Hard to pass a night without touching SI, even though it’s just to throw out some basic stuff. So, after messing around with Power Extrude I’ve had to add a floor. And then a light. And eventually I wanted to see a different material from the default one. So, here it is.
Another little test playing with Softimage and Final Gather. Not hard to admit: playing with this lighting stuff in Mental Ray is *so* different! My feeling is that at the beginning one is gonna spend a bit more time to figure out how to get the proper parameters that play well with the scene (still [...]
So, what’s the deal? Well, I’m trying to overcome the first obstacles as I’m thinking I want seriously study Softimage (formerly known as XSI.) Really, this is a great package. Of course I still use Blender and C4D with their and my limitations. In fact I prefer C4D when it comes to drop quick mograph [...]