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2010-05-02T03:04:00.001-04:00

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Bruce Willis almost finished

2010-04-22T02:44:00.002-04:00

Almost finished with the Bruce Willis bust. Here is the latest.

Other works are in progress as well. A couple of stills have been added to the 3D gallery of this site.

After May 1st these posts may take a break until I can figure out how to convert the blog from Blogger to Word Press because Google has decided to shut down the method I use to update it. Hopefully that won't be too difficult.

Medical Animation & Glen Southern

2010-04-09T23:28:00.002-04:00

I've added a still to the 3D Gallery, it's a frame from a medical animation I just did for fun in a little over a day. The animation itself will be added to the demo reel soon.

In other news I've written up a description of 3D-Coat for Glen Southern's website. Included are some images by myself and Leigh Bamforth. You can find it here (near the bottom)

http://www.southerngfx.co.uk/general/tutorials/enter3d/primer2.php

Bruce Willis textures

2010-03-29T09:03:00.004-04:00

Here's the latest on my Bruce Willis sculpture. I've painted in the beard and hair stubble and most of the specularity. As usual YouTube's compression made his skin look a little darker than it is.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jP3yZ5_qZsc

This is how the coloring should look.

Epic bottle & liquid

2010-03-28T12:33:00.006-04:00

I received permission from Epic Studios to show some stuff I did for them back in September. This is a bottle I modeled and textured.

Here's a YouTube video of some medicine that goes in the bottle. Here we were showing the powdered medicine being dissolved into water. I modeled and animated the chunks that are spinning horizontally and floating up and down.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AnguYgfUnYY

Bruce Willis update

2010-03-25T08:34:00.002-04:00

After retopology I've moved on to texturing and finer details. Here you can see a basic base for the skin texture and a few finer wrinkles

Bruce Willis

2010-03-20T15:08:00.004-04:00

Here's the latest WIP of my Bruce Willis sculpture on YouTube. Next I will retopologize him and start on the finer details and textures. I've decided to do the textures with Ptex instead of UV mapping. It's my first real try with Ptex, so I hope it will work out.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6VmB-bnLTGY

Tutorials

2010-03-11T02:14:00.002-05:00

Unity
A while back I wrote a tutorial on getting LightWave objects into the Unity 3D game engine and setting up a simple environment to run around in. This tutorial was published in the November 2009 LightWave newsletter. Unfortunately the URL of that newsletter changes every month so I can't link to it, but I can link to the files.

This is the actual tutorial in PDF form:
http://www.newtek.com/lightwave/images/profiles/imagesfile/newsletter/0911/unity/unity_tutorial_01.pdf

Here are some sample objects that were used in the tutorial. You may also recognize them from my demo reel.
http://www.newtek.com/lightwave/images/profiles/imagesfile/newsletter/0911/unity/lw_Unity.zip

This is a final playable version of the "game".
http://www.newtek.com/lightwave/images/profiles/imagesfile/newsletter/0911/unity/phils_simple_level.zip

You will need to have the Unity Web Player installed. You can get that here:
http://www.newtek.com/lightwave/images/profiles/imagesfile/newsletter/0911/unity/Unity_WebPlayer.zip

Tire tread
Also recently someone asked me to explain how I did the tread for my tires on the Audi R8 model I'm currently working on. So I wrote up a quick tutorial explaining how that was done in Photoshop and 3D-Coat, the exported to LightWave.

Here is the tutorialin PDF format:
http://dl.dropbox.com/u/3083393/tire_tread_tutorial.pdf

And this is the tire tread photo I used for reference:

Slacking

2010-03-02T16:31:00.003-05:00

Sorry I've been slacking off on my posts but I'm always available on Twitter if you are interested. Also this WIPs & News section of the site is based on Blogger and since Google has decided to disable FTP support for Blogger this section may be changing soon as I'm looking at installing Word Press if I can figure out how to do that and move all of my posts to it.

