I am sometimes reduced to using poser when I need a human and don't have time to do it in maya. But I hate it. I think its really great for what it does and what it costs, but its crippled by that horrid Kai Kraus interface. Sure it looks cool. But its useless.
Maya. A post above mentioned Rhino as well. I would say that if you get heavy into nurbs and get up against a wall with maya, then get Rhino as well. People like to go on and aon about how bad the maya renderer is. Well, the point in now moot, because you get Mental Ray for free with maya 4.5. And mental ray is just stunning.
The best part of maya is the interface. It is not esy to learn, but once you get going you really start to wish more apps were designed for speed and efficiency rather than speed. There are some other packages that are good. But you will not be dissappoint with maya. You will love it. And for $2k its priced well for what you get, especially now it includes mental ray. Also, 4.5 rocks on os x, (3.5 really did suck) so its really the only way to, considering max and XSI (the only real competitors in my mind) aren't available on the mac. Of course, I've been doing 3d with alias software since 1994, so I'm biased. But justifiably so, I've never heard of anyone who actually prefered another package to maya (except maybe XSI, but a lot of that was mental ray). Rambling now, but I can't tell you how much I love maya. A geekier slashdotter than me can reply and tell you all about MEL and the API as well.
Carpet: check. One desktop, one laptop: check. Single monitor: check. No cables on floor: check. Carpeting: check. Fire codes: check. Shower: check. Gym: check. Imagining gorgeous woman: check.
Girlfriends banging down the door...where did I go wrong...
I ran across this . Its a really cool mouse that has 24(!) user selectable LED colors. You change the color by hitting a switch on the mouse. Now that's cool. Next is to have a red, green and blue LED with variabe instensities...
True, and I was aware of this when I posted. But they don't promote the old imac. I think that the ibook really is, as I said, their entry-level product. Chief.
Motion blur is certainly a big part of this. Although even in film there are though that think doubled frame rate is almost as influential as a doubled resolution. IMAX does both, not only is it a huge frame, (70mm sideways, I think that is around 4x the resolution of 35mm, maybe more, I forget) but it also runs at 60fps. Another issue being bandied about is the importance of the space between frames. When you watch a film you are actually staring at a blank frame half the time, your brain films in the blanks to give the illusion of motion. This comes up because digtally projected films are progressivly displayed, there is no blank frame. So there is much talk that this may have a pyschological effect on the perceived realism of film. Of course, this all talk at the moment, but it would be neat if someone experimented with this a little...
The next generation of game engines looks really good. Real light sources with real cast shadow are cool. Bump and specular mapping is cooler. Now if only someone would leak the developer tools for the new engine...
Yes, but the ISP could always just terminate my service if I uncap my modem. In fact, that is an excellent reason not to do it. Why, why this deserves to be a criminal case is beyond me. It really seems like the FBI is so caught up in the "cybercrime" buzzword they didn't stop to ask if this was a reasonable use of their resources.
Simple solution, the ISP can terminate the contract, pick up the modem and cut off the service. Problem solved.
Why didn't they just CUT OFF the users service? The user broke the agreement to get more bandwidth. The best (and easiest) way to solve this problem is to terminate their service, not to call the FBI. I suppose that would be too easy...
My father's had both done. One of them is almost eleven years old. The other had to be redone after just five years. The surgery is really no fun either, so any advance in this direction will be appreciated.
Interesingly enough, the most umbiqutous use of "hybrid" technology is in freight train engines. Those huge diesel engines don't actually pull those million ton trailers. Electric motors on the wheels do. The diesel engine just generate electricty to power them. It turns out the electric motors are really great for that exact usage, long-term low speed power. I think you'll still get up that hill.
Some projects require long term investment, and only government can put that kind of time and money into a project that won't see fruition for years, and may not be profitable for decades. Things like public transportation, highway construction, infrastructure.
A good example was on nova last night. The invention of the maritime clock, an invention that would not have been possible with out the continued support of the british crown. The development was expensive and took nearly thirty years. And there was a lot of market demand for the product, just no one willing to invest in it. Some projects are beyond the scopr of the free market.
There is a difference between cured and prevention. I don't think that the drug companies are conspiring to hide a cure for cancer to make more money. They would make a lot more money if they HAD a cure. That they could patent. And charge for.
