When working 9 to 14 hours a day with Autodesk Maya 8.0 you soon encounter the strangest problems. In my opinioin the most annoying problem is Maya eating up my PNG files and then produce a pnglib Error in an infite loop while rendering. First I thought it happened because I use a SanDisk 4 GB USB-stick for working (!) but it even happened with an external USB diskdrive and even when saved local. And it doesn’t happen right away.
I went to see Shrek 3 with Lisa today (actually yesterday) at the Royal English Cinema in Graz. Actually that movie theater is not more “Royal” than any other theater, only they run the flicks in English rather than dubbed in German (and sometimes rather poorly). And especially Shrek 3 is one movie that you want to see with the original audio track.
I won’t go through the movie in detail but provide you more or less with some things that caught my attention during the movie (without spoilers of course!).
It’s close to 7am in the morning when I began writing this article and I am still awake… again compositing for our little CGI film term project. I can’t tell for how long I’ve been working solely on the compositing side, probably 15 to 20 hours for the first shot only… Not to mention the 10 or so hours I spent on my very first hand-drawn1 matte painting. But I don’t leave you without a video this time!
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I am working on another project for BigBoy Productions and I needed a realistic gold texture with proper reflections but which doesn’t take eons to render. Years ago I was very close to photorealistic gold but unfortunately I forgot a big deal about it. After playing around for days I finally came up with a good solution which I will present you in this tutorial.
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