Category Archives: General

A new year …

  After a long pause a bit of a life sign, but not yet back to CG or blender. I realize that it will take yet some time before I find myself the needed focus to tackle CG related projects … Continue reading

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License update

I have decided to change the license for all content on my site to the less restrictive Creative Commons Attribution license. It makes certain things easier that way …  

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The Return of the Austrian Empire …

… well, not really, but at least one of its icons may start to get more widely used. My model of the Austrian Imperial Crown was used in showcasing a new line of research on realtime raytracing at the Advanced … Continue reading

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Miracles sometimes happen …

… even to me I mentioned in one of my last posts that sometime ago I was contacted by Jack Greasley, Mari product manager, who offered me the possibility to use Mari for Ara’s Tale. It seemed then that somehow … Continue reading

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Summer is ending …

… and so is the ( not entirely voluntary ) break in the development of Ara’s Tale. Real life demands left only small amounts of time for my short, which I invested into finishing the texturing for the entry set … Continue reading

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Had to give Mari a try

I coudn’t resist and downloaded the 15 days trial version of Mari from The Foundry. I did this the day it came out on July 16th and immediately ran into a glitch with their online shop, which their support with … Continue reading

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Site update

I upgraded the site to wordpress 3.0 and took the opportunity to change the theme and give blender minutes a bit of a different look. I hope you like it the new way.

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Ara suffers from H1N1 ( sort of … )

Work on Ara’s Tale has stopped now for almost 3 weeks as I am recovering from H1N1 (swine) flu and, triggered by the flu, still enduring a light pneumonia. So, sadly it will take some time before I can resume … Continue reading

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Website transferred

This site is now transferred and is now hosted at a webhoster in austria. The transfer wasn’t trivial (for me) and I hope I have nothing screwed up. If you encounter any problems, please report them to me.

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Filehoster is entirely unreliable

The continuing incidents with my filehoster boxstr.com force me now to transfer my whole site to a new (professional) webhosting service. I found out today, that the actual files uploaded to boxstr.com are displayed in my dashboard but are actually … Continue reading

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