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Renderosity's Neighborhood News is your weekly guide to
current happenings around the site. Stop in each week to see what
you may be missing!
~Did You Know?~
Movie reviewers wanted for the Front Page News!
Come on, you know you want to talk about your latest theater
escape. With all the great summer blockbusters, we need the
digital artist perspective! If you would like to contribute a movie
review, please contact
Nick.
~Around the Forums~
Forum Highlight:
Blender 3D
Forum Coordinator:
haloedrain
Recent posts in Blender 3D:
Object
cloning
3ds
export
Deph of field
weight
painting
my first 2.44 sss
test
Blender and
hair
Blender & Lionshead "The
Movies"
Be sure to check out the
Blender 3D Gallery!
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From the Industry News
Forum:
Press Release - PD Pro 4.1
update
Version 5.0 | EditShare Field |
Customer Profile | Events Around the World
MAXON Presents the Power
Integration Tour
Noise Industries Ships
FxFactory for Apple Final Cut Studio 2
Stitcher Unlimited 5.6 : expand your
panoramic capabilities with HDRI
Boris FX Product Line Supports Apple
Final Cut Studio 2
YouTube for
3D-Models
AVID SELECTS CLASS ON DEMAND FOR WEB
BASED TRAINING PARTNER
Caligari Releases
trueSpace7.5
E-on Software Releases Vue 6 Personal
Learning Edition!
*For more headlines, or to post your company's
official press releases, please visit the
Renderosity Industry News
Forum.
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From the
Conferences, Expos and
Workshops Forum:
SIGGRAPH 2007 Computer Animation
Festival Sets Record
MAXON Presents the Power Integration
Tour
NYC SIGGRAPH Presents Animators
Bootcamp and Field Manual Workshop
SIGGRAPH Innovations Impact Daily
Life
~Forum Gallery Picks~
From the Poser Forum:
Staff Picks for 3rd Week of
May 2007
(Note: these are various gallery picks presented by
the Poser Forum Staff. These are not Poser specific.)
From the Photography
Forum:
Last Week in the Gallery week 21
From the Fractal
Forum:
Fractal Window Weekly - May 20 -
26
Fractal Vintage Showcase - August
16-31 2003
(Special note: fractalinda
is
Renderosity May 2007 Artist of the
Month [Fractal Gallery])
~Featured Gallery~
A Glimpse of Cinema 4D...
Check out more in the Cinema
4DÂ Gallery!
~Tips of the Week~

This week I approached Renderosity artist,
ShamanX on his work in
Lightwave:
"I don't know if I am slick enough when it comes down to the
nuts and bolts of Lightwave. I mainly use it just for the building
of machines with a good portion of the work I do in
Photoshop. I guess one thing that I like to work in Lightwave
is the lighting and "Nernies and Greeblies". I believe
that the term " Nernies and Greeblies" refers to all the
busy-work on models like air ducts, pipes, access panels,
handles, etc. The reason that I like to work this element is
to give the lighting some substance to work with. I suspect that I
could be much more effeicient by using texture and bump maps but I
kind of like the building aspect of modeling.
With
the lighting, one of the first things that I do is turn down the
global lighting to 0%. This allows me to get more dramatic lighting
with what I am working on. I use reflections in my images a fair
amout of time so another thing that I will do is to turn down the
Ray recursion limit to about 4 instead of the default 16 which will
cut down on the rendering time.
Just a note, I am using an older version of Lightwave, so the
newer versions may have aspects that I do not know about in
reference to my tips. I am currently using Lightwave 6.5."
Nathan Carlisle [ShamanX]
Be sure to check out Nathan's Renderosity
Gallery
~Contests~
Be sure to check out more of the current running contests/challenges!
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~Freestuff Picks of the Week~
Be sure to check out the vast selection in the Renderosity
Freestuff section!
What's missing?
If you have any news flashes, forum happenings, or links that
should be included in future editions of the "Neighborhood
News", please send me an e-mail
and I'll get ya covered.
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