Posted on Jan 5 2010 by iGerry Filed under: 3D, Avatar, computer animation, movies, Technology
I have never been a believer of measuring the greatness of a movie in terms of gross box office sales. One billion US dollars in gross box office ticket sales in 2009 has an entirely different meaning compared to a decade back. For instance, “Gone with the Wind”, a movie shown in 1939 grossed 390 million dollars. Do you know how much that’s worth in 1939? Titanic, another James Cameroon movie, grossed 1.8 billion USD a decade back when ticket prices cost 4.59 USD.
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Posted on Oct 14 2008 by iGerry Filed under: 3D, animation, Blender, pinoy site, Philippines
Blender is an open source 3D animation software that runs on Ubuntu and other Linux distros. The software has created a large number of followers around the world. Being at par with commercial grade 3D animation software, it has been used commercially. A popular example would be the movie Spiderman 2.
Talented Filipino animators have also been using Blender and has resulted into a community of users. Below’s a video sample created by a Filipino animator named “Reynante”. He actually uses other open source software like Gimp, Audacity and VirtualDub for his creative work.
These animators can be found frequenting the Pinoy Blender forum which has become a showroom of their works and a place to help each other use Blender.
Posted on Sep 10 2008 by iGerry Filed under: 3D, Games, J2ME, Java, mobile game, racing, recommended mobile games, reviews, Games
This next sequel to the Asphalt Racing mobile J2ME games from Gameloft is great. Better than the last Asphalt 3 mobile game which I played a lot. If you’re still contemplating on whether to buy the Asphalt 4: Elite Racing mobile game, stop hesitating and just buy the Asphalt 4 mobile game.
Starting off with the graphics of Asphalt 4: Elite Racing, even the menu has better graphics than the older Asphalt 3. The scenes are now in 3D. The 3D renders look good on the SE mobile phone I’m using. The buildings and race path are much better than the flat 2D look in Asphalt 3.
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Posted on Aug 21 2008 by iGerry Filed under: 3D, J2ME, LWUIT, SVG, Mobile
The Lightweight User Interface Toolkit or LWUIT, a project to enable J2ME developers to create consistent and easily usable mobile Java applications, has made its source code available under the GPL2 license. Previously a binary only download was provided by the project.
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