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Tuesday, Aug 12, 2008 - 23:53 SGT
Posted By: Gilbert

Model Days

Manchester United retain the Community Shield, the Beijing Olympics are here (with Singapore's medal hopes once again resting squarely on the table tennis players' shoulders) and the EPL season is rebooting - what's not to like? Even got LSM1301 General Biology for a measly single General Account point. Today's introductionary lecture covered the scientific method, and according to the syllabus evolution will be taught. Hmmm, I wonder what comes out on top when there's a clash of convictions?

Caught Money No Enough 2 with a few of the guys on Monday. There were the usual gags we've all come to expect of Jack Neo, and passable (if somewhat less than totally realistic) computer graphics, but the plot was a bit too contrived and melodramatic for my taste. For example (Spoiler warning): When a character is of the O- blood type (which happens only to be able to receive O- blood), offspring with the correct blood type will happen to have a medical condition making it impossible for him to donate. Furthermore, that offspring's wife with the same blood type (slightly improbable since only about one or two in a thousand Chinese have that type) will happen also have another disqualifying medical condition. Oh, and would you know it, their daughter will get into a serious car accident and require a transfusion at exactly the same time!

It was frustratingly hard to find the casting details, such as the name of the old lady who acted as the main characters' mother (and put in quite a good showing). Even the official site only mentions the main stars (the Funny Trinity of Neo, Mark Lee and Henry Thia) and no-one else, though in my opinion there were quite a few others with similar impact. Kinda hard to get a career boost like that.

Being a Computing major gives a whole new perspective on CG effects, as there's a tendency to try and figure out how they were achieved, as most people do during a magic performance. The end-of-film outtakes included a rendering with the title Crystal CG, which I thought was the software used, but as it turns out likely refers to a digital media design company. Oh well.

On this note, I believe I have yet to reveal the very rough 3D model of my artillery unit's self-propelled howitzer that I created circa 2003, when I had nothing better to do. Only photo references used, in trueSpace 4. Fun times:



High point of today's Game Development lecture was towards the end, when the Spore Creature Creator was demo-ed. Supposedly Spore (and SimCity) creator Will Wright will be at the Mandai Zoo tomorrow. If I didn't have more lectures, I might have been tempted to go down.



I even printed all available notes and readings - how's that for the Organized trait (Civic upkeep reduced 50%, double production speed of Lighthouse and Courthouse)? Darn, I've got to unaddict myself from Civilization IV.



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