D.Joseph Design

Wow. This is old. Good thing that forum subscriptions are working. Yes, the video was outdated a while back. It was simply my same animation, just used as a major part of a site redesign, which was seen by tens of thousands. What 3D work I've done lately at AiG has been much smaller scale, like product imagery, simple models, and such. Yes, Creation Museum is now open to the public, and even critics are quite impressed with the production quality and obvious attention and thought in every detail. If you're near Cincinnati and decide to visit, I can get you a discount and would maybe be available to go through with you if you want. If anyone comes, just have someone call me up and I'd come out and meet you. Okay, so now I go back to the shadows.

The comment on the cropped images was for Matt. In the context, I can see that you thought I meant your site. I did not personally start the group that runs my new servers, but hired the private group only after considering nearly all the major-brand hosting resellers.

Yeah, I'm done with them. I now have a private group running much better servers. BTW, your images get oddly cropped in Firefox on my Mac PC.

Very nice!

Yeah, his is good. When you get your own site, you may actually like WordPress more for your needs.

Looking cool. Are you able to make categories with Blogger? It would really help to keep things organized. You've got some great work in there! I don't know what your hosting solution is, but if you need up to 5 GB with 100 GB bandwidth, look me up.

If the suggestion works, please repost a render because I've tried to accomplish the same thing.

LOL! I love it!

Looks great! The light from the candle does seem strong.

I like it! I could have many uses for this.

Nice! It looks quite believable. Things do seem to float around just a tad too much.

Very cool!

Cool! Keep up the good work. There aren't many (if even any) spider models in the A:M community.

You're doing good. Everyone needs to start somewhere, and your goals of thirty models and thirty animations is a great motivator for progress. And some of your models look pretty good!

That's exactly how I got into web design, ecommerce, and web hosting. It's these challenges that provide the best opportunity to learn. Very good work! I hope that you got paid well.

Cool! You've created a very unique character, which is always a great accomplishment. What kind of personality will this guy have?

Here's my basic metal material. I think that this is the same as what I used. I'm still at Creation Mega Conference, so I don't have much time to check the file.

I love Wallace and Grommit, Chicken Run, the W&G shorts, and I look forward to the movie. Great job on the modeling. Makes sure that his eyes get that same look.

100,000 or 1,000,000,000? Does it really make a difference when one doesn't get credit or a web link?

Wow! Awesome work!

I didn't see this until today. I've enjoyed a nice vacation the past week. Vern, excellent post. I, too, often have to remind myself to examine the work, and not necessarily the message (in constructive criticism instances). Bjorn, we can go around and around all day on this, and we would probably both enjoy it. But to answer your basic question, AiG is not just a "creation vs. evolution" organization, but they are all about the Bible being the accurate, authoritative, inspired Word of God and literal history of the universe. They focus most on the origins debate because that's where "the world" attacks Christianity the most ("The Bible isn't true because evolution proves it false"). But the one issue that really discourages me is when people turn this issue into a "science vs. religion" debate, which it is not. Creationist and evolutionists share the same evidence, the same facts, but have different interpretations. I better stop there before I get into another debate and this topic gets closed. This does grieve me. Like Vern has experienced, many Christians are not actually living by the words that they preach. Truth and love; that's what it's all about. But so many Christians shout the truth without love, and end up hurting people. Especially in my field, I hear many Christians say (in some sense), "You're going to hell because you believe in evolution." Without being judgmental, I try to distance myself from attitudes such as this because it is hurting Christianity. I'm sure almost all on this forum have had some bad experience with Christians. The best answer that I can give to that is that those people were not living by the Word they preach. There I go again. I need to get back on topic. ... I just chatted with AiG's web guys and they said that the Get Start page (with my animation on it) has received over 100,000 visits since its launch. Obviously, it's not as popular as the rest of the site because the majority of the daily 50,000 visitors are already familiar with AiG and probably don't need to "get started."

Thanks for the compliments, guys! Oh yeah! You should see the lobby! They're really built that up nice in the past month.

Thank you! I think that it's cool to hear from my friends in AiG's web team that many skeptics are writing complimenting the website redesign but hating the content. Many would probably agree with me that it's nice to see a Christian company with quality in their production since so many religious organizations are known for poor-quality stuff. The reflections are using my metal material with a slight glow, and a particular lighting setup that I should diagram sometime for everyone. The basics of my metal are: Gray diffusion About 60% reflectivity Reflectivity blend to 0% (very important) Additive environment map of just white strokes on black And a glow, which I can't recall I'd give you the link to the material, but I'm redesigning my own website, so stuff is moving around. BTW, I checked with the AiG web team and they said that AnswersInGenesis.org averages over 200,000 unique visitors every week, with about half a million unique visitors every month. Page views are in the millions each month.

None at all. We're like brothers here—we can duke it out over certain issues, but stick together over others.

Oops. I forgot to specify that. Yes, I did the 3D logo animation.