karate, starships, maya, girlfriend.., you have your hands full. seems many maya people are multi-talented.

I better get back to work, I have a bottle of scotch to finish,, whoops, I mean a maya project to finish!!!

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Tell me about it, just got home from her house and now going to get myself a coffee sorted before on with the project.

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affter effects is giving me the sh..ts. tell me agin about the jpeg to premier thing. sounds much better. I tried to import .iff s into videomach and the next time I went to after afects I get this 'after efects cant find the parsor module' or some like that. Next thing I'm spending 4 hours screwing around with after efects on a project that took me an hour?? i even found a .dll in the images folder.., how did that get there??I deleted it and now I'm heading home to see if after effects will except the .tiffs agian??

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Been busy today and have just a little time before I have to go out and do some washing at the WI just to earn 30 quid.

But hey.

So here's pic on on the rear of the ship.

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Slightly closer view.

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great detail tim, you must have oodles of patience to get the detail in place

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Slightly different angle, at this point doing all this detail is really doing my head in and it's hard to see an end in sight.

Still not long now though

Will explain more tomorrow when I have more time. Still got some other posts to respond to as well.

Anyway, catch you all later.

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Hey there Tim,

You certainly have been busy, the detail is really starting to fill out. Nice job,

Mat.

AMAZING WORK !!! it´s amazing the details......no worrds to describe the outstanding work.

IM a fan of your work

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whoa dude, i have only been away from this thread for a week now look. his detail got boosted heck loads.
nice work!! :bow:

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A pint of example is worth a gallon of advice!!

Should post an update tonigh but im feeling a little low so well see how it goes.

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Just a wee update before Karate.

Bulking up the hull detail before I do .... yet more detail :zzz:

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Last picture of the evening.

Cheers for all your comments.

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I love the look of the star destroyers. Nice work so far. Booleans, as Jay said, cause problems for me at a few pionts. Mostly during rendering you start to get ugly artifacts. Also the polycounts gets huge because the geomtry gets really slivered in spots. It looks clean at first but show all edges on the geometry and you will see what I mean. Also you should add bevels to all edges to avoid the paper cut look with advanced lighting and to help bring out the geometry. This is the maiins spot the bad geomtry starts to show. There are times you will nead to use it, if time is of the concern and the part you are modeling is a side peice that is not important. Crunch for the client that wants if fast and for a cheap price, then they do not get quality. If you are trying to show off modeling though it is not a good idea.

Nice going Tim, keep it up dude!!