Author: Ian

What happened to No Man’s Sky?

Like a lot of people I had been looking forward to No Man’s Sky for some time. However I didn’t preorder it, and when it was announced that it would not be a multiplayer game I decided …

Building a PC for Blender

I’ve been playing with blender for a while now and I’ve reached the point where my laptop is just not up to the job. I have increasingly found that I abandon projects as adjusting materials and lighting requires …

Rendering Minecraft in Blender

I’ve been having an on and off love affair with Blender for three years now. While it’s true that the interface is bordering on user-hostile once you begin to understand the Blender way of doing things it is an incredibly capable …

Peeking behind the curtain

Recently I’ve begun experimenting with things I would have thought impossible a few years ago. The python script I wrote last week and the data scraping project that I’ve yet to write about have both made me realise that …

What’s my motivation?

Why am I writing? I wanted a new project, I have an interest in the web and I wanted to improve my writing. I had been thinking about learning a new programming language for a while and …