zenzmurfy's works in progress

Back from a month of WOW

2009-05-06T16:17:00.000-07:00

Been away for a month in WOW and now I am back to work.

To do list fr now is to make and draw a shot list and storyboard.
while working on graphics for someone else star control site.

Still sick

2009-02-22T05:00:00.000-08:00

Still got that horrible cough, but I think I am mostly over it. The zenzmurfy site is almost stripped off of the old tripod junk and now is somewhat bare, now I have also began getting rid of obsolete items.

Been sick all week

2009-02-14T11:44:00.000-08:00

Been sick all week, but I have been setting up the new site. www.zenzmurfy.com The Star Control section of the site is still being stripped of the tripod ads and the David Weber section has been crudely set up, mostly old stuff. Today I finally BUILT a Kohr-Ah ship, my version of it that is.

www.zenzmurfy.com under way!

2009-01-31T22:59:00.001-08:00

I decided to start www.zenzmurfy.com. I am moving my site from tripod to there. That includes the Star control fan artwork pages.

No more tripod and their banners and their nested banners and their pop-ups!
No more of them SIMULTANEOUSLY on one page, eventhough I only agreed to one banner per page.

The contents of the zenzmurfy Fan-O-rama site has been moved. But I still have to disinfect the site of its embedded banner ads. I plan to re-do the whole site and add more categories I am a fan of.

Right now I am redoing the main pages of the site.

Spathi ver 2

2009-01-15T14:39:00.000-08:00

Working on new Spathi ship. canonical design. It turns out it isn't a methane molecule though it'd fit so well with the Spathi motiff. It's more like a tire iron with an out board motor. I build the ship and textured it. Maybe more texturing to come but it's good enough for now. The only stuff left is the rear firing mechanism and setting up the engine exhaust trail.

Also building Spathi bridge, re-doing color schemes. It turns out that there are at least two color schemes for the bridge controls. I am simplifying my existing model of the bridge because it was going to make the animation more difficult.

-mike

What's for this week?

2008-12-31T16:49:00.000-08:00

Just finished read Robin Hobb's Liveship Trilogy and now moving on to the Tawny Man trilogy that follows it.

Going to work on Spathi bridge and re-do Spathi ship. Previous design was premised on a jumping jack which isn't canon it turns out. Upon further observation, Spathi ship is a methane molecule with an ovipostor that fires missiles.

Yehat character still needs more work, UV map, more textures, animation rigging.

Got to get the Yehat Terminator to fire its guns.

I have a video editor now! woo-hoo!

2008-12-23T09:54:00.000-08:00

Yehats so far.

2008-12-16T05:51:00.000-08:00

Yehat character model completed but untextured or rigged for animation.

Yehat Terminator model complete with texture map, but no work done on the guns firing yet.

Blog powers activate!

2008-12-11T06:36:00.000-08:00

Today, I start this blog.

...currently rendering yehat & urquan anims and modeling new version of yehat character.