Dennis Coh

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SNAPPING - an angry monkey dio

2007-11-29T00:33:00.001-08:00

SNAPPING: That was it. They had enough. Bob had cracked his last 'barrel of monkeys' joke.

Built for Keith Goldman's 'You Control the Action' contest. Here, 'The Action' is controlled via an angry monkey chase scene.

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Winter Meeting

2007-11-27T00:12:00.000-08:00

Two lovers from rival samurai clans meet in secret on a cold winter day.

My first genuine non-space and mecha creation. I was inspired to try my hand at building a snow scene after seeing the snowscaping in KeithLUG's Omicron Weekend, and this was the result. Originally this was supposed to include two samurai warriors meeting for a duel, but the whole thing ended up looking so peaceful and serene that I switched the model's theme to that of Love!

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AZOTH - close combat mech

2007-11-20T20:25:00.000-08:00

Hooray for Thanksgiving holiday builds.

I've been wanting to build a humanoid mech for awhile now, and here it finally is. This is my own design, with elements inspired from various anime mech designs. This model features a working cockpit, giant boosters, and a pair of dangerous guns.

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VX-999 - Space Pirate Lair

2007-11-12T00:56:00.000-08:00

I builded! After a year of not building anything out of Lego, I decided to try out castle, microscale, and floating rocks - all in one model!

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Ivelix - 3d mecha project

2007-10-22T17:16:00.001-07:00

This is my third Maya modeling project. This is my own creation, with lots of inspiration from the Gelgoog and Zaku mechs from Gundam. I got a lot more modeling practice out of this, and I also learned how to do some basic rigging.

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Photoshop for Dummies

2007-09-28T23:49:00.000-07:00

Using a cool new logo made by Nannan's friend, I used my sub-par Photoshop skillz to create a new banner and Flickr logo for Builders Lounge.

Now I am the master of 'trial-and-error blending', with some knowledge about how to create a mask. I need to take a class or do some tutorials or something.

Gasmask 3D

2007-09-17T11:39:00.000-07:00

Here's my second Maya project for more modeling practice. I created this by looking at a few real world photos of gas masks, and then altering the designs to give the model a little bit of a space+alien feel.

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Undertow 3D

2007-09-06T03:06:00.000-07:00

I've been learning 3d modeling using Maya, and this is my first completed mini-project, which is an attempt at creating a 3d version of Tool's Undertow album art.

The model was created mostly by extruding polygon faces along curves to create an overall polygonal model. Then I converted this to subdivs to smooth things out.

Four spotlights were used for this scene. Two for highlighting the side tentacles, one for the top-front highlight, and one above for overall lighting and shadows.

Rendered image
Polygonal version
Reference image (original album art)

MechaHub Interview

2007-08-16T13:25:00.000-07:00

Although I've only built a few mechs out of Lego so far, I was interviewed by Bryce of MechaHub.com, which is an excellent fan site dedicated to showcasing Lego mecha models and serving as a knowledge base for information on mecha building.

Read the interview here.

NOX - Heavy Assault Mech

2007-08-11T21:02:00.000-07:00

I finally got around to dusting off this model and taking a full set of pictures for it. I designed and built this last September for the MechaHub.com Exo-Force mecha contest.

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duster 132

2007-08-09T14:35:00.001-07:00

duster 132
Originally uploaded by duster132

I love this guy's mechs. They're like anime mecha meets street art meets Autechre album art. Apparently he pastes up large versions of his work onto walls in Paris. Very cool.

http://myspace.com/duster132
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Dennis added the Gallery application.

2007-08-08T11:54:00.001-07:00

Now Facebook notification-style spam has propagated to the blog!

The gallery now has image viewing page support with album navigation links (sample). Also, I leveraged the gallery code to create a basic ASP.NET web control that generates an m x n table of randomly selected album images from the gallery. This control is now dropped into the sidebar of this blog.

rawr!

2007-08-06T14:04:00.000-07:00

It lives! After several years of my homepage partying like it was 1999, I've re-implemented my website with more current technology like CSS and uh, a blog. Yay.

Check out the new gallery that I implemented from scratch using ASP.NET. The page's code-behind will read off an XML file that contains info about my albums and pictures, and then dynamically generate page content based off that. There's still lots left to add, such as an image viewer page with buttons like 'next' and 'previous', but the basics are working.

The Queen is dead! Long live thievery.org!