MrPingouin's Igloo

There's a woman at the end of this corridor of the Cathedral of Chartres, she's selling tickets to visit one of the towers of the edifice.

Still this scanner problem, I'm getting mad.

I was in London last week-end. I decided not to take my EOS350d but just the little olympus xa. I didn't find any fujifilm superia x-tra 800 film there, so I had to take only what I found : the same in 400 iso, and a kodak gold 400, very general public (tourist ) films.
The procedure is still the same, scan of brilliant paper prints, auto-levels in CS2 and voilà, I really like the tones it produces.

And here is the optionnal project we had to do, the subject was free, we were free to choose the importance of the work. Actually, it was kind of my main project. I wrote the scenario last summer, and asked to 5 other people in my section if they wanted to work on it.

So here is "Happy Bear's Day", we're six working on it (character designer, settings designer, storyboard, animation, and rendering) it's just a teaser for the moment, here to introduce the universe without telling anything about the story, and the remainder of the animation comes in september 2008.

So if you wanna stay tuned, it's on http://www.happybearsday.com !



And here is the team :

Me : director, scenario, 3d animation
Nicolas Meneteau : character designer
Valeithel : settings designer
Maxime Rousseau : storyboard, 3d animation
Thomas Vervueren : texture/lighting, rendering (website to come soon)
Camelia El Khatiri

So you're some lucky guy (or at least a serious one) and you have two LCD/CRT monitors and a calibration device ? And you do not know how to load different ICC profiles for each monitor ?
Well, it's stupid simple, with the windows control panel, you can't. And neither with the nvidia control panel.

Fortunately, LUT manager does exist, and it's free (well, not gpl-free, but at least money-free).

The main part of the readers won't be concerned by today's post, but I hope it'll help the ones in need

http://www.exactscan.com/lutmanager/

I must admit it : I don't read that much blogs on my.opera.com. There was a time I wandered on the "last blogs" page looking for some fresh air. But there were two problems :

- It seems that almost nobody sets its blog language setting : you can't sort the blogs by language, and that is really annoying. I don't have anything against blogs I can't read, I do sometimes try to understand some of them even if I don't understand any word ! But anyway. Sometimes I wanna read english, spanish, or french, and it's a no-no to find them out.
- There's a lot of things you can find that you don't care about, at all

BUT.

Here are some pages I have in my bookmarks (or I do have them suscribed, or I do know there URL by heart), and I think *you* should have them in your bookmarks too !

For some drawings and bilingual humor, try Pflelep's blog.





For tasty pictures and recipes, try Kirsten's sweet nothings. If as me you can't cook anything without burning the entire kitchen maybe you should avoid this page in fact



For great pictures of everyday's life, from restaurant, to train stations, through museum, stadiums, et caetera, then have a look at Offspring's preposterous chronicle.

Here it is for the moment, have a good journey in their pages !