better start saving then!

this is pretty off topic, but would oyu recomend i buy the full version of podium, chipp? im a student, so would only have to pay £40 ($80)...do you think its worth it?

and to try and get back on topic a bit, very nice model, love the level of detail, gives it that extra boost of realism.

indeed, its a lot better than anything i could do. just tihnk how good your models will be if we ever do get organic modelling support!

cor, bit of shakey maths going on in this thead! If 1 imperial gallon=1.2 us gallons, that would mean $9.1/6 and then x5 to get the cost of a US gallon(its not just you smiley.)

wow, that looks like great fun. i cant really think what else to say, its just such a cool building!

EDIT: didnt realise the terrible pun there, sorry.

if you use the other gallon it comes out closer to $9/gallon.

may i ask what it is? looks pretty interesting (and a sweet model to boot)

i thought it was more like $7/gallon in the uk...$2/litre, 3.5 litres/gallon

perhaps somewhere along the line SU divided the cylinder up into a set of individual faces, with all the lines hidden, as happens when you use skin.rb. would only happen if the image was applied as a texture though...

its that very slight banding of the colours in the top image, on the brick wall in the bottom right.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moire_effect much more detailed description.

nice one, those look very good, i like the uncluttered feel to the whole thing, helps to get the idea across.

as everyones said, nice renders, maybe you could play around with te reflectiveness of th glass, as it seems a bit too matte, maybe im just seeing things

well i was convinced.

very good renders, like gai i thought one of them was a pic. Which render did you use?

damm, thats really good. not quite sure where you got 'im not very good at rendering' from.

i dont tihnk i've ever seen one of those snake toys before, kinda want to mess around with one for a while now

its very nice, not quite sure how they plan on seeling any with the SSD drives though, £500 for a smaller drive? i think not.

thats a bit of a

well heres another one, complete rip off of yours biebel (gotta start being more imaginative!)

plus a slight variation on the first one.

first time i've tried rendering something, just tohught it might be good to get an idea of how it works.

did it with podium and ps.

comments/critiques gladly accepted

1. control points, i was thinking a tool where you'd be able to select some geometry and apply a sandbox mesh over it, so it replaced the face with a mesh. This would make modelling more organic shapes a lot easier, as youd just be able to make a mesh form anything you could make normally.

2. this is kind of like a cross between the skin.rb and soapskin.rb, its quite hard to explain, so i'll just post a pic:

edit: just started using the 'from contours' tool, now im a happy man