tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-59789536335804807522024-03-14T09:37:52.862-07:00Tom Sylvan Illustration and AnimationTomhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10815401197984953610noreply@blogger.comBlogger17125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5978953633580480752.post-73320882894315712232020-08-23T14:42:00.000-07:002020-08-23T14:42:03.937-07:00Liquid and Combustion Simulations<p> While 3D computer graphic animations are generally controlled "by hand," meticulously and deliberately planned, 3D simulations are governed more by thoroughly "automatic" forces. Virtually every physical force and substance you can think of, such as wind, gravity, fluids, gases, and combustion, can be simulated mathematically. </p><p>Simulations can be beautiful to look at, done right, but they can still be excruciating to set up, control, and edit, even though the computer does a lot of the work. The software is also always changing, a double-edged sword of ever-evolving interfaces and incrementally easier set-up options.</p><p>The following are a few of my attempts to learn and test liquid and combustion simulations, and to apply them to client projects. </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen='allowfullscreen' webkitallowfullscreen='webkitallowfullscreen' mozallowfullscreen='mozallowfullscreen' width='320' height='266' src='https://www.blogger.com/video.g?token=AD6v5dyo7Yr9lr-rjskespL3_mOszPt0e7h9jzHsQPOOWdYyMGgqYhoPRkoq1uC7B7HCc1Tk-CxWj8HbhgRZicRfDg' class='b-hbp-video b-uploaded' frameborder='0'></iframe></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen='allowfullscreen' webkitallowfullscreen='webkitallowfullscreen' mozallowfullscreen='mozallowfullscreen' width='320' height='266' src='https://www.blogger.com/video.g?token=AD6v5dweJaReJw4coHvFMfphNWr5oRN-T0TZBYZIwTvVhi355nLyguO8GJIOUOO8c623a_XG5cFadd-Iw1R_YkY8EQ' class='b-hbp-video b-uploaded' frameborder='0'></iframe></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen='allowfullscreen' webkitallowfullscreen='webkitallowfullscreen' mozallowfullscreen='mozallowfullscreen' width='320' height='266' src='https://www.blogger.com/video.g?token=AD6v5dwIR6jxOjUV11OLLvlagS-J2eHWsB6sPpNtPybd_21zgearTfpzZYG4lW5MWZ_Fg_TkCM1zOKklnj770R25fg' class='b-hbp-video b-uploaded' frameborder='0'></iframe></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen='allowfullscreen' webkitallowfullscreen='webkitallowfullscreen' mozallowfullscreen='mozallowfullscreen' width='320' height='266' src='https://www.blogger.com/video.g?token=AD6v5dxhPVQgU3G5ySE9wDgQQj_H1CM_KAEVpa8gyxPKC92rGKMhjlEhnkSHac5xkiRb0ojhuynRPjPix1mKX8kyWg' class='b-hbp-video b-uploaded' frameborder='0'></iframe></div><p style="text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen='allowfullscreen' webkitallowfullscreen='webkitallowfullscreen' mozallowfullscreen='mozallowfullscreen' width='320' height='266' src='https://www.blogger.com/video.g?token=AD6v5dy6KnkbPYBfOS0MViwbRUhrYjQDSFXY015mc3O413gnQzEZoZBc0GjMIVodjiIviyEslNw-5FYaFo_EHgA02g' class='b-hbp-video b-uploaded' frameborder='0'></iframe></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen='allowfullscreen' webkitallowfullscreen='webkitallowfullscreen' mozallowfullscreen='mozallowfullscreen' width='320' height='266' src='https://www.blogger.com/video.g?token=AD6v5dxeolYX7svMk1WaS9FuM79V-nMjCn2NY82O86oNDrkFeHHQJRW7Ae_2_5EhWREhyxWZKkRQHF1EPiOUwaXpxg' class='b-hbp-video b-uploaded' frameborder='0'></iframe></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen='allowfullscreen' webkitallowfullscreen='webkitallowfullscreen' mozallowfullscreen='mozallowfullscreen' width='320' height='266' src='https://www.blogger.com/video.g?token=AD6v5dzy76HbCn60bCx5Lb06PvNuryPgGPMamq4qtsd6iZG7FhTwEFvg9cO6ekJcib9fLGP0-1bW3i5gnp-JjQaR3Q' class='b-hbp-video b-uploaded' frameborder='0'></iframe></div><p style="text-align: center;"><br /></p>Tomhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10815401197984953610noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5978953633580480752.post-34272723478999570542020-08-03T10:46:00.000-07:002020-08-03T10:46:05.094-07:00Meditative DrawingsWay back in the twentieth century, even before computer graphics and 3D visualization, I drew a lot using pencils and pens on paper. Most of what I drew was representational (and most of that was science