Yesterday I was doing some work over at Red Cartel, as part of it I coded a new network render submission script for Blender 2.5 to Autodesk Backburner – the default queue manager that comes with Max and Maya. I’d previously already made a similar exporter for Blender 2.4 which has been in use there for a while, allowing managing and prioritising Blender jobs alongside Max/vray jobs on the same farm.

I’ve packaged it up as a Blender 2.5 addon, it might be useful to any of you wanting to render Blender jobs in an Autodesk-centric environment. Get it here: http://mke3.net/projects/bpy/render_backburner.py

powerhouse, cockatoo island
lack of colour from underdeveloping seems to suit this

cockatoo island, biennale of sydney 2010

near brunswick st, mebourne
developed with naniwa color kit n

in camperdown
developed with naniwa color kit n

• just saw my first lunar eclipse over sydney (right now, clear sky)! #
• wow! this was alluded to in the ponyo bluray features RT @CGHUB: Another World – Studio Ghibli Video Game http://bit.ly/8XgEqF #
• was never a huge fan of first ones, but toy story 3 was brilliant. go totoro!! #
• trying to get Drobo FS to join existing wireless network via macbook pro ethernet port – any mac/networking experts have hints? #
• @joojy i know, but in practice ppl do vote depending on the leader presented to them, i just wish the choice was ours, regardless of result in reply to joojy #
• i'll be disappointed if australia's first female PM is voted in by the labor party back room, and not by the people of australia #
• final verdict: palace academy cinema to close :( Got tickets on the final night for one last screening http://bit.ly/dqLXVs #
• wtf, nsw government to turn moore park into car spaces?? say it aint so http://bit.ly/c3A0Ru #
• spams and scams coming through the portal http://bit.ly/cGwx0H #nocleanfeed #facepalm #

• wow, what was with those german coaches wearing little black cardigans? #worldcup #notverymacho #
• no way, palace academy twin, one of sydney's oldest cinemas, to close down?? :( http://bit.ly/a80YhO #saveacademytwin #
• an old character illustration of ours in the new york times. for all the wrong reasons… :/ http://nyti.ms/9rCEuN #
• @BenSimonds most likely ffmpeg related. Any weird output dimensions? Sometimes those only like even height/widths etc in reply to BenSimonds #
• Garage band practising their distortion/feedback next door #
• @andrewpprice thanks. it was a short holiday, yeah in reply to andrewpprice #

christchurch art gallery

Janet Laurence
A Medicinal Garden for Ailing Plants
installation, royal botanic gardens, biennale of sydney 2010

Janet Laurence
A Medicinal Garden for Ailing Plants
installation, royal botanic gardens, biennale of sydney 2010

• @effstops my personal rule is to only add people on facebook who i've actually met in real life in reply to effstops #
• Winterbottom's 'the killer inside me' was confronting, but ultimately shallow and lacking in substance #sydfilmfest #
• @monsterjavaguns as far as I know that second issue has always been there in reply to monsterjavaguns #
• @monsterjavaguns bake/playback doesn't clear existing smoke when reaching endframe and looping, leaving smoke still in domain… etc in reply to monsterjavaguns #
• @monsterjavaguns baking highres fft doesn't seem to work at all, scrubbing timeline overwrites it. in reply to monsterjavaguns #
• wow, blender's smoke sim still has some serious issues… #
• @wavecaster but is it available in an oss-compatible format? in reply to wavecaster #
• it's gonna be a long weekend, and not in the good sense… #
• @monsterjavaguns check it out: http://bit.ly/9u4EG0 in reply to monsterjavaguns #
• got particle hairs working in 3delight http://bit.ly/cIvcTO #
• @joojy http://bit.ly/cOsOSb #
• Deus Ex e3 trailer: http://bit.ly/9TmHlF wow. love the silky highlights #
• by Reinhard himself // RT @petapixel: An argument that the "awful look" of most HDR photos is avoidable: http://j.mp/bWEBiW #
• @youngausskeptic $450?? sheesh :/ in reply to youngausskeptic #

