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New teaser out for the game we’re currently working on.
Check it out:
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Teaser Trailer for “Ratchet & Clank Future: A Crack in Time”
Published 2 years, 9 months ago in Electronic Gaming. 0 Comments
Tags: Insomniac GamesCurrent Mood: Cool
Got them all sorted finally, and picked out the ones I liked the most.
Check them out in the Bahamas gallery on my photos page here.
Tags: Bahamas, Coco Cay, Insomniac Games, NassauOkay, okay. So a few months back (make that 5) I posted the Pregnant Pumpkin Belly pictures, and people were like “hey, dude…where’s the baby?”
So here he is:
Evan Andric Gazewood was born on November 29th, 2008. He is a Giant Baby, and at the age of 3 months was wearing clothes for 9 month old chilluns. We call him the “Bobblehead Buddha” because he likes waggling his head around sometimes.
We are happy to report there are no signs of pumpkin paint on his headbone.
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Happy
The company I work for, Insomniac Games, just celebrated their 15 year anniversary. They took the company on a cruise to the Bahamas. I just got back today, and had a great time. We went to CocoCay Island the first day and did some snorkeling…saw lots of cool fish and some rays, then walked around the island taking pics and just soaking up the warmth. (It was about 30 degrees when we left Elko, so the weather was a nice change!). Next day was Nassau. We wanted to avoid the more touristy spots, so just walked around on the back streets to see how people lived there in the city and what it was like. Jackie had no interest in seeing Atlantis since it’s about the most touristy thing you can do there, but I got curious about an hour before the cruise ship left Nassau, so we split up and I grabbed a cab to go there and get a few pictures before we left.
After the cruise, I continued with my wife Jackie and son Casey for a few days in Southern Florida to check out a couple of the parks there. We saw Biscayne National Park, Everglades National Park, and then cut across Florida to Naples on the Gulf coast side of the state to see the Corkscrew Swamp Sanctuary. We then met up with my sister Toni and her husband Bill, and stayed a night with them in Venice Florida. Also got to visit with my nephew Tony, who I hadn’t seen for years. Then we checked out the awesome Marie Selby Botanical Gardens.
The parks were great. We saw alligators, all kinds of herons, egrets, lizards, turtles, and lots of wild trees, bromeliads, ferns, air plants, and unusual flowers. It was a real whirlwind of a trip and like most vacations was over too soon.
Then it was back to Ft. Lauderdale and the return flight. I took a boatload of photos, and will need to go through them and exercise my delete key to get rid of the crap and whittle it down to my favorites.
Will post photos soon! 
Bruce Branit’s Video: “World Builder”
Published 2 years, 11 months ago in 3D Graphics and Cool Computer Stuff. 0 CommentsSomebody at work posted a link to this video, and I think it’s pretty awesome.
World Builder from Bruce Branit on Vimeo.
The live action was shot in a day, and then about 2 years was spent in post production. (!)
Branit is the owner of Branit VFX based in Kansas City.
Just finished a new piece for my Science Fiction gallery. This one is called “Bitter Reconnaissance”.
The story behind the image:
My wife was coming home one night in a nasty blizzard and made it almost all the way home, but got the Jeep stuck in some snowdrifts that had blown across the road near our house. As we headed out with shovels to dig it out, the headlights in the blowing snow looked surreal…I decided to do an image based on that scene. Later, I had dropped my son off for a Boy Scouts camp and they had used snowmobiles to get the equipment back to the campground, so I took pictures of snowmobile details and worked those in too.
This was modeled and rendered in Cinema 4D, with post work and overpainting in Photoshop.
It was a fun piece to put together.
Tags: My ArtworkI’ve been slacking about doing the upgrade from WordPress 2.2 to 2.7.1 for this blog, but finally dove in.
Looks like there have been a lot of improvements, so I need to dig through the release notes to see what’s changed. The upgrade went fairly well, but I’m noticing something strange where all the embedded images are using the same comment I made from a more recent post.
Hopefully that will sort itself out. Looks like a good upgrade overall though.
Tags: Blogging, WordpressSo my daughter is a Halloween freak, and also happens to be about 8 1/2 months pregnant. She decided that I should paint her belly to look like a pumpkin, so she could lay in some leaves and we could take “pumpkin” pictures. Go figure.
So the family headed out for what is probably our last picnic for the season…once the snow starts, you can’t get up into Lamoille Canyon without snowmobiles.
Click the image below for pics…(then hover your cursor over the right side of the pic to advance.)
We used acrylic paint, which I heard peels off pretty easily afterward. So there you have it! 
Today Casey and I volunteered for National Public Lands Day, and helped out at Lamoille Canyon.
About 20-30 volunteers showed up this morning, and we broke up into groups. One group did fence repair, one applied wood preservative to some new wooden bridges, one group cleaned up all the trash around the campgrounds that are used the most, and the group that Casey and I went with were doing trail work.
Casey used loppers to trim brush from near the trail:
And I used an axe/pick to clean out “water bars” on the trail:
Water bars are the rows of rock that are put in place across the trail to help get the water across it as quickly as possible, to minimize the damage that would otherwise be done from runoff:
About five of us walked up the 2 mile trail, cleaning out and reshaping them as we went.
It was a beautiful morning! The aspen leaves are just starting to turn yellow/gold:
And at the top of the trail we got to see the lake:
And then we get fed. Woot!
It was a great way to spend a Saturday morning. We were surprised at how many hikers we passed as we headed back down, it’s good to see it’s a popular trail.
From the National Public Lands Day web site:
“National Public Lands Day began in 1994 with three federal agencies and 700 volunteers. Last year 110,000 volunteers worked in 1,300 locations and in every state. Now, 8 federal agencies and many state and local lands participate in this annual day of caring for shared lands.
National Public Lands Day keeps the promise of the Civilian Conservation Corps, the “tree army” that worked from 1933-42 to preserve and protect America’s natural heritage”
Learn more about National Public Lands Day here.
Wikipedia entry for Lamoille Canyon here.
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