fiction-y), complete with accurate three-dimensional geometries in perspective. Even my doodles were pictorial or geometric. <div><br /></div><div>But there came a day when I scribbled in the margin of a yellow legal pad, effortlessly and unconsciously, and then and there I recognized something new, and something worth exploring. </div><div><br /></div><div>That scrap of legal paper is long gone, but of my later efforts, the drawing below is similar in tone: </div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjjBG2XDHp1FFb5hffzH6T3c5CSKySbgPVyuqEl8gu81gFV32LjsFy8kkVuhLA260vQv98HF6_lByUjlgLqbrdF7VTX4S7b0u5W6ceFptNGENDGeIT_fXQVPmKSuY9iE8SgIcraDsoV2-V5/s1000/tomsylvan_drawing_12b.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="797" data-original-width="1000" height="326" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjjBG2XDHp1FFb5hffzH6T3c5CSKySbgPVyuqEl8gu81gFV32LjsFy8kkVuhLA260vQv98HF6_lByUjlgLqbrdF7VTX4S7b0u5W6ceFptNGENDGeIT_fXQVPmKSuY9iE8SgIcraDsoV2-V5/w410-h326/tomsylvan_drawing_12b.jpg" width="410" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;">This kind of drawing - intuitive, unplanned, abstract, and <i>easy </i>(don't underestimate easy!) - was a radical departure for me. I even had an affection for it, since so many of my other drawings, or the materials I was using, had become especially difficult endeavors. I wanted to protect the integrity of these new drawings (especially from my own scientific inclination) even as I was attempting to identify what it was that needed protecting. Safeguarding the intuitive process led me to think that these were entirely process-oriented efforts, avoiding goal-oriented thinking as antithetical to their success. (Success in my eyes, anyway, which is all that matters here.) While I tried to avoid an excess of aesthetic critique of the outcomes, I also tried to push their evolution by introducing color or constraints of gesture and style. </div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;">The following drawings, while showing a variety of permutations, were all created spontaneously, with no definitive plan, no underlying rough drawing, no tools (such as compass or french curves), and no erasing... </div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">A typical effort in pen:</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjEQttamz2ocBTEGQDXfXL9QE90i_ID9asIxnVkdrS4IpqX7W_21hf-jgtS1EAkFKf0v7OJHJngthXUcI1FtMzCo9JJOX6rdoAe3OoeHTJPhsDOkhtWjTE8dwahlE1rQXxpD8XVSVocVsQF/s1000/tomsylvan_drawing_18b.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="725" data-original-width="1000" height="297" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjEQttamz2ocBTEGQDXfXL9QE90i_ID9asIxnVkdrS4IpqX7W_21hf-jgtS1EAkFKf0v7OJHJngthXUcI1FtMzCo9JJOX6rdoAe3OoeHTJPhsDOkhtWjTE8dwahlE1rQXxpD8XVSVocVsQF/w410-h297/tomsylvan_drawing_18b.jpg" width="410" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Adding markers to the pen:</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhD0kCNp3oCejqO62a6WTurjHyq83g9LRe8CsIvVO3z0DdWriPLLQ0jmi0npMODSOfpWxMaDyHDoNlKOSXdyfvfORNgDqBQD2i8bj-P3wqhSz2ylnR2VmfGMQbP-ytRWFtLlxGAUvpK2Smb/s1000/tomsylvan_drawing_01b.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="720" data-original-width="1000" height="295" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhD0kCNp3oCejqO62a6WTurjHyq83g9LRe8CsIvVO3z0DdWriPLLQ0jmi0npMODSOfpWxMaDyHDoNlKOSXdyfvfORNgDqBQD2i8bj-P3wqhSz2ylnR2VmfGMQbP-ytRWFtLlxGAUvpK2Smb/w410-h295/tomsylvan_drawing_01b.jpg" width="410" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Adding colored markers:</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhQPo1DQWsAhYD2KU-2OTM5kcYJblLM8sJP7nmiLv02cE7huxjc2hyV-zx03nXDMPu7ye9lBto2RuIZF4cygP_Qfo5eG3NMxEVi4ovZIEfvLvXoxiyFqOGTHrXffVJpVMN1ghUs3BiwbQiz/s1000/tomsylvan_drawing_04b.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="686" data-original-width="1000" height="281" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhQPo1DQWsAhYD2KU-2OTM5kcYJblLM8sJP7nmiLv02cE7huxjc2hyV-zx03nXDMPu7ye9lBto2RuIZF4cygP_Qfo5eG3NMxEVi4ovZIEfvLvXoxiyFqOGTHrXffVJpVMN1ghUs3BiwbQiz/w410-h281/tomsylvan_drawing_04b.jpg" width="410" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Constraining the overall shape:</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgWvh76j6h-fJh9YcMI2PNUYQfNfO-gPCCNgou4ycMF2Lc4_b5yJxNsVYyhDCA6uJrJYzKPKG2PmON4sF6cyvgeaQUwqjFnUq8JwpkJC2couFxst2mWh7oxfXygDuRMPRZJXUahUbX4M6VB/s1000/tomsylvan_drawing_05b.