Anyway Here's some Videos I put up on YouTube recently:

Early Example of painting with Disney's Ptex technology in 3D-Coat
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4137te68FP4

This is an anime music video (AMV) I made back in 2001, it was shown at Otakon that year:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5zEbx0BJrxE

This is not actually mine, but a very cool demonstration of the new VPR rendering in LightWave CORE:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Z1NyDVrgRY

This quick one answers the question "What if I want to edit my Ptex texture in Photoshop?":
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1m05YAAo1j4

3DC Website and a Pilot

2010-01-19T03:18:00.002-05:00

Currently I'm doing a little work on a kids sci-fi short film / TV pilot. I should be finished in the next day or so.

In other news the 3D-Coat website has been redesigned and they used my Jedi Starfighter model in a big way.
http://www.3d-coat.com/

Gameloft

2010-01-03T20:14:00.001-05:00

Working on an art test for Gameloft in New York.

Armitage updates

2009-12-14T00:53:00.003-05:00

Here's the latest on this character. I replaced the lacing on her pant legs, replaced her head, and added wrinkles for her gloves.

Tying laces

2009-12-10T17:47:00.004-05:00

I decided to redo the pant laces on the Armitage character so I made a quick video of the process while I was at it.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aZCuKJ2IJO8

Armitage

2009-12-08T12:17:00.004-05:00

Some more Armitage updates:

Armitage III & Unity

2009-12-01T16:27:00.004-05:00

Recently I wrote a tutorial on using LightWav 3D with the Unity game engine. The tutorial was featured in the November 2009 LightWave 3D newsletter.
http://www.newtek.com/lightwave/newsletter.php

Currently I'm working on a sculpture of the character, Armitage from the movies and OAVs of the same name. Here's a still:

There is also a slightly earlier YouTube turn-around animation here:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3ZlDlai5_yg

Most of the basic shapes are done and it will be time to start detailing soon.

Garan the Archer

2009-10-29T02:59:00.002-04:00

For the past two days I've been working on a character inspired by someone I saw in a Stargate SG-1 episode, only my model will be cooler. lol This character will be holding a crossbow in each hand. I'm almost finished with the basics for the clothing, then it'll be time to start adding more detail. Of course she will have a full face too, I will separate the head and hands to give them a higher resolution without touching the rest.

Orc update

2009-10-27T01:37:00.002-04:00

I've updated the 3D Gallery with final images of the orc. I've also started a new personal project sculpture. More on that later.

Orc and Mindy

2009-10-17T17:05:00.001-04:00

OK sorry, no Mindy, just Orc. Latest renders from LightWave:

Art test

2009-10-14T17:57:00.001-04:00

A big game studio where an old friend works is interested in my work and is sending me an art test. If I do well (I will) I'll be moving to Texas soon.

Some more orc

2009-10-12T02:00:00.002-04:00

Getting on with orc texturing:

Orc bust sculpture

2009-09-23T00:51:00.004-04:00

I've been working on this sculpture on and off for the past couple of days. I started from a sphere.

I find it hilarious when I keep seeing people "sculpting" with a pile of sausages in zbrush 3.5 and raving "I love this program!". The entire time I was working on this it looked like I was working with clay, not sausages.

Starfighter in Unreal

2009-09-19T20:49:00.002-04:00

Just a quick look at the Starfighter model in the Unreal Editor. I'm still working out how to clean up that center seam. Obviously it doesn't appear in other programs.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5yNaEbgVUWM

Small update

2009-09-19T02:44:00.002-04:00

Updated the 3D Gallery section of the site with some stills of the Jedi Starfighter and the old man.

3D Coat 3.1.06

2009-09-16T23:44:00.003-04:00

I am continuously amazed at the production of 3D Coat. We get a new update pretty much once a week. Often I'll request a feature and have it within a couple of days or even less! My latest project was 90% done in 3DC. Final renders will be posted here shortly.

Voxel T-Shirt demo

2009-09-08T20:40:00.003-04:00

I made a quick demo video on creating a T-Shirt with 3D Coat:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R8do975zkEM

Starfighter update

2009-09-04T14:35:00.003-04:00

I was busy with some work for Epic Studios for a while, but that's finished so I'm back to the Starfighter. Here's an update redid the panels and added more dirt / streaks / discoloration.

