I work with the guy who developed the physics plug-in they used in the movie. He was on cloud 9 of course. Same plug is being used in some Herbie movie with Lindsey Lohan or somethin.
Kind of reminds me of some Buddhist monk rituals that involve meditating for something like 9 days without food, water or sleep. Trying to achieve enlightenment through gaming perhaps?
assuming you use max, select "elements" and delete the proper ones ? or the cut and merge is not result of a internal copy, but the consequence of max's illogic behavior (see the Lightwave > 3dsmax 9 thread)
well this is fairly straight forward playing with everyone's favorite, the painter 6 style "simple water" brush, that for some reason has a wonky default setting in painter 9, but is otherise the same...
I had a cousin who worked on Tom Ridge's staff when he was Governor of Pennsylvania, at the time of 9-11. He quit, becayuse Ridge was too unfocused to work for. Scott
Also the new 9 series nvidia cards should be out in February so I would wait for those to hit. That is what I am waiting for to start building a new rig.
I don't say that its the best software 3D , but I'm really satisfied with CINEMA 4D 9 & BODY PAINT. (easy to use , great result and not so expensive !) http://www.maxon.net/