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="758" data-original-width="1000" height="310" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgWvh76j6h-fJh9YcMI2PNUYQfNfO-gPCCNgou4ycMF2Lc4_b5yJxNsVYyhDCA6uJrJYzKPKG2PmON4sF6cyvgeaQUwqjFnUq8JwpkJC2couFxst2mWh7oxfXygDuRMPRZJXUahUbX4M6VB/w410-h310/tomsylvan_drawing_05b.jpg" width="410" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Using just pencil:</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjR48KKWFCQq4piWnn4OM8rN5Yo9sQEY4OQOCFCakmzWSWBqft0DiliIsQLzwfeForYIQ0XXoucUxNNV98SObnKD7WXd8JRqly4QVdvt3M3R0BGOSI-qm6S1z8rkuyVFa6DzrsfhRUaXNmc/s1000/tomsylvan_drawing_07b.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="802" data-original-width="1000" height="328" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjR48KKWFCQq4piWnn4OM8rN5Yo9sQEY4OQOCFCakmzWSWBqft0DiliIsQLzwfeForYIQ0XXoucUxNNV98SObnKD7WXd8JRqly4QVdvt3M3R0BGOSI-qm6S1z8rkuyVFa6DzrsfhRUaXNmc/w410-h328/tomsylvan_drawing_07b.jpg" width="410" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Confining the style to sweeping strokes:</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh_Uils0jO3x1LWXEh6u5SIKwxxWfIcrEWR26GPuqh3IIST6oHRqY0ZuGThRjBsZeFEeBbTIKZgMZeGfCgTCDkxoYncS42IpyOeDJ1esjFrjjChHVk9Mst0Za3Jrq3hgD-MsUfIzx1ZJ3RN/s1000/tomsylvan_drawing_09b.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="797" data-original-width="1000" height="326" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh_Uils0jO3x1LWXEh6u5SIKwxxWfIcrEWR26GPuqh3IIST6oHRqY0ZuGThRjBsZeFEeBbTIKZgMZeGfCgTCDkxoYncS42IpyOeDJ1esjFrjjChHVk9Mst0Za3Jrq3hgD-MsUfIzx1ZJ3RN/w410-h326/tomsylvan_drawing_09b.jpg" width="410" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Straying into representational (if stylized) landscape mode:</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj-0vwgeuEVlSwGcSWzYNAhC4atVCBSBu78uOEVxQmjTShxOY3K_twyyLe61K4t-_eAgpB6yak654BgthNgDRqShZPQYTID4gMWryc99ky_6LewEvKUc2RAxLjteaPK-v8ATKFqSMxdMWvK/s1000/tomsylvan_drawing_10b.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="744" data-original-width="1000" height="305" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj-0vwgeuEVlSwGcSWzYNAhC4atVCBSBu78uOEVxQmjTShxOY3K_twyyLe61K4t-_eAgpB6yak654BgthNgDRqShZPQYTID4gMWryc99ky_6LewEvKUc2RAxLjteaPK-v8ATKFqSMxdMWvK/w410-h305/tomsylvan_drawing_10b.jpg" width="410" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Trying broader gestural strokes:</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh1hiGeJLEbSuDkZl46veYBMP2g2Yy-Rq_CINxvHaJK9IkMJ2eGhehH9Mq9aypDz-ofJfMBeUVtYN0E7pb93bFMPW7FezmbEqeeDwDSawIU-S1N_fPZHRuiJjjBdclVNSYleZz7iatrMAmX/s1000/tomsylvan_drawing_19b.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="790" data-original-width="1000" height="324" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh1hiGeJLEbSuDkZl46veYBMP2g2Yy-Rq_CINxvHaJK9IkMJ2eGhehH9Mq9aypDz-ofJfMBeUVtYN0E7pb93bFMPW7FezmbEqeeDwDSawIU-S1N_fPZHRuiJjjBdclVNSYleZz7iatrMAmX/w410-h324/tomsylvan_drawing_19b.jpg" width="410" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Going for a more textured (furry) look:</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhdyZt0nHwgXvzRmdFtBiKs4Sxtf1Siz04Y82esIxFN64KdcwripuuhV-NeKVMIG3zhiPlCaeMBt04UFlm2sp60HHc89xs6cEbp8werJkRgKuiNI_8VPz69yLv_nF2BNOypTyY4dC-GAvld/s1000/tomsylvan_drawing_20b.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="752" data-original-width="1000" height="308" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhdyZt0nHwgXvzRmdFtBiKs4Sxtf1Siz04Y82esIxFN64KdcwripuuhV-NeKVMIG3zhiPlCaeMBt04UFlm2sp60HHc89xs6cEbp8werJkRgKuiNI_8VPz69yLv_nF2BNOypTyY4dC-GAvld/w410-h308/tomsylvan_drawing_20b.jpg" width="410" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div>I consider every single one a success, at least to some degree, both in the process of their execution and in their aesthetic outcome. I have many more drawings, and a lot more drawing to do! </div><div><br /></div><div>See <a href="http://www.tomsylvan.org/">http://www.tomsylvan.org/</a> for more. </div><div><br /></div>Tomhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10815401197984953610noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5978953633580480752.post-88683626880477100902020-07-02T14:10:00.001-07:002020-07-02T14:10:39.223-07:00Dot-Com InterviewsMy biggest motivation in moving to the San Francisco Bay Area shortly before the turn of the century was to find a job using my recently acquired skills (such as they were) in 3D modeling and animation. This was a time when people could make piles of money just by being one of The Few who knew how to use the latest software (like Flash) before a million kids learned how to use it in school. This was the Dot-Com Inflammation, before it became a Bubble and burst. <br />