An Epic job

2009-09-02T23:26:00.001-04:00

Just finished up a week long project with Epic Studios. Can't say what it was I was doing just yet, NDA and all.

Jedi Star Fighter (game res)

2009-08-27T05:02:00.005-04:00

I'm working on a game quality version of the Jedi Starfighter model I did a few years ago. I think it's almost done.

New demo reel

2009-07-18T02:57:00.001-04:00

The demo reel on this site has been updated. Go check it out!

A short tutorial

2009-06-27T18:28:00.003-04:00

I made a short LightWave tutorial. It's something simple, but may confuse new users. Making sharp corners that blend to a smooth curve using sub-patches. The audio is a little loud, so watch your volume.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Irq4Z6C7MdA

Blog update

2009-06-06T09:30:00.001-04:00

I updated this blog template. It should be easier to read now.

1984

2009-06-06T07:16:00.001-04:00

FXGuide posted an image I did in one of their articles.

http://www.fxguide.com/article534.html

Old man rendered

2009-05-18T04:18:00.003-04:00

The old man has been rendered in LightWave with hair. Still a work in progress.

Here is a 360 turn around on YouTube, click the HD button for best quality.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_y0mg4jwUtI

More Old Guy

2009-05-03T01:33:00.003-04:00

Finally was able to get back to this guy. Retopologized and baked the normal map, down to about 108,000 quads (1,610 subdivided x3), that's down from about 22.5 million triangles. Currently working on painting color maps.

Old Man

2009-04-08T07:01:00.004-04:00

Current work in progress. Just a little side project I worked on for a few hours.

Quick LW tutorial... In HD!

2009-03-28T03:40:00.004-04:00

The question of how to model this came up and while several answers were given, this is how I would do it.

Modeling a coiled phone cord:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KI9OqnSWj2Y (Click the HD button!)

Nintendo DSi

2009-03-10T05:31:00.005-04:00

I had to laugh today when I just received an email about the Nintendo DSi. Not quite the same as my DS2.

http://www.nintendodsi.com/

IMDB

2009-01-29T14:30:00.001-05:00

My IMDB page has been updated. Nothing special, just added some of the commercial work I've done and some personal details. I also just finished up a small project for an old friend Scott Owens.

High 5

2009-01-08T12:15:00.002-05:00

More work came up with High 5, so that reel update will have to go on the back burner. Sorry loyal viewers. This is a small gig but could turn into something really huge, like a year long.

Upcoming

2008-12-23T08:24:00.001-05:00

There's a new demo reel coming soon, I've just rendered two new shots for it and more are coming.

Vox

2008-12-10T17:10:00.001-05:00

Pownce account officially switched to Vox now. So you will find a new VOX icon on my Home page.

Anime Voxel Sculpting

2008-12-10T01:51:00.005-05:00

Misato Katsuragi work in progress.

No More Pownce

2008-12-01T23:47:00.002-05:00

Pownce is being shut down and I'm exporting my files from them before they do so. So soon the Pownce icon will disappear from my Home page. I have yet to decide if I will move my Pownce info to Vox.com or just let it die.

Finishing up

2008-10-31T02:42:00.003-04:00

Well all of the changes and small renders are finished on the reception hall. Now I'm working on 3 poster sized renders of it. At nearly 7 million polys cutting the scene in half and rendering in strips still wasn't enough so I bought more RAM. That should make things easier.

Photographs are just about done now, just waiting for final approval. They were shot for the Comcast Center in Philadelphia, of their "The Market" underground, high end, shopping plaza. The people who ran the shops were extremely nice to me and gracious. A couple were even happy to pose a second time when I needed to do a reshoot. As a side benefit the restaurant owners kept giving me free food! lol

Possibly coming up soon a project involving Dee Snider of Twister Sister.

