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UVlas
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Subject: New 3D Assets site just went live
Forum : CG News and Events
Posted : March 18, 2012
Here I will help you http://cgsignal.com/ Smile
Do you think its a good idea to make yet another 3d assets site?
UVlas
Forum : 3D Texturing Forum
Posted : February 03, 2012
Zbrush is not a plugin for 3ds max it's a stand alone software.
It is one of the best 3d sculpting software, I don't know much about it's texturing/mapping abilities.
UV mapping in 3ds max is good ...
UVlas
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Subject: DAZ Studio 4 Pro, Bryce 7, Hexagon 2.5 for Free
Forum : CG News and Events
Posted : February 03, 2012
Wow! Thank you, baalnazzar! Do you know if hexagon 2 will work on windows 7?
UVlas
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Subject: How to Create a Successful 3D Animation Demo Reel
Forum : 3D Animation Talk
Posted : August 17, 2011
So what makes a 3D animation demo reel successful? Here are a few tips to keep in mind as you 're compiling your animation art to present to potential employers:

1. Include only your best work.

...
UVlas
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Subject: Demo Reel 2008
Forum : Finished 3D Art Work
Posted : October 04, 2010
Nice reel. But it's kind of old don't you think?

Here it is:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OVpl9ahqu6Q
UVlas
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Subject: First project using blender
Forum : 3D Art Work In Progress
Posted : October 04, 2010
Your Pistol surface is too smooth.
You can add some subtle bump and specularity map.
UVlas
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Subject: 3d Coat Review
Forum : 3D Modeling Forum
Posted : July 24, 2010
Anyone working in 3d Coat? How is it in comparison to Zbrush and Mudbox?
I know that it is voxel based and has lots of tools.
What about the UI, is it user friendly?
How smooth is the sculpting pro ...
UVlas
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Subject: 3D Animation Software
Forum : 3D Animation Talk
Posted : July 24, 2010
Now that Blender 2.5 BETA is released it became the best free 3d animation program. I am just wondering what will happen when the big guys will develop everything there is to develop and the open sour ...
UVlas
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Subject: Softimage Xsi: History of XSI
Forum : 3D Fight Club
Posted : July 24, 2010
It started with the name softimage and returned to the name softimage.
UVlas
Forum : 3D Fight Club
Posted : July 24, 2010
Maya is the best. It is used in the most and the best movies.
It has a linux version. It's really customizable.
UVlas
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Subject: Mudbox vs Zbrush
Forum : 3D Fight Club
Posted : July 24, 2010
I love how easy it is to use Mudbox especially in compareson to Zbrush.
It is just like sculpting clay in your hands!
UVlas
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Subject: To Quadro or not to Quadro.. graphics card dilema!
Forum : 3d Graphics Hardware Forum
Posted : July 22, 2010
There is this nice topic about [url=http://www.3dmd.net/forum/3d-discussion-5688.html]GPU vs CPU for rendering, it has valuable info so I suggest reading it.
UVlas
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Subject: Hello I'm new here
Forum : General CG Talk
Posted : July 22, 2010
Hi SenOrarneDymn,
Welcome to the 3d forum!
UVlas
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Subject: hi all
Forum : New Members
Posted : July 22, 2010
Hello, iain123
Welcome to the 3d forum! Smile
UVlas
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Subject: thanks
Forum : New Members
Posted : July 22, 2010
Hello Hawix,
welcome to the 3d forum! Smile
UVlas
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Subject: Hi
Forum : New Members
Posted : July 22, 2010
Hello Dave!
Welcome to the 3d forums!

Are you working on the game engine or on an actual game with an existing engine?
UVlas
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Subject: Hello
Forum : New Members
Posted : July 22, 2010
Hello, Tacomaster
Welcome to the 3d forum.

How do you find Metasequoia?
What other 3d modeling programs have you used?
UVlas
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Subject: Hello to all!
Forum : New Members
Posted : July 22, 2010
Hi Jessicaandjones Smile
welcome to the 3d forum.
UVlas
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Subject: Hello all..!
Forum : New Members
Posted : July 22, 2010
Hi Danstefan.
Welcome to the 3d Forum.
What kind of services do you provide in your Studio?
UVlas
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Subject: Hi All
Forum : New Members
Posted : July 22, 2010
Hello Edwin and welcome to the 3d forums. Smile
UVlas
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Subject: Blender 2.56 Beta Released
Forum : CG News and Events
Posted : July 22, 2010
The first beta of Blender 2.5+ was released.
Here is an excerpt from the Blender.org website:

What to Expect

Big improvements - This software has been used extensively in production of the Duri ...
UVlas
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Subject: Free 3d Animation Software
Forum : 3D Animation Talk
Posted : July 22, 2010
We have a topic about industry standard Blender - the most popular free and open source 3d animation software.
OS: Linux, Windows
http://www.blender.org/

K-3D - is a free 3d animation software wi ...
UVlas
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Subject: 3D Animation: Postal Jungle
Forum : 3D Animation Talk
Posted : July 22, 2010
Hi, gislamg.
I think You couldn't post the youtube link because of the restrictions to new users.

