Brian Metzger Animation

A view from just down the trail off the peak.  Taken in May of 2010.

Testing out my new Flash and QTVR capabilities. Don’t forget to zoom with the scroll-wheel!

Messed with the L-system in C4D tonight.  Get’s to be a lot more fun once you have a little practice with it.  Came up with this crazy flower like structure.

This probably won’t help anyone interested in learning more about the L-system, but if you want to paste it in or try to read though it ( fun game! ) here’s the commands.

Premise: FFFFFF

Rules: F= ++F++F[-F[+++F++F]F[--F--F[+F[++F++F++F]-F-F[--F--F--F]-F-F-F-F-F-F-F-F-F-F]–F–F–F–F–F]+F++F++F]

Growth: 2           Default Angle: 15deg

I say pasting the code in here won’t help much because for me, the process so far is very progressive.  The nesting can get pretty deep and it’s easy to loose your place.  Can be tricky to find a different location on another branch on a really complex layout.  I’ve found so far it is best to work your way back down and up the branches in the code, matching it to the branches in the visual representation.  Helped me from getting lost at least!  The one below ended up with a pretty long string. 

This lonely tree must be in Minnesota somewhere.  Well maybe not, it doesn’t have any snow or ice on it, or look halfway blown over.  

Another creation, entitled “wired turtle”.

Set up a quick demo for someone using moGraph, ended up looking sorta like light brights!  Really should have tweaked the timing of the effect some but got lazy tonight after a long day of geeking out.

Just messing with some moGraph tonight… and trying to be as cool as the president.

http://bubbanear.blogspot.com/2008/11/re-birth-of-cool.html

My first attempt at rendering thinking particles in cinema 4d with the hair module.  A cool technique mentioned on cgTalk that I had to give a try.  And it starts with a short dynamic title animation I had worked on with moGraph 2 but never had gotten around to rendering.