@alan fraser said: They seem to think you're hanging on the end of the phone with nothing better to do, just waiting to commit yourself fully to their demands. Construction industry is much the same. If I had a dollar for every time someone called me on a friday afternoon, in a panic, hoping I could get something turned over by Monday morning. A few years ago, I would do what I could to help, but now I just laugh and tell them good luck. What's the quote? A failure to plan on your side does not constitute an emergency on mine? Everything would be a lot easier if we didn't have clients that were humans, haha

Thanks Richard. Now I have thee domain and am putting the materials together and when it finished will buy a host. I hope using Facebook and Instagram increase the chance of being seen and share my joy with the others.

After reading all of the comments in this thread, I downloaded the trial version because it looked like a pretty good piece of software and others on this forum have posted some good looking renders. I tried to render an animation created with Fredo's Animator plugin (beta). I have done this with other software but the Thea experience was not positive. At this point I am assuming that I did something wrong since this was my first attempt. If you are a member of the Animator beta testing team, you can check out my post here to see my results and what happened. I welcome any feedback/comments anyone my have and hope that the problem is totally my fault.

That is sooooooooo bad, how can any film be so bad?

Garry, new members need 3 posts before they can reply via PM. If you hear nothing via email let me know so I can make the connection for you.

16,764 m wide?

He He city signs look like this here. the red diagonal line tell that you left the town https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ortstafel_(Deutschland

@utiler said: just appreciate the wood work that has gone into building these timesavers and though you guys should know about what's out there. Are they artisinally crafted Thanks for the suggestions - def. something I'd like to check out.

yeah, sorry if my response seemed upset, I didnt mean to be disrespectful nor am I upset I was just being playful and engaging in the sarcasm of the whole "google it" thing and throwing the sarcasm back at you. I know sometimes people get misunderstood on the web, cause it's all just written and open to misinterpretation. Thanks for the responses

@pixero said: It's fascinating, but at the same time I feel it's kind of sad limiting such a great artist down to code. In a way the program's just mimicking what it's been taught. A human can invent things and try different solutions to better captures his/her idea. Still, even the old masters themselves used the latest technique available: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MDIiVkoTik8 Yeah, well maybe. We don't know. But we do know the lengths artists went to in order to create perspective etc. once the concepts became clear. When you look at what Caravaggio ACTUALLY DID with either technology or shear force of talent, it doesn't matter. I think the breaking-down of Rembrandt's works to code or algorithms is fascinating. It's just more of man looking inward and taking it apart to see what works and how it's connected to nature. As screwed-up a species as we are, amazing what lies within.

@pixero said: (...) so they usually used models from Turbosquid instead.

I'd meant to reply to your post but it slipped out of sight and out of mind. I'll PM you if that's ok

Hi, I responded to your email. let me know when you get a chance.

Cool find! Radio & Site!

@rich o brien said: An interesting dissection (...) Looks good. Thanks, Rich. @pbacot said: (...) one thing I am sure of is the Republican elite are going to hate it if Trump gets elected. Yeah. I'm sure there's quite a few Republicans who fear Trump'll run the GOP into the ground. They might be right, too.

"Our constitution does not copy the laws of neighbouring states; we are rather a pattern to others than imitators ourselves. Its administration favours the many instead of the few; this is why it is called a democracy. If we look to the laws, they afford equal justice to all in their private differences; if no social standing, advancement in public life falls to reputation for capacity, class considerations not being allowed to interfere with merit; nor again does poverty bar the way, if a man is able to serve the state, he is not hindered by the obscurity of his condition. The freedom which we enjoy in our government extends also to our ordinary life. There, far from exercising a jealous surveillance over each other, we do not feel called upon to be angry with our neighbour for doing what he likes, or even to indulge in those injurious looks which cannot fail to be offensive, although they inflict no positive penalty. But all this ease in our private relations does not make us lawless as citizens. Against this fear is our chief safeguard, teaching us to obey the magistrates and the laws, particularly such as regard the protection of the injured, whether they are actually on the statute book, or belong to that code which, although unwritten, yet cannot be broken without acknowledged disgrace. Thucydides History of the Peloponnesian War About democracy,

Yeah Torel, kind of a mixed bag, but I'm focusing on the positive side too. Thanks Rich

Okay to be fair, I've watched some well recorded ones now. Kind of a hit or miss proposition. This is inspiring stuff.

very interesting illusion... john

OK, i thought you had figured out an easier method.