Mike's Stuff

Happy new year 🎉.. traditionally late as i needed a few days to recover!:) Wanted to add some animated fireworks on a older static piece i did 2 years ago. Started off well and finished quickly.. then i started animating the characters and got carried away. All done in Blender using Eevee. Post in Premier. Higher rez video below  Some issues: Subsurf modifier makes the render speeds jump up astronomically. Went from 5 sec per frame.. to 30 sec per frame. Transparency modes other then clipped shows up in volumes. Odd reflection issues.

Early halloween piece :)

Happy Halloween! Not very big here, did go trick or treating a few times.. mainly as a cover to egg some houses. Spent a lot of time with rpg's tho :) Full over at Deviantart

Hmm not even sure the Vortex club exists yet.. ah well 😃 Full over at Deviantart

First time mucking around with Blender, its quite nice but need to learn a lot of key commands! Couldn't help myself with the title :) I really hope the live action is good, but have some reservations like how will they handle the choices Max needs to make? I'm assuming they will stick to a linear story arc. Can only hope its as good a Stranger Things. Full size here

LiS mini comic time. Not sure if any fireflies in Oregon.. Ah well, enjoy. Larger version over at Deviantart

Just a variation of the American Girls wallpaper DL from Deviantart .

Took some snap as it was barely detectable with the eye. Adjusted contrast to make it stand out more. Red filter used.

Some quick pics of the eclipse today. Slapped a welders mask on the lens and took some pictures. Tried the different filters as well. A photo posted by mike kossi (@mikekossi) on Mar 8, 2016 at 9:03pm PST

Took these after celebrating the new year. Also got my first close up of Jupiter. Nice way to kick off the new year :)  Light dot on the bottom left is Jupiter   Zoom into the light dot and Jupiter is revealed with 3 moons visible.

No clouds that night. Blue Filter

Took these while i could as clouds started to roll in. You can see them drifting across the face of the moon. Red Filter

Just testing the camera with the moon moving through the frame. Using red filter. Sped it up a bit.

No clouds so took some vids using red and blue filters.

Tooks some videos while we had some clear skies. Moon Waxing Crescent  31% Visible.   Blue filter   Red filter

Moon at different ISO levels.  ISO 400  ISO 360

 Large full moon last night, took some snaps.. need to play a bit with exposure levels.

Finally begged/borrowed a tripod and did a few zoom ins on the first quarter moon. They are little more stable but move around when touching the zoom button. Will need to get a remote next as the android app wont work in video mode. Blue filter Red filter

Finally got a tripod, so went out to snap the first quarter moon, Optical Zoom Digital full zoom

Here are some super moon videos, little cloudy tonight but managed some clear shots.