Here’s 2 good new links for you:

cgtextures is the best texture site I know of.

stockfootageforfree offers what it says, stock footage for free.

I added my website to coolhomepages.com. It’s a good reference for web designers; it provides inspiration and examples of all sorts of designs. So when you submit your site to their database and they think it’s cool, YOU WIN AN AWARD!!!!!

So yeah, my site is one of the top few hundred thousand or so web sites listed on coolhomepages.com. Yea, kinda of a big deal. In other link news, I have removed ColorPrintUSA from the blogroll because the guy who emailed me about offering me work in exchange for a link never sent me one single thing to work on.

Head over to www.colorprintusa.com if you need just about anything printed or designed.

I’m looking to freelance as a designer for the services they provide, so contact me or them to get started with any print design you need.

I finally got on FLICKR and to upload some of my photos. I’ve always liked photography, which lends itself to many motion graphics and 3D design related techniques I use. I’m not too great at it yet, but I always keep my camera handy ready to capture that unforgettable moment…

Like when a tortoise wanders into your backyard.

Originally uploaded by bigmikedesign

I used to have a Mitsubishi Galant, I wonder if it was made by these robots.

The ad agency that developed the Idea was BBDO in Toronto and the visual effects were done by The Mill.

I have not located the whereabouts of any basketball-playing-robots generator/plugins that I can get for Cinema 4D, have any of you?

I recently stumbled upon a useful tool in Cinema 4D on how to keep cameras (or any object for that matter) locked in the same position.Quite often I mistakenly moved my camera in the viewer window, and Cinema 4D doesn’t allow you to revert back to the view you just had, so essentially your perhaps perfect camera angle is gone. The only solution  was to add only one set of keyframes to the position values at a specific frame. But their has to be another way…. 

And there is. I stumbled upon the “Protection” tag in the Cinema 4D tags menu.

So in the Object Manager ->Tags -> Cinema 4D Tags -> Protection.It works for anything else too, its the equivalent to locking something in Photoshop and After Effects.

I’ve found a new site I’m going to link to:

the c4d base

Excellent source of Cinema 4D tips and tutorials. This site has a ton to offer for C4D users.

Check out my first tutorial, it shows you how to create a paper rip effect in After effects. It’s a cool technique I’ve used in a few car commercials I’ve done. Check out the Tutorials Page to watch it. Sorry I’m not the best at these yet, I’ll get better at them in the future, so excuse my long-winded explanations.