Problems installing an early version of Maya on Snow Leopard? I feel your pain!
My MacBook Pro hard disk crashed. Apple replaced it with Snow Leopard installed, rather than reinstalling my original Leopard. I was fine with that, until I realized Maya 2008 would not install on Snow Leopard. I was on the verge of reverting [...]
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Global Illumination (GI) is a computer graphics technique used to create key characteristics of natural lighting. It simulates the real world by using virtual photons that “bounce” off of surfaces. GI uses both direct lighting (such as from a CG lamp or sun) and indirect lighting (bounced) and can produce astonishingly [...]
Sculptie Creation for Second Life® with Maya
I spoke on organic content creation, using Maya, at the Second Life Community Convention (SLCC) in San Francisco last month. Here are my notes. Of course, there are a few fine tutorials on this topic already, but I wanted to cover: multi-object sculpties, lighting and materials (in addition to [...]
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