Except there is one issue. Alias|Wavefront is giving mental ray away free to anyone with a Maya license. Between the maya renderer and mental ray I don't see any reason to touch any of the renderman compatible renderers.
Maya is far and away the best choice. Everytime I have to slum it and use another package I find the experience disturbing. If you are just a hobbyiest you will find that maya has everything you could ever want, right out of the box. With 4.5, all you need is complete. The personal learning edition is really more like a demo, but I'd rather use the demo of maya than anything else.
When I look at work like this I get upset. Because this guy's work is pretty good but he's using POSER! It'd be like meeting a race car driver that is winning a couple of races in his 1981 volvo. You can't help but wonder what they could do if they got behind the wheel of a real race car.
Good summary, except you made one small error: Maya's built-in renderer also allows you to write your one shaders, or create them easily with the GUI tools. With products like Mental Ray (or even the Maya renderer, which in version 4 is really nice in my opinion) there is no need to write your own shaders from scratch for most tasks. The reason renderman is considered superior to Maya's render is its speed and accuracy first and formost. And also those excellent soft shadows. They look so good, and render so fast. But I think Mental Ray is the wave of the future.
A friend of mine thought of a fantastic quote that seems to encapsulate how it feels to watch the world change: "One person can change the world. But it won't be you."
You've never met any french people, have you? The most macho, gay-bashing, intolerant men I've ever met. It always shocks me that americans insist on characterizing french men as being feminine.
As a digital artist I had been working on macs for years. Over time the tools became available for both platforms. Three years ago, before OS X, macs used to crash all the time. They were also a bit too expensive. So I reluctantly Switched. Windows 2000 is pretty much a piece of trash, but at the time it was the best option. I don't use it because I like it, but because the software I need (maya) runs on it. Just recently I bought a new pc, not because I think XP doesn't suck, but because I couldn't afford what I really wanted, so I settle for a cheap, second best piece of junk I have to reboot daily. Luckily, I have a tiBook as well, to remind me what computers are meant to be like.
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I am sometimes reduced to using poser when I need a human and don't have time to do it in maya. But I hate it. I think its really great for what it does and what it costs, but its crippled by that horrid Kai Kraus interface. Sure it looks cool. But its useless.
Ah, I should have hit preview. I meant that I wish more app's interfaces were designed for efficiencey rather than being easy to learn.
Maya. A post above mentioned Rhino as well. I would say that if you get heavy into nurbs and get up against a wall with maya, then get Rhino as well. People like to go on and aon about how bad the maya renderer is. Well, the point in now moot, because you get Mental Ray for free with maya 4.5. And mental ray is just stunning.
The best part of maya is the interface. It is not esy to learn, but once you get going you really start to wish more apps were designed for speed and efficiency rather than speed. There are some other packages that are good. But you will not be dissappoint with maya. You will love it. And for $2k its priced well for what you get, especially now it includes mental ray. Also, 4.5 rocks on os x, (3.5 really did suck) so its really the only way to, considering max and XSI (the only real competitors in my mind) aren't available on the mac. Of course, I've been doing 3d with alias software since 1994, so I'm biased. But justifiably so, I've never heard of anyone who actually prefered another package to maya (except maybe XSI, but a lot of that was mental ray). Rambling now, but I can't tell you how much I love maya. A geekier slashdotter than me can reply and tell you all about MEL and the API as well.
Carpet: check. One desktop, one laptop: check. Single monitor: check. No cables on floor: check. Carpeting: check. Fire codes: check. Shower: check. Gym: check. Imagining gorgeous woman: check.
Girlfriends banging down the door...where did I go wrong...
I ran across this . Its a really cool mouse that has 24(!) user selectable LED colors. You change the color by hitting a switch on the mouse. Now that's cool. Next is to have a red, green and blue LED with variabe instensities...
True, and I was aware of this when I posted. But they don't promote the old imac. I think that the ibook really is, as I said, their entry-level product. Chief.
Interesting that this makes a portable Apple's ENTRY LEVEL option. The low-end ibook is the cheapest apple you can buy.
What do you know....I always thought....That'll be the first time I've ever been wrong.
Motion blur is certainly a big part of this. Although even in film there are though that think doubled frame rate is almost as influential as a doubled resolution. IMAX does both, not only is it a huge frame, (70mm sideways, I think that is around 4x the resolution of 35mm, maybe more, I forget) but it also runs at 60fps. Another issue being bandied about is the importance of the space between frames. When you watch a film you are actually staring at a blank frame half the time, your brain films in the blanks to give the illusion of motion. This comes up because digtally projected films are progressivly displayed, there is no blank frame. So there is much talk that this may have a pyschological effect on the perceived realism of film. Of course, this all talk at the moment, but it would be neat if someone experimented with this a little...
