Beer glass scene creation
This course contains a little bit of everything with modeling, UVing, texturing and dynamics in Maya, as well as compositing multilayered EXR's in Photoshop.
# 1 31-12-2002 , 09:24 AM
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Know your Moderators

Ok Mod guyz, time for you to take the mic, and tell us a bit about yourselves.

Name, Age, Sex-Male or female,not how frequent- What made you donate time for the site, Hobbies, etc, etc...



Happy New year everyone


I don't suffer from stress, I'm a carrier.
# 2 31-12-2002 , 09:53 AM
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ok dude:

Name: Kevin

Age: 30 user added image

Sex: male (last time I looked)

height: 6`1

hair: brown

eyes: blue/green

pants: Y-Fronts

What made you donate time for the site: I wanted a "maya" only with no max no photoshop no fuss web site, where I could find all the tutorials I needed - So I made one user added image

Hobbies: Football - Having a "few" beers

Car: A rover 214si (POS) that dosnt work (fuel injectors)

Animals: 1 labrador chocolate colour - 2 years old in feb

Married: To helen - known her since I was 15 and she was 14 in school.

Kids: yep - just the 1 Jodie aged 5 in April

Food: Bring on the curry - madras / Vindaloo / dansak and a large garlic nann - few pompadoms (dam Im starving)

Goals:

1. To make this the best Maya site on the net, to do the same with XSI, LIGHTWAVE and MAX.

2. To buy a big house in a warm country

3. To not strugle with bills!

4. To get a decent car user added image

# 3 31-12-2002 , 02:23 PM
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Name: Izzy aka: Rage or Ragecgi

Age: 30 user added image user added image

Sex: male (last time I looked)

height: 5'6"

hair: brown

eyes: green

pants: worldwideuser added image

What made you donate time for the site:
I got tired of not having anywhere to go for Maya-specific help and friends.
Plus, I've been in the biz for about 8-10 years, and I thought I'd start spillin my guts a bituser added image

Hobbies: The "BoneDaddy" mel project, Maya, booty, (when she feels like ituser added image hehe...
Dynamics, particles, fire!

Car: 2001 Jetta GL

Animals: One 2 month old baby kitten with razor-sharp teeth and claws, 1 apple snail, 1 sucker fish, 2 goldfish.

Married: I wishuser added image Girlfriend: Michelle

Food: Chinese, Italian, Hot sauce, CRAB, and SHRIMP!

Goals:
1. To make "BoneDaddy" a reality
2. To help out AS MUCH AS I CAN on this site!
3. To not strugle with bills!
4. To work for ILM or any decent production houseuser added image


Israel "Izzy" Long
Motion and Title Design for Broadcast-Film-DS
izzylong.com
# 4 31-12-2002 , 02:49 PM
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Location: Exeter, UK
Posts: 407
Name: Kal / Dan
Age: 25
Sex: male
height: 5'11"
hair: brown
eyes: brown
pants: stealthed ninja special edition
What made you donate time for the site:
Friendly place with a nice atmosphere. plus kevin kept mailing me threats of stealing all my lego unless i helped out. dont have so much time to hang out here as much as I'd like to now though user added image
Hobbies: Playing drums, listening to biziarre heavy music, getting out to the cinema as much as poss, visiting ruined castles / buildings, vampyric/norse mythology.
Car: dying Peugeot 309
Animals: none as such, though I'm feeling somewhat attached to the spider that lives behind my monitor.
Married: no. I only seem to land psychotic chicks...
Food: "chicken for my lunch, chicken for my dinner, chicken chicken chicken I'm a finger licking winner" (chicken)
TV: Red Dwarf, Blackadder, Python, Fawlty Towers, Friends
Goals:
1: To get my reel finnished
2: To get a saneish girl sometime
3: To meet Nicholas Barker (a drummer)
4: To get a job which i love.

# 5 31-12-2002 , 04:48 PM
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Name: Kurt

Age: 27

Sex: Male

Height: Just under 6'2"

Hair: Short brown hair with blond tips

Eyes: Dark brown

Pants: Anything that is nice and comfy

What made you donate time for the site:

Found the site just after it opened, while I was still in school. Love the atmosphere and members. Then Kevin asked me to be a MOD and I like to help people out so I agreed....

Married: Yes!!!! 4 and a half years to my awsome wife Amber( hottie)

Hobbies: Wife, Maya, Painting, Drawing, Working out kickboxing and movies

Animals: 2 dogs... BOWEN a PEEK-A-POO (male) and KARRA a PEEK-a-POM (female)

Car: 1997 Pontiac sunfire green

Food: Pizza, Chicken any kind, a good burger.

TV: Cartoons, Boxing, Tech TV, Eye Drops,

Goals:

1: Give a great life to my family
2: Get a stable nice paying job (sick of freelance =)
3: Become as good as posible as a 3D artist
4: In 4 years be working at one of the big wigs like ILM, PIXAR, or WETA
5: Get back into my kickboxing shape for summer =)
6: Get my new reel done

Dreams:

Win a Academy Award for a short animated film.


I am enough of an artist to draw freely upon my imagination, knowledge is limited, imagination encircles the world. (Albert Einstein)

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# 6 31-12-2002 , 06:33 PM
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Name: Darkon/Bill

Age: 40

Sex: Male

Height: 5'10"

Hair: Brown and grey user added image

Eyes: Blue

Pants: Only after running a lot, and other excercise user added image

What made you donate time for the site:

I love sharing knowledge, and the two things in life that interest me the most are music and graphics, particularly Maya!

