Been trying to get translucence to work in a old fashion pull down shade. Is it buggy? I have a direction light behind a thin piece of geometry while light is showing thru shillouttes are not...

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But I solved my problem,

It seems when I left my mental ray fog object container to simulate volume fog on my character's render layer. It was causing the jump in brightness for my...

I have a problem in Mental Ray.

The problem is this: sometimes a character's brightness suddenly pop ups and/or pops down. So that that character can seem to be flickering. For example, my...

Photoshop

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How do people maintain registration when you composit a render layer that contains a transparent background (foreground pass or shadow pass) onto another layer that contains a background. I...

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Tried doing motion blur in After Effects 7.0. Shutter Angle = 360 shutter phase = -360. All timeline stuff is switched on. Doesn't seem to work.

Really happy with the results with Mental...

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I watched people during tutorials stress that naming materials is important. I get that. But do people name shading groups? Just wondering.

I've always rendered in mental ray... haven't given Software much of a look. Do people favor one over the other? Is there a certain look that favors one render engine over another?

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My Roxio that came with my Dell is just Creator Home which can't do DVD's Will look into Creator Basic

What resolution was your demo reel?

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So far I using After Effects to edit my animation.

The format is going to be inital auto play and then a menu

1) But I'm unclear about what program should I use to put it to...