Blog
Portal: No Escape
A friend of mine sent this short film to me. Its set in the Portal world of Aperture Labs and features some great shots and VFX. Here is the short: Here is the making of: I hope you guys enjoy it.
3ds max Peeling Paint
This was a very quick test a did some time ago. I client wanted to see some example of car animation so I quickly knocked these out. The peeling effect was kind of cool and something that I would like to revisit one day. It was achieved with a bit of scripting and using the path deform [...]
Meet Larry, the 3dsmax layer manager.
Why build a new layer manager? 3d Studio Max has had a layer manager for a long, long time. It works very well for what it is, however, as scenes over the years have grown large and complex the layer manager has not evolved to over come this. Scenes these days have more levels of [...]
Scripts
Wire Colour Tools
Wire Colour Tools is a simple script for setting random wire colours to all of the objects in the scene. Anyone who does allot of post work either in PS or a compositing package should find this script useful. Being able to adjust any element or of your project in post by the object enables [...]
V-Ray Material Shortcuts
These short cuts are really collection of very simple Macro scripts. Like my Turn Viewport Maps On/Off this one has had some serious staying power with artists to date it has to be one of my most used scripts. All of the macros are designed to manipulate V-Ray materials globally throughout the scene, very quickly and efficiently. Each macro effects [...]
Turn View Port Maps On/Off
A simple script that wrote quite some time ago. It seems to have a great deal of staying power as artists continure to use it on a daily basis. It is very simple and only has a few options. At the moment it support standard materials and V-Ray materials including nested Multi Sub-Materials. If there [...]
