http://www.daniel-lim.co.uk This is the blog and online portfolio of Daniel Lim. Daniel Lim is a Junior Artist at Sony Computer Entertainment (Cambridge Studio, UK). He is currently working as an animator on Heavenly Sword for PS3. Wed, 23 Jul 2008 10:56:33 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en This whole thing needs a renovation. I simply must do it. http://www.daniel-lim.co.uk/2008/07/23/so-much-sorting-out-to-do/ The site was hacked, thanks to Adrian for letting me know! All fixed! Will need to update Wordpress in a bit... and who knows, maybe I might even post something ;) EDIT: So I might have lost something about Langkawi in the database replacement... I wouldn't worry about it! http://www.daniel-lim.co.uk/2008/04/28/hackz0rred/ I'm trying to think up a good way to display my portfolio. I want something that will be easily updatable (which is not the case with the current page), but also looks nice. I'm thinking of using WordPress to do it and I read a rather nice article about how ... http://www.daniel-lim.co.uk/2007/06/28/sorting-out-a-new-portfolio/ In case I hadn't mentioned it (which I haven't) Marie and I are moving house. We're moving to The Triangle, a new development near to the train station. Gone are the days of listening to the neighbour's babies scream at the top of their little lungs and we welcome in ... http://www.daniel-lim.co.uk/2007/06/27/moving-house-is-a-total-b-stard/ I've updated to the latest version of Wordpress. Apparently there's a few improvements and a couple of bugs they've sorted out since 2.2. I just know I haven't been at the mercy of comment spam for a long time. Other than that, I'm not really doing much else at the ... http://www.daniel-lim.co.uk/2007/06/27/wordpress-updated-to-221/ New Design Teaser - GH2 The title says it all really! Hopefully I can have it finished before I go on holiday! Hope you like it! I could fill some space and say all the other Guitar Hero 2 designs I've seen so far have been pretty poor and that mine is ... http://www.daniel-lim.co.uk/2007/06/21/new-design-teaser/ Advance Wars (Yellow) Just a quick one from me this time! Thought I'd let you know that I sold my latest colour variation, yellow as you can see on the left, sold for 5.25 million credits! From what I can gather, there was an even more intense bidding war than the ... http://www.daniel-lim.co.uk/2007/06/20/big-money/ Advance Wars Action Shot Yes, I am aware there is a spelling mistake (answers on a postcard)! I have actually fixed that now, but obviously I don't have an updated action screenshot. Having a lot of fun in Forza 2 at the minute (when I can find the time to actually sit ... http://www.daniel-lim.co.uk/2007/06/15/forza-2-car-painting/ Emilia & Anders Wedding #15 Went to my first ever Swedish wedding last... well, two and a half weeks ago now. Unsurprisingly perhaps, they're not unlike British weddings (certainly the ones I've been to anyway), except of course that every is speaking Swedish and I haven't got a clue what on ... http://www.daniel-lim.co.uk/2007/06/13/emilia-anders-wedding-flickr/ Microsoft Surface Official Site Ok, so this is a few weeks old, but it's still great! Rather than having "coffee table books", the centre of conversation can be the coffee table itself! I want one! Couple of first impression articles: First Look from on10.net Brightcove - Microsoft Surface: Hands-on First Look What lurks below Microsofts ... http://www.daniel-lim.co.uk/2007/06/13/microsoft-surface/ Vietnam's fiber optic connections to the rest of the world have been dropping like flies lately due to... fishermen? About 43 km of undersea fiber optic cable is now missing. D'oh! From ars technica. http://www.daniel-lim.co.uk/2007/06/12/phishing-plumbs-new-depths/ PlayStation.Blog Sony have finally set up a blog! This is a great move, hopefully it prove just as popular and successful as Major Nelson! Added to my blogroll links... http://www.daniel-lim.co.uk/2007/06/12/playstationblog/ Gonna start posting cool stuff that I've found on t'internet. To start you off: A battle between a pride of lions, a herd of buffalo, and 2 crocodiles at a watering hole in South Africa's Kruger National Park while on safari. It's ace. LINK http://www.daniel-lim.co.uk/2007/06/07/battle-at-kruger/ Forza 2 Limited Edition Packshot Originally uploaded by daniel-lim Woo! My copy of Forza Motorsport 2 arrived this morning! Only 3 hours til I can go home and play! I got the Limited Edition version which includes 3 exclusives cars for the game, a HUGE accompanying manual with lots of pretty interesting ... http://www.daniel-lim.co.uk/2007/06/07/forza-motorsport-2-arrived/ I'm upgrading, so the site will be down momentarily (hopefully not too long, 'cause that means something's gone wrong!). EDIT: Aaaaaand, we're back! I love Wordpress. It's just so easy! :D Hopefully won't get ripped to pieces by the spambots that make their rounds every few weeks now! EDIT #2: Been messing around ... http://www.daniel-lim.co.uk/2007/06/01/upgrading-to-wordpress-22/ Loads of new stuff came out of Gamer Day last week, a summary of which you can find at GamesRadar. Obviously, the most important thing there was Heavenly Sword! We even have a new official homepage for the game, which is particularly nice, given the lack of updates on Ninja Theory's ... http://www.daniel-lim.co.uk/2007/05/23/heavenly-sword-at-sonys-gamer-day/ Oh yeah, the Mini! Marie bought one at weekend. It's sweet. I'll try and take some photos soon because it is just tooooo cool. It's a black Mini ONE (2005), with some rather fetching grey racing stripes (the white ones are ugly and are waay too overpowering, but these grey ... http://www.daniel-lim.co.uk/2007/05/23/anyone-know-how-to-fit-a-new-head-unit-into-a-mini/ Well, I've run out of stuff to do again. I would upgrade Wordpress to version 2.2 (as predicted last week), but I'm at work, so obviously firewalling and a distinct lack of FTP program are somewhat restricting. Plus I have no idea if it's against the rules or not. I've finished ... http://www.daniel-lim.co.uk/2007/05/23/easy-like-wednesday-afternoon/ It would seem that the Crackdown DLC (DownLoadable Content) is up and available for a-getting! Which would be great, if Marie wasn't obsessed with Catan ;) (which is actually fair enough, given how awesome it is). There's a huge list of features that they've added with this release, so the ... http://www.daniel-lim.co.uk/2007/05/09/crackdown-dlc/ Rumour has it that version 2.2 of Wordpress is out soon, so I may just hold off until that comes out before upgrading again, despite the floods of explicit spam comments I have to clean out every so often. Anyway, on to what's been happening for the past 9 months or ... http://www.daniel-lim.co.uk/2007/05/09/the-grapevine-the-sword-and-the-last-few-months/