look at the movie 7 I think there is some massive inspiration there especially with the photo's and the red light from the dark room could be pretty sick looking. Also use Higher res images I want to be able to see your sene clearly.
As for new age weaponry, I mean any weapon (tank, to pistol) that has a new age science style. Edit: My apologies I've added one more suggestion to the list that I believe would be a significant one. 7. Science & Nature
While im not about to read through all 7 pages of people's anime - I have to say I am THRILLED that Gintama has returned after the huge success of their movie. If you don't know it, go google it. Best. Anime. Ever.
I played through the whole game with Yozora the other day, we finished it in like 6-7 hours or so :) . (during two days) I preferred using steam steam electric arcane electric a lot, it makes a rather devastating beam :) .
I'm using Max 2012 on Windows 7. But I've just read through your post again and didn't realise you wanted them as separate objects. For me they're just separate faces now detached. But mLichy has you covered!
Maybe in the future, however the price would be the be all for me. However, the price of the Samsung Series 7 slate has gone down to £700 and I picked one up last weekend. Absolutely worth it!! Zbrush and Photoshop CS6 run like a dream.
http://www.ikea.com/us/en/catalog/products/S79836969/ I've been using this desk for going on 7 years now and it's no worse for wear. I love the space it provides. The downside might be that it's not extremely great looking, but you've got tons of nice space.
I just use Windows Backup in Win 7. U can choose folders and whatnot and say when to backup and where to store the backup file. But if you want a true backup/mirroring u could use DropBox as well or Dropbox Automator
sorry, I mean in maya 7 or 8 there is a tool to bake normal map,we can get object/tangent space normal map ,but how can we get tangent space normal map from low version maya? there is no that tool.
i had that problem with 7, and 8... but 9 seems much more stable to me. whether it's because i'm running 64bit or not, i don't know. i would like it if some talented scripter could write their own normalmapping script though.