Here is the move
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=avgwdnsF5oM

I liked the Jungle and colors.
R ...
UVlas
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Subject: How did you got started with 3D!!!
Forum : 3D Animation Talk
Posted : July 22, 2010
I was just fascinated by VFX in movies. And I was looking forward to learn how to do it.
UVlas
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Subject: Camera following circle path problem
Forum : 3D Animation Talk
Posted : July 22, 2010
I remember having a similar problem.
But it was a long time ago so I don't remember details.
What did you try until now?
UVlas
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Subject: Hope I am in the right place?
Forum : 3D Animation Talk
Posted : July 22, 2010
I have 2 questions:
Is this a job?
and the second:
Is this a paid job?
Smile
UVlas
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Subject: character rig
Forum : 3D Animation Talk
Posted : July 20, 2010
There are some bad links but still you can find good tutorials:
http://www.3dmd.net/MAYA_rigging_tutorials.htm
UVlas
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Subject: An idea I had
Forum : 3D Animation Talk
Posted : July 20, 2010
You can render everything with 24 fps into a sequence of images that can be easily imported in any 2d animation program. You can even use nice cartoon shaders and only do minor adjustments in the 2d a ...
UVlas
Forum : Finished 3D Art Work
Posted : July 20, 2010
Hi cjworkshop.
With your permission, here is the video:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s983Dha6zN4

Great work by the way! Smile
UVlas
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Subject: Livingroom opinions
Forum : Finished 3D Art Work
Posted : July 20, 2010
It's a good start, but you have to learn about Global Illumination to make it look more realistic.
UVlas
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Subject: doorway
Forum : Finished 3D Art Work
Posted : July 20, 2010
I love the illumination here.
Beautiful render.
UVlas
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Subject: livingroom
Forum : Finished 3D Art Work
Posted : July 20, 2010
Nice work.
Isn't 1 hour and 45 minutes too much for this kind of render on a i7 processor?
I thought that i7 are supposed to be powerful processors.
UVlas
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Subject: Happy Finish ...CGI Tutorials
Forum : Finished 3D Art Work
Posted : July 20, 2010
Great artwork.
I love the first one, really nice.
UVlas
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Subject: 3d rendering of a villa
Forum : Finished 3D Art Work
Posted : July 20, 2010
Nice rendering.
I like the colors and illumination.
UVlas
Forum : General CG Talk
Posted : July 20, 2010
Hi, electricsun.
What are gnomon online and escape studios online? Embarassed
UVlas
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Subject: GPU vs CPU for rendering
Forum : 3d Graphics Hardware Forum
Posted : January 29, 2010
Wow these are pretty damn fast GI renders.
It is strange that the guy in the video tells that the quality is identical to vray while on the video itself I can see that it is not.
UVlas
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Subject: Which program should I purchase?
Forum : 3D Modeling Forum
Posted : January 29, 2010
I think that blender will also be overkill since the learning curve is quite big.
UVlas
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Subject: 3D Animation Software
Forum : 3D Animation Talk
Posted : January 29, 2010
Contractkiller, You have definitely not seen the new user interface in Blender2.5 alpha. They have redesigned everything and added a lot of functionality.
UVlas
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Subject: Importing .C3D file into Face Robot
Forum : General CG Talk
Posted : January 27, 2010
If you are talking about Softimage face robot?
I know that softimage has the MOTOR system that can retarget any animation.
UVlas
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Subject: Computer Animation Career Questions
Forum : General CG Talk
Posted : January 27, 2010
Drawing skills are a big plus, for some companies it is a necessity.

There should be small animation jobs everywhere. But they are most probably full.

You should really love animating or creatin ...
UVlas
Forum : General CG Talk
Posted : January 27, 2010
Nice furniture 3d models.
What about vehicles? What is the demand and offer for vehicle 3d models?
There are so many cars out their...
UVlas
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Subject: Dog hats shops - Where to shop
Forum : General CG Talk
Posted : January 27, 2010
Hi, DoggyDee!
Do you mean 3d models of clothes for cats and dogs?
UVlas
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Subject: 3ds Max: Trees with Shag Fur - tutorial
Forum : 3D Animation Talk
Posted : June 25, 2007
Hi guys


Chaos group has posted a tutorial how to make trees with shag fur /www.chaoticdimension.com/


may be this is usefull for the maxers:)


cheers

.chrom
UVlas
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Subject: Softimage Xsi: Lighting/association problems
Forum : 3D Animation Talk
Posted : June 06, 2007
Hi, i'm new to XSI, and this is my first attempt at a short animation. I'm trying to achieve a sharp crisp shadow cast by the ant with an infinite light, and a soft-edged shadow cast by the body of t ...
UVlas
Forum : 3D Animation Talk
Posted : May 31, 2007
I have an object that is animated along a curve, when i save this, the animation is lost, even though it is still shown in the f curve editor.


