im pretty much a major newb, could you explain that in a little more detail?

ok, so iv made this pedestal object, now i have this pentagram curve i want to engrave on the surface - how can i do that?

http://www.angelfire.com/art2/kozmonut/Pentagram.jpg

hello - i'm trying to model a pedestal sort of object: i made a path in photoshop, imported the curve into maya, duplicated it and scaled it down some and lofted the 2 curves. i now need a surface to...

wow that artbeats site is awesome. i knew that if we filmed fire wed have to set up a black background like they do - but like i said, were only in highschool, so our budget is like...zilch. the most...

awesome thanx everyone...ill defn hav to buy some points and start practicing. that fire video was very nice. as far as compositing real fire over the building, i hav thought of that as well, but...

ello-

my friends and i have begun some pre production work on a new movie we wil be making which is goign to require some rather advanced vfx. we need to burn down an apartment... heh. i'm...

i was just wondering if its possible to render out a transparent background in maya for later compositing (so that u dont hav to rotoscope/key out colors)

i got it, thanx, i read sumthin wrong on another post where i thought it sed to use /..... then i read further to use \\ and it worked fine. thanx.

ok, i seemed to hav followed all the instructions correctly, but uh, when i try to use the script, i get an error message saying it can't be found in my directory where i put it, and i did type it in...

ok, i just learned sumthing...notepad actually goes to a certain line....jeez...i feel stupid