Computer Animation Arts

Pol presents 'Low Definition Transparency Textures '

Whenever I select the head shape and then click on the inputs, the window with the list of input operations is not coming up but another window with an error shows up (2nd Image). Am I doing something wrong? :/

okay, I can only assume that I have the glitch where the options above the viewport disappear, since all that I have at the top of the viewport is the basic wireframe view, shaded view etc icons. How do I fix this?

okay, this is making me feel really stupid -_-  In Maya2011, how do you look through a camera? 

Here is an article I linked Andriana regarding motivation levels that I found last week. It's aimed mostly at being a level/environment artist, but most of it still applies. I think that some of what he says is definately useful. Here's a few quotes : I talk a lot about planning and pre-production. As they are extremely important to our success as designers. I will never stop "preaching" about reference, research and knowing what you want before modeling and designing it. But once you are past the pre-production stage, it is the time to let go and believe the process of production. You have done all your work in pre-pro and it's time to let it go. Allow mistakes and happy accidents to happen. Do not be too rigid. Allow the pre-production do its work. One hour of highly focused, uninterrupted work is better then five hours of stop and go work. Don't keep your ideas, your best work tips, the magic trick and the secret hot key in yourse...

A break from all the recent abstraction; introducing John White Alexander and his sensuous, light-suffused portraits... John White Alexander "began his career in New York in 1875 as a political cartoonist and illustrator for Harper’s Weekly ... Alexander's stylistic development falls into several distinct stages. His early landscapes and genre scenes of the 1870s bear the stamp of Wilhelm Leibl's Munich realism as espoused by Duveneck and William Merritt Chase . His fluid brushwork resembled that of Frans Hals and Diego Velázquez , painters he deeply admired. After his return to the USA in 1881 and under the influence of Whistler , he favoured a more limited palette and experimented with the evocation of mood through shadow and gesture… His brushwork became less painterly and more concerned with suggesting abstracted shapes. He also adopted a very coarse-weave canvas, the texture of which became an important element in his mature work. By applying thinned-down paint...

Dennis Kunkel Ph.D. is an award-winning photomicrographer whose images appear worldwide in print, film, and electronic media - you can find his website and image galleries here.