Re: [Pipmak-Users] Great Tool!!

[Andrea V. <and...@gm...>]

Hi Nathan, 

> 
> Wow, that's really cool Andrea!  How long did it take you to
> make all of that?
>  Nathan Warden
> nathanwardenlee <at> mac.com
> http://www.NathanWarden.com
> 

Thank you very much!
Above all because the appreciation comes from an expert like you! 

I have seen your homepage, your 3D models and Demo reel are very nice!

I think it would like to you working in PIXAR...as it would like to me...
(but Emeryville, California, is a litle far away for me...I'm living
in Turin, Italy, the Fiat city and the last olympic winter game site)

You ask me how long it take to make all, if you mean the modelling time...
the answer is: a very long time...I don't succeed to quantify it, 
I started about six year ago, in order to try to move furnitures in my 
house... I created small parts every evenings ... the last one adding is the 
console over the computer, that I have made myself physically last weekend.
I've a wife and a 3 years old daughter,
so the time that I succeed to dedicate to this is a lot little...

I have employed much less time to put it into Pipmak, about 4 or 5 hours:
to do that, I've created a macro in 3D studio for rendering the 6 
images starting from an arbitrary camera position.

You can see some errors in my scenes: my house have no ceiling !!
What you can see is the background color of the 3ds scene...
I don't known why, but if I put the ceiling, I get a dark one: 
all the ceiling seems to be in shadow...
probably there are some parameter of the lighting 
that I don't understand!!  

Another error is in the shadows of the CD-bookcase near the computer,
the shape of the shadows aren't correct: they are like if the bookcase
did not have the back and it were distant from the wall...
you can see this error somewhere in my model....

I'm using a very old release of 3D studio max,
the R2, the newer version are too expensive for me,
I would have to try with some opensource modelling tools, do you known
somethings good?
I have given just a look to Blender, but for the first time does not seem
much easy to me.

Bye

Andrea


P.S.: I'm apologize if my english isn't so good, I hope you succeed to
understand me the same!