Pi Day Festivities

I had a mission: Bake a pie for Pi Day. Alongside another pi(e) enthusiast and dear friend, Orion, we set forth on the delicate mission of making that pie. This is pretty much a summary of said mission.



1.) Get the cherries.
2.) Make the cherry mix.
3.) Roll out the dough n' add the om nom-ables.
4.) Lattice up the pie crust.

(Not pictured: Making the dough, sprinkling the cinnamon, and throwing it in the oven. Seriously, the stronger the shot put arm, the better.)

Making pie cookies is just as important as the pie itself. Pie cookies are the bits n' pieces of pie dough that didn't get used with the lattice topping.



5.) Make pie cookies! (Orion made the best Pi symbol)
6.) Anxiously wait for the oven to be at prime temperature and bake for ~40min.
7.) Remove pie!
8.) After sharing, you'll find yourself with less than a whole pie. That's okay. It makes for a delicious breakfast.

(Not pictured: Devouring the hell outta that pie and tiredly driving home to fall asleep from pie food coma.)

Whoops. I lied. Stuff to post:

I decided to enlighten myself with Shake 4. This is the result. I took previously shot footage of myself swinging a guitar, did a garbage mask in AEFX, imported that into Shake and finished up masking out the action with key lighting and some rotoscoping with the hide/reveal functions.

I dropped in cloud footage from www.archive.org, which proved to be an interesting obstacle since every other frame it would move up and down on the y-axis. I ended up tracking only the y-axis to minimize the trembling effect, but some of it remained. So, I threw in a couple layers of movement as well as tracked the entire project to have a "camera shake." Thanks, technology!

I'd like to get my mind wrapped around some Nuke experience now.



This is a random doodle I started in Photoshop. She has a bit of Beverly Crusher (yes... as in Star Trek: TNG) to her face, don't you think? There are two because I'm currently deciding on how my monitor is deceiving me in contrast.

I can haz biz-nezz card?

Lolspeak aside, graduation is getting closer and closer. I decided to put up my business card design to make up for the lack of actual posting. Does it work that way?