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Tedillize 2 Stylesheet

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I revamped my normalization CSS stylesheet and I cleaned out all the specialized classes that I had implemented in an effort to make this more universally acceptable. This version is far more streamlined and deals only with the core HTML elements. There is still a lot of opinionated stuff in there, so this probably won’t be for everyone, or anyone other than me for that matter. 🤷‍♂️

I also moved the my specialized functions that I created over to CodePen. Breaking them up into individual projects makes them easier to work with and understand.

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And we have another site redesign

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Picture of the MarchTwenty logo

I went ahead and redid my site for the millionth time, mainly because the original header (hero) was too data heavy, and also not very interesting. Also, I wanted to clean up the look of the site, and improve its mobile presentation as well.

The core of this site is a normalization and base HTML5 stylesheet, as well as a companion JavaScript file with a set of functions that correlate to the added element styles. I sourced these two docs based on information that I had gathered from all over the web, and are easily portable.

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The Mischievous Bears Re-rendering

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The Mischievous Bears Box Art
The Mischievous Bears Box Art

I just completed the High-Definition re-rendering of The Mischievous Bears short animated movie. The process went smoother than I expected it to, considering the assets I was using were 15 years old, and plus, I haven’t really worked with 3ds Max in 10 years or so. It goes to show how little 3ds Max has changed after all of these years.

This is a list of changes made to the original 2003 movie:

  • Rendered in full 16:9 1080p.
  • The bear’s fur is now modeled with 3ds Max’s built in hair and fur plugin.
  • Changes to a few background objects.
  • Improvements to some of the camera motion.
  • Adjustments to some of character animation.
  • Sound effects are slightly altered and new ones included.
  • Inclusion of music, created with GarageBand.
  • Inclusion of the animated M20 logo at the beginning of the movie.
  • Altered camera movement in the opening shot.

Watch it on YouTube or Watch it on Vimeo

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New Renderings with 3ds Max

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Mad Cat Firing
Mad Cat Firing

I recently began playing with 3ds Max again, mainly to see if I can load up some of my old renderings. To my amazement very little has changed with that software in the last 12-ish years since I last worked with it. Suffice to say, I was able to re-render a few of my old favorites and I even made 8×10 prints from them. This whole process has reinvigorated my desire to remaster Mischievous Bears in 4K and fix a few lingering issues I had with the original movie that I made 15 years ago. With computers being significantly better than they were back then, I hope I can get this movie rendered sometime this year.

You can see these final renderings on my Google Photos album.

Update:
And on YouTube as well.

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Raspberry Pi ramblings

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Picture of a Raspberry Pi
My Raspberry Pi 2

Last Spring, when I rebuilt this website, I used a Raspberry Pi on my home network as an internal web server to host the site development. Setting it up for that purpose was fairly easy once I got php/mysql and WordPress installed on it. However, there were a couple of config files that had to be manually modified that required a little research on my part to configure correctly.

Since that project is now completed, and now that I’m currently between projects that would utilize the Pi as a development server, I need to find a good use for it. It’s running Ubuntu Mate and it’s also hooked up to my TV as a display, however, I already have an Apple TV hooked up to the TV for my usual TV-type watching purposes. I may try and set it up as an arcade or console system, similar to the RetroPi.

Overall, the Pi really is a neat little computer.

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