Thursday 2 December 2010

Dumbed Down Life 104

It's the We Love Google Show!

Follow this link to the RSS to subscribe RSS

Song1
Robyn Timm - Big Sky
http://www.myspace.com/robintymm

Chat
Demo Slam, Google Goggles and NASA have found life but not as we know it Jim!
http://demoslam.com/
http://www.google.com/mobile/goggles/#text
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-11886943

Song2
Sister Hazel - Shame
http://www.rockridgemusic.com/artists/sisterhazel/

Wednesday 1 December 2010

Dumbed Down Life 103

No more PoMo and we're still go go !

Follow this link to the RSS to subscribe RSS

Song1
Song1: Greg Waters - Time Machine
http://www.gregwatersmusic.com/

Chat
Have NASA found E.T.?
http://www.nasa.gov/multimedia/nasatv/

Song2
Yael Naim - New Soul
http://www.yaelweb.com/

Tuesday 30 November 2010

Dumbed Down Life 102

We get to the end of NaPodPoMo and have succeeded in our goal of releasing a show every day for the whole on November.

Follow this link to the RSS to subscribe RSS

Song1
The Black Crowes - Goodbye Daughters of the Revolution
http://www.blackcrowes.com

Chat
Living alone may not be good for your health and Google face the "Micro$oft" problem of being too successful for their own good..

Song2
Paul Blann - Pour Me Another Drink
http://paulblann.wordpress.com/

Monday 29 November 2010

Dumbed Down Life 101

A Comic Legend Dies

Follow this link to the RSS to subscribe RSS

Song1
Munk - Superheroes

Chat
The death of a comic legend and discovering new music for others

Song2
Dualstyles - Nothing Left
http://Myspace.com/dualstyles

Dumbed Down Life 100

We celebrate 100 shows with some special guests.

Follow this link to the RSS to subscribe RSS

Song1
Last Sunday - A Part Of Me
http://www.myspace.com/lastsunday

Chat
Sex Shop, Apple vs Android, 100 Episodes.

Saturday 27 November 2010

Dumbed Down Life 099

Lance gets a life and we correct an earlier story

Follow this link to the RSS to subscribe RSS

Song1
99 Words for Boobs - Robert Lund courtesy of the Fump

Chat
Lance finds that this NaPodPoMo thing has motivated him to do other things and we clear up a non story from earlier on in the month

Song2
Pixikill - Rock It
http://pixikill.tumblr.com/

Dumbed Down Life 098

Both Lance & Darren in the same room talking face to face about Faces (Sort of)

Follow this link to the RSS to subscribe RSS

Song1
Daydream on Autopilot - Better Off Alone

Chat
Facebook attempt to trademark the work Face and Axel Rose Complains about Slash’s face.

Song2
Shayfer James - Life Is Beautiful
http://www.shayferjames.com/

Thursday 25 November 2010

Dumbed Down Life 097

Lance on his own picking up on the Ubuntu story from yesterday.

Follow this link to the RSS to subscribe RSS

Song1
Wensday - Only Women Bleed
http://www.wensdaymusic.com/index.htm

Chat
Picking up on Yesterdays story of the rolling updates for Ubuntu with feddback from Bugcast Dave.

Song2
The On Fires - Coming Home
http://www.theonfires.com/

Wednesday 24 November 2010

Dumbed Down Life 096

From early computing to the latest O.S. all covered in 20 glorious minutes.

Follow this link to the RSS to subscribe RSS

Song1
Alexx Calise - Out of Sight
http://www.alexxcalise.net/fr_news.cfm

Chat
Lance & Darren get all geeky (again). Talking early computers and the latest operating systems

Song2
Kalliopi - Naked
http://kalliopimusic.com/

Dumbed Down Life 095

Darren’s Movember Update and the return of Buffy.

Follow this link to the RSS to subscribe RSS

Song1
The Hypertonics - Don't Marry the One You Love, Marry The One Who Loves You
http://www.thehypertonics.com/hypertonics.html

Chat
Darren’s Movember Update and the return of Buffy

Song2
Jordan Reyne - The Proximity Of Death
http://www.jordanreyne.com/

Dumbed Down Life 094

Twitter gets spaced and we bring down the system.

Follow this link to the RSS to subscribe RSS

Song1
Ampliphonic - High Track

Chat
An interesting use for Twitter
http://www.lightsinthedark.com/

Song2
If The Sea Was Whiskey - Tin Pan
http://tinpanband.com/wordpress/

Chat
How not to bring down the banking system.