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If only I knew what I was doing. <br />
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Though I was new to the area, my digital skills were incomplete and untested, and I was Old (my late 30's!), I actually managed to arrange more than a few interviews. Strange interviews. Or with strange companies, or just strange people. <br />
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There was the interview with UBUBU. (You-be-you-be-you? You-boo-boo? I still don't know.) I signed a non-disclosure agreement, but I don't know why, because they didn't tell me a single thing the company was planning to do. Aside from asking me questions, all they told me was that they'd contracted Patrick Stewart to provide his voice for something. I never heard from them again, but I'm not sure anyone else did, either. <br />
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Then there was Eight Cylinders, where they were developing a new super-cool non-traditional immersive browser thingy, and they told me all about it. Nice offices, very few people. Had two really good interviews there, then nothing. <br />
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There were a few game companies, but I didn't play games. Apparently you have to play games to contribute to the making of games. And there was the company that scanned Big Things, like Triceratops fossils, to make digital models. And another company that scanned core samples. <br />
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But of all the companies I interviewed with, the weirdest, the most memorable was Digiscents. They were working on a device that would add smells to the sights and sounds of internet media. No, really! And (no, really) they called it "iSmell" technology. Really. There was a little box with vials of chemicals that would mix together in different proportions according to internet signals to puff out any concocted smell you could think of. What could go wrong? <br />
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Digiscents even gave me a mousepad to remember them by, so you know I'm not lying! <br />
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After two or three years of interviewing, I never did find a job in the Bay Area. But I found temporary gigs, and discovered the world of freelancing, as much as I didn't intend to be a part of it, and the rest is history. Tomhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10815401197984953610noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5978953633580480752.post-36655602006520559742020-06-07T19:25:00.000-07:002020-06-07T19:25:06.375-07:00KarmaI'll let this one speak for itself...<br />
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Tomhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10815401197984953610noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5978953633580480752.post-15579337876664479882020-03-24T13:19:00.000-07:002020-03-24T13:19:50.179-07:00RobotsI can't remember a time when I wasn't aware of robots. It may have started with my fascination with animatronic elves in store windows when my mother took me Christmas shopping. Some of my earliest memories are of black and white images from Japanese TV shows featuring the android <i>Eighth Man</i> and the giant robot <i>Gigantor</i>. <br />
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Sophisticated robots were confined to science fiction in those days, both on the page and on screen, and even then they were mostly pretty crude. But it didn't matter. I remained fascinated by the multitude of ideas inherent in robotics, from the mechanical aspects to the processing of vision, speech, and thought. <br />
