CGI Software Guide

CGI Software Guide

Animation encompasses everything from traditional animation (Pencil) to highly complex special effects (Maya 2012). Several content markets exist, such as Websites like Renderosity and Poser World and others discussed in the computer graphics (CG) and computer generated imagery (CGI) forums. Many of the programs below belong into many categories simultaneously, many are available on Windows, MacIntosh and other platforms, but not all. Animation software likewise differs in the protection over its source code. Usually, commercial software have a closed source or proprietary source code, prohibiting that the program be reversed engineered in any way. Conversely, open source and free software, also sometimes referred to as shareware and freeware are free to study and enhance. The preceding sentences describe the situation more or less accurately, but more details can be gotten from reading the GPL, GNU and other public licenses versus license agreements issued with various commercial software.

Unedited photographs can likewise be very beautiful. Photo by Elena.

Audio Editing

    Garage Band

    Audacity

Drawing

    Corel publishes drawing software

    CAD Autodesk engineering, architecture

Digital Art

    Poser (also animation and rendering)

    Web Graphics (3D animated text, banners)

    Art of Illusion

Game Design

    Autodesk products

    Cine 4D

Animation

    Flash

    Stykz, Pivot (freeware)

    Anime Studio (Smith Micro)

    Daz Studio (with 3D content access, registration required)

    Movieorg.uk (with registration)

    Animoids 3D witn 3D content market availability

    Real Source (Windows)

    RealAllusion (3D)

    Syfig

    Gif (graphic interactive interface) Builder,

    Anim8tor (Windows)

Modeling

    Blender (free from the Blender Foundation)

    3D K modeling

    Google SketchUp

    MakeHuman (3D meshes and character modeling)

Special Effects

    Carrara

    Home and professional editions by Toon Boom

    After Effects (Adobe Creative Suite CS5)

Video Editing

    iMovie (Apple)

    Windows Movie Maker

Photo editing

    Photoshop (Adobe Creative suite C5)

    Gimp (also graphic design)

    OneTrueMedia

    Stupeflix

Comics

    Manga Studio (Smith Micro)

    Comic Boom (Toon Boom)

Someday

Someday

By James Patrick Kelly

That morning she climbed into the pen and spoke a kindness to her pig Bobo. The glint of the knife made him grunt with pleasure and he rolled onto his back, exposing the tumors on his belly. She hadn’t harvested him in almost a week and so carved two fist-sized maroon swellings into the meat pail. She pressed strips of spongs root onto the wounds to stanch the bleeding and when it was done, she threw them them into the pail as well. When she scratched under his jowls to dismiss him, Bobo squealed approval, rolled over and trotted off for a mud bath.

Sle sliced the tumor thin, dipped the pieces in egg and dragged them through a mix of powdered opium, pepper, flour, and bread crumbs, them sautéed them until they were crisp. She arranged them on top of a casserole of snuro, parsnips and sweet flag, layered with garlic and three cheeses. She harvested some of the purple blooms from the petri dish on the windowsill and flicked them on top of her love feast. The aphrodisiacs produced by the bacteria would give an erection to a corpse. She slid the casserole into the oven to bake for an hour while she bathed and dressed for babymaking.

Daya had considered the order in which she would have sex with the fathers. Las was most important, followed by first. The genes of the middle father – or fathers, since some mothers made babies with six or seven for political reasons – were less reliably expressed. She thought starting with Ganth for his summy nature and finishing with Latif for his looks and good made sense. Even though Bakti was clever, he had bad posture.

Someday. Photo by Elena.

Ganth sat in front of a fuzzy black and white screen with his back to her when she nudged the door to his house open with her hip. « It’s me. With a present. »

He did not glance away from his show – the colony’s daily news and gossip program about the scientists – but raised his forefinger in acknowledgment.

She carried the warming dish with oven mitts to the huge round table that served as his desk, kitchen counter and sometime closet. She pushed aside some books, a belt, an empty bottle of blueberry kefir, and a Fll Juphigher action figure to set her love feast down. Like her own house, Ganth’s was a single room, but his was larger, shabbier, and bilt of some knotty softwood.

Her brother took a deep breath, his face pale in the light of the screen. « Smells delicious. » He pressed the off button; the screen winked and went dark.

Science Fiction and Fantasy 2015, edited by Rich Horton, Prime Books, 2015.

Stones

Stones

Just stones, these solitary structures, may be creatures who await their hour to awake and take the power.

All the pictures have been taken by Elena.

Oftentimes, those special brains, the ones that are capable of focusing more intently than others, do so at the expense of emotional maturity. (Dan Brown, Inferno).