• lets see if platinum imaging in paddington will do a better job of processing 120 slide film… #
• @jimmac yah, possible- i don't mind though if it's a bit jarring at the start, it at least gets attention :) maybe if time later on (hah!) in reply to jimmac #
• Reworked blender's non-intrusive report notifications (fun) http://bit.ly/bwVkfH #
• Wednesday night out, architecture talk at UTS followed by horror flick 'Possessed' at #sydfilmfest ! #
• @BadAstronomer pic here: http://bit.ly/bdwgUd in reply to BadAstronomer #
• @francoisgfx that's not to say such a thing is out of the question forever, but many considerations involved in reply to francoisgfx #
• @francoisgfx re openSL, it was never on blender roadmap, nor any language. priority post-durian afaik is get new node shading system working in reply to francoisgfx #
• @francoisgfx it's just a text file, and you can compile it with an operator that spawns the command line shader compiler – pretty simple in reply to francoisgfx #

• one my my favourite souvenirs from japan – 16mm filmstrips from ghibli museum: http://bit.ly/ddY5mw #
• added progress indicators for multithreaded jobs http://bit.ly/bo3krp #
• @Tristan3d rockin! in reply to Tristan3d #
• @Tristan3d do you prefer working that way, or with multires? in reply to Tristan3d #
• @kat_lu no side effects, nor any other effects either #
• just back from 2 nights in NZ. good to catch up with family, but too quick #

One of my favourite souvenirs from japan – cuts of actual 16mm filmstrips from the ghibli museum in mitaka. In this collection: spirited away, ponyo, and howl’s moving castle.
(check full size on flickr!)

Finally after a long time sorting scanning and cleaning, I’ve finished putting up my shots from Japan. The full set is here.

• 16bit/32bit TIFF support in blender: http://bit.ly/aLu0yI #
• ABC News: Ninjas to the rescue as thugs pick wrong alley http://bit.ly/be4dF8 #
• hah http://bit.ly/9Pj0cd RT @Tristan3d: LMAO at this thread at cgtalk. http://bit.ly/9Z1IhW sorry London but your Olympics will suck balls #
• poking around in libTIFF… #
• @joojy to wait, or not to wait… in reply to joojy #
• interesting read on the new VP8 code google is pushing, from an x264 developer http://bit.ly/bCq9FE #
• @francoisgfx and no, math node in comp atm is just value/value in reply to francoisgfx #
• @francoisgfx http://bit.ly/9h9vz0 is latest version of that patch, is that what you're looking at? in reply to francoisgfx #
• coolest beer in japan: http://bit.ly/beThAE #
• great looking new fluid paper by Nils Thürey et al. for siggraph 2010 http://bit.ly/as7WC7 #
• @tobysestate do you have any of those Yemen beans at broadway at the moment? #
• scanning first gakkenflex shots! #diy #

ghibli museum, mitaka

national art center, tokyo

• So glad we went to see Hiroshi Sugimoto's keynote address for #biennale of sydney, what a captivating guy #
• That is totally fricken awesome // RT @davidstripinis: Seriously, Just Say No to drugs : http://bit.ly/aW1hOl #
• Just got RT @Wolfire: The Humble Indie Bundle (pay what you want for five awesome indie games) http://bit.ly/9KASXz #
• saw iron man 2 last night, was great fun. getting a bit tired of the oompaloompa orange faces though #
• whoa, surge in flickr activity after my photo is linked on reddit http://bit.ly/d78NVh #
• Saw new bridgestone gecko TVC on during House tonight: http://bit.ly/c27C8t . Was a recent quick job, i did setup/light/physics, blender 2.5 #
• @mattebb i should note that I didn't make this http://bit.ly/9xfWeY (http://bit.ly/bfgfzH), just think it's pertinent. in reply to mattebb #