New Blog: Script Swell

I put together a new blog to keep track of all my snippets of code, scripts, tools, etc. that I've made that might benefit other people. Some stuff is proprietary of course so I can't post everything I make at work, but most of it is just little snippets of MEL and Maxscript that might help some people along. I've been doing a lot of work lately creating shelves and workflow enhancements for the artists at our studio and some of the things I make will be found at Script Swell.

http://www.scriptswell.net/

MEL, Maxscript, Python, JScript, etc.

Introducing: Awesome Ball™ - Maya Rig

I was experimenting with some expressions and things today in Maya and built this rig I call, "Awesome Ball™". It has full squash and stretch capabilities along with elite world scaling abilities. You'll not find a ball this awesome anywhere else. It was built in Maya 2008, but it's an ascii so you can edit the file and use it in any Maya you like.

You can find it here: http://www.jaygrenier.com/assets/rigs/awesomeBall.rar

Try it out and let me know if it works well for ya.

Slumdog Millionaire

Emily and I finally saw it! Holy wow this is an amazing film. Danny Boyle is my hero.

Final Fantasy VII - I still love this game..

After all this time this game still rules. Emily and I are playing through it again. Such good fun.

Tifa imo!

Twitter

Sucks. Nobody cares what you had for breakfast this morning.

/irony_off

Emily is here for a week!

Emily is on spring break and is here for like 10 days. Man this is AWESOME. P.S. Van Damne is about to unleash his Limit Break.

Prince of Tennis: Anime/Manga

So I started reading this manga last week and all of the sudden I wanted to try Tennis. It's pretty good, a bit repetitive but it's definitely my style and I'm enjoying it. Check it out at the link below.

http://www.onemanga.com/Prince_of_Tennis/0/01/

So I bought myself a racket and some tennis balls and I've been trying it out, so far it's surprisingly a ton of fun. It's hard though, serving owns me. Look forward to an update on Jay's uber tennis skills. Very important information I know.

Congrats to Pete Busch, Engaged

Pete and Niqi are engaged after four years. Congratulations to them from Jay's blog. =)

AVoTD: Lust for Life, Heavenly

I don't belong to the sky
I just follow my way
Ready to roam in the night
I hear this symphony
Running after the devil
The prince of immortals
freak for every one
I am proud as srtong as metal
Creature of flesh I must devour
To be free

Lust for life!

Heavenly - "Lust for Life"

I love this song, but man these lyrics are so bad haha! French though. Win?

Darkfall: The Keep goes up!

We got our keep up at our city last night. Lots of work, but worth it. Then we found some guy streaming his game on a website for others to watch. Just a cam stream of his desktop as he played. His group happened to be right near our city, so we went down and rolled them. It was funny watching ourselves on his stream killing his buddies from his POV. The streamer managed to log out before we got him, next time though!

Darkfall's Launch

Darkfall had an incredibly rocky start, and continues to be up and down since Wednesday but things are starting to clear up. Now into the fourth or fifth day of play, things seem to be going smoothly. It was technically still February 25th at my house when the game finally launched, so cheers to them! (~11:40pm)

If you haven't been able to buy the game yet, do not panic. It will open up soon, everyone will get in eventually. Better to let people in slow than to let everyone in and have it be unplayable.

This game freakin' rules man...it's so awesome. So much death.