im planning on buying a new machine pretty soon as well, i have about the same budget.. so far im looking at something like this: http://a-power.com/product-2805-382-1 probably with a decent gaming card though, instead of the Quadro FX
The retopo tools are my favorite part of 3d coat but I can see the paint tools have matured alot. some people are getting some quite well refined sculpts out of voxel mode but I should imagine they used a very high res voxel shape http://www.3d-coat.com/forum/index.php?showtopic=2873
http://www.gametrailers.com/player/28891.html moar http://forums.beyondunreal.com/showthread.php?t=177966 and moar, lots of user ut2003/2004 ripoffs there I think the swamps thing at the very end is the first boss area in painkiller. the facial animation is full of win, on par with colin's bear
if they really are using piezo pickups in/by the bridge and a midi interface I would be shocked if it was only 200. The midi setup alone would cost at least 150, and 250 for a nice one. I'd also find it extremely hard to believe since the regular 5 button Fender Replica is 299…
The mirroring script for Maya is called abSymMesh, it comes with Art of Rigging Vol.1 book, and is really useful. Can be also found at HighEnd3D: http://www.highend3d.com/maya/downloads/mel_scripts/modeling/poly_tools/abSymMesh-2830.html
wait wait man :D intel core i7 will appear on market very soon, and prices will down a lot. q6600 is good if you are going to do an overclock to more than 3ghz (not a good computer for rendering and 24/7). The bad side is that you need a good mobo (expensive), better ram, and proper coolers (expensive too). People pay a…
I don't know if this is off topic but i have some sites saved. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kwnIz-2Xyh4&eurl=http%3A%2F%2Fboards.polycount.net%2Fshowthread.php%3Ft%3D41232%26page%3D108&feature=player_embedded thats from JFletcher theres also this tut of making ice.…