Reception hall

2008-10-03T06:03:00.001-04:00

Almost a year after doing that reception hall that's in the 3D Gallery I've been asked to make some changes to it. So that's what I'm up to now.

Photo shoot

2008-09-29T02:02:00.001-04:00

Current project with Epic Studios seems wrapped up. Tomorrow I'm going to shoot some pictures for a local client's new website.

IGN Article & more

2008-09-04T19:41:00.003-04:00

Got a call from IGN.com yesterday asking to use my Nintendo DS 2 renders in an article. Of course I said they could.

Here's the article:
http://gear.ign.com/articles/907/907463p1.html

Also I am starting a new gig with Epic Studios tomorrow.

Photos

2008-09-03T09:32:00.002-04:00

I've added 8 new photos to the Photography section of the site. They're not exactly new though, I shot them in college around 1996-1997. The majority were shot with a 4x5 large format view camera. The Gravestone and Camden shots were shot on 35mm film.

Low Poly Environment

2008-08-31T11:49:00.003-04:00

I'm working on a new personal project. Starting with this Starbucks building in Shinjuku-ku

Redesign complete

2008-08-26T13:38:00.002-04:00

If you're reading this you're looking at the new design for my site. I hope you enjoy and please let me know if you find any bugs, I will try to squash them as quickly as possible. phil@philnolan3d.com

Under Renovation

2008-08-25T05:52:00.003-04:00

This site has been up for about 5 years now and it's about time for a change. So the site is undergoing a dramatic overhaul with entirely modern code behind the scenes, new visuals, and a few more tricks. The redesign is almost complete and should be live within the week.

Recomendations

2008-08-11T13:35:00.005-04:00

Recently I have received two recommendations from Shooters Post & Transfer.

From John-Michael Trojan (Producer):
"I've hired Phil for 3D modeling. He took complete ownership of his work, and delivered exactly what we needed, plus he took the initiative to send his work in with added value. Anyone who goes the extra mile to deliver quality work on time and on budget gets a recommendation from me, and Phil fits that bill."

From Laura Pappanicholas (Executive Producer):
"Top qualities: Expert, Good Value, High Integrity"
hired Phil as a 3D Artist in 2006, and hired Phil more than once

Also one from John O'Mahony who I worked with at High 5:
"I had the pleasure of working my first big freelance gig with Phil. Although we were in different states, he might as well been working besides me. Phil produces, and thats why I'd work with him again." August 11, 2008

Tweeting

2008-07-19T10:51:00.003-04:00

If anyone's interested I can also be found on Twitter at http://twitter.com/philnolan3d and Pownce at http://pownce.com/philnolan3d/ Feel free to follow me there.

Not happy with Apple

2008-07-10T02:41:00.002-04:00

I've had my iPhone for about 9 months, the other day the lower third of the touch screen stops working. Everyone on the forums said bring it in, get it replaced. So I drove a half hour out to the nearest Apple store and they replaced it... with a broken one! So I brought that one back and they replaced it again. This one works well enough, but it feels like it's shoddily put together. The Home button is loose and if you tap the area around it it makes a hollow noise like it's not put together snugly. When tapping the same spot on the other end of the phone, it sounds nice and solid. On top of that, you can tell by the serial numbers that both of the phones they gave me are much older than the one I originally paid for. And some people wonder why I don't use Apple computers...

I won't even talk about having to make an appointment at the store, then getting there at the appointed time, and still having to wait.

IMDB

2008-06-14T17:39:00.001-04:00

A while back I posted that my helicopter model was being used in a feature film, a zombie movie called Dead Moon Rising. Thanks to that I was able to set up my IMDB page.

http://www.imdb.com/name/nm3031327/

High 5 again

2008-06-08T02:33:00.002-04:00

Back to work with High 5 Productions. I started earlier this week doing a little more work on the Kid Fitness show I was working on before.

New outfit

2008-05-30T04:08:00.002-04:00

So I've been working on this character for basically years now, pushing a few points whenever I have some free time. At the moment I have just finished up the base model for her "armor". I based the design on a couple of the outfits worn by Kahm, the main character of the Outlanders manga by Johji Manabe. As I said this is the base model, the details and textures will be created in 3D Coat as soon as I get the UV maps set up.

