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Hi Hashers : I cheered up with this contest, and I decided to put the hand in the mouse and model my centaur version After some sketches, here is the result : Centaur by Xtaz Peace Xtaz

Willian, I am happy for you not to be competing in the CENTAUR ( my entry ) !!!!!!! GREAT CLEAN MODEL !!!!! Peace Xtaz

wiliian : great tentacles .... a lot of 5 point patches how many patches until now ?? Xtaz

Antony : I am impressed..... The quality, the details, the lights. simply.... excellent I love those splines.... simple lines becoming dreams ... Xtaz

ganthofer an mark .... thanks for your comments ... .. they give me power to continue in this arduous task, which I intended Mark i didnt have succes whit toon render ... but I will continue trying now .. im trying some FX , I would like to thank a lot to Willian Sutton for sprites help ... i had to use a poor ilumination to render this test ( only 3 passes ), the full light (25 passes ) was being rendered in 7 min/frame .. it would take 110 hours to render all and any comment will be contemplated.... IMPORTANT:To link works copy and paste it in your browser .. http://paginas.terra.com.br/arte/xtaz/arrancada.mov ( 17 sec SORENSON 5.5 Mb ) cheers Xtaz

Matrickz : Nice simple character ... I am curious to know how it will be crawling ... one question ... are the body and eyes attached ?? I can see a shadow in the first pic ... keep working ... Xtaz

Dearmad : excellent project.... characters and props are amazing .... keep us updated I perceived that three great projects are being made using cities as main focus or sets .... Frank Hegemann´s city my city and your city ... all made by A:M ( Amazing : Metropolis ) Cheers Xtaz

this is like Matrix !!!! :)

Thank you very much Ihan and Jack ...... inspiring words I am learning a lot with this project... Cheers Xtaz

just testing...

forget picture )))

another view of the city

hashers : I believe to have finished the process of drawing scenery.... he was gigantic with more than 350 objects...I needed do it giant, because I will need a long scene among the city... I thought my processor won't get to play CHO.. but the A:M is being shown excellent... I am taking A:M to the limit .... some detail here and anothers there then I will pass for the animation .... Xtaz

ethan ... good job ..... nice guys ... nice guitars .... this short promisses Xtaz

Congratulation Jack !!!!!!! very nice stills ...... dark !! Xtaz

YOU ROCK !!!!!!!!! no words ...... i tried to find a icon to describe .. but i didnt get... Xtaz

Jim .. it will be !!! ) the exaggerating atmosphere is deliberate, or else, I would have to unbend a little the buildings !! I intend the scene to be similar to a dream, or a memory, something like that. I will use a bloom filter in the scene ...... maybe thx JIM ... ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- GANTHOFER !!!!! Thx friend ....... i created just one action to THOM and all actions started in frame 0 ..... Were they ?????? or.... WAS I ??? im projecting to use at least 10 actions ... ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ THX friends ... Cheers Xtaz

PARLO !!! WOW !!!!!!!!! your characters are amazing .... I LOVE THEM ..... don't stop, dont stop cheers Xtaz

KEN !!!! Very nice character ... i love him ... as said Rodney he remember Geri .... keep the good job in textures and we´ll have a GREAT CHARACTER .... ...and ARCTIC PIGS ROCKS !!!!!! Xtaz

Vern ... you are the ONE ... MASTER... thank you very, very much Your words are quite encouraging ... wait the animation.. then you will see the power .... Zack... Mark is right again .. I must to say crosswalk ... the white lines in the street thx friends Xtaz

Randy ... youre right too as usual I will wait more comments, to fix, this and others problems , as Mark said, it is very good to have several people helping thank you for the praises Mark ... the traffic light is already done... it will be essential for the development of the action, thx again for your comments .. they help me a lot ... cheers Xtaz

Thx mark ... you are right .... i ll fix them I also noticed the pedestrian's strip ( is this name correct ? ) is badly decaled Xtaz

Hi Hashers, Spliners, Patchers : Little by little the project is going developing.... Until the last update, the city was just with the houses that would appear in the "still". On this weekend, I sweated hard to get built more houses, now, I can begin to think in the camera movement. You can find firts test camera here ( 5 sec SORENSON 987 kb ): http://paginas.terra.com.br/arte/xtaz/testset.mov IMPORTANT : COPY AND PASTE LINK IN YOUR BROWSE i tried attach it in the message but i received an error (??) look it and comment it .... cheers Xtaz

Hi Mattheu : You are insane !!!! and ... ...and congratulations for your insanity..... Marboxian is like a dream to me.... good luck ... Xtaz

Hi Hashers ..... I did a first test using my X-Two-2-GO and ARCTIC PIGS V11 .... i have on word to describe .... FABULOUS !!! thx guys .. for me, IT is one of the most useful plugins in AM ........ 149k!!!!!! i cant believe it .... You can download the model viewer HERE cheers Xtaz two.chor