Robot Dinosaurs..

..that shoot lasers when they roar.

Seriously, it doesn't get much better than this.

Play to the end, there's only one level and the outro is more than worth it.

Disco Robot Teleporter

The coursework specification for my Computer Animation module reads:

"Model and animate something you believe will exist in 2050"

Could you ask for anything better?

I combined three of my favourite words, a lot of spotlights and various other fun effects into the following:

Disco Robot Teleporter


There was a proper disco dancefloor underneath all that at one point, you can see an awful quality initial preview of it here - I'm not sure where that went in the final rendering, but as it took a day to render what I have, I'm not going to bother re-doing it.

Also, here's what the teleporter originally looked like - I couldn't get the fancy particles into the final rendering either:



Enjoy.
Xx

PS: I made it all in Blender, and it's a Blender Render. Grab me if you want more techie details.

Facebook's grammar tragedy

On one of my many procrastination breaks whilst my animation coursework was rendering (more on that later) I decided to stretch to the height of sociability and walk into my housemate's room.


_{Yes, I have the t-shirt}

It was there I saw this absolute travesty:



I think it's actually even worse to make an effort, and completely fail, than to simply not bother trying to use decent English in the first place. How long do you reckon it'll take the (American) Facebook team to notice?

Disney's Copy & Paste

You'll never watch some of your favourite Disney films the same way again :)




This video's been floating around the Internet for a few weeks now, I'm sure it could be improved upon - there's definitely some Bedknobs & Broomsticks and Little Mermaid scenes that seem a bit dodgy to me too.

An hour and a half ago I went out to get milk

I love Easter.



If you think that's good, wait 'till you see what I'm going to make next week:



And for the rest of you students out there - clicky click for a full recipe and instructions for your own full-sized creme egg. 2.25kg and 10000 calories! Seems a lot healthier than I expected to be honest.

Xx

Graze

Some vegetarians over on Twitter have been chatting away about a trendy new business called Graze (wonder how much that URL cost them) - that delivers a selection of healthy treats to your home/office at a lunchtime of your choosing. One of them was generous enough to post a free-trial promo code.

I've no idea if that code's still valid it's not, but WFF141C is, but it worked for me and today my very own delivery arrived:


<sub>More exciting than my usual post.


Beautifully presented, and some of the stuff keeps for ages..


The seaweed peanut crackers. I'm still unsure as to what these are...gorgeous though.</sub>

All the literature and packaging is charming and eco-friendly, as with every health-food service since Innocent came along (and, many will claim, before those Cool Guys too).

To get started, you simply tell Graze what kind of things you like, and then go on to rate a range of their foods with 'Love', 'Like', 'I'll try it' or 'Never send this' - schedule a delivery and enjoy!

The website's an absolute pleasure to use, there's a lot of fun to be had from the surprise of opening your box and finding what's inside and the food is absolutely gorgeous. I'm still debating whether or not it's quite worth the usual price tag of £2.99 (even with delivery included), and I'm also unsure it's quite enough for a full lunch, especially for a carnivore like me.

Still though, give it a go - I have some other promo codes if the one above doesn't work (and I like you), and let me know what you think.

:)