Old news, new news

2008-05-22T00:25:00.002-04:00

Shooters Post & Transfer is displaying some of my work on their site. The LaCrosse stick I modeled for them was used in this spot.
http://www.shootersinc.com/content//qt.php?id=102340

I'm now finishing up an art test for Anderson Renderings and sending it in. If I get the job the project will be an animation of an accident to be used in a court trial.

Modeling video tutorial

2008-03-12T10:23:00.003-04:00

One of the guys on Spinquad.com was having trouble modeling the cylinder on his revolver gun model so I made up this video tutorial. He ended up figuring it out before I got through some editing troubles, but I figured the tutorial might be helpful to some other people. It explores a number of tools in LightWave including Rounder, Bridge, and Drill.

Meta Cafe version
http://www.metacafe.com/watch/1148953/revolver_modeling_in_lightwave_3d/

Mega Upload version (40MB Quicktime H.264)
http://www.megaupload.com/?d=H8NRRJB2

Female head

2008-03-04T17:33:00.002-05:00

Lightwave 9.5 is coming soon and it will include new hair tools among it's other new features. So I figured I'd better make a new head to test it out on.

NewTek Announces LightWave 3D 9.5

2008-02-20T18:22:00.001-05:00

The fourth major update to LightWave 3D v9. Is to be a huge one, including enhancements to character animation and modeling, an all new hair and fur system, all new lighting system and much more. And of course it will be free for current LightWave 3D v9 owners.

read more | digg story

New Mexico

2008-02-06T07:28:00.000-05:00

I'm going to be revamping the 10 minute animation I did for TMC Services, although it's not handled by TMC anymore there was a falling out between them and the creator of the device in the video. So anyway I'll be flying out to Albuquerque for a few days to discuss all of the changes that have to be made.

Lightwave 3D rules!

2008-01-04T10:46:00.000-05:00

To everyone reading bout the DS Prototype mock-ups I'd like to share that these renders were done entirely in LightWave 3D 9.3.1. Lightwave doesn't get enough recognition in the CG world.

DS Prototype skyrocketing

2008-01-02T20:09:00.000-05:00

I sent the WIP images to Gizmodo and they offered to feature them on the site. After a few small alterations they went up and also hit the front page of Digg.com. I've never had so many hits to my site in one day before. Currently at about 150 and rising since this afternoon. Hope my bandwidth can handle it. I think the most I ever had was close to 80 in one day.

Gizmodo link:
http://gizmodo.com/339601/nintendo-ds-2-the-3d-mock+up-makes-us-drool-even-more

Digg Link:
http://digg.com/nintendo/Nintendo_DS_2_the_3D_Mock_Up_Makes_Us_Drool_Even_More

Big thanks to Jesus Diaz!

Nintendo DS 2 Prototype

2007-12-26T14:50:00.000-05:00

I was inspired by the image Gizmodo came up with for what they'd like to see the next DS look like as seen here.
http://gizmodo.com/gadgets/all-giz-wants/n...k+up-332353.php

As I worked I got more ideas from the iPhone, PSP, and Wii.

Happy Holidays

2007-12-25T15:08:00.000-05:00

Merry Christmas and happy assorted other holidays everyone.

RSS feed

2007-12-17T06:19:00.000-05:00

I've added a feed for this blog, so you can now subscribe if you like. Find the link in the upper right corner of this page.

Addys

2007-12-13T03:56:00.000-05:00

I talked to Kevin Fanning at Shooters about the NCAA project that we both worked on and asked about the Addy award. He didn't go to the event this year, but apparently it was submitted to Baltimore where it won the gold and also Philadelphia where it won two silvers.

