Few days ago I went for a presentation about an up-coming local film “Your Grandfather’s Road“.

Few days later, an old lady died, and the funeral was carried out in-front of her house.

2/3 of the road had been reserved for her family, indeed “your grandmother’s road”.

May you rest in peace.

Nice music video by 盧廣仲.

However, starting from around 1:54 you’ll see some artifacts like these:

TRANSPARENT HEADS!!!!!

Looks like green-screen error to me. Not sure though.

Is this editor’s problem or the footage provider’s responsibility??

Previously I mentioned about the manipulators being successfully rendered in-front of everything else but then the problem came: visually it looks like it is in-front of the house, but technically it is still actually hidden inside the house model.

There are quite a lot of people helped me out with this issue, one of which telling me to set bitmask parameter in getSceneNodeFromRayBB() function but I’ve tried that and I don’t know why it doesn’t work, maybe I did something wrong with that method.

Then I tried the second option which is using

intersectsWithLine  ( const vector3d< T > &  linemiddle, const vector3d< T > &  linevect, T  halflength)   const [inline]

and that works out pretty well!

What I did was I manually cast a ray 2 times from the camera, which the first one detects the existence of the manipulators, and if it doesn’t, cast the second ray to detect existence of a 3d object which exists and is under the cursor.

This is surely mad, but you get the satisfaction when you have reached the goal.

Today I woke up soooo early in the morning, felt extremely energetic yet had no intention to touch any of my assignments, therefore I decided to play with something else that are more fun and exciting. What else other than toying around with the new Blender 2.5.1?

Holy carp, the brand-new interface!! It means that I have to re-learn some of the stuff from scratch. T_T

Anyway, the interface, in my opinion, has became more and more user-friendly/beginner-friendly since version 2.5 Alpha 0.

One of the highlights of Blender 2.5 is of course the… SMOKE SIMULATION!

I did some simple test on this and it looks freaking awesome!!

However since Blender 2.5 is still in Alpha stage it has quite a few bugs and sometime crashes itself especially when I press the render button.

Very short and simple video that I made with friends. Enjoy.

Go clubbing once in a while isn’t really a bad thing afterall.

For me, “once in a while” means very very long time haha.

The last time I went to a pub was… last year.

Anyway, happy birthday to Angie!

We were assigned to take some test shots in-front of the green screen and take it to class for keying job. Since it was not possible to book the photography room at that time so I decided to go wild and make my own, cheap green screen!

Early in the morning I went to Jusco to search for materials. I thought I would need some kick-ass lighting equipments but I found out that it ain’t cheap. This is still not as ass-kicking enough, but the price is barely afordable at my current financial situation:

However I went for this little hand-held fluorecent lamp that costed me only RM40, which is quite okay.

At first I wanted to buy green cloth but the one I saw was RM60… *sigh* maybe next time, so eventually I bought some green papers and a roll of green tape at RM11 in total. Incredibly cheap.

I also bought a pair of gloves and some toy guns for later use:

“Illegal” stuff!! xD

C.Hau, Jz and I set up this little low-cost green screen in less than half an hour:

Here comes the actor! (me) XD

I wish I had better camera for this because I was using my cheap digital camera that can only support up to 640 x 480 resolution which is not sufficiant even for PAL DV1 format which is 720 x 576. Scalling up the video footage will make it look more awful but there wasn’t any better choice for us.

However, I believe that you don’t actually need high budget to get high quality…

…but if you do, you will get EXTREMELY good quality!! Damn. T.T

I don’t know why but many people (who aren’t very close to me) thought the male actor was me. No, it’s not me!

I’m the one at the left!:

Big difference ok? Big difference. I’m more innocent-looking. XD

*cough* Anyway as I said before, I only appeared in the movie for 6 seconds, 6 seconds!

*jeng jeng jeng*

Answer revealed:

1 second…

5 seconds…

DAMN SAD!!!! T.T

Finally our film is released!!!! Although I admit, there are tons of mistakes in this film, but it’s a good experience for us. And heyy this is our very first time in making film! Enjoy:

Oh by the way, it seems that the video has been blocked in Germany… not that I’m racist or something but it’s Youtube’s problem.

Dear leezhieng,

Your video, Loving • Apart, may have content that is owned or licensed by Sony Music Entertainment.

No action is required on your part; however, if you are interested in learning how this affects your video, please visit the Content ID Matches section of your account for more information.

As a result, your video is blocked in these locations:
Germany

Sincerely,
- The YouTube Team

*Sigh*~~

Anyway, those who are from Germany and not able to watch it through Youtube, you can watch this one, which I uploaded to Facebook. See, I don’t disappoint you!

By the way the male actor (is not me, but looks rather similar lol) is a Sarawakian, too.
Another thing is… I’M ALSO APPEAR IN THE MOVIE!! Spot carefully, which part has me?!