Facebook Thing

Nothing much today or the past month. Neck deep in coding. Also got my hands on an actual plastic model after a long while and started on it. Heavyarms is quite nice. Also started a Facebook page just for kicks. FB page. Not much there now, but I'd like to put things there that I don't think would go here.

Break

Taking a few more weeks off to concentrate on Marathon training and some traveling.

HD: Failure: Alleviated

Hard Drive 1 crashed this morning. Have to restore everything. Will definately take the day to restore. EDIT: Nevermind. Replaced the defective drive with the already mounted 2nd drive over lunch. It seems that the 2nd drive will do fine as a replacement. Need to buy 1 extra drive to copy what's on the replacement drive and copy what work I've backed up on the external to the replacement. Just as sort of a note: The work so far done has been backed up in multiple places in the following forms... External 120GB HD (USB2) - Noncompressed. No encryption. Stored as is. Stored after every project step. (the most up-to-date backup). Sony HI-MiniDisc Drive - Compressed. Each project on 1 standard MD Disc (300MBper disc - 256bit Encryption). Stored after completion of 1 project. DVD-RW Drive - Appx 4.3GB about 10 -15 projects per disc. Compressed. 256bit encryption before writing to disc. Stored after completion of at least 10 projects. (the least up-to-date). CD-RW Drive - Appx 700MB per disc. 1 - 2 projects per disc. Compressed. 256 bit Encryption before writing to disc. Stored every 2 projects. External Network Storage Service - per project compression. 256bit encrytion before transmission. 128bit encrytion on top during transmission. Stored after completion of 1 project. External Network Storage Service 2 - per project compression. 256bit encrytion before transmission. 128bit encrytion on top during transmission. Stored after completion of 1 project. Redundancy is an asset.

Project Names

Note: No guarantee is made that any or all sections of these projects will be completed, either in a timely manner or at all. Anaheim Machines Project (or AMP). AMP sections that are completed are colored in red. AMP1 (Anaheim Machines Project 1) is the "goal" project. Based on the first 5 minutes of Gundam Seed Episode (phase) 50, this animation requires the use of the Gundams Freedom, Providence, Buster, Duel, Raider and the METEOR mobile armor. The scene is set in space between the earth and the moon spheres. It requires an asteroid (or junk) field, the escape pod from the Dominion Battleship and possibly the presence of the Archangel Battleship. AMP2 (Anaheim Machines Project 2) [updated] is the secondary project. Based on the final 5-10 minutes of Gundam Seed Destiny Episode (phase) 34, this animation is actually the fight between Freedom and Force Impulse Gundam. Additionally, Zaku Warrior and Gouf Ignited units will be present (and be destroyed). Also required is the Sword Silhouette used by the Impulse as well as the Silhouette Flyer. The scene is set in the middle of a blizzard in the mountains of Germany. However there are a few changes planned for this. First, the Sword Silhouette will feature some radical changes to incorporate more weaponry. Second, the Strike Rouge with IWSP and the Archangel and Minerva will be needed and parts of each destroyed. AMP3 (Anaheim Machines Project 3) is the launching of the Strike Freedom from the Eternal support ship and subsequent battle with opposing mobile suits (Gouf and Zaku variants). AMP (Anaheim Machines Project Alpha) is the Alpha test project. Simply containing basic animations or stills of various Zeta Gundam and Advance of Zeta episode scenarios. These include Zeta Gundam, Hazel (Custom Hazel, Rah variations), Gaplant (and "Fiver" predecessor), Rick Dias, Asshimar (and "Kehaar" predecessor), Gundam MKII. No animation is planned. AMP ((Anaheim Machines Project Beta) is the Beta test project. The ground based mobile suit battle from the 08th MS TEAM, regarding the EZ-8, Gouf Custom, Gundam RX-79G, and GM RGM79G. Scenes are expected but no animation is planned.