Monday 22 November 2010

Dumbed Down Life 093

More Anti Smoking Legislation.

Follow this link to the RSS to subscribe RSS

Song1
Pato Banton - Heal This World
http://www.patobanton.com/

Chat
Plain Labeling for Cigarette packets.

Song2
Mark Radcliffe - Blow It All Away
http://markradcliffe.net/

Saturday 20 November 2010

Dumbed Down Life 092

A more music based episode for a change.

Follow this link to the RSS to subscribe RSS

Song1
Victims of Science - The Device Has Been Modified

Song2
Heather Edwards - Transalgia
http://www.heatheredwards.net/

Song3
For A Minor Reflection - Flood
http://www.foraminorreflection.com

Song4
Danika Holmes - Pockets Full Of Gold
http://www.danikaholmes.com/

Friday 19 November 2010

Dumbed Down Life 091

A little bit of chat and three cracking Podsafe tracks!

Follow this link to the RSS to subscribe RSS

Song1
JP Corwyn - Dire
http://jpcorwyn.sitezoogle.com/fr_home.cfm

Song2
The Lovely Eggs - Digital Accordian
http://www.myspace.com/thelovelyeggs

Song3
Kalliopi - Naked
http://kalliopimusic.com/

Thursday 18 November 2010

Dumbed Down Life 090

We don't let a little thing like Darren having to catch a train stop us! We're here to stay I tell ya!!

Follow this link to the RSS to subscribe RSS

Song1
Ashes of Draught - Woke Up Dead
http://btpodshow.com/music/?artist_id=15739

Chat: Google docs become editable by mobile devices.

Song2
Sound Of Surrender - Kiss Me
http://www.myspace.com/soundofsurrender

Chat: Making a fortune selling nothing.

Wednesday 17 November 2010

Dumbed Down Life 089

A little less spam does the interwebz good and celebs in a twist.

Follow this link to the RSS to subscribe RSS

Song1
Miranda Vettrus - Book Of Lies
http://www.mirandavettrus.com/

Chat: Russian authorities cut global spam by 49%

Song2
Lily Sparks - Walk Away
http://www.reverbnation.com/lilysparks

Chat:Putting words into celebrities mouths
http://twist.channel4.com/words#

Tuesday 16 November 2010

Dumbed Down Life 088

Prince William & Kate Middleton announce they are getting married next year and Apple announce the Beatles are now available on iTunes

Follow this link to the RSS to subscribe RSS

Song1
Daniel Link - Be Kind
http://www.daniellink.com/

Chat: Prince William & Kate Middleton announce they are getting married next year and Apple announce the Beatles are now available on iTunes

Song2
Loomis & The Lust - Bright Red Chords
http://loomisandthelust.com/

Monday 15 November 2010

Dumbed Down Life 087

Darren works the night shift and Lance makes the most obvious joke this podcast has ever seen!

Follow this link to the RSS to subscribe RSS

Song1
Common Ground - Monsters
http://www.texasrockband.com/

Chat: Darren works the night shift and Lance makes the most obvious joke this podcast has ever seen!

Song2
John Mark MacMillan - Carolina Tide
http://www.thejohnmark.com/wrdprs/

Dumbed Down Life 086

NaPodPoMo Update and the move away from Windows.

Follow this link to the RSS to subscribe RSS

Song1
Matthew Ebel - Drive Away
http://matthewebel.com

Chat: Day 14 of NaPodPoMo and the move away from Windows as your computer.

Plug: Righteous Indignation
http://ripodcast.co.uk/

Song2
Shelly & Cal - You Will Never Change
http://www.shelleyandcal.com/

Dumbed Down Life 085

It's done in the name of charity.

Follow this link to the RSS to subscribe RSS

Song1
Buckcherry - Sorry
http://www.buckcherry.com/

Chat: It seems that November is the month to be doing stuff.

Plug: Righteous Indignation
http://ripodcast.co.uk/

Song2
Gilli Moon - Cos I Love You
http://www.gillimoon.com

Friday 12 November 2010

Dumbed Down Life 084

Darren at the controls on his own.

Follow this link to the RSS to subscribe RSS

Song1
Jordan Ducette - Tell Me
http://www.jordanducette.com/

Feedback

Song2
Brad Sucks - Dirt Bag
http://www.bradsucks.net/

Thursday 11 November 2010

Dumbed Down Life 083

Tom Tom's alive!

