There's always room to save, no matter what the setup is. Ditch the SSD $260 Go with GTX460 $70 Take a cheaper X58 board $30-50 Take Seasonic M12II -series PSU, another $40-60 saved savings total = $440, more if you take a cheaper case If you take an alternative route with Phenom II 1055T it could be squeezed a bit lower.…
if the plugin does not show... you need to create a environment variable... same you have to do for arnold... https://renderman.pixar.com/forum/showthread.php?s=&threadid=26795&perpage=25&pagenumber=1
Do you mean in general or like for alphas? Im using Lucy Lui as my reference for this face so I have a lot of images of her. But the main image for pores for her is a B&W high contrast image of her face. In fact if you do a Google image search for images of high contrast, B&W portrait, photos you can find some great…
Check out the second video on this article. An FBI agent says its not the games, its the person. http://kotaku.com/after-mass-shooting-fox-news-host-wonders-if-gamers-sh-1335462866@stephentotilo Also, This is local for me. Good thing the game was still in the wrapper. If they had played it first, they would have left the…
I'm not sure, it's not a church, but it could be Shepeiro's bathhouse? http://boards.polycount.net/showthread.php?t=55667&page=8 Seems to fit the description. And it kicks ass. http://www.vimeo.com/2688739
Man this brings me back. Good work so far. Your castle geo is the best. Good over all shapes and accurate theme. A few things though. The surrounding rock/mountain shapes, not so great. The geo is flat and it's not the right Helms Deep style. If your willing to spend that amount of geo on that many boulders in the scene, i…
Aahaha, that's an instant hit. I'm guessing these guys did the work. (not guessing it says that they did on their Wikipedia page, ahaha) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Industrial_Light_%26_Magic
1. Build your own desktop. 2. Mid range GPUs are fine, newer is better because they are more likely to be supported by newer APIs like DX12. The GPU basically handles real-time visuals (like a game engine or view port). GPUs can also do some parallel processing for things like baking AO and Normal Maps, but GPU compute is…