NEWS:JOE'S RANTS

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.

Past email 5/27/04

Greetings Max Junkies! More news...

New tutorials http://www.mnmug.com/materialstut.htm

New materials http://www.mnmug.com/materials.htm

New textures http://www.mnmug.com/maps.htm

Industry Highlights http://www.mnmug.com/industry.htm

Participate: Our website is starting to build content daily and is getting a ton of hits from all over.  You will notice that our main page will now be displaying random images in those 3 blocks.  If you'd like to have an image in our list please don't hesitate to make a submission.  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.

Don't forget to register for the forum!

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 template 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)

If you don't know you better ask somebody! REGISTER 4 THE FORUM!!!