Refinement and study, taking breaks and coming back and realizing things might not've been that great, decide to redo them or not, move on most likely till you get it right or become homeless. 1st thoughts you are right there for this piece, just some more loving to them rock crevasses <the linked image is what I'd like to…
That's kind of the problem though isn't it? How does an animator animate unpredictable motions that are out of their control? The things like secondary motion on the ears are hard to do when you have 3 animations blending together. How do you animate a scabbard reacting to being hit by 2 forces at once when they don't know…
Well there's no such thing as a crash and bug free software. :) To address some other points... As the thread asked about the larger VFX studios, when it comes to support these guys have a different level to those on the standard Autodesk subscription. As mentioned earlier, they can have dedicated resource and support,…
for anyone who's interested, heres the keynote speech: http://www.apple.com/quicktime/qtv/wwdc05/ (without that annoying PC vs MAC bullshit advertising) one thing I just wanted to highlight though was a price comparison, check out the base specs (its a customizable machine so you can lump other stuff in there just like the…
some years ago I looked into that stuff when doing the exporters for luxinia, which uses the nvmeshmender to create tangentspace (I could find references to it in the maya sdk code, too). why should the calcs be different for max renderer? Quality! in the scanline renderer you could use a more costly interpolation than in…
Thanks for the replies! ^^ @danr: There should be more games on the DS like GTA CW! It's technically excellent, and I remember that shadows were almost impeccable. Having them work correctly via coding it's quite difficult, and I'm sure that the coder of the Software House I'm working with is way too lazy to try that...…
First, I really hate it when people say, 'dark backgrounds make your images pop' -- that statement is an untrue as 'light backgrounds make your images pop'. You know what makes something pop? Contrast. If you don't have that contrast in the image, then get it in the framing device. See flicks portfolio there, with the…