Rigging

The Guardian has a video of vote-rigging in progress in the recent Zimbabwe election. The video shows the organisation of the rigging process. As has been documented before, basically there is no such thing as a secret ballot in Robert Mugabe's Zimbabwe. That means of course that there is no democracy.

The Guardian has an astonishing underground video of vote-rigging in the Zimbabwe election as well as how the violence is organised and of MDC Deputy Tendai Biti, a heroic man, in prison.The video was shot by a very brave police officer. Police were made to vote in front of 'war veterans' - no secrecy.Shepherd Yuda, a 36-year-old prison officer, fled the country two nights ago. His wife and childr

Britains Got Talent fans have accused the shows bosses of rigging the results, the past four nights has seen the person who performed last get through to Saturday’s final. The first was on Monday, when we saw the Michael Jackson dance act Signature, they performed last as a result ended up with the most votes. [...]

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President Robert Mugabe has his own unique way of winning elections, simply stuff ballot boxes with your name and the result is a “victory” for the government. The Movement for Demcoratic Change which won the election in Zimbabwe said during the “recount” boxes are simply being stuffed with the name of Mugabe and his party [...]

MasterClass Series - Advanced Character Rigging with 3ds MaxRigging a character is an important and challenging part of the video game and VFX workflow. Sergio Mucino, accomplished video effects and games artist discusses how to use "layered rigging" to create both simple and advanced character rigs. The rig is the "user interface" to your character - it must be clear and precise to allow as much control as possible when animating your character.The session begins by demonstrating technical character rigging workflow and introduces skeletal design for advanced skinning deformations. It continues with topics such as advanced controllers, wires, expressions, scripts and embedded procedural animation. It finishes with skinning and morphing of facial expressions, the use of proxy geometry, a

mcmaxMasterClass Series - Advanced Character Rigging with 3ds MaxRigging a character is an important and challenging part of the video game and VFX workflow. Sergio Mucino, accomplished video effects and games artist discusses how to use "layered rigging" to create both simple and advanced character rigs. The rig is the "user interface" to your character - it must be clear and precise to allow as much control as possible when animating your character.The session begins by demonstrating technical character rigging workflow and introduces skeletal design for advanced skinning deformations. It continues with topics such as advanced controllers, wires, expressions, scripts and embedded procedural animation. It finishes with skinning and morphing of facial expressions, the use of proxy geometry

Catfish anglers have lots of rigging options. Everybody has their favorite rigging method, and certain methods work better under certain conditions. Here is a look at rigging your fishing pole. Different Types of Rigging Tightlining - This is where you rig your hook in the middle of the line, with a weight attached at the [...]

eBOOK Details Publisher Focal Press Release Date January 14, 2008 ISBN 0240520823 eBOOK Decsription Discover the concepts and techniques required to rig engaging CG character models with Maya in this unique book and DVD package. The stunning color images show just what you can achieve, and the detailed step-by-step tutorials show exactly how to achieve them. Every technique and tip is

Peach es un corto 3D (página web de la producción aqui) enteramente hecho en Blender y apoyado por la Blender Foundation (Blender es un software de 3D gratuito y de código abierto que podeis descargar aqui o pasaros por la página web oficial del programa). Uno de los integrantes del proyecto (un tal Nathan, al que habia que cortarle las manos) ha subido un video al tubo mostrando el rigging del personaje Big Buck Bunny que es, sencillamente, para quitarse el sombrero. Aún no me explico de que manera lo han logrado, pero el resultado es espectacular. Os lo posteo porque, en serio, vale la pena. Yo seguiré con mis sliders de toda la vida, mientras encuentro algo mejor.

The Pakistan Telecommunication Authority (PTA) has issued a memorandum to the country’s ISPs to block access to the video sharing website YouTube for allegedly featuring a blasphemous video. According to the Pakistani “Don’t Block The Blog” there are two theories that could explain PTA’s recent move to ban YouTube: vote rigging videos showing alleged evidence of [...]

Article published Tuesday, March 13, 2007 2 election workers get 18 months for rigging presidential recount ASSOCIATED PRESS CLEVELAND (AP) — A judge suspicious of more corruption pressed two former election board workers to tell what they know and then sentenced them today to the maximum 18 months in prison for rigging the 2004 presidential election recount to make their job easier.“I can’t help but feel there’s more to this story,” said Cuyahoga County Common Pleas Court Judge Peter Corrigan, who allowed the women to remain free on bond pending appeal. Some of their friends and relatives sobbed as the judge imposed the sentence.The judge repeatedly asked Jacqueline Maiden, 60, an election coordinator who was the Cuyahoga County board’s third-highest ranking employe

