PHOTOSHOP HALOS ARE BAD ! oh wait... well, the people, they don't like filters and fx in photoshop, but it can do the trick and save some time, used with a bit of subtility (not the halo though)
congratulations, it looks really polished. not many people get to see there work end up as practical fx anymore. this looks quite involved. it would probably do well if it ever traveled.
go to shaderFX homepage. theres a video there about vertex blending using 2 diferent tiling textures. thats what you want. it uses shader fx and max vertex paint:)
This viewport shader has an emissive component... Free Maya/max cgfx/fx Shader ...which is one way to do a glow effect, although it does not actually change the silhouette of the model.
I've been watching the season 1 and 2 reruns for a few weeks and holy crap I LOVE this show! Crazy situations and beatiful women, how can you not like it. Its on FX right now btw.
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Worked on some of the building structures. Tweaked some of the camera FX. Quick transform animation on the flying ships & tweaked their particles. Animated Update