Just goofing around with the crazybump demo and lighting in max on a horizontally tiling texture I made from a CG textures' photo. Skylight and target spot incase anyone is interested.
Buy/borrow/steal a colorimeter/monitor calibrator. I'f you've a couple of friends that make CG art, you could all band together and get one between you.
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Certainly. There's not many live-action trailers out there of this calibre. I could easily say that Blizzard intros are cheesy CG fantasy, couldn't I? Trying to be objective with the idea, not subjective.
Wow this is incredible. I don't know if it's what you're going for, but it looks so much like an illustration rather than a CG model. I am absolutely in love with the style.
Rotoscoping is generally tweaking footage frame by frame to make it easier to add in CG elements, or to remove unwanted things for a scene. Animating a character using reference is definately not considered rotoscoping..
3dsMax is good generalist package. You can cover every aspect of CG within 3dsMax. CAT is easy to use. Character Studio is production proven motion capture solution.
We have deliberately removed the option to avoid the CG**** vibe, where you're only as popular as your page views, and people are only looking at threads with high page views.
Can always move over to the film CG side. Don't see why not, though being a compositor helps and understanding how the film pipeline works. There's also graphic design...