kiwi

Cinema 4D and PS once more

Rantin Al

Stu, Where's the big toe with the crab hanging onto it?

Have you heard that there is an upgrade for C4D 8.5? Only ?100.

Al

gidgit

hey, are you guys having summer down there or what? Sure looks like fun Stu... only five more months and us Northern folks can go and have fun too

kiwi

Summer has been a bit elusive here up until recently bud ...ya Winter sucks....



Ordered my copy 2 days ago Al ....sketch and toon looks very cool as well,to exspensive for me to justify though.

Erik

Sigh... here it's freezin' cold...
Good work!

Yeah, 8.5 will be out soon, but if you have 8.2 (i think that is necessary) check out the most incredible of plugins, available for Win and Mac:

Tweak4D

?10 (!!!)
http://www.spot4d.tk/

Makes tweaking meshes approximately as easy as in Wings.

Limits (right now): Works only in 3D and parallel views, no(t yet) a normal move restriction, no option to work with more than one item together (like selections) and noindication by numers what you do. It works visually.

But: it automatically selects points, edges and polys depending where your mouse is and allows you to move every item by simple dragging. What's more: even if, for example you place your object in, say, an atom array, you can still select and tweak the faces, edges and individual points. Top for organic hypernurbs modelling. It comes with its own icon.

In my opinion, at this price, it's a must have.

Chester

Somebody posts an image and nobody comments? [stuned]

Here are some suggestions/comments:

- All shadows are too dark. Especially near a beach (and water) you?ll have a lot of global illumination
- 5 different stones and 5 different textures? doesn?t look natural
- the left stone looks like plastic
- the pail needs specular highlights
- blue rope? I would rather like to see a real rope (this one is personal)
- the water looks like oil, not like water.
- the shadows on the pail aren?t smooth

wbiss

I counted 3 before yours Chester...and the day's not done! [confused]

Good, constructive observations though... Pity you don't have a knack to articulate them convincingly or in a manner that is receptive...

Stu, wonderful scene and great job at making us 'northerners' drool! [righton] %}

gidgit

and... just so happens that I, being a X-log salvager, have had lot's of oppurtunity to use "blue" rope... in fact most of my 5/8 poly doglines are blue... fyi...

Stu... your doing good bud... I mean, yea, there are always things to tweak eh... but man... I feel the warmth, oh yea... gotta dream of the beach for a few more months

Chester

wbiss, i made constructive comments like you said.
you didnt make any, so dont judge my approach ok?

but then again, maybe thats the reason why none of you commented on his image... you dont know how to bring it even more tactful than i did [bustagut]


*mumbling* im pretty sure that i didn't write anything rude when i commented on the image... [stuned]

kiwi

Fair comments


All shadows are not to dark its Mac gamma,I forgot to lift the levels.


There cannot be 5 different textures as its the same texture.


The pail would not have a higher spec then it is has its plastic not metal,andy higher and the material would look to hard and ie metal.


The rope colour was one I used from a real rope..


Oil is black the water is really dark green.


Yes the shadows on the pail are not smooth as my computer is not powerful enough to do area shadow with decent anti aliasing.



But like I said fair enough comments,but to be fair Chester now you get to post some of your work for the rest of us to look at it ...not to do so would be rather sad..