Archive for May, 2006

Preset a Day #10 - “Fokker DR”

Wednesday, May 24th, 2006

Preset Name: Fokker DR-1
Created by: Tom_Speed
Description: Fokker DR-1 as flown by the Red Baron in WW1, the model is near completion, and includes the reference pictures (top, front & side) whic can be used as a good base for texturing. Asl o included in the Zip is the Backdrop.cfg file for Modeler so you can [...]

Preset a Day #9 - “Deamon Rig”

Monday, May 22nd, 2006

Preset Name: DrM_DeMoN_Rig
Created by: DrM
Description: Sub-div demon model setup in lightwave…Low point of keyframe

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Preset a Day #8 - “Silver Scorpion”

Thursday, May 18th, 2006

Preset Name: Silver Scorpion
Created by: tcarretti
Description: Created with subdivision modeling and then frozen. Should be pretty easy to bone and animate. If you do, could you please send him back so I can try him out? 12312 polys…
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Preset a Day #7 - “Moria Mines” (from Lord of the Rings)

Wednesday, May 17th, 2006

Preset Name: Moria Mines
Created by: Vash
Description: Columns of Moria Mines. In the lws scene you have to compose the 3 frames…
http://www.vts.too.it

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Recipe for a cheap 3D rendering work horse (Intel)

Wednesday, May 17th, 2006

Tom’s Hardware has reviewed the Intel Pentium D 805 processor and overclocked it to 4Ghz+. The result? A machine that can rival the most expensive CPUs available. Better yet its a dual core processor which means you get two processors in one :).
http://www.tomshardware.co.uk
If you are interested in purchasing one, I can thoroughly recommend overclockers.co.uk if [...]

Cool special effects techniques

Wednesday, May 17th, 2006

Slightly off-topic, but interesting to any graphic artist. Digital Air show off some very interesting camera techniques with videos to show the final result.
http://www.digitalair.com

Preset a Day #6 - “Skar”

Wednesday, May 10th, 2006

Preset Name: skar
Created by: kalinka
Description: none
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Preset a Day #5 - “Space Explosion”

Tuesday, May 9th, 2006

Preset Name: Space Explosion
Created by: James
Description: This is a hypervoxel esplosion constructed of over 45 seperate emitters and hypervoxel settings. It was created for use in one of my short films. Enjoy
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Back from holiday!

Monday, May 8th, 2006

Now that I’m back from holiday I’ll start posting the ‘preset a day’ posts again