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I'm a fan of the robots in <i>Metropolis, Forbidden Planet, The Iron Giant, The Day the Earth Stood Still, Silent Running, Star Wars, Pacific Rim, West World, The Incredibles, THX 1138, The Matrix, Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow,</i> and even <i>Robots</i>, among many other movies. And Isaac Asimov's tales of robots, robotics, and roboticists (but emphatically <i>not </i>their movie derivations) are my favorite stories. <br />
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But what prompted me to start drawing android robots was <i>The Questor Tapes</i>, an obscure 1974 TV movie. This was a Gene Roddenbury series pilot, though creative differences killed the series before it started. Though I've since forgotten most of it (I only saw it that one time), I still remember the scene where the android, late at night and unknown to its human engineers, refines its own appearance from blank mannequin to realistic human. <br />
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For whatever reason, it flipped a switch in me, making me wonder what the insides of an android would look like. How would a machine be constructed to mimic a human's range of motion? I didn't know anything about motors or pneumatics or electromagnets, but I was content to design things that looked like they might mimic the functions of bones and muscles. (I guess I was content to visually mimic things that functionally mimic other things...) Unfortunately, many of my earliest drawings have been lost, but two drawings survive that benefited from about four years of experimentation after <i>The Questor Tapes</i>. <br />
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The first is a pretty typical android design, not especially ingenious or even mechanically functional, but it managed to fit a machine into the shape of a man. The second is a more abstract study, a 3D geometric representation of the human form, and more important to me as an antecedent of my work decades later in 3D modeling and animation. It also illustrates my thinking about robot design slowly evolving into thinking about human design as well. Logically, you have to know how a human works before you can design a mimic of it. <br />
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After that, I was sidetracked for a few years by college and other forms of experimentation, but eventually I resumed drawing bits and pieces of android robots. The human shoulder in particular presented a vexing (but fascinating) engineering challenge. <br />
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So, while I'm not yet done, not by a long shot, and other things have occupied my time, I have a few animations to remind me where I left off. <i>IceBot</i> is a fun little exercise that forced me to learn some new things. And <i>Bad Reflection</i>, another fun idea based on a famous Marx Brothers bit, is not yet done, though I finished a rough draft in 2001 and resumed refining it, if only briefly, in 2011. <br />
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<br />Tomhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10815401197984953610noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5978953633580480752.post-57743948803932997392020-01-02T20:21:00.000-08:002020-01-02T20:21:50.968-08:00Isaac Asimov’s Centennial Birthday!<div class="MsoNormal">
One hundred years ago today, Isaac Asimov was born. (For the record, while he celebrated his birthday on January 2, the actual date is uncertain.) From the day I read my first Asimov science fiction stories, the <i>Nine Tomorrows</i> collection, the direction of my life changed. </div>
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But his storytelling! His ideas! Robopsychology, the Three Laws of Robotics, and psycho-history are only a few of his many inventions, expertly wielded. (He actually invented the term <i>robotics</i>.) I couldn't get enough of his fiction, which led me to his other writing, primarily his science essays, from which I learned some biology, biochemistry, physics, astronomy, and so much more. In comparison, school was <i>so</i> tedious! I was already drawing science fiction, but then I tried my hand at writing science fiction (a writer, I am not, turns out), and finally, over the years I managed to hear Asimov speak (in person!) three times, traveling to different states each time. He was as wonderful a speaker as he was a writer. </div>
