by willyMac416 | May 29, 2021 | All Posts, Entertainment, Featured, Graphic Design & Animation, Resources, Visual Resources
This talking toy probably looks familiar to many of you. Do we all remember the Bop-It? Well this is the Stop-It. What separates it from the Bop-It is that it actively discourages you from playing it. You can guess what it says (in agony) when you try to play it....
by willyMac416 | May 27, 2021 | All Posts, Entertainment, Featured, Film & Visual Effects, Graphic Design & Animation
Here we have a concept short from Macrosmith Solutions, an animation series in development. This bit features Arnie the experimental long-neck armadillo, and Anthony Squawking playing a game of chess despite their physical...
by willyMac416 | May 2, 2021 | Audio & Instruments, Engineering, Featured, Music, Odd Projects
Okay this one is a little different. I once asked myself; “Has anyone out there made a fretless bass/ electric guitar hybrid?” I couldn’t find one like the design I had in my head. So I decided to challenge myself to build one. Unfortunately I...
by willyMac416 | May 2, 2021 | Entertainment, Featured, Graphic Design & Animation
To make a skeleton rig in Toon Boom Harmony, you usually need to break characters up into pieces of limbs and interchangeable handsets and link them together in either a timeline hierarchy or a node system. Here is what my node system skeleton looks like for Scary...
by willyMac416 | Jun 14, 2020 | All Posts, Engineering, Featured, Odd Projects, Programming & Computers
Frank V1 When upgrading an old computer, I made a stupid mistake. I bought the wrong size motherboard. So, the logical choice was to go onto Newegg and buy the right size case, or return the motherboard for one that was the right size. Unfortunately, I was out...
by willyMac416 | Jun 14, 2020 | All Posts, Audio & Instruments, Engineering, Featured, Music, Odd Projects
The assignment was to create a weighing scale. Some used springs, some used rubber bands, I used guitar strings. Using the equations above, I built a scale that used tension on a guitar string as an indicator for the mass of a load. There are 3 variables that...
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