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Re: General dSLR advice
The 20D is genuinely a great camera, excellent choice for a beginner, and being able to buy better lenses will have much more of an impact than a better body. Especially if you do not care about the things you mentioned. Its both a good camera, and a good camera for the money. You can also easily swap it out in a year or… -
Re: Types of Work for Polymodelers?
Yeah, One of the main reasons Why im considering learning Maya is, that once your done modeling in Nurbs, you can convert it to polies and its all quads(so Ive heard), which is a feature that is really attracting me. Ive been working with max and vray mainly for a about 4 years now, before that is was Cinema 4D. And I tell… -
Re: 9/11 Loose Change
vig, the outsite frame is a shell it doesnt support the building. The inside is made of steel reinforeced concrete made to withstand a full 747 hitting it. There are 4 main shafs that are far enough apart that even if the hull was hard as rock would only be able to hit one with full force. If that happened it would still… -
Developer, Looking for Low-Poly Artist for iPhone Game
I've developed a couple successful iPhone apps, and now I want to move into games. Unfortunately, I've got absolutely no creative talent - that's where you come in. I need a self-motivated, talented low-poly 3d artist to split (50/50) this project with. I've got a couple rough ideas for what kind of game I'd like to… -
Re: Feedback please anyone?
I lecture at Southampton Solent University in England and any games art course should have you drawing. In the first year of my course as well as life drawing we teach classical animation just to get students used to drawing quickly and get meaning in their drawing. Both photoshop and paper drawing is a good ability to… -
Re: Maya zPipeMaker Script
@Grimm_Wrecking Sounds like the Merge Vertex Command isn't set correctly for you grimm. I'll be adding in a settings thingamabob later, but for now you can open up the script and at line 631. it sayscmds.polyMergeVertex(fp_Name+".vtx[0:5000000]",d=0.5 ,am=1,ch=1) You can mess around with the part of that line where it says… -
Re: Connecticut School Shooting
US specific data http://www.cdc.gov/nchs/data/nvsr/nvsr60/nvsr60_03.pdf FirearmIn 2009, 31,347 persons died from firearm injuries in the United States (Tables 18 and 19), accounting for 17.7% of all injury deaths that year. The two major component causes of all firearm injury deaths in 2009 were suicide (59.8%) and… -
Re: Explosions in London !!!
[ QUOTE ] So, what do we do about it? Hunt them down and kill them or put them behind bars? Or do we try to understand them and their reasoning and negotiate with them... [/ QUOTE ] Well, hunting them down and killing them is against the laws of some countries. The act was a criminal act, therefore they must be tried as… -
Re: salaries
I think I started out on £14k a year and left my last job at £35k, after 6 years experience of doing practically the same thing. GROSS 35,000.00 -> TAX -> NET = 25,539.38 GROSS 45,000.00 -> TAX -> NET = 31,852.48 GROSS 55,000.00 -> TAX -> NET = 37,752.48 GROSS 60,000.00 -> TAX -> NET = 40,702.48 The bracket from £35K to… -
Re: Obama on 60 minutes
The PRC includes Hong Kong (which is listed separately), so it was actually only a $14 billion difference. Japan bought 22.1% of the treasury securities sold that month ($593.4 billion), and China bought 21.6% ($518.7 billion for mainland China + $60.6 billion for Hong Kong). So buying 0.5% less than Japan qualifies as a…
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