That landscaping one isn't fast either. http://tools.pingdom.com/fpt/#!/epMADy/http://www.adana1landscapingllc.com/ takes a good 3~4 seconds from New York (and 4~7 from Amsterdam), of which only 1 or so seconds for the data transfer, and rest for connecting. The realtor one does connect to the domain quickly;…
[ QUOTE ] Taxi Driver is one of my favorite movies, so I cringe a bit when you draw a comparison between it and Gears of War. [/ QUOTE ] Haha... sorry, my comparison was poorly drawn, that's not what I meant. The analogy was intended to liken Scorsese' personal growth as a director between his early films and Taxi Driver,…
Note: If you are using Nightshade UV Editor at work it would be interesting to hear what studio you are working for! :) :: ABOUT :: Nightshade UV Editor extends the Maya's UV Texture Editor with tools, scripts and a UI that greatly speed up the time it takes doing UV work. :: VIDEO ::…
This is a Reconstruction of the Previous Post where many "Miss-Understand Us". All Useless info will now be removed and we will start posting up Progress Who is Ultimate Eclipse Game Team? In 2012 Ultimate Eclipse Studio (www.ultimate-eclipse-studios.com) was founded by Damer Swack and D’jarni Braithwaite. Its simple goal…
I'm sorry I missed this discussion when it was started a decade ago, and I'm sorry that the links above are broken, but I'll add my comments now for the record. I published a paper about pie menus in the proceedings of 1988 ACM SIGCHI conference called “An Empirical Comparison of Pie vs. Linear Menus”, in which we measured…
Hey, So i am probably going to hit you with a lot of info right now and obviously you don't have to take all of my advice but it is simply coming from a long time WoW fan and someone who spent a good amount of time trying to copy the art style. The first thing I will say is I do like it overall. On top of that I will also…
The Disney Strike of 1941 http://libcom.org/history/1941-disney-cartoonists-strike Or we a profession? Compared to what? who isn't a professional? If we wern't it would be illeagal to not pay overtime! http://www.aflcio.org/issues/jobseconomy/workersrights/overtime.cfm This looks like a promising start: ( not sure for…
China does publish some interesting stuff though. Should put some of America's criticism of China into perspective. (all of this is backed up by the HRC an Amnesty international as well) http://www.china.org.cn/world/2010-03/12/content_19596239.htm The United States ranks first in the world in terms of the number of…
I've been using 3DCoat for about 13 years and ZBrush for about 20. I enjoy both thoroughly and believe that they have their strengths and weaknesses. ZBrush is the industry standard as most will agree. Go to any studio and there it is. Knowing it makes you more employable. Its ability to handle models with obscene poly…
For those who are interested, here is a description of my current setup. First I take my normal map into Photoshop and create two versions of it. To one I apply a Gaussian blur (8 pixels wide in my case), to the other I apply a high-pass filter (same diameter as before). This splits the normal maps into two parts, the…