Return to PEN

Return to PEN

I just realized that I have not updated my job situation in a long while! My contract with Prime Focus World wrapped up back in mid-July, and although I was sad to leave the friends I had made there, I was excited to return back home.

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FFD Mirroring

FFD Mirroring

I’ve always found mirroring FFD Spacewarps to be a real pain. I finally decided to play a bit earlier today to try to find a good way of doing it rather than settling for a negative scale in the x-axis or roughing out a “mirrored” version.

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Project XBR Webinar

Project XBR Webinar

I attended the 9am EST “Project Excalibur Webinar” yesterday.  For those who do not know, what has been named “Project Excalibur” is the future of Autodesk’s 3DS Max.  It is a major overhaul of Max’s core that is being done in three phases.  The first phase was the Max 2010 release.

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Sticky Lips

Sticky Lips

A few weeks ago I decided I wanted to take a stab at creating the “Sticky Lips” effect.  I saw a few tutorials out there, but they were only for Maya and didn’t translate too well to 3DS Max.  I decided to play around a bit and try to come up with a method for Max on my own.

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