Event: December 4:th: An Evening with Blur Studios

On thursday, december 4:th, 2008, Blur Studios will hold a presentation about their "Warhammer Online" cinematic, and how they used mental ray for all of it.



The event is in Hollywood, CA, and is free of charge.

Details are here.

UPDATE: The event is now online here

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mrMaterials.com & The Floze Tutorials

mrMaterials.com

Last week, the site mrmaterials.com opened officially to the public, so you can actually up- and download materials there as well as (like I mentioned in my last post) mymentalray.com. So don't be shy, up & download those nice mental ray materials as much as you like!

The Floze Tutorials

Florian Wild, most known as "Floze" online, has put together an outstanding set of tutorials for mental ray about rendering various types of environments. These are, in order:



Sunny Afternoon

Twilight

Moonlight

Electrical

Candle Light

Underwater

Florian has undoubtedly done a great job on these, and they are very good reading, and even though they are written for Maya, mental ray is mental ray, so the basic techniques can be transported to XSI, 3ds Max etc. just as well.

Luckily, Floze has already done the thinking for you here as well, and this is available in eBook format from www.3dTotal.com for £8.55 (which I think he is well worth).

Enjoy

Stuff

Siggraph is closing in. I plan to do a bit of "reporting" from it on twitter, (so follow me there), and I may even, if I get extra crazy, do some QiK coverage. We'll see....

...until next time - keep tracing. ;)

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Speaking at "End User Event", Sept 13-14, Netherlands

I'll be one of the speakers at the EUE in Utrecht (25 minutes by direct train from Amsterdam Schiphol Airport). I'll be talking about the new shaders and other mental ray 3.6 stuff.

More info, registration instructions and schedule on eue.3dstudio.eu

Also speaking will be Ted Boardman, Rune Spaans, Jamie Gwilliam, and a truckload of more people.

Pop over if you want to see some fun stuff or just have a word or three. I've been known to talk a word... or three. ;)

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EDIT: Fixed links. Silly me.

SIGGRAPH 2007

Hello all.

I'm going to SigGRAPH 2007 conference in San Diego.

I made a twitter account which I'll try to keep updated with my "whereabouts" so that anyone wanting to run into me knows approximately where I am. Be warned, I'm pretty filled up schedule-wise, but there are gaps....

There will also be some nifty posts here, methinks... stay tuned.... *grin*


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Swedish Max/Maya launch

Tomorrow (Nov 7:th 2006) will be the launch event for 3ds max 9 and Maya 8 in Sweden. It'll be in Gothemburg (Chalmers) and I'll be there speaking about mental ray and...stuff.

So anyone around wanting to say hi, well, I'm the blonde swedish guy. Uhm. Which may not be so easy to find among all the other blond swedes. Well, I'm the only one that is mental.

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