CG Environments

Wow, its been a long long time since I posted anything here, Can’t believe the last entry was way back in July. Anyway here’s 3 recent environment that I did for a class demo. Average time spent per environment is 3-4 hours. Stay tuned, I will probably upload the making of videos soon on my youtube channel.

Who Should Be Playing LKY in the 1965 movie?

You know the loud groaning sound you heard all over singapore last week- that’s the collective noise made by every single living singaporean on this island rolling their eyes so far back into their head, they could actually see the roots of their hair sprouting from the back of their skulls when they heard Tong Leung was going to be playing Lee Kuan Yew in a new movie called 1965.

Which Tong Leung again?

Oh, this guy…

Let’s see, the last 2 period dramas that Tony Leung starred in that was roughly set somewhere between WW2 and the mid 60s is Lust, Caution and In the Mood For Love.

In Lust, Caution, Tony Leung plays a roguishly handsome Japanese collaborator who has a lot of sex with a Chinese female resistance fighter.

In the other movie- In the Mood for Love, Tony Leung plays a roguishly handsome journalist who stares longingly at Maggie Cheung while hoping to have a lot of sex.

Roguishly handsome, sex and romance- yeah, I could totally see the striking resemblance there.

Handsome, romantic and sexy- the very 3 words that is as far from your mind as you can think of when LKY comes to mind. In fact when I think of LKY, the only adjectives that I can come up with is merciless ass-kicker.

Which is why, the only HK actor who can portray LKY in all his merciless ass-kicking glory is HK very own Ass-kicker du jour of the hour- Donnie Yen himself.

Don’t believe me?

Just check out this homemade teaser trailer and see if you still disagree with me-

4km Speed Work by marctan at Garmin Connect – Details

4km Speed Work by marctan at Garmin Connect – Details.

Forerunner 310XT vs RS300X

Its time I get myself a proper heart rate monitor after the cheapo version died on me a few months ago. After looking through all options, I think it boils down to these 2 choices- its either a Garmin Forerunner 310XT or a Polar RS300X.

Out of all the available choices, these are the only heart rate monitors that allows the user to measure their heart rate while swimming which is a good thing for biathlon training. I am not particularly partial to either design. In fact I find most heart rate monitors to be quite lacking in this department. The only design that I find appealing is the Forerunner 610 which however is not waterproof.

Both comes with GPS, ability to sync with your computer, speed/ distance monitor- the usual stuff. I think the biggest difference is probably the batteries. The garmin being a rechargeable type while the polar requires you to bring the watch to service center to get its batteries changed on a yearly basis.

Choices, choices…

A New Fitness Milestone.

Today I hit a new fitness milestone. I have successfully reduced my resting heart rate to 49.

 

According to wikipedia, Miguel Indurain, a 5 time Tour de France winner actually had a resting heart rate of 29 beats per minute! Incredible.

Men
Age	18-25	26-35	36-45	46-55	56-65	65+
Athlete	49-55	49-54	50-56	50-57	51-56	50-55
Excellent	56-61	55-61	57-62	58-63	57-61	56-61
Good	62-65	62-65	63-66	64-67	62-67	62-65
Above Average	66-69	66-70	67-70	68-71	68-71	66-69
Average	70-73	71-74	71-75	72-76	72-75	70-73
Below Average	74-81	75-81	76-82	77-83	76-81	74-79
Poor	82+	82+	83+	84+	82+	80+