That and the judge said it was that or life without parole user added image

Married: No

Girlfriend: Blondie user added image

Hobbies: Graphics, music, reading, movies

Animals: Two cats, Nala and Calamity. Sisters from the same litter, both are possessed by ancient spirits of evil and need attitude adjustments once in a while from the Mistress user added image

Car: 1998 Chevrolet Cavalier (Green)

Food: Steak, pizza, chicken, steak, lasagna, steak, and more steak...and some turkey user added image

TV: Movies, Cops

Goals:

1. To form my own independant film company and produce feature length animated films.

2. To start selling my music.

3. To live long enough to get one of those personal jetpacks that science always says is right around the corner user added image

Darkon


Red bellows of flame have blackened my stones
Convulsing my frame and cracking my bones
Hell's dragons of steel who roar in their chains
Crawl into my caves to suck out my veins.....

-The Mountain P.F.M.
# 7 31-12-2002 , 07:03 PM
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Location: Seattle, WA
Posts: 8,245
Name: mtmckinley - Mike

Age: 22

Sex: Male

Height: 6'3"

Hair: Black

Eyes: Brown

Pants: Comfy

What made you donate time for the site:

Well, I taught Maya before, and I liked it, so I started my site's tutorials. Found this site and liked the video aspect, so I joined up. user added image

Married: No

Girlfriend: Yeah, her name's Maya. lol

Hobbies: Graphics, movies, games

Animals: 1 dog, White lab named Smokey

Car: Not yet, but hopefully soon. user added image Looking at a white Dodge F150

Food: almost anything. lol

TV: TechTV

Goals:

TO GET A GOOD JOB.... period. lol

# 8 31-12-2002 , 07:37 PM
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Well, I know I'm not a mod, but I might as well tell you about myself:

Name: Josh LaRoe

Age: 13

Sex: Supposedly male user added image

Height: 5'6"

Hair: light brown/blonde

Eyes: blue

Pants: Old Navy, blue jeans basicly

What made you donate time for the site:
Well, I really wanted to learn Maya, and I was searching on google and came accrossed it, was here a little while after it started, cause there weren't allot of members.

Married: Duh!! 13 user added image

Girlfriend: well, none yet, I'm sort of the computer geek at my school user added image

Hobbies: Webdesign, Art, Maya, etc

Animals: Well my dad sells dogs so....do you know were I'm going with this??? user added image

Car: None, once agian 13 user added image

Food: Pizza, Red snapper [fish], Orange Roughy [fish], Philly steak

TV: Simpsons, TechTV

Goals:
To get through school
Learn maya
get a job that involves maya
Get a car user added image
Stop using the smile face so much user added image user added image stop, bad hand bad, ouch user added image



How to fly:
"...aim for the ground and miss..."
# 9 31-12-2002 , 07:50 PM
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lol, old dreams LOL

# 10 31-12-2002 , 07:57 PM
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What?! Nobody else watches "Iron Chef"? user added image


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# 11 31-12-2002 , 09:24 PM
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my website | my blog | my job
# 12 01-01-2003 , 03:15 AM
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Location: Prague
Posts: 3,228
Name: David

Age: 26

Sex: male, 90% of the time :p

height: 6`0, 6`2 in heels

hair: brown

eyes: blue x 2

pants: None at all

What made you donate time for the site:
Kevin he keeps me in the cupboard under the stairs but has promised to let me go after we become the biggest Maya site on the net.

Hobbies: Beer, Curry

Car: none

Animals: Kevin

Married: Been there done that single ATM.

Kids: Probably user added image

Food: curry

Goals:

Hmmmm none really made loads of $$$ when i was younger didn't really make my happy, Id like to be a rock star i think


From a readers' Q and A column in TV GUIDE: "If we get involved in a nuclear war, would the electromagnetic pulses from exploding bombs damage my videotapes?"
# 13 01-01-2003 , 03:22 AM
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Hmmmm none really made loads of $$$ when i was younger

I hope im not being to nosey... but how?

# 14 01-01-2003 , 03:31 AM
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Originally posted by dbirider
I hope im not being to nosey... but how?

Worked as head programmer for Telstar creating the back ends for interactive Video catalogs, went on to work in securing communications for telecom companies, probably sounds a lot more interesting than it was, met Kevin 5 years ago and we've been working together every since LOL exactly the same time i started running out of money funnily enough; but then i get a lot more beer and curry working for Kev than i did at Telstar so....


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And NO b4 you ask nothing to do with the satellite user added image


From a readers' Q and A column in TV GUIDE: "If we get involved in a nuclear war, would the electromagnetic pulses from exploding bombs damage my videotapes?"
# 15 01-01-2003 , 05:39 AM
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not a mod.....but who cares!

Name: z1mmnd14

Age: 18

Sex: male

Height: 5'8"

Hair: brown (and i grow it myself)

Eyes: hazel...i think

Pants: boxers

What made you donate time for the site:
wanna learn maya...best place to learn...right here

Hobbies: Martial Arts (Gong Fu/JKD), Guitar, Music, Football (Arsenaluser added image), Cartoons

Car: Aiming for a Peugeot 206 or Ford Focus RS

Animals: Ginger Cat called Garfield...after the cartoon cat

Married: No

Food: Italian, Burger&Chips, Chinese,

TV: 1. The Simpson’s, 2. Friends, 3. Only Fools And Horses

Goals:
1. Finish Uni
2. Get better a Maya


Yeah, but no but yeah but no....

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