... but I digress ...
2023-12-15
Luxo Jr.
I went to my first Siggraph in 1987. There was a panel on animation and one of the panelists was a young man who had made a CGI short about a lamp that plays ball with his son.
Siblings
Supposedly if you show people a picture of something cute before you give a talk they will like your talk better. I tried this at GDC one year. Sadly it's hard to tell if it improved my scores. These were the siblings from the litter where we got our dog.
Amazing forest fire from 2007
This is a screenshot from Eye of the North - a Guild Wars expansion.
I wish I had a gif to show you. I don't know who did this environment art but it pushed the engine in a really beautiful way.
Grand Piano
Not sure how I took this. I'm going to guess I took it from the Microsoft offices that are (were?) at Lincoln Center North.
Azurik visits Disneyland California Adventure
The Azurik game was made in 2000 / 2001 and reasonable quality 3D models for games were a new thing (Azurik was an Xbox launch title and the Xbox was better than anything in terms of CPU and graphics at the time.)
It occurred to me that we could pose Azurik anyway we wanted and photoshop him into things. Here's one of my favorites by Priscilla P: