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http://www.machinefilms.com/blog/?page_id=29

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recently i had a job that required me to create a looping animation of a flag. i was very fortunate to find such a tutorial on THE AREA.com located here: http://vitsly.wordpress.com/2009/01/23/loopable-flag/ the tutorial was invaluable and allowed me to achieve the effect. as i went thru it i found tools and techniques i wasn't aware of and thought it would be helpful to put some more details

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http://ow.ly/TjaV

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http://www.pcworld.com/article/185479/latest_hdmi_14_specification_to_add_3d_support.html http://dvice.com/archives/2009/12/directv-to-debu.php

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i'm re-making a trailer for my machine phase project that i started back in 2006.  i want to upgrade the look and use some of the new tools and techniques i've learned over the past few years as well as finishing it this time.  the link below is for the original trailer, it's a 122mg mov file: http://www.machinephase.com/machinephase/downloads/MP_intro_trailer.mov ---------- my good friend TIM

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http://usa.autodesk.com/adsk/servlet/ps/dl/index?siteID=123112&id=2334435&linkID=9241178

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http://usa.autodesk.com/adsk/servlet/pc/item?siteID=123112&id=10775855

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i re-thought panel four and decided to make a full page image as a background since the conversation was ending and transitioning to something new.  i resurrected a scene i created years ago as the back plate image that depicts hologram dancers in a club and then comped dante, vargas and orbit into the render. ---------- i rendered and comped in some hologram dancers. --------- then i did some

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this is a simpler shot basically created in DOF. in the image you can see you must have a lower f-number to create DOF w/the vray camera. i also labeled the lights according to their function. ---------- using the setup from the previous maxfile i rendered the amount separate and comped it in.  the image on the right is the final using the diffuse glow technique from an earlier post. ----------

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while watching the morning headlines on cnn... adam lambert's appearance for good morning america has been canceled? NO!!!!!!!! ---------- second panel:  i'm starting w/the vargas max file created for the previous panel and making adjustments to camera and lights to match the storyboards for panel two. ---------- samething /w dante. ---------- after putting them together and in addition to

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venti vanilla bean frap w/3 add shots, stoney gomez groove... and art... starting now... ---------- had to vacuum... ---------- because vargas and dante are in the same convo as the previous page i'm able to use the lighting and basic scene setup as before and just move the camera around.  you can see i put the vargas render in the background as reference to help pose and light dante.  the

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i'm going to walk you thru the making of one graphic novel page from start to finish.  so if you have nothing else to do or are bored or maybe married, then fire up the popcorn maker and let's make some art! FIRST, before i started anything i figured out what size and dpi each page would be and made myself a template: ---------- then i go to my story boards, created for me by the legendary TIM

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some of my photography http://www.machinefilms.com/mfi_photos.html san fran chinatown out my front door san fran street http://www.machinefilms.com/mfi_photos.html thx!

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http://www.chrisjacobs.com/ this is a project that i've been working on for over 5 years!  chris has done a great job of cataloging the history of this project. i got to build several versions of the farm along w/the renderings! rolf mohr was instrumental in the design: http://www.rolfmohr.com/

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http://www.nvidia.com/object/maxtreme_12.00.07.html Changes for v12.00.07 are: - Adds support for Max 2010 (32-bit and 64-bit)

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i love movies and one of my all time favs is taxi driver.  so i used the taxi driver poster as a template for my pg 18, i felt like the main character, dante, is going thru the same kind of emotions that are represented in the poster.

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i've been posting pages as i complete them, click anywhere on an image to advance the page: http://www.machinefilms.com/cmkm_gnII.html

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i'm lazy so this is a list and images of my settings for a car studio style rendering in max 2010 and vray: placement of objects and cameras, there are no lights in this scene, i'm using a hdr image for lighting and reflections: ---------- this is what the hdr image looks like, i bought it here: http://www.doschdesign.com/products/hdri/Studio_Atmospheres.html ---------- these are the hdr

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this is how you change the ridiculously slow hit selector back to the original:

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this is a fresh task manger snap shot right after a new install of win xp 64 bit.  good way to know if you have anything running that shouldn't be:

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hi!  posting 1,2,3...

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