Author: Rob
Clean up URL’s with .htaccess
Many websites work with either “www.mysite.com” or “mysite.com”. Google doesn’t like that since it looks like two sites–sometimes they might penalize you for it. From their guidelines page: Don’t create multiple pages, subdomains, or domains with substantially duplicate content. Here’s an excerpt from my .htaccess file that rewrites the URLs without the “www.” to include…
Sir Howard Stringer
I met [Sir Howard Stringer](http://www.sony.com/SCA/bios/stringer.shtml) for the first time today. I think I was introduced to him as “the guy with the largest brain you’ll ever meet”. It was meant as a compliment. After an introduction like that you want to try to say something clever. Nothing came to mind.
Cortes Bank
One of the most amazing experiences of my life was visiting Cortes bank with professional surfers Carlos Burle and Jamie Sterling and Producer/Cinematographer J.P. Beeghly:
Convert a 3d point to 2d Screen Space in Maya
Very often you want to find the 2d coordinates on the screen for a given 3d point. Here’s a little mel script that knows the projection math and takes care of generating the data in a “raw channel text file” format. From here, it’s easy to generate just about any ascii file format that a…
Megiddo – The Destruction of the Colliseum
!@(projects/megiddo/maquette.jpg:L popimg: “Colliseum Maquette”) It started as a line in the script: INSERT [PARIS] A comet races towards the earth and destroys the Eiffel Tower. After doing some initial storyboarding and planning I presented an alternative to the director and producers. The Eiffel Tower (along with all of Paris) had been suitably destroyed in Armageddon…
Stuart Little – FX
!@(projects/misc/stu-tub-face.jpg popimg: “Stuart in a Washing Machine”)The evolution of the first Stuart Little film was a very interesting process to watch as we created the star of the film to fill the empty mostly photographic plates. This was one of the very first times a CG character held a major role in a film so…
