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    tomorrow? Really? What a coincidence! Happy birthday my friend! :drinks:
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    I have a new panasonic plasma. It reads perfectly the color profiles so it shows my works exactly like my also calibrated monitor. But, I agree with you, it's the real thing somehow. I don't agree on one thing though. Sitting close to my 24 monitor, makes things larger than watching my TV from some meters. Anyway, David, we're getting older, that's it.
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    Have you tried new blender and cycles? On a nice ~600$ GPU, or on a hi-end dualXeon CPU? It isn't that fast exactly but it still is considered as real time rendering. Of greater quality than this on the demo. (excellent GI) The interactivity is great, especially when you setup a scene. IMO, the problem is not the hardware exactly. It's the software itself. Lot of great improvements on this are. My wish: To be able one day to sculpt under GI illumination. Even now, in blender/cycles, I can have very fast previews as I sculpt. SImilarly as in 3dcoat but using a real raytracer/GI of excellent quality. GI eats carving as hell. It's very important to know how deep you have to carve sometimes. Capturing the light. Thanks for posting. I love this technology.
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    Interesting video, thanks Tony and Javis. My problem with lot of video games is they are very predictable. This doesn't happen in real life. What about sports, martial arts (a bit) and playing chess? A little "pain" may be also important. Making art can also be a very multi tasking work (and painful enough LOL). Much more than a brain scientist might believe.
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    Not of good taste? Nevermind, it does't look like osx, they will never understand what good taste means. Eh. I had to say it. Sorry. Blender is my favorite app after all, compilers on OSX and Linux are similar, makes this app to run faster under these OSs.
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    In any case, for macusers, CS2 can be installed on OSX 10.4 only. Then, in can be transferred in newer OSXs. Basically unusable for most OSX users.
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    This might explain all the bad things happening. I say this: Trust your feelings. (he he). Because passions may never find the way to be satisfied. It's in the nature of the human race. Passions give birth to other passions, and so it goes. Hunger!!! Have a happy new year, all of you.
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    I missed this thread. I've tried Silo in the past, I was to buy it but I didn't, for the well known reasons. Blender, now, has almost what I need for poly modeling (almost LOL) But... I'm shocked. This isn't good. It also triggers conspiracy scenarios, which is also bad. I'm with Beat on this.
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    Daumier and Giacometti have something common. They very well understand what Scale means. Inspiring works... May I? LOL 10 mins doodling
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    I agree. So, what can we do about all these terrible things? It's not a US problem by all means. It is painted in US colors. In my country you can't own militry guns. Crete is a beautiful island, you'll possibly find more AK47s than in the whole US. With real magazines I mean. The real thing. They don't kill each other though. But, in my country, we have real Nazis in our parliament. Real criminals, by all means. They even asked sterilization of pakistani people (considered as criminals or something) You possibly know this movie? Let's be careful. We may blame VGgames, guns, or anything, but we may become the real criminals. Fear is the real evil. BTW An art police is what I don't want to see.
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    Think as it's a relief. So, the left hand/pistol can be fully shaded as it is in front. Fully sculpted. The rest being in the back, starts losing shadows, (they become more lines than areas) and color starts bleeding. Just a moment. Another example. What a Global Illumination, physically correct renderer really does, except of colorizing the scene? It eats shadows, adding light and color bleeding. Indeed, you have to carve deeper, under physically correct lighting. Your paintings are very good. This is why I mentioned all these. After all, DaVinci to Egypt, chiaroscuro to colors, all this spectrum is full of masterpieces.
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    For some reason I prefer the unfinished version, posted yesterday. Let me purt it this way. The more lights (white) and shadows (dark-black) we add, the less color we have. More perspective, more volume, less color. If we try to think as it was a relief and not a full sculpted thing, easier to show the colors. So, Egyptians, color only, some outlines look like the shadows are there, just a bit. (see egyptian reliefs) Leonardo Da Vinci, chiaroscuro, shadows and lights only, almost no color at all. Vermeer, color and tones, perfectly balanced. Impressionists, closer to egyptians. So, I tried to present a scale between color and tone.
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    Thank you Daumier is a great great, and most importantly, favorite to me artist. As Giacometti is. Pity you don't like this artist. The true space man.... Truth is much more than imagination.
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    2d forms are more inspiring than 3d forms. http://artloverrr.tumblr.com/image/12434734160
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    Then, I read this. http://gunowners.org/a12152012.htm Oh my... What are we talking about? I will keep reminding you what Thucydides wrote once upon a time... Thucydides knew how stupid people can become, Then, comes the real evil in the form of a savior... (not just one svastika on a VG) Saying the bigger lies you ever heard. Always.
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    Splendid new spline tool. Possibly. Completely useless for me. I have a so so so different opinion on the use of the tools than devs and lot of 3dc fans have. I'm a zbrush , a sculptris, most of all, a blender fanboy, Sorry.
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    Can I import a depth UV map in MV mode? (32bit exr or anything) It doesn't work, as most things under MV mode. It works under PPP though (as most things) I understand, this thread isn't for bug reporting. But I like to report that MV mode doesn't work in general... I mean it's unusable as it is.
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    @Tony Nemo No, but what you see is a subd model with normal maps baked on a specific subd level (retopo, baking in 3dc). You know me Tony. I can sculpt using any app you like. I just avoid 3dc as I'm not sure what will happen next. I need to have some more options. I don't like to face a dead end, you know. So, please try to ask the right questions, next time.
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    3dcoat is best for both, it is also best for a third. Retopology. Results: a lowpoly cage, nice loops, UVs, painted textures. All you need for animating this model. Just add rigging on a decent app.
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    The basket scene... IMO, gallery stuff. (try the new cycles/hair-fur implementation, great results, fast)
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    Thanks, the video tutorial explains just the basics. Much more to say on UV editing, on how these panels have to be... How to curve horizontal-vertical patterns. My new experiments, psychonautic masonry. And, a doodle, just to keep things in trunk. LOL
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    Mongol and east Turkestan paintings. Lion and Bull about to engage in Combat Siyah Qalem school. (or Siyah Kalem) From the Sarai Albums. end of 15th century.
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    Greg, take mine as a disagree too. Shall we blame art for all these horrible events? Movies? An art police, is this what we'll have soon? Because, you never know how deeply stupid politicians may be. And doctors. And citizens, ignorant people to vote the worst, the easiest to blame. After such acts of violence, fascism might arise. What I reply to all on this thread. The easiest is to blame art. Not the wisest. I deeply believe that such violent acts are completely irrelevant to videogames or thrillers, movies etc. We're sitting, talking about these when US is full of gun owners. What about the death penalty? The real thing... Which are also irrelevant IMO. More or less. Yeah, it was a shooting, this doesn't mean that an axe or a knife couldn't do the job too. Or some dynamite (if I recollect correctly) Now, we have a real nazi party in the greek parliament, you know. What should we do about it? In lot of other countries a nazi party is prohibited by low. Are we ready for some more violence now? Edit: @MrMamurk Is it possible for you to avoid using bold letter, please? All you posts start sounding a bit weird, are you gonna be the art policeman? By who's authority?
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    @Greg I don't quite follow...
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    WOW spacepainter. This I didn't know. So old then... Older than egyptian and mesopotamian civilizations. Now, let me troll a bit. Souvlaki, best food in china. Today. Greece prevails. LOL http://www.bestfoodi...na.net/node/470 Oh my. And something on topic. Found in the palace at Mycenae. c. 1400-1200. Ivory, 2 ½ inches high
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