After a considerable hiatus, I thought it about time I started to give this blog a bit of love again.

Over the next few weeks/months, I’m going to be diving head-first into learning Node.js, and thought that I’d attempt to build my own simple blogging engine as a nice training exercise. I’ve been meaning to replace the Wordpress site I currently use for a while (which is a bit bloated for my needs, and is always a massive headache to re-theme any time I decide to update my website), so what better way than to build my own?!

Wish me luck.

Just finished a short animation testing out the PhysX engine in 3DS Max. Check it out.

Here's a little key-frame animation I made using 3DS Max for a university project. I was going for a cartoon-y almost cell-shaded look, so chose soft lighting and went for matt, bump-mapped textures. I wanted to get a nice contrast between light and dark, so chose to use spotlights rather than any natural global illumination-type light sources (although the finished product looks a bit more gloomy than I'd intended). The robot was (quite obviously) inspired by Wall-E.