Thursday, March 20, 2014

Limiting ad tracking on IOS devices.

I hate ads on my apps but depending on your desire to whether they are relevant to you can be helpful or not so much. Limiting the ad tracker is in the settings in privacy under advertising. Therefore if you limit these ads you will not get ads targeted towards your interest. So that being said well not a really useful feature,leaving limit off will help you get the most out of your app experiences. Also you can reset it which is kind of like clearing cookies on your computer. Same amount of ads just choosing whether they are relevant or not

Two awesome must have vfx apps for IOS

Have you ever wanted to be transported into another place such as the visual effects driven world of Hollywood for next to nothing? Well your in luck because I have two reviews on that tinsel town tornado of pure appyness. Like what I did there? Yeah you know you did cause we should all be app-cited by now!

All joking aside, apps are a commodity these days. One of my favorite apps on the app store as of now is Action Movie Fx (https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/action-movie-fx/id489321253?mt=8) This nifty little app is free with in-app purchases. It basically does what a video compositor does in movies in which shooting a video and applying desired effects(which are a library of different fx such as spider-strike). In spider strike you would shoot your video pick then apply the effect and adjust time frame for when the spider will crawl across the screen and jump at victim. I would give a 5 out of 5 for it's instant fx but all in all it has many more effects priced at .99 cents a pop and there you go insta-hollywood.

Demon Cam(http://www.demoncam.com/app/) is made by the same person who created action movie fx,Video copilot's Andrew Kramer. To use it is three simple steps. 1. Take a video of you making your scariest face. 2.Position face trackers on eyes and mouth. 3.Click render and watch yourself being morphed into a demon with hd rendering. It's render mode only takes a few secs to render. Automated face tracking and an impressive menu and sound design. A new feature that I noticed is answer ball. Think magic 8-ball toys but digital and to this theme. Ask a question then tap for an answer. Sounds silly I know but another 5 out of 5 for this awesome app.

So let me know what you think of these apps and don't forget to comment.

Sunday, January 26, 2014

Smart Material Study
Explanation of materials:
So I have been studying an efficient way to create materials such as manufacturing natural and nano materials for different purposes.Nanocelloluse (http://www.gizmag.com/cellulose-nanocrystals-stronger-carbon-fiber-kevlar/23959/) is a natural material found in wood as a bond or glue. Examples of other material are Nano carbon tubes (http://science.howstuffworks.com/nanotechnology2.htm) basically are metals made from nano particles. To put that into perspective a nano meter is 1,000,000,000 times smaller than a meter. A meter is 39 inches long so imagine that minus one billion of one meter.(http://www.nanooze.org/english/articles/article4_howbigisananometer.html) 

NanoManufacturing Solutions:
All of these materials can be conductive and very durable/strong. To manufacture nano ink/solutions, you have to use a very complex process chemical engineers use is "hydrothermal" processing to create nanosolutions(http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6zurHSq4CB4).

Additive Manufcaturing:
Then there would be a novel way to manufacture on an industrial scale(3d printing).To find ways to 3d print these materials would be very useful to society.

Uses:Car materials(lightweight carbon-nano fibers),biofuel-nanocelloluse(natural environmentally efficient fuels),Armor for soldiers( meaning lightweight ballistic protection) and phone screens through 3d printing(cheap printed phone displays).

Sum up and conclusion :There endless ways to use these natural and man made materials for our society's growth.So give me our thoughts,comments and other ideas for the advancement of mankind in general.

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Thursday, February 21, 2013

Welcome and Hello!

I'm starting this vfx blog for graphics and freelance work so check me  my out while I learn blender ,learn with me.