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Thinking about it now, I suppose his example has a lot to do with me becoming a generalist in my field. As an illustrator and animator, I've depicted a bizarre diversity of things: toys, syringes, spice racks, humidifiers, packaging, cars and trucks, building construction, product defects, fires, industrial accidents, spinal injuries, jewelry, furnaces, train cars, marina development, breast pumps, explosion prevention technology, and even robots. I like to think that, through me, Asimov even has an influence on my son, who is even now studying robotics in high school - and who has a real talent for robot design. </div>
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The world could use more Isaac Asimovs. I feel privileged to have witnessed the one-and-only! </div>
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Tomhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10815401197984953610noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5978953633580480752.post-19648413958920949082019-12-14T12:01:00.000-08:002019-12-14T12:01:20.749-08:00Polygon HomeBack in 1999, I initially intended <i>Pollie Gone Home</i> to be an exercise in teaching myself more about 3D modeling and animation. I had no intention of producing anything more than a flythrough of the japanese-style treehouse I modeled, itself a blend of my own interests calculated to sustain my attention throughout the uncertainties of the production.<br />
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Once the treehouse was done, though, it begged to be explored by more than a simple flythrough. So, Pollie was born, a little wooden bird as peculiar, in its way, as the elaborate treehouse seemed to be. The story that evolved between them took on a life of its own, in the process forcing me to learn much more than I had anticipated.<br />
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The project took three months to complete, start to finish, including a solid week of rendering. I used 3D Studio Max for every aspect of the modeling and animation, Photoshop for texture editing, and the Iomega Buz VideoWave system to edit the 26 scenes together and output to videotape. <br />
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Just for the heck of it, and being a recent transplant to the San Francisco Bay area, I entered <i>Pollie </i>in the North Bay Multimedia Association's annual competition, and was very surprised to learn I won Best of Show. <br />
<br />Tomhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10815401197984953610noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5978953633580480752.post-18473783316262681472019-11-22T08:30:00.000-08:002019-11-22T08:30:45.295-08:00Just for FunOnce in a while, I find time to model and animate something purely for fun. Years ago, I devised a mechanical Valentine for my son that I thought he'd appreciate. I think he did. <br />
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Tomhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10815401197984953610noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5978953633580480752.post-26828811875407074002019-11-19T20:47:00.000-08:002019-11-19T20:47:49.697-08:00My Signature ImageOn my website <a href="http://www.tomsylvan.com/" target="_blank">homepage </a>I use a rendering of a Lego robotic rover as my signature image. <br />
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The short version of this image’s story is that as part of my first big contract as a freelance animator, I modeled the rover for Lego Mindstorms in Novato, California. Proof of my competence as an artist working for a bona fide client with name recognition. <br />
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The long (but condensed) version of this story reveals a little bit more about what that rover means to me. Way back in the late '90's I decided my career (such as it was) needed a major upgrade. My work as a toy designer was confined to drawing and drafting on paper. After a lot of research and some futile job counseling (they didn't know what to do with me), I saw a newspaper ad for an Autocad drafter that paid $25 an hour. Big bucks back then. I knew nothing about computers, but I knew a bit about drafting (I didn't realize how little I knew), so after I bought a <i>PCs for Dummies</i> book (really) I took a 2-week course in Autocad. After that I actually