The next generation of game engines looks really good. Real light sources with real cast shadow are cool. Bump and specular mapping is cooler. Now if only someone would leak the developer tools for the new engine...
Yes, but the ISP could always just terminate my service if I uncap my modem. In fact, that is an excellent reason not to do it. Why, why this deserves to be a criminal case is beyond me. It really seems like the FBI is so caught up in the "cybercrime" buzzword they didn't stop to ask if this was a reasonable use of their resources.
Simple solution, the ISP can terminate the contract, pick up the modem and cut off the service. Problem solved.
Why didn't they just CUT OFF the users service? The user broke the agreement to get more bandwidth. The best (and easiest) way to solve this problem is to terminate their service, not to call the FBI. I suppose that would be too easy...
My father's had both done. One of them is almost eleven years old. The other had to be redone after just five years. The surgery is really no fun either, so any advance in this direction will be appreciated.
Interesingly enough, the most umbiqutous use of "hybrid" technology is in freight train engines. Those huge diesel engines don't actually pull those million ton trailers. Electric motors on the wheels do. The diesel engine just generate electricty to power them. It turns out the electric motors are really great for that exact usage, long-term low speed power. I think you'll still get up that hill.
Some projects require long term investment, and only government can put that kind of time and money into a project that won't see fruition for years, and may not be profitable for decades. Things like public transportation, highway construction, infrastructure.
A good example was on nova last night. The invention of the maritime clock, an invention that would not have been possible with out the continued support of the british crown. The development was expensive and took nearly thirty years. And there was a lot of market demand for the product, just no one willing to invest in it. Some projects are beyond the scopr of the free market.
There is a difference between cured and prevention. I don't think that the drug companies are conspiring to hide a cure for cancer to make more money. They would make a lot more money if they HAD a cure. That they could patent. And charge for.
Oh man this is so cool. And its cool in that kind of way that I can never show it to people, because they will say, "uh, so?".
Those ARE good reasons to use renderman. I guess renderman is like oracle, you'll know when you need it.
Except there is one issue. Alias|Wavefront is giving mental ray away free to anyone with a Maya license. Between the maya renderer and mental ray I don't see any reason to touch any of the renderman compatible renderers.
Maya is far and away the best choice. Everytime I have to slum it and use another package I find the experience disturbing. If you are just a hobbyiest you will find that maya has everything you could ever want, right out of the box. With 4.5, all you need is complete. The personal learning edition is really more like a demo, but I'd rather use the demo of maya than anything else.
When I look at work like this I get upset. Because this guy's work is pretty good but he's using POSER! It'd be like meeting a race car driver that is winning a couple of races in his 1981 volvo. You can't help but wonder what they could do if they got behind the wheel of a real race car.
Good summary, except you made one small error: Maya's built-in renderer also allows you to write your one shaders, or create them easily with the GUI tools. With products like Mental Ray (or even the Maya renderer, which in version 4 is really nice in my opinion) there is no need to write your own shaders from scratch for most tasks. The reason renderman is considered superior to Maya's render is its speed and accuracy first and formost. And also those excellent soft shadows. They look so good, and render so fast. But I think Mental Ray is the wave of the future.
A friend of mine thought of a fantastic quote that seems to encapsulate how it feels to watch the world change: "One person can change the world. But it won't be you."
You've never met any french people, have you? The most macho, gay-bashing, intolerant men I've ever met. It always shocks me that americans insist on characterizing french men as being feminine.
As a digital artist I had been working on macs for years. Over time the tools became available for both platforms. Three years ago, before OS X, macs used to crash all the time. They were also a bit too expensive. So I reluctantly Switched. Windows 2000 is pretty much a piece of trash, but at the time it was the best option. I don't use it because I like it, but because the software I need (maya) runs on it. Just recently I bought a new pc, not because I think XP doesn't suck, but because I couldn't afford what I really wanted, so I settle for a cheap, second best piece of junk I have to reboot daily. Luckily, I have a tiBook as well, to remind me what computers are meant to be like.
I'm Stephen, and I'm a digital artist.