Follow this link to the RSS to subscribe RSS

Song1
Petra Haden - Don't Stop Believin'
http://petrahadenmusic.com/

Gordon’s Alive!!! Well Brian is and he’s on your Tom Tom....
http://brianblessed.tomtom.com


Song2
The Famous - Moving On
http://www.thefamous.net/

Wednesday 10 November 2010

Dumbed Down Life 082

One's also Tweeting.

Follow this link to the RSS to subscribe RSS

Song1
Clarck Datchler - Shattered Dreams
http://clarkdatchler.com/

Chat: The Queen's On Twitter

Song2
Sally Went Down - Matthew Ebel
http://matthewebel.com/

Tuesday 9 November 2010

Dumbed Down Life 081

One's gone social.

Follow this link to the RSS to subscribe RSS

Song1
Jordan Doucette - Dear Mother
http://www.jordandoucette.com/

Chat: The Queen joins facebook

Song2
Todd Koal -No Reason To Hide
http://www.toddkoal.com/site/

Monday 8 November 2010

Dumbed Down Life 080

Remember, remember the 5th of November... yeah it was Friday.

Follow this link to the RSS to subscribe RSS

Song1
Lance Larson - Listen To Your Heartbeat.
http://www.lancelarsonmusic.com/

Chat: Remember, Remember the 5th of November

Song2
Imagine Dragons - Hear Me
http://www.myspace.com/imaginedragons

Sunday 7 November 2010

Dumbed Down Life 079

The truth is out there! Wait, hasn't that line been used before?

Follow this link to the RSS to subscribe RSS

Song1
DJ Lobsterdust - Epik Black Rock
http://mashuptown.com

Chat: UFO tapes released

Song2
Jensen Keets - Upgrade
http://www.jensenkeets.com/

Dumbed Down Life 078 (LOST)

I'm not 15 minutes late posting this episode for NAPODPOMO, the clocks go back tonight right so it's really only 11pm Friday! Oh it doesn't work like that? Well it's still Saturday somewhere and that's what counts right?

Song1
Dave Nachmanoff - A Certain Distance
http://www.davenach.com/

Chat: The G.O.P.

Song2
Crucial - Drink Milk And Kick Ass
http://www.facebook.com/Crucialdnb

NOTE: The file we had for this show was corrupted and has been lost forever!

Friday 5 November 2010

Dumbed Down Life 077

Halloween comes to the DDL.

Follow this link to the RSS to subscribe RSS

Song1
Black Lab - Ghost in your mind
http://blacklabworld.com/blw/index.html

Chat: Halloween in America

Song2
Second Dan - Today.
http://www.myspace.com/seconddan

Thursday 4 November 2010

Dumbed Down Life 076

A full strength DDL. All three presenters on the same podcast. Whoda Thunk it!!!

Follow this link to the RSS to subscribe RSS

Song1
Blake Morgan - Maybe I'm Amazed.
http://blakemorgan.com/

Chat: Motors, Motors, Motors (Oh and the return of Doug....)

Song2
Maree McRae - Breeze
http://www.mareemcrae.com/

Wednesday 3 November 2010

Dumbed Down Life 075

Orienteering for the modern world.

Follow this link to the RSS to subscribe RSS

Song1
Delilah Why - Walk On By
http://www.myspace.com/delilahwhy

Chat: Geochaching

Song2
Maria Dunn - The Elder Sister
http://www.mariadunn.com/

Plug: Scott Sigler
http://www.scottsigler.com

Tuesday 2 November 2010

Dumbed Down Life 074

The issues with daylight saving time.

Follow this link to the RSS to subscribe RSS

Song1
JTX - Party like a rock Star
http://www.jtxperience.com/

Chat: Issues with Daylight Saving Time

Plug: The Bugcast
http://www.thebugcast.org/

Song2
Song2: Mister G - Pizza for Breakfast

Monday 1 November 2010

Dumbed Down Life 073

The guys from the DDL attempt to publish one show a day for the whole of November as part of National Podcast Post Month (NaPodPoMo)

