I'm stuck using pirated software until I scrape together $1275 to buy the Linux versions of the software I've been "trying out" under Windows (soon...). At that point, I'll wipe my XP partition, getting rid of all of the pirated crap I'm currently using, and be legit - 95% free software (apt-get...
A few tips:
If you're going to be doing character animation, you should either use subdivision surface modelling (if you already know poly modelling, it's a very easy transition), or NURBS patch modelling. You'll need unmanagably high poly counts to get smooth surfaces during deformations...
My house has a hot water heating system (furnace heats water which is pumped through pipes in the floors) for heat. Not a problem in the summer, but it simply doesn't heat my room. At all. It sucks hardcore in the winter. Oh well, at least now I have my dual Xeon 3.06 to keep me warm. Speaking...
I could write up a whole list of reasons, but it all boils down to: Mainly because I felt like it.
Also, it's easier to figure out how to do lipsyncing on a human-style mouth than it would be on a cat's mouth, and I intend fully to feature talking animals in my animations.
I build the model...
Trashed partition tables? No way that's $600 to fix. Boot a linux rescue CD and run gPart. If it doesn't find all of your partitions the first time through (which takes less than a minute), run it again in exhaustive block scan mode, verbose, with logging enabled - overnight, because this takes...
I started learning Maya a few months ago... I made a tiger:
Tiger
After I rendered that, I fixed the "seam" (actually a texture glitch) that you can see on the neck, so ignore that.
The fur on Sully in Monsters, Inc was created using the RiCurves primitive in Renderman, which draws a "ribbon" (a flat curve whose normal always points towards the camera), emulating a cylinder but with far less rendering time involved. My FireGL T2 bogs down drawing fur feedback in Maya (64x64...
So you want to take a file consisting of entries, one per line, and have them instead be separated by a semicolon?
cat originalfile.txt | sed 's/\n/\;/g' > newfile.txt
No programming required.
I built a couple of adapter boards to plug into the back of Fibre Channel drives and break the 40 pin SCA connector out into power/data/etc. Plugged the first prototype into a drive and turn it on, drive PCB explodes in blue smoke and the adapter starts glowing. Oops, wired up the power wrong...
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