Sep 30, 2011

After several weeks off, the Lightwave Plugin of the Week is back with another classic (i.e. older) modeler plugin: Truss2 by Koki Morioka. This plugin takes makes tubes or discs around polygon edges which makes it useful for building truss structures or scaffolding. If you need this kind of functionality and don’t have LWCAD, you should check this...

Sep 29, 2011

Thursday afternoons are always a bitch, but we have been having a bit of fun here as well. We watched TeraNova last night…. Yeah ok. Who did the green screen keying on the shot with buddy from avatar and the ex-cop dad guy looking over the settlement about 2/3rds into the show? How those shots made it into the show… well I don’t...

Sep 25, 2011

It’s Sunday so things are kind of casual here at the office. Luke, Samuli, Lee, Mark, Tuomas and I are here by ourselves as we just continue to truck through shots as quickly as we can. Our director  wasn’t able to make it on Friday as he was sick, thing is we have all been sick – with the mysterious exception of Samuli… hmmmm…....

Sep 23, 2011

It seems the original viral marketing campaign that PMG did with Messiah has caught on with another vendor. This time its for Urban Pad version2 from Gamr7.com. For 29 bucks you can get cities at your finger tips, IF they meet their goal for sales at that price by  October 2nd. If they don’t they will refund everyone but I think this one is going to meet...

Sep 23, 2011

We get a visit from our director today. Weee. In other more exciting useful news after spending the week constructing and breaking out shots we have put ourselves back onto a decent schedule that is starting to stabilize. Hopefully our visit doesn’t blow all of that out of the water. Today’s a day for checking renders, saving out camera motions for...