Addy Awards

2007-12-08T21:48:00.000-05:00

I just came across another article about the Addy award Shooters won for the NCAA basketball spot I worked on. The spot is described in the second paragraph with a comment from Kris Magyarits, the creative director I worked with. In addition this article informed me of something, the Addy award that spot won was gold, not silver.

http://forums.creativecow.net/readpost/105/857805

Asile FX

2007-12-06T00:33:00.000-05:00

My studio just picked up a copy of the Asile FX Vue xStream / Lightwave Integration video tutorials. They cost $50 for the download version. Which is a little high, even for good quality videos. Which brings me to my point. I have gone through the first few videos and am little disappointed.

Firstly the videos are very highly compressed, so they don't look very good and the audio sounds distorted. The thing is, they compressed it so much , but not enough to fit on a CD. They are slightly larger at 750MB, so I have to use a DVD and waste all that space, which could've been used for higher quality videos.

Next is the teacher, Nicholas Pellegrino. Perhaps it's partly due to the nature of xStream and the fact that it doesn't work very well, but in some parts it feels like he really doen't know what he's doing. Like he'll try something and say, "no that didn't work, let's try this... Ah that did it.". Unless this is just his teaching style and it's not obvious enough, I feel like a teacher should really have planned out what he intends to teach and know what will work and what will not before he starts the lesson. Another problem is that he says something, then repeats it several times with different words. A good example is a scene with a transparent object and two objects behind it. and he says something to the effect of "after adjusting that setting you can see through the object. You can see this object behind it, and you can also see this other object behind it". That was a short and simple example, but it gets my point across. He does offer some good information when he gets around to saying it.

Frankly at those prices for this quality I don't think I would buy any videos from AsileFX.

2007-11-22T23:48:00.001-05:00

A couple screenshots of my iphone

PS3

2007-11-19T11:04:00.000-05:00

I'm quite proud of myself, I got a good deal. KMart had a coupon for 20% off any one item. They also had a deal where you can buy a $50 gift card and get a $10 gift card free. So I bought 7 gift cards, got a free $70, combined it with a coupon, and got a $500 PS3 for $350.

iPhone

2007-10-30T19:47:00.000-04:00

I went out on a limb today, threw caution to the wind, ignored my dislike of Apple, and bought an iPhone. So far I've been very disappointed. First it wouldn't work on my main computer because it only works on 32 bit OSs. So I had to connect it to my old computer to activate it. Now iTunes, which I've never used before, will not sync my music to it. I'm sure I'll get that fixed eventually, but I hope this is the last of the problems I have with this thing after I spent over $400 on it.

Edit: The sync thing was my own fault, I didn't see the tabs across the top of iTunes for choosing which items you want to sync. Nothing was selected, so of course nothing synced.

Digital Rebel

2007-10-20T01:23:00.000-04:00

A few days ago I picked up a Canon EOS Digital Rebel XT. See here. It's been a while since I used an SLR, but it feels good to get back into it. I've already been able to use it for a work project. I'll have to really go through the manual though , it has a lot of features and I've barely scratched the surface of what it can do. I went out and took a few test shots. This is my first time using RAW images, so I'm still learning that as well.

FiOS Complete

2007-10-11T18:14:00.000-04:00

Good news, Verizon finished my install yesterday! Two weeks exactly after they started.

CG Tees

2007-10-05T14:00:00.000-04:00

For a while I've been looking at the T-Shirts on yournexttee.com and today finally picked a couple to order. I noticed they have a promotion going on: Any shipping weight $5.00 via FedEx ground. Great, so I went on with my order but my shipping said $8.00 for FedEx Ground. I gave them a call and had to wait a minute or so but they were very polite and actually fixed the website while I was on the phone. So to any readers I recommend Your Next Tee.

FiOS

2007-09-26T22:29:00.000-04:00

I just had Verizon FIOS installed for TV and internet, replacing Comcast. For the internet I got 15Mbps down, 2Mbps up. So far my experiments with large files were on and off.

Installation took about 9 hours and they aren't finished yet, they still have to come back tomorrow and attach a cable. They had to temporarily hook me into my neighbor's box.