succeeded in getting temp work as a drafter. During that work I discovered Autocad was capable of 3D modeling, and so was I, after which I quickly grew bored with old 2D drafting. Next, I got my hands on 3D Studio Max (3D modeling and animation software made by the Autocad people), practiced a few hundred hours, and found a 2-week course using that software. After another few hundred hours, I produced a 2-and-a-half-minute animation, <i>Pollie Gone Home</i>, which won Best of Show in the annual North Bay Multimedia Association competition. I wish I could say that made everything easier, but no. Eventually, while doing forgettable contract work in San Francisco, I found a listing for a gig at Lego in Marin County through a temp agency. Four months of persistence later, after two or three interviews and a few negotiations, I got the contract. I tripled my hourly wage "overnight!" <br />
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You might think that's that, but no. Then I actually had to deliver. My job was to reproduce and update all the graphics and animation files the Lego people had lost for their Lego Mindstorms Robotics Invention System. They gave me a set (a $300 toy is a nice perk) so I could accurately reproduce the bricks and wheels and things needed for the animations. There were hundreds of pieces and though I didn't have to model them all, it sure felt like I did. To measure the pieces, I even bought digital calipers to accelerate the process. Then I had to animate everything, a daunting challenge for a guy still pretty new to the field and working without a net. <br />
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That's why, to me, the Lego rover symbolizes persistence and success against the odds. Even more important, that job enabled me to pay off my debt, buy a ring, and take my girlfriend to Hawaii where I asked her to marry me. <br />
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She said yes. <br />
<br />Tomhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10815401197984953610noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5978953633580480752.post-76690425677773906902019-11-14T17:47:00.001-08:002019-11-14T17:47:45.718-08:00Forensic GraphicsGus Revenaugh, who specializes in forensic graphics and animation at his company, <a href="http://www.originpointinc.com/">Origin Point</a>, first hired me in 2001 to assist in modeling a badly designed furnace. <br />
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That went well, and over the years Gus taught me virtually everything I know about producing graphics for litigation, and a lot about 3D modeling and animation, and even more about video production. We've worked on cases involving fires (a <i>lot </i>of fires), construction defects, industrial accidents, broken necks, faulty medical products, planes, trains, and automobile accidents, and even the DeepWater Horizon oil rig disaster. After working on about 150 cases, I stopped counting. <br />
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Eighteen years later, I'm still working for Origin Point. Thanks a lot Gus! Tomhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10815401197984953610noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5978953633580480752.post-12874332467942310442019-11-13T09:18:00.000-08:002019-11-13T09:18:00.525-08:00UCSF AnimationAbout a year ago, I was hired by UCSF (University of California, San Francisco) to take over an animation project whose development had stalled. <br />
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Before my involvement, relatively little had been produced over a few months, and even less that was satisfactory, so as the deadline approached panic ensued. I almost turned the project down when I heard I'd have three weeks to produce an animation pretty much from scratch. However, after getting some assurances that the resources and incremental approvals I required would be prioritized, I signed on. After all, while the content was yet another departure from my usual focus on product and forensic visualizations, the animation production process was essentially the same as always. <br />
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Though I was initially worried about getting the cooperation necessary to pull it off, everyone was more than helpful, every meeting was succinct, the deadline was met, and everyone (I think) appreciated the final product. <br />
