Re: [Pipmak-Users] Great Tool!!

[Nathan W. <nat...@ma...>]

Hey Andrea,

	Wow!  Thanks for the compliments.  A free modeling app that I used  
for a while was Wings3d @ www.wings3D.com.  I've seen some great  
stuff modeled from the app if you know how to use it.  I personally  
use LightWave.  While a lot of stuff is coming from Maya and Max  
nowadays, a lot of stuff is actually modeled in LightWave and then  
pulled into those apps.

	BTW, your English is really quite good.  I don't think I  
misunderstood any part of what you wrote.  Keep up the modeling and  
you'll be able to model stuff really quickly after a while!  What  
used to take me a month to do I can now do in about two days.  Good  
luck with Pipmak and to you and your family! :D

Nathan Warden
nat...@ma...
http://www.NathanWarden.com



On Sep 22, 2006, at 8:33 AM, Andrea Viarengo wrote:

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