Posts on Chris Offner

First Post

Sat, 20 Jan 2024 22:15:56 +0100

This is a first post. Here is bold and italic text, as well as a link.

H2 headline

A quote.

Code

This is what code looks like:

def some_code(x, y):
    return x + y

LaTeX notation

Here \(f = x^2\) is an inline function, followed by the display-mode expression \[g(x) = \frac{f(2x)}{\int_{-\infty}^\infty f(x) dx}\]

Blender, Maya & MODO: Context-Sensitive Behaviour

Fri, 01 Apr 2016 00:00:00 +0100

In this video I talk about the concept of context-sensitive behaviour and how I personally find it highly beneficial as a UX design concept for facilitating a fluent and intuitive artist workflow. MODO, Maya and Blender have their different approaches and degrees of implementation of this principle but Blender’s modelling tools are where I found myself missing this paradigm the most – maybe others feel similarly and this video can serve as inspiration to further a discussion on this topic. 🙂

I Remember the Future

Wed, 02 Sep 2015 00:00:00 +0100

I Remember the Future is a short film I wrote, produced, and directed, and for which I created the visual effects. Here’s some behind the scenes material:

Golden Spiral in MODO

Tue, 18 Aug 2015 00:00:00 +0100

The question how to best achieve an editable golden spiral in MODO came up in the forums so I thought I’d demonstrate two different setups that make this possible. Enjoy! 🙂