Follow this link to the RSS to subscribe RSS

Song1
Duran Duran - Falling Down
http://www.duranduran.com/

Chat: National Podcast Post Month
http://napodpomo.ning.com/

Plug: The Bugcast
http://www.thebugcast.org/

Song2
Brian Franke - Six Blocks Down
http://www.brianfranke.com/

Sunday 29 August 2010

Dumbed Down Life 072

This week Lance And Darren talk about TV traffic and biking with Boris all mixed with the best in Podsafe music

Follow this link to the RSS to subscribe RSS

Song1
Ten Year Vamp - Never Know

Song2
Teddy Graham - Peaches

Song3
Antony Rose - I believe

Monday 2 August 2010

Dumbed Down Life 071

Flying Donkeys & "The Stupid". Plus the best in podsafe music

Follow this link to the RSS to subscribe RSS

Song1
JTX - Party Like A Rockstarhttp://jtxperience.com/

Song 2
Jessi Hamilton - I'll Cry For You

http://www.ourstage.com/profile/jessihamilton/songs

Song 3
Doug Edgell - Born With A Broken Heart
http://www.dougedgell.net/

Song 4
Delilah Why - Walk On By
http://delilahwhy.com/delilahwhy.com/Home.html

Song 5
Jennings & Keller - Time Changes
http://www.jenningsandkeller.com/

Song 6
Dogs Must Be Carried - United Kingdom of Whenever

Song 7
Dave Nachmanoff - A Certain Distance
http://www.davenach.com/

Wednesday 30 June 2010

The IT Crowd Episode With Daz In It



Back in March we has a discussion about me being an extra in The IT Crowd and ending up with a line to Moss and Roy. The episode is called "The Final Countdown" and airs on July 2nd and will be on 4oD not long after.

Thursday 29 April 2010

Dumbed Down Life 070


Poison, floppies, art and Sci-Fi, what else would you expect? A dash of music of course!




Follow this link to the RSS to subscribe RSS

Song1 Poison - Talk Dirty To Me
http://www.poisonweb.com

Poison
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/8648218.stm

Song 2
Alexx Calise - Break Me

from her new album, "In Avanti"
http://www.myspace.com/alexxcalise

End of the floppy
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/8643844.stm
Banksy
http://www.guardian.co.uk/artanddesign/2010/apr/25/banksy-exit-through-gift-shop

Song3
Kevin Merritt - Wonder Why
http://www.kevinmerritt.com

Spock!
http://www.beatweek.com/news/4965-spock-no-longer-to-be-brought-to-you-by-leonard-nimoy/

Song 4
Little Invisibles - Wonder Why
http://www.myspace.com/littleinvisibles

Tuesday 20 April 2010

Dumbed Down Life 069

Bond postponed, Scouting gaining popularity and have you lost your phone?

Follow this link to the RSS to subscribe RSS

Paralysis - Regulate
http://www.myspace.com/paralysis2006

Topic 1
Bond Bombshell
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/8631245.stm

Song 2
Matthew Ebel - Lost My Way
http://www.matthewebel.com/

Topic 2
Scouting on the resurgence
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/7603978/Scouting-sees-huge-membership-surge-after-introducing-adventurous-new-badges.html

Topic 3
English are the least patriotic in Europe
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1267230/England-branded-patriotic-nation-Europe.html

Song 3
Alexx Calise - Out Of Sight
http://www.alexxcalise.com/fr_home.cfm

Topic 4
Apple worker loses iPhone v4
http://technology.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/tech_and_web/article7102497.ece


Song 4
Kevin Merrit - Time Comes
http://www.kevinmerritt.com/

Thursday 15 April 2010

Dumbed Down Life 068

Volcanic ash, Twitter, Dr Who and iPod Touch apps all packed in to this show with lots of podsafe music!

Follow this link to the RSS to subscribe RSS

Song 1: Electric Touch - Sound of the Underground http://www.myspace.com/electrictouch

Twitter To Begin Advertising
Will advertising spoil Twitter and what's the general feeling of advertising on the Internet?

Song 2: Little Invisibles - Closer http://www.myspace.com/littleinvisibles

Eyjafjallajoekull glacier volcano grounds all UK flights.
All over the news today but Darren mainly wanted the chance to try and pronounce the name of the glacier.

Transitions between Doctors to be "LSD like" (man, wooh)
Quick chat about the new Doctor Who.
Video link: http://www.vimeo.com/10606790

Song 3: Alex Calise - Good Enough
http://www.myspace.com/alexxcalise

4 Square day April 16th 4sqr being 16
http://blog.foursquare.com

Song 4: Secret Pop Band - Saccharine Smile
http://www.myspace.com/secretpopband

iPod Touch Apps'
Opera
Carpool
Meebo
Formula1.com
StepTrakLite

Sunday 11 April 2010

Dumbed Down Life 067

Lance and Darren talk weed and Facebook with the usual spattering of music.

