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 6/8/04  

Greetings Max Junkies! Time for another rant from me about the group...

Participate We need more member participation to keep this MUG alive!  I'm asking for members to help out with not only the website but the group in general.  Our last meeting was a great success and we want those to continue.  The meetings that we host at Digital Pictures will be webcasted going forward for those outside of our area to participate.  All of our members outside of MN should sign-up for the online forum to be able to truly participate in our Max community.  So make sure you register and take advantage of our online forum.   In the near future we will be changing the forum to a better web board. 

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.

Register for the forum!

Gallery - Only the best images will be posted in our gallery.  Don't be shy show your work! Remember you will need to request a user name & password in order to have access to uploading images to the gallery. 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.


Website updates will be listed now on the main page:

Texture Maps section has been updated 6/8/04

3dsmax & combustion workflow seminar Hosted by Digital Pictures 6/17/04

Models added to the member share section of the site. 6/1/04

Max news - 3ds max plays a starring role in effects creation for Roland Emmerich's latest film The Day After Tomorrow . 5/28/04

Industry news - Ornatrix is a plugin (presently for 3dsMax) that performs hair simulation for multi-purpose assignments. It's in beta free to the public. 5/25/04

If you don't know you better ask somebody!



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