Rock of Ajax. SPS University of Toronto. Engineering Alumni Association. To commemorate the 125the Anniversary of the founding of the 1873 School of Practical Science, Faculty of Applied Science and Engineering, 29 March 1998.

Those who are nurtured best, survive best. (Louis Cozolino)

For in disease the most voluntary or most special movements, faculties, etc., suffer first and most, that is in an order the exact opposite of evolution. Therefore I call this the principle of Dissolution. (John Hughlings Jackson)

Despite our scientific and philosophical knowledge, it is still difficult to accept that we are alone in the Universe and that our self will vanish with our death. (José M. Musacchio)

A yellow stone. Photo by Elena

Cornerstone of the monument of the soldiers fallen in two World Wars.

Victorian stones.

Much like addictive drugs, power uses ready-made reward circuitries in the brain, producing extreme pleasure. (Nayef Al-Rodhan)

Stone with Indian tatoo.

Icelandic stones.

Witch, Beast, Saint: An Erotic Fairy Tale

Witch, Beast, Saint: An Erotic Fairy Tale

By C.S.E.Cooney

Once upon a time I found a monster in the woods.

In the manner of most witches, I had a knack for discovering lost things. He was crawling with vermin, so wasted he barely flinched when I tested his nose and tongue, checking texture, temperature, moisture.

He was half an inch and kissing close to dying.

“Beast,” said I, in the language all beasts knew. “Look at me. Do you wish to die like this?”

He undeerstood. Opening his eyes, he looked at me. I felt his answer thrum in my bones, barely vocalized, a rattling sigh that was a clearer cry for help than if he had spoken the words in a human tongue.

« Come with me then, » I said, laying a compulsion on him to rise, since he could not do it for himself. « I suppose you can be my familiar. »

I put him in the cellar and fed him up until he was able to move about on his own. Then I began the arduous task of coaxing him outside to the whishing well and washing him, which took many days and a great deal of patience. Already the potatoes and last year’s apples and the onions greening in their barrels had begun to take on his dank and desolate stench. And really, he was so grateful for the attention.

Witch, Beast, Saint: An Erotic Fairy Tale. Photo by Elena

Like many beasts, he found the sound of my voice soothing. So I told him the story of how he came to be.

« This cottage passes from witch to witch, » I said. « My predecessor was ancient by the time she mistook an oak tree for an open passage and drove her mortar and pestle right into it. They say mortar and pestles are safer that brooms. I don’t know about that, I prefer to walk everywhere, or maybe hitch a ride on a wagon. You have nice broad shoulders. Perhaps I’ll teach you to piggyback me, by and by. There’s a bit of a pig in you. Well, boar. It’s the tusks. Your nose is more stag. Soft and broad from bridge to tip. Those gently flaring nostrils. But your horns are definitely bull. Anyway. What was I saying? »

The monster made a gesture like a pestle grinding something in a mortar.

« Right! » I cried. « My predecessor. Apparently in the last few decades before her terminal flying accident, she’d developed this habit of turning local boys to beasts every time they slighted her – or she imagined they did. The most famous case was that of our soveregin prince himself. He lives in a local hedge-witch – much like myself – to break the spell. They say she was so beautiful she could shatter strong sorceries with a kiss. »

I shrugged. My hands were wrist-deep in his sudsy fur, the soap black with his murk.

Science Fiction and Fantasy 2015, edited by Rich Horton, Prime Books, 2015.

Rosedale - Part II

Rosedale - Part II

Rosedale neighbourhood of Toronto is built among three ravines, preserved as parkland. Rosedale is full of cul de sacs and convoluted routes through the neighbourhood, which coupled with other physical boundaries (such as the ravines and bridges) lead to low levels of vehicular traffic.

Even though Rosedale is located in the middle of Toronto, virtually no vehicular traffic can be heard with the abundance of trees and foliage that surround the community. The homes are mostly single family detached dwellings, many of which are at least 100 years old including some former farmhouses that are closer to 200. Houses range from Edwardian and Tudor in style to the more common Victorian and Georgian.

Rosedale Park is home to the annual spring park party, Mayfair. The event typically consists of rides, games, flea market and other such carnival-like activities. The event is traditionally on the first Saturday in May and is run and funded by Mooredale House.

Mont Pleasant Drive and Roxhborough street corner.

Rosedale United Church, 159 Roxborough Drive... wilderness will rejoice and blossom.

Whitney Park.

A carrefour in Rosedale.

Roofs of the Roxborough street.

Don river damb.

Bushes in face of a bloc of houses.

Trail along the Don river in Rosedale.

Sue Bett House.

Racoon Problems.

Thornwood Road.

Blue flowers.

A small creek in the Rosedale valley.

34 Chestnut Park house.

Rosedale Valley.

Rosedale Wellness Center.