tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11592097003495812922024-03-20T22:41:05.422-07:00Stephen's BlogArtwork by Stephen HerczegStephen Herczeghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03049245441209167467noreply@blogger.comBlogger14125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1159209700349581292.post-72585820606619695272013-02-22T19:49:00.002-08:002013-02-22T19:49:26.681-08:00<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<br />Stephen Herczeghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03049245441209167467noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1159209700349581292.post-61392713562319843992012-03-17T14:19:00.004-07:002012-03-22T10:36:52.828-07:00Game<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div>I made this for my girlfriend for fun. It was inspired by an REI hiking quiz that we read together where you had survive by making cautionary hiking decisions. It is played by putting a sticky-note over each of the outcomes and letting the other person choose their path.. kind of like those old choose your adventure books. It is challenging consolidating the paths where each decision generates exponentially more outcomes, but it was SUPER fun to do. I want to print this on a big poster board one day.<br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div>Stephen Herczeghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03049245441209167467noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1159209700349581292.post-43564838542788156722011-05-13T09:54:00.001-07:002011-05-13T09:54:08.415-07:003rd Year Film<iframe frameborder="0" height="281" src="http://player.vimeo.com/video/23661604?title=0&byline=0&portrait=0" width="500"></iframe>Stephen Herczeghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03049245441209167467noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1159209700349581292.post-43326142698324030722010-12-26T20:55:00.000-08:002010-12-26T20:55:13.157-08:00CGI created this character over the course of the semester for a CG modeling class. We were fortunate to have Dan Platt teach and explain the foundation of a professional model. In the spring I'll give this guy clothes and rig him up. Done with zero triangles, 6-poly intersections, etc.<br />
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I had intended on designing a new ninja for the wall piece, but time got short and what I had did not cut it. The medium is duct tape. <br />
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Anyway, that's enough Japanese stuff for a while.Stephen Herczeghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03049245441209167467noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1159209700349581292.post-23753258464603846432009-12-01T12:54:00.000-08:002009-12-01T12:54:12.096-08:00Ninja<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhlKRCRu1HpcGeAeM4e453636WeW8O8yv_Ye07-soRWx1oiH6yKpSsOUlVJuqe-3qqfT80YnMcKUrVRJnVvFkxPZA_sMh-EcefjxLTUQYfNDl6MxhAUNmGvisGjUVpdIfykEigF5GYStGo5/s1600/Ninja_1.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhlKRCRu1HpcGeAeM4e453636WeW8O8yv_Ye07-soRWx1oiH6yKpSsOUlVJuqe-3qqfT80YnMcKUrVRJnVvFkxPZA_sMh-EcefjxLTUQYfNDl6MxhAUNmGvisGjUVpdIfykEigF5GYStGo5/s320/Ninja_1.jpg" /></a><br />
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I love Team Fortress, so here's to Valve and one of the most outrageous members of their brilliant band of badguys. <br />
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I had the wonderful opportunity to go to China this past summer! Although it was one of the busiest times of the year there (from what I hear) I had a great time! I stayed in Beijing and it turns out it was exactly one year after the 2008 Olympics. Beijing is a surprisingly safe and welcoming city; the young folks are very friendly and they all want to have a conversation with you. I couldn't go down the street for ten minutes without someone wanting to chat and practice their English, or have someone try to lure me into their private art gallery to make me buy something (which I fell for the first time). Some even ask if you can be in their photo for their own vacation pictures.<br />
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There is one street called Wangfujing street, and every night at 5 pm their outdoor food market opens up and they sell all sorts of creepy crawly things on kabobs. They have snake, cricket, squid, and what I <span style="font-style: italic;">think</span> are silk worms. I <span style="font-style: italic;">had</span> to get something, just to try something new<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjz9zBH586AI0HxU3ioBaTsIC82ZeLRp4sJMDQQ8HDS9l-0PdOf2HLcY5C1ly3LQwSaykLkRrhpvhyphenhyphen5gl2PWd2W6nNHGfYs504VWh-6yvxJYWr9lvnvGLjYQN7txq06K4-7UQVZPFRahm6l/s1600-h/0807091814a.jpg" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5372876568155615682" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjz9zBH586AI0HxU3ioBaTsIC82ZeLRp4sJMDQQ8HDS9l-0PdOf2HLcY5C1ly3LQwSaykLkRrhpvhyphenhyphen5gl2PWd2W6nNHGfYs504VWh-6yvxJYWr9lvnvGLjYQN7txq06K4-7UQVZPFRahm6l/s320/0807091814a.jpg" style="cursor: pointer; float: left; height: 171px; margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; width: 228px;" /></a>, and I got a kabob of little scorpions. They were crunchy and didn't taste like anything, and I imagine are much easier to eat than the squid.<br />
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Out of everything, the Great Wall was my personal favorite. I was by myself with a tour group filled with couples on vacation, and when we arrived everyone took the cable car up to the half way point on the wall. Another lone gentleman and I decided to take the stairs. So, while the rest of the group enjoyed the relaxing ride, little did they know that we had secretly engaged them in an epic footrace to the top. While there is no real "top," there is an end to the section of the wall, and we totally beat them there in the imaginary (but totally not) race.</div><div style="text-align: center;"><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiZdkuw7NAVKC6Q3e3KMirdnwcp0ASus3Ssj_dZvXg2ACYbv2XSGlQIWk30dBbZq5w-owBnUBdl2MKsq0k0LO2ke2vLxBjDghp668M18kWl6lQ9uBflPOhD-Nwjj2DDag5dis7yEZ9sw3kc/s1600-h/P10506862.jpg" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5375974711318953410" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiZdkuw7NAVKC6Q3e3KMirdnwcp0ASus3Ssj_dZvXg2ACYbv2XSGlQIWk30dBbZq5w-owBnUBdl2MKsq0k0LO2ke2vLxBjDghp668M18kWl6lQ9uBflPOhD-Nwjj2DDag5dis7yEZ9sw3kc/s200/P10506862.jpg" style="cursor: pointer; height: 150px; width: 200px;" /></a> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhE7ZQKTLuWXdcOi-CZpYQTwLJjp9zq3lDt9xlXXZ5pvAQbTfxWo4VVAWjUCDJF2htaI-QcA_iy-k_E2pUXISgCOr4mdHq90ZYRXZ9C_A339yJAWXIxtWUhOXYzGeCNjTl49_ynhg9MOOns/s1600-h/China1.JPG" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5375913718709722594" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhE7ZQKTLuWXdcOi-CZpYQTwLJjp9zq3lDt9xlXXZ5pvAQbTfxWo4VVAWjUCDJF2htaI-QcA_iy-k_E2pUXISgCOr4mdHq90ZYRXZ9C_A339yJAWXIxtWUhOXYzGeCNjTl49_ynhg9MOOns/s200/China1.JPG" style="cursor: pointer; height: 188px; width: 141px;" /></a><br />
<div style="text-align: left;">This is the last stretch of the wall, and boy was it a doozy. I never realized you could reach a point where stairs would be too difficult to climb. I figured you could just keep going one step at a time, take it slow, and eventually you would get there. Well, I was wrong.</div></div></div>Stephen Herczeghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03049245441209167467noreply@blogger.com1