T. Wade Murphy - Sketchbook

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Current digital artwork, drafts, ideas, and projects. AKA IrishArtist
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Kandolo
April 01, 2005
ITS DONE!!!!!
Feather: A Tale of a Rabbit, a Bird, and a Hunter

My animation is finished! And you all thought it would never happen ;)
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Kandolo
March 08, 2005
Wahoo!!
Oh hell yeah!

I just found out that I am going to be an IRTS Fellow this summer. What does this mean?

Well, the IRTS Fellowship is essentially an all expense paid internship in New York City. They accept only 25 of the best and brightest people in the nation for this. I'm telling you - competition wa…
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Kandolo
March 04, 2005
New Sprite Editor Released
The new Sprite Editor, featuring a GUI designed by yours truly, has just been released alongside the uber-awesome free and fully featured FlatRedBall game engine.

Here's a screenshot.



GUI is still under construction. While the engine is fully functional, we are still working non-stop on it. Keep up w…
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Kandolo
February 15, 2005
New Portfolio Site Launch!
Click here to check out my new website.

(Check out the streaming flash video... made the player myself even! ;P)
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Kandolo
February 09, 2005
First Minute of "Feather"
After a short pause to finish the bird and get it rigged, I've finally extended the intro to this animation just a little bit. Now I'm up to a minute -- two months to my festival deadline!!! *sweats*

(download it from this directory... its XVid, so you'll need either videolan(.org) or the xvid codec…
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Kandolo
February 07, 2005
Job hunting...
Still looking for a permanent job. I just sent out an app at the Walker *crosses fingers* along with about 15 - 20 apps to a bunch of small production companies that I've never heard of.

All my business major friends already have jobs lined up... and they tell me "You did realize you were asking for…
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Kandolo
February 05, 2005
Ideas Festival
Each year, Indiana University hosts Ideas Festival, which includes a category for game design. If anyone is interested its http://www.ideasfest.org
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Kandolo
February 02, 2005
D'oh!
You might notice a lot of broken links on old posts. I changed domains to http://www.tomwademurphy.com

Until I take the time to fix them, just change the domain manually to view them.
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Kandolo
February 02, 2005
Recent Work
Just tossing around some stuff I recently uploaded...

Finally after working for NASA for an entire year I get to move out of the subsurface and into space hehehe. Here's a quick render of a couple planets in no particular order or scale.





Kind of an odd pose... and with a blue wash over it. But, the f…
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Kandolo
February 02, 2005
I'm... still alive :)
School and work have been taking up a lot of my time lately. Currently looking for a job to get me the hell outta indiana. I just had my senior thesis show and participated in a group show that were both huge successes. Things are starting to slow down and open up, so expect me to start posting aga…
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Kandolo
October 09, 2004
Foresty...
Making a forest in 3d is tough... But I'm making due. Here's what I have so far...

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Kandolo
October 08, 2004
Yarr!!
Finished my pirate flash game.

Play it Here
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Kandolo
October 08, 2004
Rabbits
Yeah, so I've been away for a long time... Busy as ever with classes etc. I'm still here tho... busy working away on an animation project.

Here's a recent render...

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Kandolo
September 19, 2004
Updates updates updates....
This has been a busy assed semester! I think I'm going to have to drop one of my classes... no time for anything!!

I've got the basic mechanism down for my dinky lil flash game I'm making for my game design class. Here's a demo: http://projects.kandolo.com/pirate/demo1.swf

Starting a new animation, s…
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Kandolo
September 04, 2004
New Artist's Statement: Rough Draft
Most recently I've come across the notion that I've lost the sense of wonder that used to be so pervasive in my childhood. Experience devolves into repetition, the exotic turns mundane, and naivety now feels nostalgic.

This realization, this inquiry, this apperception, this loss of a vital function…
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Kandolo
September 01, 2004
School school school....
Its a tough transition coming back to school after spending an entire summer making my own schedule and sleeping in every day. I'm starting to get adjusted.

Last Monday my first class was Drawing 1 at 6:45 PM.... I know what you are thinking... why the hell am i taking Drawing 1? Its my last studio …
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Kandolo
August 25, 2004
Financial Aid Woes
Its that time of year again... time to be angry at financial aid!!

So, I get my refund check today. It was nice and hefty, but it essentially was just my grant, no loans. So, I keep calling the bursars office all morning, but kept receiving a busy signal. I finally get through, and then I'm on hold.…
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Kandolo
August 24, 2004
MMMMmmm.... Decisions decisions.
No new art to show (sorry, been lazy today). However, I just found my new favorite cheese. I'm amazed. Its a cheese thats flavored like horseradish. Doesn't sound very appetizing, does it?

But it is!!!!

So, I'm currently pondering which art history I should take. I can take a cool easy 300 level Japa…
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Kandolo
August 24, 2004
Pirate Board
So, I didn't get much done today. Shortly after I started to get to work my friends stormed my apartment and decided I was having a party.

Nonetheless I got started on a "pirate card table" piece 'o GUI for Acoustica and Fruny's game. Its by far not finished, but here's the rough draft:



(The skull an…
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Kandolo
August 23, 2004
Hmph
So I spent a lot of time fiddling with my journal template... only to just give up and place something simple... Aaahhhhh!!!!!
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Kandolo
August 22, 2004
More Stuff
Here's another test image in the rachel series...



And a test card I made for Fruny and Acoustica's Pirate Game (Arrgghh!!!)

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Kandolo
August 22, 2004
Prints
I've begun some work creating some print digital composite photography (as per a large grant I just received). Here are a couple tests from the "Rachel" series.


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Kandolo
August 17, 2004
Radiosity and HDRI Lighting
So I finally took the time to learn HDRI lighting in combination with Radiosity with Cinema 4d... and now I'm kicking myself for not doing it earlier. In my defence, up until recently I haven't had the computer where this type of render was practical. Any how, here's the amazing difference...



I'm de…
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Kandolo
August 17, 2004
*YAWNS*
So I'm officially on vacation for the next couple of weeks :) Though unfortunately still "on call" at work... I should be getting my grant money here in a few days too, so that could be pretty motivating.

I've been toying around with this image, started out as a doodle, but I keep adding to it. I pu…
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Kandolo
August 14, 2004
Cinema 4d R9!!!!!!!!!!
I just noticed that C4d release 9 came out. Its amazing. Check it out - HERE

*screams like a girl*
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Kandolo
August 11, 2004
Deadlines schmeadlines
Been working overtime this week (money, woo hoo!) but unfortunately its sapped all my energy. On the bright side, if this EPO report we are putting together goes well, NASA might re-issue a new grant centered around this project I'm creating. Wooo hoo! I hope that means a raise :)

Enturu is going we…
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Kandolo
August 10, 2004
Character Animation
Here are two recent full renders of the hero in Enturu. These require Quicktime with MP4 capability.


First, a basic walk.



Now, a bit of movement...
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