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A friend's website

2010-01-14T11:44:00.000-08:00

One of my friend has a homework and this homework is to get as many people into his website. I device a plan you see. In his website, you'll see me in one of his work. If you can find me in a real life picture in his work, I'll make a drawing of the winner in EgoCity style. Post the image where you found me and circle me using MSpaint or photoshop, you win. This is a blog guys so please post your findings in the comments. First 5 people can win.

His website: http://manuelaleman.info

Me as reference: http://shadowlenz.deviantart.com/art/Self-Portrait-44040392

Hurry because this contest ends next Wedn

LenZ in 3d!

2010-01-09T15:23:00.000-08:00

Kyu and LenZ

2010-01-04T14:47:00.000-08:00

2 new images from my 3d movie "Bounty plus Hunter". Happy newyears!

LenZ Ring

2009-12-17T11:55:00.000-08:00

This is going to be in my 3d movie ^^ 2" cm objects becomes unnessary mad detail. I got inspired by the new FF13 that just came out in japan today.

Sonic werehog VFX

2009-12-17T08:50:00.000-08:00

I came across this article that shows how the studio at Sega manage to make Sonic the werehog short movie that I've posted up earlier. They did the work in maya and show videos of their character controls. It's interesting, take a look:
Click here to read their production article.

Thavidu Final Render

2009-12-13T14:07:00.000-08:00

Flash is now faster than Sonic

2009-11-19T12:00:00.000-08:00

Adobe Flash Player 10.1 is now GPU accelerated. What this mean is you won't have anymore youtube lag while watching their extreme HD format. It's not CPU intensive anymore and the big 1080 videos are very smooth to watch. Even if you don't have a graphic card, it'll still run alot better then before. It's still in beta version, but in my mind, it's 80% better. Try it for yourself:
Windows (2MB)
Mac (9MB)
Linux (4MB)

If you like to make an experiment, this is what I've just done. Make a controled experiment by watching Sonic Werehog short in HD and full screen. Now download the 10.1 flash player and watch it again. You'll notice it runs so much smoother. I'm using a quad core computer for this experiment. Enjoy

PF3 Thavidu Model

2009-11-18T16:30:00.000-08:00

(click the image to enlarge)
I'm almost done modeling Thavidu for the game.
Now I went to other site that contained my PFRPG2. The main menu was connected to a movieload so when it loads, it loads other files on the phrozenflame site. When the host site was mysteriously erased and abandoned, it effects the game to that other site and hence the reason why disk 2 wasn't working or there was some sort of long load, etc. So now you can play PF2 on this site which is now the original host. P.S. When you hear Ivan's new music play at the beginning, it'll means I rechecked my grammers and other bad english stuffs. That'll be done around my winter break. I was a 15 years old asian kid and now gaining consciousness of my mistakes.
If you find anymore glitches, email it to me at shadowcap@gmail.com. Thankyou

PFRPG 2 - UPLOADED

2009-11-16T18:02:00.001-08:00

The whole PF RPG collection is now complete! Over the next few weeks, I'll replace the disk selection page music with Ivan's new score for PF theme song containing all of his old themes into one. Also I'll be uploading a sort of strategy map to show a bigger view of it's locations and where to scout the shops to upgrade your weapons. Enjoy. PF RPG2 is not a level based game but you upgrade your stats in shops. If I were to make the game now, I would totally do a Mario RPG level ups. oh wells.

Oh BTW. Your choice at the beginning with Kool-Aid, Pie, or pepsi will determine your beginning stats advantage in HP, Attack, or Money.

I like to thank Thavidu (ironically the main character) for helping me with action script since the beginning of time. Brennan for advancing the battle system. And Ivan for being IPS main musician for all these years. Thankyou.

Dragon Age and Modern warfare 2

2009-11-10T00:19:00.000-08:00

update of the Day

Dragon Age: AWESOME!

Modern Warfare 2: don't care, just play if you like it, enough said

oh and I should make videos shouldn't I?

PF3

2009-11-07T16:45:00.001-08:00

First image of Thavidu for my 3d game based on unreal engine. (Click to enlarge)

EGOCITY COMPLETE

2009-10-26T18:18:00.000-07:00

The best actors of IPS needs an encore with all of the classic EgoCity, now uploaded. Sorry for the delay cause I got a lot of stuff to do lately. Missy (rachel), Brennan (Zero+Jesse), LenZ (Johnny), Kyu (Cap), MB (Zane), Logi (Scar), Matthew (Dr. Madness). Over the course there has been alot of voice changes and voice switchings, but clearly I chose these actors that stood out the most after experimenting. I also like to give a shout out to the IPS long lost fanfic writer who was part of our forums long long ago, Kayette.
Though the marathon of reuploading is not done yet. We are going up to the future with PF RPG2 and I do have to start rewrite the script for saving points which is important xwx.
Happy Halloween!

