Leaderboard

Dr. Strange and the Multiverse of Madness will be streaming on Disney + on June 22 in the US. Saving my big screen movie dollars for Top Gun (a good date night for the wife and I) and Jurassic Park Dominion (the dinosaur animation in that extended preview just had me hooked). It just seems that amazing watershed moments in VFX/animation are occurring at an increasing rate....almost exponentially. Right now, they seem reserved for the big screen as they have the budgets to produce them but I am seeing equally amazing work on the streaming platforms as well (Love, Death, Robots as an example). When Saturday morning kid's programs start to produce movie quality effects that successfully cross the uncanny valley, then I would say the only thing left is holographic projections for those who need to up their eye-candy habit. Dave

I've only been around since 2013 when my new job gave me C4d. I didnt use the forum much and I still don't browse as often as I should-but I have to say that when I had a question, people have quickly given me solutions pretty fast and I am very grateful for that. €10/year is well worth the admission and I am grateful for @Igor keeping this place running (as well as @3DKiwiin my early career). I wish something like this was around when I had to learn StrataStudioPro. You young'uns have it easy with all these inner webs and cat5 cables and all that. Try dial up with Ma Bell and maneuver with Netscape.

One more with textures all from The Pixel Labs Corona texture pack.

The Pixal Lab stuff is really cool. I have both the Blemish Maps packs, they elevated my material game by a ton.

New texture pack for Corona from The Pixel Lab. Picked it up to support Joren - nice stuff. Everything in here is from the pack except the painting and the book.

Just catching up with Core4D / C4D Cafe as I haven't visited in a while. Myself and Crew Reynolds started C4D cafe. We were both trueSpace users and both into animating. We could see that truespace's days were numbered so moved over to Cinema 4D. In fact it was about 10 years that we then later me on my own ran the cafe before I sold it and moved on. I'm not actually doing any 3D these days and only have Blender installed on my computer and that's just to view a couple of model files. People may recall that I was modelling Lego motorcycles in 3D. That's developed to actually modelling them for real. I currently have about 55 Lego Technic motorcycles and now design my own. I exhibit them at Lego shows here in New Zealand. Getting back to the topic. I would be fine paying a small contribution to keep this place going. I know I had to dig into my own wallet a few times to pay the bills. Running and maintaining a forum on its own server isn't cheap. Cheers Nigel / 3DKiwi

I think a forum like this one should encourage different opinions and not limit them. An open exchange requires that everyone tries to write in a balanced and friendly way. But it also means that you have to put up with other opinions. Unfortunately, that is something that has generally gone a little out of fashion lately. I would like it if we would manage to accept different opinions in such a forum, which exists only for the exchange of knowledge and opinions. This means that you do not always have to respond to an unpopular opinion until a heated discussion arises. If you want your own opinion to be accepted, you must also accept other opinions, otherwise it can not work. This thread is an example of what breaks a forum. It's not one opinion or the other, it's the compulsion to want to be right and from that comes an increasingly heated discussion. it's that discussion that is toxic, not the differing opinions. Many of these persuasive posts have no contribution of their own to this topic. They have completely taken on a life of their own in an attempt to know better.

Been busy, but still alive.