butterfly on bark

butterfly4, originally uploaded by bernsul.

I have added a few photos to my flckr site of these butterflies on a beautiful background. I took the photo in a village called La Mesa, on a plateau surrounded by mountains and beautiful view in Colombia. There were hummingbirds about the same size as this butterfly there, but they were too quick.

cemetery statues

cemetery-ljubljana56, originally uploaded by bernsul.

Wherever I go I like to call in at the cemetery if there is one. I think it says a lot about a culture. These statues come from graves in Ljubljana. It is a very interesting thing to make a likeness of the person who has died on the grave. This adds a strange dimension somehow. I wish I had taken down their names.

I have an idea to do something with modelling and animating some statues in 3d at some stage.

animal textures

shila22, originally uploaded by bernsul.

I have been collecting all sorts of images as textures for 3d modelling. I think Shila is going to be an interesting monster one day. This is one of a series of texture images that I have just put on flickr.

Bush images

flowers50, originally uploaded by bernsul.

I have added some references images that I took some time ago in a national park in Sydney. I am using photos like these as very loose references in my animation.

http://www.flickr.com/photos/bernsul/sets/72157624116099284/detail/

landscapes for walking animation

seascape2, originally uploaded by bernsul.

I posted a few samples of the backgrounds for the Walking animation on flickr. I am aiming to finish all the backgrounds this week while I figure out how to solve some problems with animating the character.

Click on the image to see the other images in the set.

flickr

My flickr site is at:

http://www.flickr.com/photos/bernsul

Some examples of links and images that I have placed on my blog from flickr are:

http://stepstoanimation.blogspot.com/2010/04/photos-from-colombia.html

http://stepstoanimation.blogspot.com/2010/04/venice-shop-windows.html

http://stepstoanimation.blogspot.com/2010/04/india1.html

I have found flickr good to use. I haven't used it before for my images. I have just come back from some years overseas. Beginning to organise some of the photos I have taken is kind of therapeutic. I noticed some features which are useful on top of the obvious. One in particular I think I will use is posting directly to blog. I like the idea of placing things in sets. I tend to think this way and it will help me show the images in a positive way. I am beginning to work out how to make blogger and flickr work together and I am looking forward to developing this as time goes by.
Bernard