Very nice work! I'm really liking the character idea too

Thanks joop, I'm looking forward to more work by me too!

Steve, wow, moderator now? Impressive stuff. Things took a downturn for the worse over the past few years but they're all good now :). Good...

Hi everyone, long time no see ;)

I recently picked up Maya and Maxwell, and I hope to start producing good stuff soon!
Meanwhile, here's a lamp that I have above my desk that I modeled in a few...

Hmmm... that sounds fair enough. I thought strat because I have one. How about an old, classic guitar. What about a telecaster? Those are fairly ancient. I really want to stray away from an acoustic....

Hey everyone. I know i never finish projects and the like, but I've recently heard of this one from a friend (joopson :)). So I'd like to enter.

I'm thinking about an electric guitar that's been...

thanks. Unfortunately, I couldn't figure it out after all... I'm scrapping the whole rendering loop and replacing it with a path tracing algorithm. That way, I can get anti-aliasing and soft shadows...

No, you can actually use the ones made with the educational license, you just can't legally use them for anything commercial.

So I've been working for the past few days on a general illumination model.

Well... I've incorporated some form of uniform monte-carlo hemispherical illumination... but the spheres are coming out...

I'll have to PM a mod to get their OK, but sure.

Shadows

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