Downloading a 1080p movie trailer from Quicktime.com was very fast. Downloading an episode of The Totoally Rad Show via Juice was very slow, about 400KBps. It could be that I need to forward some ports in the new router they gave me since (I believe) Juice uses bittorrent to download. Azureus won't download at all, so that may be it. Downloading an HD episode of Diggnation via HTTP quickly topped off at 1.7Mbps, then started slowly dropping, getting as low as 700KBps. Bandwidthplace.com said I had a 1.2Mbps download speed, but they also said they don't support connections over 8. PCpitstop.com said my download is 12Mbps. This leads me to wonder if they are throttling video downloads. I'll have to try to find a large non-video file to download and test.

With the TV setup I got one HD/DVR box and one standard box. I was a little disappointed that there is no HD content on-demand. That was something I really enjoyed with Comcast. Also FiOS On Demand seems to be lacking. I expected that i'd never see Comcasts Tube Time OD channel again, but I also seem to be missing some other channels like Sci-Fi and Cartoon Network. possibly others that I haven't seen yet.

I've been hearing all about this new fancy interface that FiOS has and it looks fantastic! In the screenshots I've seen on the web. My setup apparently doesn't have it yet so I get a dull slate gray menu that looks similar to what Comcast has.

The DVR works very well, the remote buttons have a fast response time for FForward, Rewind, Pause and Record. The recorded video quality of HDTV is also extremely good, it looks exactly as it would if it were live. Of course I've never had a DVR before, so this may be the same with TIVO or Comcast.

Over all I'm sorry to say I'm a little disappointed. Hopefully it will get better, with the nearly unlimited speed of fiber Verizon should be able to offer a lot more.

My first PC build

2007-09-17T06:15:00.000-04:00

Things have been going well with High 5, but my old PC just wasn't cutting it any more, so I took some of the money I earned and built my first homebrew PC. I went with a Core 2 Quad 2.4GHz CPU, nVidia GeForce 8800 GTS 640MB, 2GB RAM, 400GB harddrive and Vista Ultimate x64. The case I got is cool to look at and also keeps the internals very cool and ventilated. I've been using it for a week now and have had no real problems aside from some of my older programs not working right in Vista, which is understandable. There's plenty of room for upgrading, so it should last me quite a while. Attached is a pic I snapped right after I finished putting everything together. I'll post more soon.

Truth & Lies

2007-08-21T01:40:00.000-04:00

You'll soon find me in the credits of the short film Truth & Lies for a small amount of modeling.

http://www.truthandliesmovie.com

New gig

2007-08-16T18:44:00.000-04:00

I'm now a full time freelancer with High 5 Productions in NY. Currently I'm working on a kids TV show.

Dead Moon Rising

2007-08-03T13:39:00.000-04:00

The feature-length independent film Dead Moon Rising by Anubis Digital will feature some of my work.

New Reel

2007-07-31T14:47:00.000-04:00

In case you haven't yet been to my Demo Reel page go have a look. It's been updated with several new shots including clips from the spot that won an Addy award.

Kyoko Otonashi's room

2007-07-22T04:01:00.000-04:00

Here's an update to the room. Just trying to get all of the furniture in now, then I'll start on smaller details and textures.

Maison Ikkoku

2007-07-16T06:38:00.000-04:00

For about 10 years now I've been a big fan of the manga series Maison Ikkoku and ever since I got into 3D I've wanted to model the house that the series mainly takes place in. Just recently a live action TV special was made in Japan, based on the first few books of the series. It was great to watch but while watching it hit me that it is great reference material because they so accurately reproduced the house in the manga. So yesterday I started small and began modeling the managers room where several scenes take place.

Unreal Engine 2.5

2007-06-30T22:38:00.000-04:00

I have completed my first level in Unreal Tournament 2004. My second is on it's way.

Turbo Squid

2007-06-22T13:40:00.000-04:00

I am now building models for sale on Turbo Squid. Two models are available at the time of this post. More will come in the near future. My objects can be found here:
http://www.turbosquid.com/Search/Index.cfm/FuseAction/ProcessSmartSearch/istIncAuthor/philnolan3d/blAuthorExact/y

Star Wars Animated

2007-05-30T19:30:00.001-04:00

I took a little time off of my girl project to do a little work on this short, Tales of The New Republic. I didn't do a lot only some extra modeling and texturing of the LAAT Gunships you see in the beginning behind the clones.