I cant figure out whats going on, so im thinking that ...
UVlas
Forum : 3D Animation Talk
Posted : May 30, 2007
hi all. im currently running into an annoying problem when deforming a particle stream along a curve: the velocity vectors tangency is not maintained, therefore no proper motion blur can be computed ( ...
UVlas
Forum : 3D Animation Talk
Posted : April 10, 2007
from the XSI list:


What do you guys do to save and reload the animation mixer setup in 3.5?


This is a huge hole, or does it work for other people in 3.5? Please tell me if it does so I know wet ...
UVlas
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Subject: Softimage Xsi: 64BIT XSI or 32BIT XSI at 64BIT
Forum : 3d Graphics Hardware Forum
Posted : March 26, 2007
64BIT CPUs are on the market. When will 64BIT XSI be released? or what is 32BIT XSI's performance on a WinXP64BIT or Linux64BIT machine? Is it emulated?
UVlas
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Subject: 3ds Max: Shockwave ???
Forum : 3D Animation Talk
Posted : February 12, 2007
Now I have a scene that i want to add a decent looking shockwave and i have no clue wtf to do... Lol, I want it to look semi-realistic (or as realistic as I can possibly get)

Ive got an image of wha ...
UVlas
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Subject: Softimage Xsi: URGENT Nebula with Xsi particle
Forum : 3D Animation Talk
Posted : December 14, 2006
HI


i'm still searching some TUTORIALS or any kind of help to create a very nice NEBULA or DUSTY SPACE CLOUDS in with xsi particles


thank you very much ...
UVlas
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Subject: please need help with XSI5.11
Forum : 3D Texturing Forum
Posted : December 02, 2006
when i try to start texturing and setting up the planes in uv editor i use the "unfold" tool in netview>tools>render>PolyPlaneProjection


the problem, no window pops up asking t ...
UVlas
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Subject: XSI integration
Forum : 3D Fight Club
Posted : September 15, 2006
hello all
i need to know which integration between programs is more good in case of xsi to max or xsi to maya and vice versa i mean in geometry, matriels ,animation, simulation...
thanks a lot for inf ...
UVlas
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Subject: Dual monitors size?
Forum : General CG Talk
Posted : July 16, 2006
They can be different resolutions
UVlas
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Subject: Dual monitors size?
Forum : General CG Talk
Posted : July 13, 2006
No they dont need to be
But yeah its better
UVlas
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Subject: Maya rigging?
Forum : 3D Animation Talk
Posted : June 09, 2006
Well lemme try it your way
UVlas
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Subject: Maya rigging?
Forum : 3D Animation Talk
Posted : June 09, 2006
Well thats the next steps I guess after I rig this
Then I wanna put the highpoly on another layer
And have this lowpoly drive that
UVlas
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Subject: maya: bevel destroys UVs problem
Forum : 3D Modeling Forum
Posted : June 08, 2006
Ok
Thanks
UVlas
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Subject: Maya rigging?
Forum : 3D Animation Talk
Posted : June 08, 2006
The lowpoly?
UVlas
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Subject: maya: bevel destroys UVs problem
Forum : 3D Modeling Forum
Posted : June 08, 2006
I tried that.. no difference.. it seems like triangles are screwed... like.. when I use auto mapping.. the quads aren't mapped normally.. one of the vertices (for one of the triangles) seems to be off ...
UVlas
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Subject: Maya rigging?
Forum : 3D Animation Talk
Posted : June 08, 2006
Poly
Nice to know
UVlas
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Subject: maya: bevel destroys UVs problem
Forum : 3D Modeling Forum
Posted : June 08, 2006
Um.. when I use Bevel on a polygon object.. the mapping/uvs/material stuff is destroyed somehow.. I can't even manually uv map the object after using bevel on it
UVlas
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Subject: Maya rigging?
Forum : 3D Animation Talk
Posted : June 08, 2006
So I finished my first model.. now its at its lowest poly level
How do I proceed with rigging?
I was going to uvmap this
or should I now go ahead and rig this?
UVlas
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Subject: 3dsmax : texture on 2 sides?
Forum : 3D Texturing Forum
Posted : May 26, 2006
wouldnt DX be dependent on the DX support of the gfx card too ?
UVlas
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Subject: 3dsmax : lego like material?
Forum : 3D Rendering
Posted : May 25, 2006
which render engine do you use?