Introduction to Maya - Modeling Fundamentals Vol 2
This course will look in the fundamentals of modeling in Maya with an emphasis on creating good topology. It's aimed at people that have some modeling experience in Maya but are having trouble with complex objects.
# 1 04-03-2004 , 11:09 AM
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Star Trek Borg Effects

I've always wondered in movies like star trek how they do the effects like Borg implants bursting from the skin or other creepy crawly things moving under the skin, obviously they film the actor first then add the effects, but how do you manipulate a video image? I'd love to try this myself ..... anyone point me in the direction of a tutorial or a demo on how it is done?


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# 2 04-03-2004 , 03:42 PM
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I would guess a animated bumb map for the under the skin crawlies.

# 3 04-03-2004 , 08:03 PM
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Actualy, a pseudo-morphing software is used for the z-axis displacement in terms of the crawly-skin effects.
The bursting is merely a combo of 3d and 2d element composites.

The morphing/displacement software most often used in recent features is called:
Elastic Reality.

Avid has discontinued the software, though it is still WIDELY used todayuser added image


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# 4 05-03-2004 , 05:40 AM
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I'd like to share a revelation that I've had during my time here. It came to me when I tried to classify your species. I realized that you're not actually mammals. Every mammal on this planet instinctively develops a natural equilibrium with the surrounding environment, but you humans do not. You move to an area, and you multiply, and multiply, until every natural resource is consumed. The only way you can survive is to spread to another area. There is another organism on this planet that follows the same pattern. A virus. Human beings are a disease, a cancer of this planet, you are a plague, and we are the cure.
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