Dragon Boat Fun

Last weekend the dragon boat crews did a fun training day here in Wellington. The final event will be on 8th & 9th of March.

As you can see in the images the number of girls in the teams is quite high and seems to be the new girl sport here.

Sadly it was very windy and so they only could practice in the small area at the boat houses. But still they got up to pretty decent speed at this short range. I am really looking forward to the final event with hopefully better weather conditions.

Originally the dragon boats and racing comes from china and dates back to 400BC. It is based on a legend where Qu Yuan a Chinese statesman drowned him self as a protest. Fishermen rushed to him with their boats to rescue him.
Today it is a world wide sport and the different festivals are still associated to the  traditional Chinese Duen Ng Festival in Hong Kong.

As always you find some more pictures on my flickr site

modo - Camera Projections For Modelling

For a little side project I started a test how to create environment based on scan data. One thing that I missed in modo was a proper overscan feature in the 3D model view. It is possible with the preview renderer but using it for modelling is really not an option.

But I found a really good workaround by using camera projections. And I really prefer this method because it allows you to stay in the perspective view and you can really build up your environment in a fast way.

I am planing a little tutorial series about the whole workflow which will also cover the steps in photoscan. So stay tuned.