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Excellent News! Excellent News! Excellent News!
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Excellent News! Excellent News! Excellent News! // Roundtable
Post by i_maker // Jan 13, 2009, 10:03am
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Look:
http://www.lightworkdesign.com/gallery/featured_user
Excellent news for myself, and for trueSpace. All I wish now is for trueSpace 8 to incorporate at least Lightworks 7.9 render engine. That will keep me very happy for a long time to come. I hope you all will make enough positive noise that Microsoft will have no choice but to continue to fund development of trueSpace into many, many new versions… |
Post by frootee // Jan 13, 2009, 10:37am
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Very nice Kheang. Congratulations! :D
Yes, it would be good to see Lightworks supported on the Workspace side in the future. :) |
Post by The Master Elite // Jan 13, 2009, 10:40am
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Excellent news indeed it sounds like.
...seems you're hunting for every scrap of data you can scavenge, i_maker. :D |
Post by Emmanuel // Jan 13, 2009, 10:42am
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Congratulations Kheang !
Your work is outstanding and its deserves the Lightworks 7.9 upgrade for the next tS version.
I hope Roman will read that ! :jumpy: |
Post by splinters // Jan 13, 2009, 10:45am
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Good to see you getting the recognition you deserve...:banana:
I can only hope that a LW update will make it into the next version of tS. |
Post by Breech Block // Jan 13, 2009, 10:46am
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Congratulations Kheang !
Your work is outstanding and its deserves the Lightworks 7.9 upgrade for the next tS version.
I hope Roman will read that ! :jumpy:
Ditto all of that. Really loved all the car piccies. |
Post by v3rd3 // Jan 13, 2009, 10:50am
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Wonderful images..... now... when do we see the tuts.... ;) |
Post by Erpax // Jan 13, 2009, 10:52am
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Looks great! :D Congrats i_maker!!!! :D I feel very happy for you ^_^
[Hopefully caligari will integrate LW 7.9 for ts8 (or earlier :rolleyes: )] |
Post by trueBlue // Jan 13, 2009, 10:58am
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Congratulations! Well deserved too! Now that you are even more famous, will you be sharing your light setup now? ;)
Where is my Blue ink? |
Post by jayr // Jan 13, 2009, 11:54am
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Great stuff! |
Post by TomG // Jan 13, 2009, 12:28pm
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Very well done, and very well deserved! You have always produced some of the most amazing renders, with awesome modeling and lighting. Definitely a showcase for what Lightworks (and trueSpace, of course) is capable of :) Good to see you get the exposure and credit you deserve.
Thanks!
Tom |
Post by robert // Jan 13, 2009, 12:39pm
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That's pretty sweet, nice work! :D |
Post by transient // Jan 13, 2009, 4:04pm
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Those are beautiful renders, well, done.:) |
Post by Mr. 3d // Jan 13, 2009, 4:15pm
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Excellent Work !!! I'll take the SRC15 Super Coupe !:cool: |
Post by Dragneye // Jan 13, 2009, 4:38pm
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What BEAUTIFUL work i_maker!! Wonderful, incredibly sexy shapes! |
Post by KeithC // Jan 13, 2009, 4:46pm
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Spectacular work! Congratulations. :)
-Keith |
Post by i_maker // Jan 14, 2009, 10:58am
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Thank you all for your comments. It all started with this little car that won an honorable mention in March 2002 (Caligari image competition)
http://www.caligari.com/gallery/imagesgallery/2002/Mar02/image12.asp?Cate=GImages
This image was rendered on a Dell PC with 64MB RAM! The lighting was mainly an IBL with a beach texture, which was quite an elaborate set-up already back then. As a complete newbie, I was blown away when I first saw the image fully rendered on my PC. I couldn’t believe it worked, and how easy it was! Now, if only the car was modeled better…
What this illustrates is how a newbie’s excitement over a “nice” render can be dangerous: it keeps you from learning the fundamental raison d’être of 3D graphics: modeling.
My secret? It is: modeling, modeling, modeling. Would you believe the image that won first prize in January 2005:
http://www.caligari.com/gallery/imagesgallery/2005/jan/winner.asp?img=1128&name=Kheang%20Chrun
was rendered with just 2 infinite lights? The set-up was so simple you’d kick yourself if I told you how I did it.
The mistake a lot of 3D newbies make is that they spend too much time tweaking the “magic render buttons” so they can get that “perfect render” that would win them the Caligari image contest. Modeling, point editing, what are they? The Caligari image contest is partly to blame for nurturing the obsession with the perfect “looking” image above everything else. How many time have we heard: “pleasing looking image will win contest”? By relegating modeling to the back seat, Caligari runs the risk of misleading newbies that “magic render buttons” are everything…
If you want to make a career in 3D graphics, you HAVE to learn to model. You must model like your life depends on it (it does if you make a living with it!). This is what “immersive” is: I visualise in my mind’s eye how I am going to model that car before I even turn on my PC.
This will sound like self-righteous pontification on my part, but reality is, you do not get good results without hard work.
A few more useful tips while I’m on a roll:
• Concentrate on learning aspects of 3D that are platform-independent, so that skills you acquire in one application can be applied equally in another: do not waste time on features that are specific only to a package (I have never used metaballs or facial animation), unless you paid $3,000 for it!
• Don’t put all your eggs in one basket: diversify your rendering options.
• Do not LOVE your 3D sofware like it’s a member of your family: it’s only a tool. If it doesn’t work, get another one.
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To finish off, as it is the fashion to have wise words with your signature:
“Beauty is in the eye of the beholder”
“Honi soit qui mal y pense”
“Que sera sera”
“Au pays des aveugles, le borgne est roi”
“Errare Humanum es” |
Post by spacekdet // Jan 14, 2009, 11:44am
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Kudos, well deserved.
I'm a long time admirer of your work.
I hope the featured artist gallery over there helps alleviate the bittersweet sting of all those Honorable Mentions over here.
And in the case of your last post, I think all the wise words came before your signature lines. |
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