3D Artist #21 Online Supplement

> Published October 1995, 40 pages, main mailing went out 2-3 Nov. 95
> Issue Status: in print [order now]
> Corrections for this issue

Cover: The cover is by Gayle Gross de Nunez. She explains: The scene was rendered in 3D Studio r4 first using a raytrace spotlight with only the wall, crate, and the character's head, hands, and cigarette present. This was to emphasize the "hands to brain" relationship in drug use, to reproduce the transparency of the empty skull in the shadow, and to have a clean shadow of the hands. I rendered again after hiding the wall, unhiding the rest of the body, and changing the head and eyes to matte objects. To remove a degree of "reality" from the rest of the body, I turned the shadow-casting attribute "off" so that only the head and hands cast shadows.
___ The character is using his brain, heart, and lungs as a footrest. These were texture, bump, and opacity decal maps, 100% self-illuminated. The two renderings were composited in Video Post, and retouched in HiRes QFX. The figure model is from Imagination Works, and the brain from Viewpoint. Other programs used were the Yost Vapor and Scatter IPAS routines (Boutique Disk #6), Photoshop 2.5, and Fractal Painter.

Contents page image (36.6K GIF)
Contents page: The contents page image was done by Cees van der Mark using Lparser and the raytracer, Vivid 2.0 registered version. You can see some gorgeous recent L-systems work at the artist's new Web gallery. To find out about how to use the copyrighted freeware Lparser program, see van der Mark's lengthy tutorial in 3DA#17. To learn how the Contents page image was done, jump to "Lily of the Lake".

Note: We re-arranged things some from how we've done them for the previous dozen issues, to make better use of color pages. So Contacts and the Calendar are on page 30, business card ads on page 29, and Editorial Space and the Masthead are on page 12.

News
6	3D Artist Online Reports Capsule reports from our coming online review collection
7	Heidi: Report by Rob Glidden Autodesk moves to offer developers a 3D API alternative
8	The Best of Tess A collection of news from our once weekly online 3D newsletter
34	3DExpres Review & How-To by Frank DeMarco Making meshes from photos
Medical Illustration
13	Medical Illustration - introduction to special section by Rob Glidden
14	Compromise & Misinformation by Gayle Gross de Nunez Three traps to consider in medical illustration
18	Recreation of a Royal Injury by Ramon L. Colinayo How medical and forensic animation can come together
20	Animating Heart Disease: by Rob Oudendijk Combining 3DS IPAS routines for better arteries
How-To's
28	H2Overdrive: Animation Master How-To by Jeff Paries Part 3 of 3 in a series about water effects [excerpted info]
36	Budget Motion Capture: TrueSpace How-To by Gary Davis Clap and then move on
40	Texture Creation: Tiling How-To by Alex Lindsay Illustrator and Photoshop in concert
*Also...*
33	3DS & Win95 [full text]
Departments
29	Business Card Ads
30	Calendar <> Artists Call <> Galleries
38	Classifieds
30	CONTACTS: For more product info
12	Editorial Space: What goes around...
12	Masthead & Mission Statement
38	SIGnificant People: Savannah & NYC

Errata & additional info:
> p8: Mentioned in "The Best of Tess" is MultiGen's SmartModel technology, which has been since renamed SmartScene.
> p13: The correct E-mail address for the Infomaniacs and their Comdex extravaganza is (or was) <thinktank@infomaniacs.com>.
> p30 & 32: The missing contact for Corporate Image Video is P.O. Box 90801, Albuquerque, NM 87199; 505/831-1138
> p40: Anark now has (or did have) a Web site at www.anark.com.

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