Windows 7 and lovely legal hacks

2009-10-25T10:37:00.000-07:00

Wanna make your Windows 7 look like a Mac dock, then download 7Stacks. It's a small smart fan made. It creates a simple shortcut folder generator that can be pinned to ur taskbar. The only thing is, you must keep your source folder that contains your shortcuts. No bigger, just place them in my documents lol. It's great if you have series of softwares, like Adobe.

In other news, Hulu won't be free in a couple of month. You have to now pay in order to watch your tv shows and videos. Such a let down.

My final review of windows 7

2009-10-24T12:58:00.000-07:00

So I updated both my laptop and desktop from vista to windows 7. I gave myself a variety by choosing a fresh clean update on my laptop while my desktop upgrade and containing my previous files.

I'm being honest in this review and I do use Mac in my work and at school for sound class. At work I use all adobe and maya programs. Here's my confrig:

Laptop- (Lowend workstation)
Duo 2 Core
2GB of ram
100 GB HDD memory
Nvidia 9000m series (forgot the exact # but u get the idea)

Desktop- (Overkill highend workstation)
Core 17 3.07GHz
12GB of ram (muhahaha)
238 GB SSD memory
Nvidia quadro 3800FX

so with this variety, I'll give you my total experience in updating things. Starting with the laptop and giving it a clean install, I went through nearly 2hours of waiting. Simple and all I had to do was to click advance clean install and type in my serial. It restarts twice and suprisenlly, all my files were saved in a window.old folder. My programs which I expected are cleaned and erased. So even if you do a clean restart, your regular files are there. Please bkup anyways.

My desktop took me around 30mins, partly because I have an SSD. Other than that, everything is there just like you left it. It's like bug spraying your house and coming back the next week.

I'm starting to love the taskbar below. Yes it's like mac, but if you like the olddays, you have an option of having both the mac and windows version and that's what I picked. Your window bars can be expand and having shortcut programs as well. Just right click the taksbar and should be on the 2nd tab. It's pretty common sense. I do hate the control panel if you like to go to classic view. Though it's not a big deal. it's in alphebetical order.

Now for hardware and stress test. I use AutoCAD programs like maya and I have double monitors. Windows 7 fixed the program where it wanted to make a widescreen and fullscreen the same ratio because of maya. Also it fixed the flashing black screen when booting up maya so now it's normal. And no more random chaning ratio. As for stress test and trust me I did this out of randomness. Remember you have an illegal close of times when your program goes white and freezes the heck out of you. Well think of Mac. When one program stops working, it doesn't freezes you. You are able to go onto your desktop or open ctrl+alt+delete without freezing or waiting. If anybody is curious on how I manage to get an illegal close, I opened up Maya to run an infinate loop of Mel codes....

Anyways it really depends what kind of computer you have that'll boot up fast but I'l tell you this, windows 7 can handle stress softwares pretty well now and won't make you go crazy. Oh and I'm about to set up a wireless network so I have print from my laptop without using any wires. I love the new home networking and I can grab photos from my desktop and doing this from tokyo if I have to. The wireless connection is so much faster to aquire too; almost an instant.

To end it all it's a great jump and better for games if your a gamer and love the wireless connection and super great for CAD softwares like me. Windows 7 is more organizing power awerness. There's rlly no difference between Mac and PC to get things done. I mean I make EgoCity, PFRPG, and Maya stuffs and can do the same thing on a mac. It's how you use the brush cause ur computers are tools. If your good at Mac, great. It's your tool and you know it better than anyone else. So end the computer wars. If your a Vista who does Adobe, Maya, and heavy processing and duel screen, Windows 7 will fix. If your just playing games and word app and simple stuffs that doesn't need intense situations like 1GB of ram, stick with vista. If your an XP.... god damn our missing fast response time in win7. Even my laptop got quicker in the update. Anyways I better invest a macbook if I end up as a graphic artist. PC if I end up as a video game designer... THE WORLD HAS RANDOM RULES.

This review is thru my experience only. sorry for the long post cause win7 suprises me like a child.