Follow this link to the RSS to subscribe RSS

Song 1: The Polymorphines - Constant Reminder http://www.myspace.com/thepolymorphines

Growing Weed
An American writer arrested after authorities said they found a large marijuana growing operation in his barn. LINK

Song 2: The Volume Brothers - Sonny You're The Reason That Your Mum And I Are Getting Divorced http://www.myspace.com/volumebrothers

The Expensive Facebook Habbit
Just how much do you want that extra barn in Farmville?

Song 3: Wiser Time - Free http://www.wiser-time.com

Monday 22 March 2010

Tell Us A Joke

The Dumbed Down Life podcast is recored by Doug, Darren and Lance. Over the years we've had guest presenters too and some contributions from friends and family.

Bobbi, Doug's wife was a special guest in show 66.

Ben recorded a show with Lance last year.

"I hear pod people" which is used at the start of some of our shows is a recording of Darren's daughter.

Ken from Derby has contributed a few times.

What we're looking for now is some recordings of you telling a joke, just something short and corny to fill a gap between two songs. MP3 or WAV file formats are fine.

Email your joke to ddl.podshow@gmail.com and we'll email you back to let you know which of our shows your joke is in.

Also, if you have a podcast, blog or web site that you would like to promote we'd love to hear from you. Record something simple like "Hi this is Fred from Fredsfishshop.com and you're listening to the dumbed down life" or if you have a full promo track for your podcast we'd love to hear it!

Friday 19 March 2010

Dumbed Down Life 066

We have a special guest this week and talk about porn shown on childrens TV, police officer attacked by a dick and Darren's five minutes of fame as and extra on The IT Crowd.
Parental advisory, recording contains unnecessary swearing.


Follow this link to the RSS to subscribe RSS

Song 1: Victims of Science - The Device Has Been Modifiedhttp://www.myspace.com/victimsofsciencegxp

Porn On Kids TV
Doug and Bobbi's local TV channel has a slight programming error.

Song 2: The Ropes - Kill Her Offhttp://www.theropesonline.com/

Police Officer Attacked By Dick
Could this really be considered assault with a deadly weapon?

Song 3: Jennings - Umbrellahttp://www.jennings-music.com/

Have You Tried Turning It Off And On Again?
Darren tells us about his day in the life as a extra on the set of The ITCrowd.
http://www.channel4.com/programmes/the-it-crowd

Dumbed Down Little Big Life

My brother has made the iconic DDL logo in the Sony Playstation 3 game "Little Big Planet". Here's a video of what he's started. Aparently you can change all sort of aspects of the object which will allow him to create a mini level. This is a sort of "behind the scenes" video but I was so impressed that I have to share! He even made the little I.T sack boy.



Thanks Bro' this is really cool.

Tuesday 16 March 2010

DDL65 On WebCam

Here's the first section from DDL65 on web cam. Frame rate is not great but gives you an idea of what we look like.
Warning, sweary language from the very start.

Dumbed Down Life 065

The frustrations with e-bay and have you named your car?
Sound quality for Darren is not the greatest this week which is probably a good thing since he seems to have a bit of an attack of tourettes syndrome.
Parental advisory, recording contains unnecessary swearing.


Follow this link to the RSS to subscribe RSS

Song 1: Wiser Time - Freehttp://www.wiser-time.com/

Ebay Frustration
Lance and Darren talk about E-bay.

Song 2: electric Touch - Call my namehttp://www.electrictouchmusic.com/

Car Names
Have you named your car?

Song 3: Pato Banton - Heal This Worldhttp://www.patobanton.com/

Sunday 28 February 2010

Dumbed Down Life 064

The F1 season is soon to be upon us. Lance & Darren discuss the old cars and what to expect with this season's rule changes.

Follow this link to the RSS to subscribe RSS

Song 1: Secret pop band - Saccharin Smile

http://www.myspace.com/secretpopband

F1, The Build Up
Lance and Darren talk about memories of F1 and the upcoming season.

