Nice picture above eh? Was messing about with Cinema 4d tonight trying to get a nice fluid and natural look for a text design. Above is the result after finding that best way to do this is by using the Bezier tool with the Meatball Object.

ElectroForms is software for mobile devices that allows users to create Excel documents using an extremely easy-to-use data capture interface.

Users enter data using forms, which are customised exactly to your requirements. This is then converted to an Excel document instantly when it is e-mailed from the device.

It is ideal for small businesses as it does not require any IT administration or maintenance, and no databases or file servers are required.

Doesn’t that sound great? Being out on the road working, logging various pieces of data about your job. Coming back to your office and the previously inputted data is waiting for you in a nice structured spreadsheet for you to work on. No fiddling. No lugging a Laptop about. No re-logging notes that you took when you were on the road.

Not just that. Imagine you were a company with several workmen out completing various jobs around your catchment area. Your central office will get the real-time situation with all jobs in a easy to understand/organise format.

The good folks at Electroforms have done a great job developing such software.

Good luck guys!

Here is a little animation test I rendered tonight:

I’m impressed how real the text is behaving as it falls. Forces acting upon the text are gravity and a slight wind in the x-plane to add a bit of variation.

Created with Cinema 4d and CS4

Love the layout to CS4. So much more organised and intuitive. Lucid Studio is going to reap the benifits from the increased productivity. Cinema 4d seems nice too. Need to have more of a playabout with it!

I’ve been run off my feet this week. Working in Lucid Studio and the god forsaken shit-hole that is 301 St Vincent Street. At last it is nearly the weekend.

Its been hard. 8am to 10pm all week. Wondering if I’m getting anywhere, and generally freaking out trying to meet the demands of my growing client base. But even through this hardship I’ve been chuffed at some of the stuff I’ve done. Like mixing 3d packages with photoshop for example. It makes me smile when it works. Have a look at this program: Swift3D. Its so easy to grasp it makes me want to party in my geeky little pants. I keep meaning to do another tutorial. If I get time this weekend I’ll do one integrating Swift with Photoshop.

It was also weird this week. I was in Glasgow walking to my part time ‘life assurance’ job and within the space of two or three minutes I saw four different posters on the streets that I had done in my little old room. Its a great sense of achievement. Not something I think you would come close to working for the man.

So now that I’ve slaved away all week, I bid yee all farewell. I’m off to revel in my glory by kicking back and living the British dream…

I’m going to get plastered out my mind.

Of course, I’ve seen WordPress before and was aware of it, but never actually looked at the nuts and bolts of it. I was smitten. Like only big fat geeks can be. Nearly 48 hours later (with an extremely drunken day of watching the mighty Scotland fall to those crazy Italians in between) I have launched my own wee blog and designed my own theme so I can let the world know of my geek status. Stuff Bebo. I want total control.

So Spunky, if you are looking for some WordPress confab. I’m yer man.

I’ve not got much on so far, so stay tuned, but the thing that has made me very interested in this place is the amount of plugins and various third party widgets that are out there. Just now I’ve got Daiko’s YouTube Widget on my sidebar. Which is nifty for reasons you can see.

I also installed Lightbox 2, which is an ajax based plugin allowing you to post thumbnails like below, click on the thumbnail and watch as the picture is displayed impressively. Go on, click on it to see the magic:

Anyway. I intend to stick at this site. From a web designers stand point the last day or so has opened a couple of doors for me and I may even consider using this site for clients in the future.