What did you do on Saturday night? Me, I sat at my girlfriends brothers house and watched The X Factor... it was a most joyous occasion! Sarcasm aside, I did actually watch The X Factor final (and in my defense I wasn't sober, suitably choosing cider as the days tipple to ensure the events of the evening would easily be forgotten) and what a bag of wank that show is.. read more

Consumer advocate and 2004 independent presidential candidate Ralph Nader sued the Democratic Party on Tuesday, contending officials conspired to keep him from taking votes away from nominee John Kerry.read more | digg story

Los Angeles -- Stunning observers in the court room, Paris Hilton said that she is the one responsible for rigging several online polls in favor of Presidential candidate, Congressman Ron Paul.read more | digg story

The alpha version of the AS 3 rigging classes is now available for download.  This is the code base accompanying the FITC Toronto presentation on dynamic skeletal animation.  The download includes the entire Singularity package (including the parametric curve library). Read more here.

I need your help, To sway a very important decision. There’s a lot of talk in the media about elections at the moment. The Irish government are set to be decided soon in election. There are plenty of column inches dedicated to when Tony Blair is moving on and Gordon Brown can move next door. But one [...]

In the following press release  United States Attorney James A. McDevitt for the State of Washington announced that Douglas Henry Lemon, age 56, a resident of Yakima, Washington, pleaded guilty today to Filing a Fraudulent Income Tax Return. Sentencing has been scheduled for March 15, 2007. According to Douglas Lemon’s Plea Agreement, Bacil W. Shirley, who was an auctioneer, shared money that he received from a third-party in exchange for unlawfully reducing the price of United States property after it was sold at a public auction. According to the plea agreement, Shirley gave the money to Douglas Lemon in an effort to appease him because Shirley had promised Douglas Lemon that he would be able to obtain the same Yakima property sold on January 10, 2003. Douglas Lemon accepted and kept $1,000 that Shirley gave him after knowing that the third-party had obtained the property at an unlawfully reduced price. Douglas Lemon intentionally failed to report the $1,000 as taxable inc

Well, if Dave and I didn’t convince the neighbors that we’re complete idiots on Halloween, I’m confident we’ve done it now. Yesterday, we set out to put our outdoor Christmas lights up. It went about as well for us as it did for that guy in the The 12 Pains of Christmas song. I was optimistic when we started. The boxes of Christmas decorations were clearly labeled and easy to access in our new outbuilding. I had tested the Christmas lights, separated each strand and packed them carefully for our move just two months ago, so I had every reason to believe that they would work. I was wrong. Despite my best packing efforts, I opened the light box to discover a ball of tangled cord confusion. We worked tirelessly to unravel it, spreading each cord out onto the front lawn in order to avoid a recurrence of the magical cord melding phenomenon that took place since we packed them. Then, we began testing the lights. We thought the white lights would look best, so we

My interview with BET's "Cousin Jeff" Johnson is currently the number one feature on HipHopDX. This is rare for a political piece, but Jeff has certainly got folks' attention with his latest move to work for a man some people readily compare to Satan - Ohio Secretary of State and Gubernatorial candidate Ken Blackwell, who many credit with "handing" Bush the election in 2004 through a myriad of voter disenfranchisement practices. His new job as the Blackwell Gubernatorial campaign's "advocate to young and urban voters" is causing quite a stir among politically minded hip hoppers and Black folk in general, and there are some good comments from both sides under the story. In the interview Jeff is quite revealing about why he choose to support Blackwell, and our talk gave me a lot of insight into the shady world of politricks. I hate this system. And trust, soon as the latest beef between two blockhead rappers or "bad bitches" comes out you will qu

My interview with BET's "Cousin Jeff" Johnson is currently the number one feature on HipHopDX. This is rare for a political piece, but Jeff has certainly got folks' attention with his latest move to work for a man some people readily compare to Satan - Ohio Secretary of State and Gubernatorial candidate Ken Blackwell, who many credit with "handing" Bush the election in 2004 through a myriad of voter disenfranchisement practices. His new job as the Blackwell Gubernatorial campaign's "advocate to young and urban voters" is causing quite a stir among politically minded hip hoppers and Black folk in general, and there are some good comments from both sides under the story. In the interview Jeff is quite revealing about why he choose to support Blackwell, and our talk gave me a lot of insight into the shady world of politricks. I hate this system. And trust, soon as the latest beef between two blockhead rappers or "bad bitches" comes out you will qu

Catfish anglers have lots of rigging options. Everybody has their favorite rigging method, and certain methods work better under certain conditions. Here is a look at rigging your fishing pole. Different Types of Rigging Tightlining - This is where you rig your hook in the middle of the line, with a weight attached at the [...]