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- If you could apprentice with Foundation Imaging's Ron Thornton,
- what would you want to learn?
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- Desktop Images has just produced two new instructional videos
- with this Emmy Award winning visual FX director and chief model
- designer for PTN's Babylon 5. We'll soon be going back to
- shoot several more and I thought I'd find out what secrets and
- techniques would most interest professional LightWave 3D
- artists.
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- In the two current tapes, he walks you through the complete
- process of modeling and surfacing a fully polished, network
- quality spacecraft.
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- In the first tape, Thornton starts at the very beginning,
- sharing his approach to the creative process of "mech," or
- high-tech mechanical, modelmaking. He shows you how to move
- from initial concept to generating thumbnail sketches on to how
- he chooses the best approach to begin modeling. Then he builds
- the pieces. Starting with a simple cylinder, he shows you his
- shortcuts and guides you all the way through the process,
- showing you how to finesse the design and add the detail that
- sells the finished model.
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- In the second tape, Thornton shows how to do the magic that
- makes a model look absolutely real. He shows you how to
- integrate LightWave 3D with Adobe Photoshop to quickly and
- easily make stunning textures and add mechanical details to the
- high-tech craft he created in the first tape. He covers the
- intricacies of diffusion and specularity mapping to make the
- ship look weathered. And he demonstrates his most valuable
- secrets like how to paint directly on an objects surface by
- rendering then mapping the painted image back on as a surface.
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- So that's what we're finshing now. What would you like to see
- next? On the slate currently: tapes on compositing animation
- with live actiion and some the advanced animation techniques
- they use to create relaistic motion in robots and other
- mechanical creatures.
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- What else? Matte backgrounds? More on using other software
- with LightWave? Organic Modeling? Let me know. We'll do our
- best to sit you down with these masters in the comfort of your
- own living room.
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- I appreciate your feedback.
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- Brady Caverly Instructional Videotapes for
- Desktop Images Desktop Video, Computer Animation,
- Windows and the Internet.
- **ORDER 1-800-377-1039**
- Or http://www.desktopimages.com/desktop/
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