Joe Gunn is the on-staff 3d animation
and visual effects specialist at Digital Pictures in Minneapolis.
Joe has been certified by Discreet to train individuals, groups and
entire companies on 3DS Max
and Combustion.
Joe is not only a technician but an artist as well. Some of his industry experience
includes commercial and print design, post production and design/visulaization
projects here in the
Twin Cities.
I'd like to exend our Thanks to Mario, Nick, and everyone at Fischer Edit who was great last week at our user group meeting. We had a great turn out and got to view some amazing work being done right here in the twin cities. The meeting was a very fun and exciting time. A big "THANKS" to everyone who attended. Those who could not make the meeting we did tape the meeting and will be providing a quicktime movie online at the MUG website for those who missed the meeting. Of course it will not be the entire meeting but you'll get the jist of it.
A little Max news:
Discreet Acquires Unreal Pictures – Extends its Leadership in 3D Animation Software
The Orphanage Fires-Up SplutterFish's Brazil r/s to Create Thrilling Visual Effects Sequences for Blockbuster “Hellboy” So if they used Brazil we all know which 3D app works with Brazil 3dsmax baby!
Need Help!
Our website is starting to build content daily and is getting a ton of hits from all over. Our community is growing and thriving but it doesn't need some help. We need members to contribute to the cause! Just send an email to Joe@digitalpictures.com with information you'd like to post to the website. Tutorials and Materials are very slim right now. Also if you are submitting textures, models, scripts, or tutorials just use Winzip and attach them to your email. If you have any tutorials just zip up the html page that you've created and we'll get it posted in the right category.
Gallery
We have a lot of great imagery brewing in the gallery now so add your work and view others. Just hit the gallery button on the main menu. Currently, the gallery is only linked from the FRONT PAGE. The designer of this page, hasn't templated the menu buttons and therefore has to go rough every page and link up the button. Shoot an to Russell@hdmg.com and he'll toss you the keys.
We ask that you limit the size of your image to at most 800x600. Aspect ratio doesn't matter. Keep file sizes reasonable by using jpg compression. No animations are being accepted at the moment. This may change in the future.
The gallery will improve as we find the time. One of the functions we'll fire up is gallery email. Should be pretty cool. The MUG thanks the folks at Gallery for their work on such a cool piece of software and keeping it free. (so far)
