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Sunday
May022010

3D Desktop Manager BumpTop, Aquired by Google

BumpTop uses new multi-touch gestures that go beyond the typical pan-and-zoom to manage your Desktop in 3D. 

Friday
Apr162010

My iPad Unboxing

After over a week of using and integrating the Apple iPad into my daily life and work routines, I finally had a chance to post the footage of the unboxing. It's an amazing device and I'll have a review up shortly with the pros, cons, and some other thoughts. Enjoy the videos for now. 

iPad Unboxing - Part 1 from Jose Perez on Vimeo.

iPad Unboxing - Part 2 from Jose Perez on Vimeo.

Wednesday
Feb242010

Models In Motion: Stargate Atlantis

This is a montage of stills and video of the City of Atlantis I built for the "Stargate Atlantis" series. I built the model for use from season 2 until the end of the show for the in-house FX crew. The geometry was created with Luxology's Modo. The texturing and lighting were done in Newtek's Lightwave.

The model was then distributed to other studios for use in their visual effects shots. Aside from standing in as the primary Atlantian base, this model was also used to populate the Replicator city of Azuras. I created a few extra key buildings for up close camera shots of that planet as well.

For a look at some stills, head on over to my gallery:
Stargate - Portfolio

Friday
Feb122010

Models in Motion: Terminator T-888

A look at the T-888 model I built for "Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles" TV show. I used Modo to build the geometry and initial texturing. The model was then delivered to the VFX house in Lightwave format and exported to Maya for animation as well.

Final textures were also tweaked in house for their needs. I started the model using the original T-800 as reference. However, the model went thru several changes based on the concept artwork from VFX Supervisor James Lima. Animation done by other artists.

For a better look at the model, check it out in my gallery:
Portfolio - Terminator

Thursday
Feb112010

Google updates Chrome Beta for Mac

The beta version of Chrome for Mac has been updated with support for Chrome extensions. This update also brings bookmark syncing, bookmark manager, cookie manager, and task manager.

Altho it's still beta, it renders pages very snappy. See video below from the Google Chrome Blog.