Tonight on Science Channel at 8pm, I’m entering this sci-fi looking contraption appropriately named Light Stage 5 on Science of the Movies.
So what’s it for? Find out when we go behind the scenes of creating a photo realistic CG human — I first blogged about The Emily Project last year, so it was super cool [...]
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Science of the Movies Episode 8: “Enter: Light Stage 5!”
Pac-Man Comes to Life with Roombas
When the designers from the Research and Engineering Center for Unmanned Vehicles (RECUV) wanted to showcase their Unmanned Aerial System software, they decided that using robotic home appliances to recreate the classic video game Pac-Man would be a cool way to do it… And I agree.
RECUV is a university, government, and industry partnership dedicated to [...]
Science of the Movies Episode 7: “The World is Our Canvas”
Tonight “Science of the Movies” returns to Science Channel at 8pm. I visit the masterminds at Obscura Digital, who believes “the world is our canvas” and has the technology to prove it — from huge immersive video domes, interactive building surfaces, and multi-touch holograms! Watch my behind the scenes video above to see me play [...]
Nar Interviewed by the Amazing ThinkHero.com!
ThinkHero.com is one of my favorite websites for insightful, thorough reviews of genre movies and genre TV. Founder Dennis Tzeng and resident film/tv critic Roth Cornet do a really great job of staying on top of my favorite shows and putting out video reviews (I always check their site after Flash Forward, Fringe, and V [...]
The Prometheus Device
Everett Bradford has created a device that aspiring superheroes and supervillains alike will be drooling over: The Prometheus Device. Put simply, it allows you to cast fireballs from your hand. This is the kind of thing I expect Mickey Rourke to be sporting as Whiplash in Iron Man 2.
From Everett’s YouTube page:
Prometheus is version 3 of the Pyro [...]
