02/04/2008
BOB Books
I've put this in the 3D section mainly because that's what I used it for.
Anyway, BOB Books: BOB Books
A superb site. What they do is make one off books. What's great about that? Well, take a look at their site and see what you can do. Want to have a glossy hardback book of your years best photo's? What about a custom wedding album?
What I did was have my CGI work compiled into a coffee table size book. It's superb!
What you do is download a free bit of software from the site, and choose your layout and get going. Just add pictures and text where you want it and hey presto order the book.
Mine cost about £50 delivered, and it's worth every penny.
Here's a terrible shot I took but hopefully you'll get an idea of the quality.
Original:
You dont have to worry about converting images to CMYK or anything other than Jpegs. The software will tell you if it's not good enough size wise. It takes 2 weeks to print and arrive, but it's very, very impressive.
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11/20/2007
Cross Dresser
Cross Dresser
No, it's not a post about that! This is rather the incredible, free little programme by EvilInnocence.
What it does is simple.
You have Poser. You have a great outfit for Victoria 3. You'd really like to have the same outfit for Miki 2, but what can you do?
What you do is this, you buy a license, usually around $10, for each figure you want the clothes to convert to. I just bought V4 and Miki 2 and I'll convert any clothing I want to those figures. You then load the CR2 and away you go.
I found it a little buggy on my 64bit XP, but choosing the desktop to save the converted file to seemed to solve most issues.
There are 3 levels of detail to save to, and that can mean the difference between 1 and 20 mins time to convert an article of clothing.
It's worth it though. You really open up opportunities for your favourite figures, and give them something unique.
<a evilinnocence
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Top Mod
I recently read about this little application in 3D World.
It's a little buggy at the moment, but dont let that put you off downloading and trying this 3D application.
It's free for a start!
You basically have primitives that you can hollow out and extrude into crazy shapes. it does it easily, but the shapes are out of this world.
If you save your work often it seems to help.
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11/13/2007
Aery Soul
Arguably one of the best producers of Poser merchandise on the planet.
Every now and then they also give us freebies, which are again some of the most quality products you can get for Poser, and that they're free is amazing.
Anyway, they currently have a freebie being given away with an online magazine called Art & Prose
It's a pretty interesting read, but buy Octobers issue for $3 and you get the following Aery Soul product free!
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Going well.
Just a quick post to let you all know my 3D'ing is coming along well. I've been at it a couple of months now. At first I struggled to make a simple egg shape, well, you can see I've learnt a lot....but still got a fair way to go too.
By farawaypicturesp;
My full gallery can be seen at renderosity HERE
I'm not sure if you need to register to view them there though?
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Font Freak
Need some fonts in a hurry, but on a tight budget?
Look no further than Font freak
They have literally thousands of free fonts for download.
Or, if you want to spend a few quid, you can download the whole lot! for only $7.95
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09/22/2007
My modelling goes on
Still getting to grips with Cinema 4D.
Just finished my second effort, a Nintendo DS.
It's also available for download as a model
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08/17/2007
Groboto
I've just bought a crazy little programme called Groboto
It makes some incredibly complex 3D shapes and patterns, and is also quite fun to learn.
I also managed to get $20 off buy just asking for a coupon at the site!
Anyway, if you have a 64bit OS like I have you'll need a couple of extra bits to make it work.
First go over to Microsoft and download the SP2.
You will then need Net 2.0
Install those and it will work no problem!
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Razzle Dazzle
Just to let you know, there's a lot happening at DAZ at the moment.
Not only can you now get Bryce 5.5 FREE! but they've just unleashed there newest version of Daz Studio, again, free.
If that's not all you can get some figure packs free too including V3 A3 M3 and even the Mil Dragon.
Definatley woth a look.
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08/03/2007
My New System
Well, it's been a long time coming, but I finally have my new PC.
I took a long time speccing it out, with so many questions asked at http://www.renderosity.com/index.php over the last months from Graphics Cards, Operating System, Monitor Size, Poser Utilities, Runtime Organisation to just about every item that goes in a PC. (I make my living on Macs, so PC's are pretty unknown to me).
