Been a while since I switched off for a day and had fun in the kitchen. Baked this today. Almost looks like ice cream, but it’s cake :)
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@robustkite
Been a while since I switched off for a day and had fun in the kitchen. Baked this today. Almost looks like ice cream, but it’s cake :)
For those curious about my workstation, here’s a photo of when it’s less messy :P Inspiration from hanging tables and hanging gardens.
I love me some gentle ambient lighting too. This is the creative place where I do most of my work. :)
I don’t actually physically touch the laptop to the top left, as I use a piece of software called Input Director, which lets me control the mouse and keyboard of another machine - and makes it feel like it’s a second screen as you transition the mouse off the side of a screen. Useful for breathing life into old laptops! That laptop is my todo list, mainly. :P
Hello little guy. He landed on my shoulder when I was watering the garden - it almost appears to be looking curiously at the camera.
So cute I had to share it :)
(Feed Your Inner Gardener: Praying Mantis are general insect predators, so they’re not bad to have around in the garden! Not harmful to humans, and will only bite if provoked. Most species don’t have venom so it might just hurt but that’s about it.)
Haven’t done art like this in ages! There was a Wakfu Kwismas Event on, with a fan art contest, so I ended up doing this for my entry. :) Was fun!
I’ve come to enjoy seeing the quirky world of Wakfu, and have particularly enjoyed the Enutrof class in the online game - mainly for it’s theme around Kamas (the currency in that world).
Happy Kwismas!
Another asset for the stream, for when I’m taking a break on the stream. :) This was also animated on the stream (www.twitch.tv/robustkite), Hopefully there will be more streaming to come!
Given my seasonal schedule, this summer has given me a bit of an opportunity to be creative and do some art.
This is an asset for my stream - I’ll be most likely casually streaming at first, but feel free to follow me at www.twitch.tv/robustkite if you’d like to hang out and chill. :)
Haven’t done some 2D animation in ages. This was a little random fun. :)
For anyone that's curious, Here's an idea of how my eyes see without my glasses. Tried some Photoshopping to get something accurate. Visualisation simulators don't quite get it right -- I get some odd ghosting with my vision that the simulators can't do.
As of tomorrow though, I will be getting laser eye surgery (PRK). This I've been gradually planning for over probably almost a decade. Hopefully it will work out!
A small background asset for a friend. Finally getting a bit of time to get some creativity out!
Hello! It's been a busy few months for me, and I haven't had much chance to work on anything of my own since teaching has been pretty full on.However more recently I put aside a few hours a week to try and start up a little particle simulator - and to do quick builds/tests, I ended up having it render in the console - surprisingly it doesn't look too bad haha.Hopefully I will be able to get onto some more of my own stuff so I can post here more often!
A Greening Thumb for Health
One of the things that has come up in the last few years regarding my health has been my dropping Vitamin D levels. This year it has plummeted to as low as I’ve had - and supplements don’t seem to do enough.
So I decided to try my hand at gardening this past year and a bit - and there have been vast improvements in my Vit D levels, fortunately. :)
This is how it looks after one year (This area used to have zero green, since it’s just all bricks)
It’s been an interesting journey. The first things I had planted were mainly culinary herbs, such as Vietnamese Mint, Spring Onion, Peppermint and Spearmint, and they survived the winter of 2016, and I got to see some bloom in spring, along with some stuff like Dillweed.
Spring onion flowers look so interesting! I managed to gather seeds too - I wonder if they would germinate...
Dill flowers are also super interesting, like little explosions of fireworks! Had the fortune of seeing a Hoverfly too. :)
(Feed Your Inner Gardener: Some hoverflies are beneficial insects for gardeners, as their larvae feed on other unwanted garden pests such as aphids.)
Want to know how things are this summer? Read On.
My Toshiba M780 laptop was having issues with its speakers - they were making 1) a high pitch sound, and 2) some static. I have 2 of these, and the older one’s audio basically died a while back so I had unplugged its speakers. For the second one, I just added a hardware switch to turn them off at will. Looks like it worked, although the only reasonable way to listen to the laptop now is either Bluetooth or a USB sound card.
Made a bunch of background images for the phones around the house. Fun lil logos for each of the people in each room. :D
A more in depth post on how I managed to get a basic intercom system with these Cisco Phones can be found here.
Setting up a SIP intercom system with Cisco 79xx Phones
So a while ago I purchased some old Cisco IP Phones from an office that was clearing out its old stuff. I was interested in setting up some phones around the house as a kind of internal intercom system. After a week of fiddling and finding out whatever info I could about the models I had my hands on (7941, 7942, and 7962), I finally have them calling each other and working with FreeSWITCH.
I also managed to get images appearing on the screen too! Nifty! Other images I put together for other phones can be found here.
Another great thing is it also breathed some life into my old android phone too - it’s now a wireless intercom, using CSipSimple. Combined with an audio loopback on my PC, I can stream my desktop’s audio straight to a conference call using MicroSIP - now I can afk and still be listening to podcasts, talks, etc...
I certainly learned new skills, and a little about how this phone stuff works!
(Feed Your Inner Techician: For more info on some things I learned in setting this all up, read on below)
I had a few people ask for a wallpaper version of the render in my previous post about my first steps in blender - and I realized that text posts with images automatically resize the image to only have a width of 500px. So here’s a higher res version (Thanks @jackw-gamedesign for giving me info on this).
It looks like the higher res version only goes up to 1280x720 here. So if you’d like to get a 1920x1080 version, you can get it here.
Blender: First Steps
So I’d wanted to get into Blender since quite a few years ago. Previously when I tried getting into it, the interface was daunting. Add to the fact that I first learned 3ds Max at the start of 2006 – With over a decade of having a 3D program become so ‘second nature’, it meant there were some hefty obstacles to overcome when switching to another suite of tools.
Mainly, I’m curious to have this as part of my pipeline for my game I’m fleshing out, as a free alternative to 3ds Max. So this is my research/development - like making a proof of concept, but with tools/pipelines instead of concepts/ideas.
The Result
So here’s my first final render from Blender, with a touch of Photoshop to push the contrast and colours up for a more ‘cartoony’ finish.
Needless to say, I’m very happy with what I learned and how it turned out. :)
(Feed Your Inner Artist: For those interested in the approach I took, and the order of things I tried to do stuff, read on below.)
Hello World
Hello!
This will be a place where I will be posting some of the things I dabble in, which ranges things like games development stuff (such as 2D/3D animation, music, programming? anything related really), through to gardening, other art stuff, and any other creative stuff which might be interesting to share.
I’m curious about a lot of things, so there will probably be tangents other stuff posted here too. We’ll see how things roll out :) Eventually I’ll probably sort links out into categories, etc... though first I will need to figure out how to use tumblr :P
The Three T’s - Places to Follow Me
RobustKite -> Tumblr will be where you’ll see me posting more in-depth stuff, since a post can have lots of content in it.
@robustkite -> Twitter is where I’ll have smaller, more frequent little posts, with probably more WIPs (Work in Progress stuff) and behind the scenes tweets.
RobustKite -> Twitch is the place where occasionally I’d stream the stuff I’m working on.
(Feed Your Inner Coder: -> is used for pointing to objects in C++)
For a peek into some current stuff as of this post, read on below.