tools are great for creating favicons for your websites or to spice up your desktop.
WinMorph is a great morphing application that supports images and video. It’s easy to use and it’s free !
Wink also by Debugmode is a great application for creating presentations and tutorials. It does screen captures and creates a Flash animation. You can add call outs to display instructions plus customise a a range of things.