robcat2075

Welcome back to A:M! Too bad it's a laptop, where replacing a disk drive is such a hassle. What model is it? maybe there's a cheap drive replacement on ebay. However, I have been able to start a disc-based A:M on a tablet computer from an external drive so it is at least ... possible. When you say v16 etc... won't work on your computer, why is that? Possibly your problem is as simple as changing the drive letters associated with the CD drive? Something like this... How To Change Drive Letters in Windows Vista - PC Support Or... disconnecting the original CD drive to force the computer to look elsewhere?

Pixar Renderman is a powerful shading and rendering environment but it is a very difficult one to use. Anyone thinking of using Renderman should study this manual and ask themselves, do i really want to have to do all that? It would be necessary to digest and understand that manual to get something going with Renderman. Pixar Renderman Manual The great results Pixar gets for their films is the result of hiring extremely capable Renderman gurus and paying them to spend lots of time on small details. Substantial coding skill will be necessary to get the sort of custom results that make people admire Renderman... The shading and texturing environment in A:M is dramatically easier to use and can already do 90% or more of what is typically done with Renderman anyway.

U.S. Leads Multi-National Action Against “Gameover Zeus” Botnet and “Cryptolocker” Ransomware, Charges Botnet Administrator According to this article you have two weeks or less to undo your cryptolocked computer... Global police operation disrupts aggressive Cryptolocker virus

Did I say you had five weeks left last week? I was wrong! Yesterday you had five weeks left to finish your sci-fi image entry! Today you have five weeks minus a few hours.

Currently it takes about 30+ seconds between choosing the bookmark for the forum and when it appears in the browser.

I looked at their site but I can't quite figure out what it is. A hair maker? A renderer?

I notice that a used Surface Pro 1 goes for as little as $99 on ebay if one is not picky about details like a shattered screen and missing essentials like the charger and pen.

I just looked up the original price of my Cintiq 18SX... $3499.95! I'm glad someone else took the initial depreciation on that.

Cute knees!

Maybe that's what the special version of Photoshop they hyped was about? I haven't seen any screen shots so i don't know what was different about it.

I wonder if I could send them my catbox and get a Cintiq back for $300? I think 12" is enough for drawing purposes, the sketch book I carried around for drawing out-and-about is only 8.5 x 5.75... lessee... that would be a diagonal size of about 10" 2160 x 1440 pixels ought to be enough res to use most programs. I'd have to actually look at it to see if that is packing too many pixels in too small a size for the menus to be readable with normal eyes. The big negative for me is that it's more expensive than I can justify for my need for it. But maybe a used one someday...

Five weeks to get your Sci-Fi entry together! And the top ten entries will win something... you could be one of them!

Perhaps a spreadsheet could do the conversion?

I'll try again... I too found a regular Wacom tablet awkward to use. i was doing and re-doing strokes until I got it in the right place. Generally not usable for me. Drawing on the screen is way better. I'll note that I got my 18" Cintiq used, for about $600 on ebay several years ago and the same model goes for much much less now. The stand is handy in that it tilts down to a regular drawing angle but I also need my adjustable chair that boosts me up to a high enough level to feel right with the drawing surface.

Weird... I posted a reply here and what appeared was a copy of Roger's last post.

This is from a production design commentary on one the the Mad Men DVDs, a series I'm only now getting around to watching. Their premise is that the series is set in the early 60's so they want period furniture on their sets. They found these secretarial desks and ordered them in beige because they wanted them to appear not too extravagant. To make the beige panels photograph more interestingly, however, they put a larger than normal desktop on them so it would extend over the sides and cast a shadow (two really ifyou look close), breaking up the color without explicitly adding another color to the object. I also think the overhanging shadow gives a depth cue that is interesting to the eye and adds a 3D-ness to the object that might not be there other wise.

Written and directed by Frank Tashlin, former Disney and WB animator and director!

If someone wants to contribute an example PRJ of something they tried and couldn't get to work, that might be useful for this series to give me something practical to talk about and show. It could be sent to me privately so you don't have to make your PRJ file public.

The actual request would go to the page that Jason linked to but you can ask about it here on the forum. Maybe it's already there. Or maybe someone knows how to do what you are trying to do. As far as coding, Steffen Gross does that.

My next "It Can't Be Done" series will be on Simcloth in A:M. (I'm going to award myself a book by Martin Hash for suggesting that topic. ) Cloth seems to be one of those things that people find very enticing when they see it but very frustrating when they try it themselves. I think a series that builds up the knowledge base from the basics to the useful tricks would be a good thing. Here is your chance to suggest particular cloth things that you would like to see solutions for. i probably won't get to this until July, after the Image contest so you have time to think about what you want to see. tJRN4-A5I5E And if you didn't catch my previous "It Can't Be Done"... check it out!

I like that too! That is definitely a red devil.

Sorry to hear that venue won't work anymore But you gave it a fair shot and you can be proud of that. Most people never even get to the trying stage.

Welcome to A:M! I was an Infini-D user, a long, long time ago! The new user tutorials pointed to at the top of the New User forum are good starting points. When you're stuck, ask on the forum here. In the tutorials link in my signature are many tutorials on specific topics but some are aimed at new users.

I guess it was the "wink-wink, nudge-nudge" era.

This is the oddest beginning-of-the-film studio logo I've seen today... It's at the very beginning of this movie... A440DsuM8iQ