Tales of the New Republic

Asian Girl

2007-05-28T02:05:00.000-04:00

For some time now whenever I had free time I've been working on a character model. I've recently had time to continue working on it, so here's an update.

LightWave 9.2 show reel

2007-05-03T01:23:00.000-04:00

During the time that I was beta testing LW 9.2 a group of us got together to make a reel showing off the new features. I included my Cg Sphere which was made with 9.2 before the concept a show reel came about. We finally got permission from NewTek to go public with it and everyone's spreading the link everywhere. Now we're on the front page of 3D Total. Here's the link to it.

http://www.lightwiki.com/index.php?title=Community_LightWave_9.2_demo_video

Shooters work finished

2007-04-18T04:50:00.000-04:00

I finished up the HD project I was doing with Shooters and sent it off this morning. A few hours later I got a call from Kevin over there telling me how awesome the model was and how nice it was to finally have one with such detail. Then later I came home to find an email with more of the same.

Update!

2007-03-27T18:02:00.000-04:00

Funny just after I mention not hearing from Shooters I get the call saying everything is a "go". So I'll be starting this project right after I'm done with Epic.

New work

2007-03-27T16:35:00.000-04:00

I'm starting a small project for Epic Studios today. Just a one day thing, but they may have more. still no word from Shooters on that project that was first brought up a couple weeks ago. Though I was told last week That I'd be contacted by another guy I know there who's producing the spot.

I've also signed up for Acclaim's project "Top Secret", along with more than 20,000 other people. The idea is that all of these people get together to make a game and of those people one will be chosen to direct their next game. Also Acclaim and possibly other companies will be hiring from the group. I don't know how much time I'll have to work on it, but it should be fun.

Berklee Scores Chimera

2007-03-16T01:14:00.000-04:00

200 Student s and 5 schools gathered for their biggest effort to date, a 150 piece orchestra. And what did they record? Why the new score for the film that my class made at The DAVE School, of course, "Chimera".

http://www.berklee.edu/news/2007/02/0220.html

Addy Awards

2007-03-09T11:34:00.000-05:00

The NCAA Basketball Final Four opening I worked on with Shooters won an Addy award last night for special effects. That's pretty much all the details I have at the moment.

Here's the winners list:
http://www.phillyadclub.com/event_article.php?id=617

More work to be done

2007-03-06T17:41:00.000-05:00

I finished up my week at Shooters and was then asked to do something else which I should be starting shortly, the news helicopter for ABC 7 in NY needs to be modeled for their HD commercials. I also may have work coming in with Epic Studios and one other place.

In other news March 1st was my birthday and this past weekend I went to Atlantic City with some friends. I didn't win anything, but I had a good time and that's what really matters.

Modeling task

2007-02-20T19:13:00.000-05:00

I finished modeling ahead of schedule yesterday, so I textured it as well. Today I was animating all day and started setting up the effects I'll do tomorrow. It's due by Thursday morning, but I think I'll have to done well before then.

Back to Shooters

2007-02-16T19:19:00.000-05:00

Shooters called today and I'll be going back there starting Monday. Sounds like it's just one project, all I heard was "some modeling, possibly more". I'm also just about finished with my art test for Insomniac, it's looking pretty good so far.

Lightwave 9.2 Preview

2007-02-12T06:11:00.000-05:00

The Lightwave 9.2 Preview with my image has been posted to NewTek's site. Some of the new features are really awesome and blow the 9.0 update out of the water.
http://www.newtek.com/lightwave/newsletters/v4-n01/index.html#v92

The art test for Sucker Punch didn't work out, but what they did say was

"Your work is clean and done very well.
Of the candidates that applied you were in the top ten."

and

"As the team continues to hire in the future, I will keep you in mind,
as I keep the better portfolios handy.