The 10 second club is having a HUGE discussion on this at the moment... might be worth a visit if you're interested...

http://10secondclub.org

I understand that using threshold etc in PS can get the highlight needed. I think it's a better option to tell maya to render the original image AND the specular out as different passes in the same...

Cool, that's a nice way to do it in post... Does anyone know of a way to get it straight out of the renderer?

NP if not, it just means a heap of rendering to layers etc (Maya can render out just...

You'll find yourself more productive in maya after time... if only for the lack of crashing....

I LOVE A:M to death, it's workflow is the best there is (along with project:messiah) but it's not...

Does anyone have any alternatives to blendshape facial animation?

Maybe splines for muscles (bones) that move the geometry?
Bones that move the facial muscles?
Boxes/Nulls/Locators that move the...

I meant... If you move from AM to MAYA, not the other way round :(

:)

It's a hard call. A:M has far more rigging tools (constraints) available to it than ANY other package out there. This wealth of constraints really makes it fast to rig up some quite complex and...

Can I ask about it, how you did it etc? i don't suppose you could post a diagram of lighting used, or even the scene file (minus the model). I'm particularly interested in the little glows you've got...

that should have been about the alien model... sorry everyone

Can I ask about it, how you did it etc? i don't suppose you could post a diagram of lighting used, or even the scene file (minus the model). I'm particularly interested in the little glows you've...