Well, done. As I wrote before, I hope you are happy with your new job!

Beautiful landscape photos, but IMO it's getting a little ridiculous how much HDRI dominates landscape photography. There are good arguments for it: that it requires some fakery to attempt to represent the stunningness of the real world in a 2D LDR image (and after all, all photography is "fake"), but I've gone off landscape images which are too obviously heavily tone mapped/Photoshopped HDRI composites. I wonder if it's here to stay or if it'll look dated in a few years? I like the shopping trolley/Aberdeen Harbour one best, the photographer really managed to make an otherwise dubious subject absolutely beautiful. It reminds me (the subject, not the talent!) of one I took many years ago with my second-hand Sigma 35mm SLR. [image: yfvJ_trolleysmall.jpg]

You must be kidding me? My wife is a nurse too!

That's pretty good, I met one of the Street View drivers at a C-store once, and he did have a pretty long beard...but he wasn't nearly as crabby

The last part of the animation looks like a map of world obesity

As d12 said, Twilight can use SketchUp's sun. It's just that I did the first test with the sun turned off and a completely white sky for a moody, monochrome look. Twilight has several render presets available. Some of them work similar to Indigo/Maxwell/Fry and are called "unbiased"; others work similar to V-ray/Mental Ray and are called "biased". For the first test I used an unbiased preset, Easy 09. For the following one I used a biased one. I also turned off the light for a change, and enabled the physical sky + sun with some tweaks to their default values. Lastly, I did some post-production in the freeware app Motiva RealCamera, trying to simulate an Agfacolor camera. [image: Usqn_Agfacolor-HDC200plus.jpg] UPDATE: I'm cooking another one with Easy 09, wait for it...

Tricky

Itd be worth PMing Jim, i think he's looking for work at the moment, and he's certainly qualified to advise you on your project.

superb

Hi Guys, A good mouse is so important. I've tried loads and am always on the lookout for new mice. I have been using the Microsoft Mobile memory Mouse 8000 for well over year and am very happily with it. It comes with a 1GB Flash 2.4GHz and can be used plugged in via a magnetic light and flexible lead or it can be used wireless. The scroll wheel has the the right touch for me and has side movement. The overall feel on the mouse is perfect and it cools cool in it shiny black plastic and stainless brushed steel. The listed MS retail price is $99 but I see it now available on various sites (http://www.buy.com) for less than $25 plus shipping, a bargain Mike [image: 8E8I_8000.jpg]

Well, I sent a confirming PM to Eric not too much after he posted this. I haven't heard back ever since.

Yes I am really looking forward to meeting Mateo. I will love all the conversation. No earplugs required. Thanks so much for signing up.

Also, play around with the font size at the top right. [image: 9Gq3_Fontsize.jpg]

Bride of Frankenstein, 2009. Elsa Lanchester had cooler hair however. [image: 2eT4_Brideoffrankenstein.jpg]

I agree. Why not just have the touch pad be the keyboard (when activated) and the whole interface be larger. Neat idea though.

i wonder how long it took to get to 126mph? 126 minutes maybe?

Yeah , i realised that but felt that there were some good hidden gems in there for textures, lighting, polygonal techniques etc. Especially from a beginners POV, who's trying to find out more with regards understanding rendering and its application

the image search is definitely an improvement over google.. haven't used it enough to feel out any real pos/negs.. mac users will need something like: http://www.machangout.com/ ..in order to get bing (or other) as your default engine in safari because only google is built in..

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That is good news! Thanks for sharing Mike. I will be sure to show the article to my kids.