Song 2: The Weightlifters - Rock 'n' Roll Policehttp://www.myspace.com/weightlifters

Friday 19 February 2010

Dumbed Down Life 063

First we would like to appologise for the poor presentation of this particular episode. The track name is missing the number, there's no album art and I hope you don't use the track number to sort your podcasts as that is missing too. Lance really did a bad job on this one and should be ashamed.

On the other hand... Without Lance's determination and dedication to keeping this show running I'm sure it would never have got this far.

Oh and the unusual sound quality is because this show was recorded in the Priory (no, not THAT Priory) in Wellingborough over a nice lunch.


Follow this link to the RSS to subscribe RSS

Song 1: Good Enough - Alexx Calisehttp://www.alexxcalise.com

What's The Buzz?
Remember last week when everyone was talking about Google's new social Networking tool Buzz? Well before it gets shut down over privacy issues, human rights problems or what ever Google are being accused of, Lance and I had a little chat about it.... down the pub.

Friday 12 February 2010

The Evolution Of A Logo

When Lance and I started the Dumbed Down Life podcast we knew from the beginning that we'd need a web site to go with it.

Lance modified one of the standard templates supplied by Blogger, the service which we'd chosen to host the site, giving us the orange colour and space for a logo.

We talked about a logo and Lance came up with the idea of a graphic to represent each of the words in the title. For "Dumbed" we had a dunce cap, "Down" an arrow pointing down and "Life" a heart.

DDL Sketch
Initial concepts for the logo made the hat and arrow more pictorial.


Although we didn't have big plans for the podcast and associated web site we still wanted an identity that would look good printed on business cards, letter heads and t-shirts. We simplified the dunce cap to the triangle at the top of the logo, the arrow to the triangle at the bottom and proportioned the heart shape to fit into the triangle shape of the logo.

DDL Flat Black Logo
From the first cleaned up attempt at the stylised logo we cleaned it up, making sure the "D" triangles were equilateral. Now we had the template for our logo.


While simple and clean would be great for print and scaling it was clear that for use with the Internet, where we had more colours to play with, some subtle art package tweeks were needed.

DDL Orange LogoDDLWhiteT-Logo

Playing with layers, putting a coloured logo over a black one gives a very simple drop shadow. We interchange the white and Orange colours, sometimes having the orange logo, sometimes having the orange background.


DDL 30 Cover ArtDumbed Down Life 47 ArtworkDDL4thJulyDDL Nov 5th
As the logo is so simple we have sometimes used it as a stencil with other images to create album art for our podcast that is relevant to the recording.


DDLStar Wars
When the merged image is simple it works pretty well. However, mixing pictures in the logo with a complicated background was a little over ambitious.


DDL Website on the Touch
The simple design scales will for displaying on the web page even when rendered on a portable device.


DDL T-Shirt FrontDDL T-Shirt
We printed off some DDL t-shirts after first testing the design on a model in Second Life.


DDL Race Car
The DDL racing car was a plain white car with some paint package trickery to place the logos.


In the 80's a brand of compilation albums titled "Now That's What I Call Music" was launched. The logo for the brand went through a few incarnations. As with the DDL logo it started off two dimensional. When they reached "Now That's What I Call Music 20" they settled with a three dimensional logo which, with little variation, has continued in use up to the present day. Even when the series reset the counter for the US market they've kept the same, brand logo of the 3d model. It was this logo which I'd seen emblazoned on albums, cassettes and CD's that inspired me to wanting a similar 3d rendering for the DDL logo.

NOW That's What I Call
As part of a test for the 3d software I created a basic copy of the NOW logo.


Moray DDL
Lance used a graphic program called Moray that creates files to then be rendered in a specialist program called POV. The program uses simple shapes combined to make complex ones.


DDLGlass
The "D" was simple to create and we created that as a test not long after we'd created the original 2D logo. The heart for the "L" was more complex. This render of the logo in glass shows how the heart shape is made up of intersecting cylinders and cubes.


We've not found yet if it is possible in Moray to render the transparent materials without showing the complicated parts of the workings inside the "L".

DLL Logo SolidDDL 3d Orange
DDL Robot Reflection
With this model we are now able to change the texture, lighting, scale and positioning. We can combine the logo with other 3d models.


Something to note about our 3d model is that it can't actually be made, well not made and stood up, at least not without "cheating". The center of the "D" floats in mid air.

We'll be adding a gallery page to the DDL web site, look out for different album art, desktop wallpapers and various other DDL images in the future.