In October, a friend was able to fly down and we took a long weekend for a longboarding trip in SoCal.  Gotta say, alot of fun and took a bunch of pics/vids with my iPod Touch 4g which turned out surprisingly nice (especially the video).  We cruised all over, mostly in San Diego, Del Mar, Encinitas, and Carlsbad.  My Original Torpedo 40 held up nicely.  I should get some pics up.

Also just recently, I got my first car!  I know, for being 22 I’m kinda late to the party but haven’t really needed one very much up until this point, as a longboard or my fam’s bimmer seemed to work out well enough.  So, I was able to get a 2005 VW Jetta – the exact make/model/color I’d been looking at for quite a while.  Super sporty and looks almost new – no dents, just a few very small paint chips from door dings – but that’s to be expected for a 5 year old car.  Overall, couldn’t be more excited about it.  Looks and drives great – again, I’ll have to get some pics up soon…

Games I’m currently playing – PC:  Call of Duty Black Ops, PS3:  Need for Speed Hot Pursuit (2010) and Assassin’s Creed Brotherhood to name a few.  The PC gaming clan I’m in switched from COD4 and MW2 to Black Ops for the most part, and has been fun ever since Activision evened out some of the bugs and glitches to hit the PC version.  Looking forward to Gran Turismo 5 coming out next week! (Nov. 24)

I’ve done a couple upgrades to my custom comp recently.  I upgraded my graphics card in the past couple months from the EVGA GTX 280 to EVGA GTX 480 SC+ and have had nothing but great times with it.  Runs super cool and quiet with Precision.  Now the 580’s out, but don’t see a big enough difference between the two to make me want to buy it.  I also recently purchased a new 1TB internal hdd for a new install of Windows 7 Ultimate 64-bit.  Really enjoying the faster boot times and features compared to Vista Ultimate 64 – plus, DX11 is nice, especially in Metro 2033.

And probably the biggest news of all, I’m currently super busy preparing to move to the LA area in the next couple weeks!  I know that’s the place I gotta go to lift my career off the ground and attend further schooling.  And of course the longboarding in that area is sick, haha.   Hmm…I should attempt surfing sometime…

Since I’ve been mostly posting about my designs/projects up until now, I thought it’d be nice for me to start adding some more personal posts about anything and everything.  I’ll try to keep this blog up and going by posting more often – thanks to all the readers that are still following and I hope to also update my website with some recent projects in the near future.

I’ve imported all posts/comments to my domain hosted blog (including full archives) and updated/fixed links and images for every post. Soon I will be implementing the code to redirect each McSAnimations Log post to the corresponding post on Breakaway.

The transition over the next couple days should go smoothly, but if you run across any bad links or redirecting bugs, let me know. Also, any bookmarks, rss feeds, or links you’ve made to McSAnimations Log should still work correctly, but I would suggest changing them to Breakaway for future posts.

(I will be removing all links on McSAnimations Log to my digital art (currently hosted on Photobucket.com). I am now hosting my digital art directly on my website.)

Please send me any bug reports you come across.  Thanks and enjoy!

Tested on iPhone OS 2.2.1 (3.0 soon).

The Art of Brady McIntosh

(I will keep McSAnimations going for quite a while, as I have no need to disable that site yet – but all of my latest renders/news will be posted on my new site.)

I’ve been coding/designing bradymcintosh.com since May and finally have it almost finished (there are still a few pages under construction – like the About pages on my website and blog – need to figure out what to write about myself, lol) I used the Joomla CMS for my website, so that’s taken quite a while to get used to. It allows me to design my entire site visually without having to know a whole bunch of html/php/etc., but I ended up doing alot of coding myself so I could customize things to my liking. I started out with a premade design, but barely anything is left of it visually and most of the code has changed for the better.

Among other things, one new feature that I’ve implemented on bradymcintosh.com is flash galleries for all my digital art! Very happy with how it turned out and easy for me to keep adding to them. The flash galleries can also handle videos which is quite nice.

My new blog is for everything (including film/game/book reviews, photography, etc., etc.) except my digital art (for now). I’ll be keeping McSAnimations Log for my 3d stuff. You can check out my new blog here:

Breakaway

I started out with Blogger on my website (on my own server), but with that you can only use Blogger default themes…and I didn’t really dig their default themes, so I trashed that in a hurry. Again, I wanted more control over everything and custom designs, so I decided to try out WordPress. I’ve been amazed with WordPress and it’s expandibility and am so glad I tried it out. I would definitely use WordPress over Blogger anytime now. There are so many custom plug-ins, themes, and widgets that make it your own blog. So, sign up for my RSS feeds on my new blog and comment all you like!

Bug reporting: if you come across any bugs on bradymcintosh.com of my blog, please use the Contact form on my website and let me know about them (i’ll hopefully be able to figure them out).

Hopefully you haven’t gotten bored reading this long post, lol. Thought I should at least post about what’s been going on and no – I haven’t forgotten about this blog, lol. I’m still around and have a few more projects up my sleeve (which you’ll see soon enough).

McSAnimations

If you come across any errors or missing links, please send me an email. Thanks!