ABOUT ME
Jon Parkins
Lots, professionally my main stay is IT Support and Management within the entertainment industy. I’ve worked in TV and film as well as game development. Not just limited to IT though, I’ve done VFX work on a couple features, and the show Supernatural for Warner Bros. Lighting on episodic TV earlier in my career and currently tech art in game development with Unreal at the studio I currently work for (as well as remotely managing all things IT!)
Outside of the professional stuff, in my spare time, when I have it! I like to wander around taking pictures, scuplt, attempt to draw, paint mini’s, and play games both of the digital and table top variety!
This site will mostly feature all the above randomness in some fashion or another!
ABOUT ME
Jon Parkins
Lots, professionally my main stay is IT Support and Management within the entertainment industy. I’ve worked in TV and film as well as game development. Not just limited to IT though, I’ve done VFX work on a couple features, and the show Supernatural for Warner Bros. Lighting on episodic TV earlier in my career and currently tech art in game development with Unreal at the studio I currently work for (as well as remotely managing all things IT!)
Outside of the professional stuff, in my spare time, when I have it! I like to wander around taking pictures, scuplt, attempt to draw, paint mini’s, and play games both of the digital and table top variety!
This site will mostly feature all the above randomness in some fashion or another!
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Proxmox Notifications and You!
Once I had the Proxmox server setup, and basic backups running to my NFS share that I had setup for the inital migration, I figured getting email notifications running would be a handy thing. I woul...
To Proxmox, and Beyond!
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]With Broadcoms acquisition of VMWare, and the subsequent killing of the free EXSi license, not to mention where licensing costs look like they are being driven too w...
Break Waters
Another from the day trip to Brighton, waves crashing on one of the jetty’s. A fine 15C+ day in the middle of October! Global warming has it’s perks I guess? But the south of the UK is pre...
Buskerville
Needed to do some street photography for a weekly challenge I do for 52Frames. Wandered the Embankment during the evening snapping random things and people my an old 50mm prime lens that I have. Big c...
Gary the Spider
It is spider season, damn things are everywhere! I hate spiders a lot, but I didn’t need to get near this guy, I just used my 200-500mm lens and stayed well away! They make for a nice photo and...
Tech Art Posts
Skin Weights with ngSkinTools
Basic concept using this tool is structuring things in layers. The layers will preserve what is under them, just like working in something like photoshop. Masks will allow you to set your blends betwe...
Advanced Skeleton Rigging Tool
My quick notes for using Advanced Skeleton, this greatly sped up my rigging learning process and setup. Can even easily change up and use existing rigs from auto riggers to apply to different models....
Learning to Rig!
Just some notes I took while going over basics for setting up a basic rig so I could work on fixing up some auto generated rigs from Mixamo for some quick prototyping in Unreal and mocap that I captur...