Also, a big thankyou to The Fixer, my fellow Welshy there, who gave my spec a good going over offering advice and giving me plenty of ammunition for my visit to the shop (I spoke the words he gave me and they understood!).
So, the plan I had was to use the online shop: http://www.pcspecialist.co.uk/index.php who seemed to be offering a very good service at a good price. I changed this plan after a while and decided to give my local PC shop www.kscomputerstore.co.uk/ a crack at matching the spec I'd printed off. They not only matched it but bettered it. I also felt a lot better about having someone nearby responsible, which was a good move in the end as one of the technicians came round and helped install it for me!
So, what did I get:
Monitor: Acer 24" Widescreen £346.57
Case: Alpine Silver £53.65
Power Supply: Tagan 800w £140.00
Motherboard: Gigabyte GA-G33M-DS2R £99.00
Processor: Intel Core 2 Duo E6850 3Ghz £173.00
Memory: Corsair 6400 4 x 1GB £158.00
Disk Drives: Liteon DVD-RW x 2 £54.00
Hard Drives: 500GB Seagate x 2 £160.00
Graphics Card: 8800GTS Nvidia £184.00
USB Adaptor: PCi 5 Port £9.31
Network: ASUS Wireless Adaptor £23.20
Software: Windows XP Pro 64 £89.00
Software: Nero 7 £Free
Labour: £Free
Keyboard: Logitech £6.84
Mouse: USB Optical £Free
Speakers: 2.1 Ozaki £Free
Total: £1496.57
As said before, I'm pretty new to PC's so I'm still setting things up. I have Poser installed and had a quick play last night. I quickly added 4 figures, moved them around very quickly and rendered. Took about 30secs for a 1020x768 Firefly render. I wont be using Poser for rendering though, so it was just a play.
I've just downloaded SP2 and NetFX to get Groboto to work on the system.
Other than that, I have plans to get the Adobe CS suite and also Cinema 4D and use the plug in to work Poser files there and render them....but that's all a couple of pay packets away.
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06/19/2007
Sketching
Well, as anyone who knows me well can tell you. i do actually have the memory of a goldfish.
So, after keep having brilliant ideas for pictures and then promptly forgetting them 10mins later I decided to buy a sketchbook to record them in.
So, I thought a nice hardback one would be good......HOW hard is it to find a plain paper hardback sketchbook! Everything had lines ruled onto it. In the end I went to WH Smiths, which I thought would be very expensive. Should have gone their first, i found some lovely hardback books in varying sizes, they even had a thread bookmark, and all in the sale with 75% off. I bought 3 for under £5. in fact the pens I bought from Wilkinsons cost more. I got a set of fineline Steadlers for £4.50, and I'm sketching with a normal clutch pencil.
i'm actually enjoying drawing again loads, and often have the book out at home making up spaceships, planets or typefaces.
The kids all get out there paper too and join in.
Anyway, one idea that would have been lost was the one below which I got whilst watching a Leann Rimes DVD. It was'nt in the video but I somehow got the idea from it.
The original sketch i did had her in a long coat splayed out on the floor, but I'm not ready to that sort of thing yet. it was however a great excuse to finally use that massive top hat i bought at Renderosity.
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05/18/2007
Some Basic Freebies
I've got some basic freebiesthat i'll just let you know about.
I've got a simple light set and backdrop for Bryce.
As Professor Farnsworth would say, and here is where I keep my collection of wire.
And some leather textures I mafe for a cowgirl suit.
If you can use them, take them and enjoy.
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05/08/2007
Ivy Generator
Ivy Generator.
This is quite a simple programme. It does 1 thing.
You Import an object in. Grow ivy on it. Then Import the Ivy model out.
Then in a programme of your choice you put the object and the Ivy together. I'm using Daz's free Daz Studio:
to put them together. Then Export them out as a complete object.
I've used Bryce to render the image above.
Oh, did I mention....it's FREE!
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05/02/2007
Bryce for free
Just a quick message.
I'm thinking of starting a new section on my other hobby of 3D computer graphics. Did you know one of the easiest to use and best 3D packages is available for free!? It's Bryce, and although it's only version 5 (currently on 6.1) it's worthwhile getting, and if you like it the upgreade price is very cheap.
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