I'm looking to bite the bullet on Zbrush and I noticed that the price for a commercial license is about $150 cheaper on a bunch of their listed retailer's sites. I was just curious if anybody had any insight as to why that is. Do you still get all the benefits such as free upgrades from Pixologic? I can't see any…
However in Zbrush you'll need CPU and more RAM, looks like you could nab an i7-3770 for about $100 - $150 used. That would be your only upgrade on your motherboard (socket 1155), and it wouldn't be a big improvement. I'd also suggest going with a video card upgrade, and decide how soon you want to go for a new…
I think it's nearly 1000 people at Pixar vs. 130-150 at Blizzard Cinematics. Most of it is administrative staff for WOW. That game has more players than there are of us hungarians in the entire world. You need a small army to manage the network and the subscribers and all. You must be very, very young, obsessed with "MOAR…
I flew from London City airport to Edinburgh a couple months back, and even with a month's notice it was still £150-ish. That was flying BA, so maybe another airline would be cheaper, but the train is still going to be the fastest / cheapest. A couple of years ago, I took a bus from here up to the Midlands to visit my…
This is kind of funny to me, because when I switched to Maya from max for a feature film, I kept trying to find small scripts to replicate either basic functionality that had been in every other software since the 90s, or useful add ons from max. Either they didn't exist at all (and 4-5 did for max) or in the case of the…
Looks good. Clean bake. My only thoughts are that it's a rather lofty polycount for such a simple asset. For current gen ps4 x1 3 is nothing in FPS weapon terms. However I'd personally like to see it closer to 1250. You should be able to get the same amount of fidelity focusing on the view perspective with that polycount.…
Thanks for all the positive feedback guys, I'm glad everyone seems to be digging the idea as much as I am! Not a terribly interesting day update-wise, just a couple of wall sections. I seem to be working my way around the office mezzanine level in an anti-clockwise direction, so next up will be the large vault-like door /…
My biggest critique on your portfolio is: bigger images! this is what i see on my 2560*1440 monitor: this is what i see on my 1920*1080 monitor: I would make sure that whichever device you're planning to show people this on (tablet or whatever), that the images are big enough to over-run the screen and cause them to…
the title of this thread is "The world famous Maya vs 3ds max conflict in a diffrent way... " and essentially that is what a lot of the posting has been, not much to do with modeling tools, and some cheap shot package cheer leading. despite stated intentions to the contrary. which is predictable and boring. so if you want…
Pior: In discussing the new cintiq on the cgtalk forums I was informed about this model: http://www.gateway.com/systems/product/529666090.php The interesting thing about the gateway c-140 is that you can configure it with an actual graphics card, as opposed to the integrated graphics chipsets that a lot of them come with -…