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Well, it’s the Saturday after Thanksgiving, and, as usual, my family is celebrating the holiday on a completely different day. I guess we’re not much for tradition.

I took a nice break from working after my finals week from hell (ie: I slept a LOT). Overall, I’m pretty happy with the way my MEL scripting final turned out. After everything was said and done, I ended up with a working lighting toolkit that I feel is very useful and easily expandable. I plan on uploading the scripts to my site after I write up some short documentation. I’ll also need to trim down the demo video (it’s around 9 minutes long).

As far as my Renderman II final went… well, it wasn’t much to look at. I guess that’s what comes from proposing a final that doesn’t actually have a set final produce . It sounds kinda cheesy to say “But I learned a lot!” but it’s true. I learned a great deal about the interaction of light-shaders and surface-shaders and this interaction’s possible application in non-photorealistic rendering. I still need to do a write-up on this project… but it’s coming.

My Photorealistic Rendering class went pretty well. However, there is still a lot of work I think needs to be done before I would think any of these projects are reel-ready.

Anyway, Happy belated Thanksgiving!

-Dorien