OK, so thats that! Im certain there will be tweaks (good name for a CG movie with Daniel Day lewis as the Pioneering creater of the Blinn Shader… THERE WILL BE TWEAKS!)…
where was I? Oh yeah! Tweaks. As I get deeper and deeper into Mental Ray and its on line community, I am certain materials, shaders and ‘tings will get tweaked, but for now, this is done and its time to move onto some more characters and vehicles.
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As the post-it note on my desktop says, I still have a way to go on this one….
But Need to post something from today’s endeavours. Mental Ray is just not giving me the results I am after. I doubt very much its Mental Rays fault. As I sit here with a stack of Digital Tutors DVD’s to hit in the next day or two as a MR refresher, I cant help but wonder if there is a quicker and easier render engine I can get to grips with.
Of course, Im certain that the DT discs will break some old bad habits and get me back on the road to MR heaven…. but you know how it is when you just cant get things to work the way you imagine they would??? Well that was me today
Hopefully in the next day or two, all those GI and FG issues that have plagued me today will be a thing of the past. Plus, as I gear up to the the farm up & ready thanks to a very kind offer of some IT hardware support (More on this when I have some branded artwork from them 
), the trial and error rendering wont be quite so painful. However, I dread to think what the electricity bill will be this quarter with all those blades and Dells running…. and thats just for small tests.
Tomorrows task, besides rinse out 3 day old dive gear, is to narrow the threads I painted and add some fabric grunge…..