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Tomhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10815401197984953610noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5978953633580480752.post-51039931568138008712019-11-12T14:26:00.000-08:002019-11-12T14:26:49.222-08:00Looking for GarboOne of the more interesting projects I've ever worked on is developing supporting graphics for Jon James Miller's first novel, <i>Looking for Garbo</i>. <br />
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Published on May 7, 2019 from <a href="http://www.amphoraepublishing.com/product/looking-for-garbo/">Blank Slate Press</a>, the book was years in the making, starting as an award-winning screenplay and originally titled <i>Garbo's Last Stand</i>. I developed early book covers, website graphics, images for film festival programs, and even a video trailer. <br />
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Check it out at <a href="http://jonjamesmiller.com/">JonJamesMiller.com</a>.<br />
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Tomhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10815401197984953610noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5978953633580480752.post-30416725295548648702019-10-08T09:18:00.000-07:002019-10-08T09:18:54.284-07:00Supersoaker Car IllustrationsIn recognition of the 20th anniversary of my career as a freelance illustrator and animator, along with the 30th anniversary of my hire as a toy designer and illustrator, I'm posting images of my work both current and historical. <br />
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Here are some designs I developed for the Supersoaker Turbo Racer. The prototype worked really well, though (as I recall) it had a little trouble staying on the ground... <br />
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Tomhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10815401197984953610noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5978953633580480752.post-65967945350305500902019-10-07T19:25:00.000-07:002019-10-07T19:25:51.494-07:00Recent IllustrationsOver the summer, for a company devoted to nursing products, Lansinoh Laboratories, I developed a series of illustrations and an animation depicting optimal breastfeeding technique. This job was not exactly typical of the kind of work I normally do, but they liked my work depicting their products, apparently, and gave me a chance to do something different. <br />
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Tomhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10815401197984953610noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5978953633580480752.post-8229507334958664752019-10-04T18:51:00.000-07:002019-10-04T18:55:12.060-07:00Supersoaker Man<div style="text-align: left;">
Then there's this weird Supersoaker... An action figure that, by pumping his head, actually shoots water from his own Supersoaker.</div>
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Tomhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10815401197984953610noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5978953633580480752.post-11184870872618864362019-10-03T13:46:00.000-07:002019-10-03T13:46:01.781-07:00Blast from the Past<div style="text-align: left;">
In the beginning, Supersoakers were invented by Lonnie Johnson and developed by Bruce D'Andrade. Back in 1992, working for Bruce at Professional Prototypes, I designed the look of the Supersoaker Bow (among many other models), using actual paper and pencils. </div>
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When I first learned Autocad, I set myself the challenge of reproducing that design to practice my new skills... </div>
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Though I once had my very own Supersoaker Bow a long time ago, it also long ago disappeared. Only very recently did I find another on Ebay, after years of searching, for it's likely the rarest (and probably weirdest) of vintage, first-generation Supersoakers. </div>
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This year, 2019, is the 30th anniversary of my getting hired by Bruce at Professional Prototypes. Time flies like an arrow! And fruit flies like a banana. </div>
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