Simple Windows 7 tip

2009-10-21T16:23:00.000-07:00

So I checked both my laptop and desktop for my windows 7 upgrades and they shipped it 2 days before the official release which is today. Oh and don't trust HP's windows 7 shipping, they are sloooow. I mean yes they took the matters to their own hands like they created their own windows 7 serial number page because they wanna be original... heck you know when you buy an HP computer, it comes with HP services... owo I digress. Partly my evil parents bought HP and it's still validating the serial since a month ago. Evil in evil out.

So let's begin the windows 7 guide. It's not really hard and everybody makes it so. It's like youtube comments. If one says this, 1000 ppl follows.

-If you have a desktop or a laptop, get Home Premium. <--recommended for average people like me. Home Premium has enough stuffs of what we just need and know from XP and Vista.

-if you have a netbook or 3G netbook, get Starter. Starter on the other hand has no DVD playback feature. Cause netbooks don't need that since there is no DVD rom. There is no Aero peak cause that's just for shiney effects. Those transparent windows, colorful bars, and touch screen mechanics. Those are RAM hoggers and I turn them off on my desktop as well. Netbooks are for surfing the net. Think of your iPhone or Andriods. You don't need these fancy garbage to do simple things.
-If you're IT or in a job of networking and renderfarming or a bigger nerd than a nerd should be, get ultimate or professional.

For the noobies who dunno about 32bit and 64bit; 32bits is if your computer can handle 3GB or less of RAM, 64bits if your computer can handle more than 4GB of RAM. I have 12 GB of RAM cause I do heavy duty prossesing in 3D and adobe renderings. For a person only doing Word and Financel programs, 2GB is enough for you.

So what's so good about Windows 7 besides people saying it's better. If you are paranoided about energy like me, (I use 700watts in my PSU, normal consumer HP computers uses 250watts) windows 7 has a smart architechture of saving energy when it's not needed. It also dims lights when your not using the computer (Screensavers doesn't count of preserving energy, shutting off monitor does). For laptops, you get an instant on and off when you close the lid. Only nessary services activates in your prossesors when you start up giving it a much faster boot time. Also pinning your programs to your start bar for shortcuts. You get the point. This applies to why they make so many versions. Starter has stuffs only just to surf the web and watch videos and play flash games, word and financal programs, etc. Premium has enough stuffs to do everything else, like Maya, adobe suite and other powerful highend softwares, DVD playbacks.

Now I'll be having a nerd party in my brain while waiting for Win7. P.S. If you are a college student, you get windows 7 upgrade for $30.

History Tree of LenZ

2009-10-20T20:09:00.000-07:00

So anybody wondering what I learn over my 12 years in IPS and what programs I use, well I'll give you a simple family tree of me growing up. It's like looking back at the NES 6 bit era:

1999- MSPaint, Flash, DreamWeaver, Photoshop
2000- Goldwave
2005- 3D Max, Vegas, ActionScript 2
2007- Maya, RealFlow, ZBrush, AfterEffects, Illustrator, Premiere
2008- Mocha, Encore, Mel Script
2009- UnReal Engine

yush my head is about to explode if I have to learn 1 more software. Oh and BTW I consider ActionScript 2 from Flash and Mel Script from Maya a program cause it's like learning a sub program.

So how about the history of IPS?
1999- HUA100
2001- Invader Zim fan base site
2002- IPS V.1
2004- Moved to PhrozenFlame. IPS V.2
2005- Dark Era
2006- IPS V.2 1/2
2008- Dark Era
2009 now- Ressurection-ing IPS V.3

Smashing up a dell

2009-10-13T14:21:00.000-07:00

If you have ever seen the movie " Office Space ", then you'll recognize what we're doing immediately. If you haven't seen it, then go watch it online or something NOW!

So on october 9th, me and my friends wanted to reenact the famous Office Space scene, in which the 3 protagonist of the movie DESTROY a fax machine in the scene, and the way they do it, with slow motion, seriousness, and the music, is hilarious. We didn't have a broken fax machine or printer we could use, so we decided to use my mom's broken Dell. Below is what happened.

Short Kid : Joe

Kid In White Jumper : Ivan

Kid In Brown Gap Jumper : Danny ( me )

Camera Man & Editor : Tom

Below is the youtube version.

Now, what you've been waiting for. ( WARNING : there are curse words in the song, so if there is a little kid in the room, tell him to step out for about 3 minutes )

FLASH CS5 with physicX

2009-10-12T16:32:00.000-07:00

skip the first minute of iphone till you see a chubaka teaching you what CS5 for flash looks like. Very amazing.

