hey, @superpositivo, thanks man glad you like it! @McNistor, Thanks for the comment, I do appreciate your feedback and in fact I do agree with the saturation point, to be honest I've been doing the comp / grading part at home and my monitor is really bad (hues / saturation... which reminds me I real...

this is a quick image about the light rig used (mostly spotlights with a gobo image for light decay and point lights for light bulbs): http://envmanu.com/index.php?ACT=36&f=spotlight__project_page.jpg&fid=30&d=65 and here is one in Mari for the texture part, I tried doing most of the con...

For the broken glass textures, I decided to go a different way instead of doing it textured in 3D I tried doing it in nuke as I wasn't really sure what I liked and it was quicker to do iterations... still not quite convinced, but still it was cool to learn a new way of adding textures in post. I bas...

Hi there! well well... its been quite a while since I posted something... !! I ve been very busy on a project and didnt have too much time for personal stuff... but well some weeks ago I decided to give up excuses and to put some time to finish this project... and I will like to show you what I came...

Milan, thats awesome work!! I really like the mood and overall colors. I feel you achieved a very painterly style with the first image that is hard to get out of 3D, nice work man!

*quick question, does someone know if there is any compound to cap complex (messy) geo in ice? ref: https://dl.dropbox.com/u/4138955/drop3d/chamber_proj_manuel_huertas/question_cap_geo.JPG thanks! Edit: *bridge does a great job, a lot better than in max, because you can select multiple edges at once...

Hi Mathaeus, The scene is looking good! I specially like the fine detail of the fabrics bump (or disp?) on the seat, it does read well although its pretty small.. metal is also looking nice, although you may want to add some glossiness variation to some spots to make a bit less *clean* only thing bu...

Just saw this... Really cool Milan! You definitely have an awesome scene mood going on there.. I like the light bloom overexposed, it does give a dreamy feeling to the city... also helps the fact that the houses are floating in the air.. ! Might be cool to also have some floating vegetation and mayb...

Hi Mathaeus, Sorry for the delay posting. Thanks for taking the time on those questions! That surely helps for future endeavors, for now I ll stick with mental ray mostly for time reasons (haha yeah it does sound ironic...!). Although I don't have a deadline I ll like to start shading/texturing soon...

...did a quick test: https://dl.dropbox.com/u/4138955/drop3d/chamber_proj_manuel_huertas/glass_modeling_v002.jpg I modeled by hand beveling the edges, result is much better and I am not getting that weird rounded look.. its actually not as long as I thought modeling using a grid and shelling/bevelin...

hey gustavo, Nice to meet a fellow south american using xsi as well! I ve been a bit busy this couple days, but from the tests I could do using 3delight, I am getting the impression that there's a ton of power behind this render engine, as I ve said, I used it before but very briefly on a gig, so it...

Hi thanks for the advice Maximus, well I actually had some time off yesterday and could do some improvements to geometry. using the polyreduct all around I reduced the total polycount from 16mil to 10mil polys, yes, there's still a lot, but it still does feel a lot lighter. Something really cool abo...

Not the geo is not thin (meaning not single sided), its actually a thin box rectangle I pre-fractured with ray fire. But as the mesh is not clean, It looked hard to do a thin bevel to all the edges which such meshes, so I decided to try using the mia_round corners, but looks like its giving some wei...

@Maximus, thanks again man! I ll look into those standins then.. mmm well yes the idea is to render out the shot of 600 frames, like on the video of the layout. But I ll have to optimize a (hell) lot as I dont have a farm available atm and also I want no compromise on shading/lighting quality... I w...

Hey guys @Julius, never heard about standins, but good to know I ll take a look, is it like proxies or something like that? thanks! @Maximus, thanks man! well yeah, I chose to go with actual meshes rather than using displacements. Because I havent unwrap anything yet... Although not all the meshes a...

Hi folks, First time for me posting here! I started using xsi around 1 year ago.. as I got hired on a xsi studio in Montreal, so I had to learn it super fast paced on my own... while working... coming from using 3ds max where I was really comfortable... and having to learn all the passes, partitions...