PhrozneFlame RPG3 Tech Demo

2009-10-10T13:35:00.000-07:00

PhrozenFlame 3 Video game is now in production. Take a look at my first test land.
I modeled and textured both the island and bridge. everything else is just pretemps.

Moon Bombing

2009-10-08T10:13:00.000-07:00

If you have nothing to do on Friday, October 9, at 7:31AM Eastern/4:31AM Pacific, reserve that spot for some serious space fireworks. At that time you can see how NASA bombs the Moon from orbit.

source: http://gizmodo.com/5376774/how-to-watch-the-moon-bombing-in-real-time

RESSURECTIONS! 40% complete

2009-10-07T18:30:00.000-07:00

We miss phrozenflame. A community full of flash artists gathering to show their best work. PhrozenFlame RPG was like our last charging-up-lazer before most of us split apart. I like to commit this week as the original IPS flash works that supports PF in the ol days. I've uploaded all EC Zero Series and PF 1. Theses two are the first half of the series. I like to chronically upload them. Enjoy rewatching and enjoy waiting a lil more longer so I can upload EC 1 to 5-2 (doesn't make sence) and even longer to see the upcoming red cap and PF3 in 3d! They are in the Flash pg by click on the huge Flash button above.

Also I bought myself a $400 wacom tablet (Large size) so it feels better in speed. When I was working on the new RedCap last year, I drew them frame by frame on paper and scan them into illustrator and trace vector-ly into flash. Now I can finally skip these process XD And it's heavy on frame by frames.... Sorry if I can't show any previews, they will also be imported into after effects and I don't wanna waste time rendering them until the final. Right now it's everywhere... I do apologize again for my long reterning.
Again I like to point out a lot of us has jobs or college and it'll be great if we post even the smallest thing onto the front page lol
speaking of that: I'm working on an MTV video in special effects and editing the camera guy out. Can't say nuthing yet but when it's on youtube I'll post here.

StarGate Universe

2009-10-04T09:42:00.001-07:00

Stargate airs every Fri night on Syfy channel (which was once called SciFi). Now I'm a fan of the series, ever since my child cartoons are slowely being banished (ex: Angry Beaver, Invader Zim, etc.) So here's my review to the series. 1) I wish they can make a theater movie lol But besides that, they try to take the series into a more darker and more emotional step. You guys know the deal with Battle Star Galatica and Lost right? Well try mixing those two. You get an extremely detailed production in CG and lighting fx and you also get beach-y people wanting their selfish needs. I'm not complaing about that and the second time watching it, I am happy about it cause for the fact, it shows us how we react when we are lost billions of light years away from Earth... No it's not like Lost where you are stranded on an island and replace the island with a planet. For one, I'm glad their comedy light jokes rolls over from the previous series. A kid named Eli was a video gamer- Mather wiz. He was playing a cameo StarGate MMO which is avialivle for playing. In one of his quest, he solved an ancient puzzle which was programmed on purpose so SG team can draft him out of his house... or should I say beam him out of his house. The 3 crews from SG1 also took short cameos as well and I'm happy to see their faces again. Oh and yes the camera shakes like battle stare Galactica as if it's not on a tri-pod. Conclusion, I can't wait to see more of the series but I still wish to see more of Atlantic. I hope there won't be too many killings to the main characters xwx

IPShop

2009-10-03T15:35:00.000-07:00

http://www.cafepress.com/lenzchu

tecnically u can start buying these things, but these art... are like my oooooold drawings. i'm going to make new arts soon so don't buy these unless u rllly like to.

Prepare to Drop

2009-09-30T10:03:00.000-07:00

ODST has landed, and Final Thoughts? it is better then Halo 3, as well as original feel from the first game (Pistol of doom!) so yes it's a good game, Firefight is fun (and a dooms day for some one who's aiming for the Recon Armour)

in Other news, fans of my old works "Brennan's World" series, will know I'm refreshing from first Draft, it's called "Menai Chronicles" now and I'll be doing MSN doodle comics that will be placed on this and my site, as well as Deliveries, which I'll work on this coming month

That is all...oh and Blackan08 my live account if you wish to help XD

Lets play unreal with LenZ

2009-09-24T12:54:00.001-07:00

My first FPS game recorded on my computer. i shoulda lower my stats so i can record smoother. It was smooth when i play but then i realized my screen capture is slow