3D Artist #42 Online Supplement

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This issue went to press on 4 Oct. 2000, printed during 19-20 October, and mailed on the 24th.

Page History
26 Dec. 2000: Page 25 errata.
25 Oct. 2000: Article indexing added.
23-25 Oct. 2000: The full supplement with indices posted in several stages.
6 Oct. 2000: A quick preview of the issue contents added.
9 Sept. 2000: This page first created in simple form to post an important notice about Leveller for PC-based landscape and heightfield artists.

Table of Contents & Supplementary Info

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Cover Story The cover is by Cecilia Ziemer using Carrara and Poser (and 3DS Max r2 to output the head), with a photo of the goblin's stereo-printed head by Bathsheba Grossman, solid output by Protoshape.

	4	Heads Up by Cecilia Ziemer	Cover story part 1: Carrara and Poser character used together to model a 3D goblin character (0.8 page)

	24	Off With Its Head by Cecilia Ziemer	The artist's experience with preparing the cover goblin character's head for stereo printing, starting out with Carrara and 3DS Max r2. (0.2 page)

	25	Waxing a Goblin Head by Bathsheba Grossman	Cover story part 2: The service bureau's end of the story, "stereo printing" the goblin's head for the solid output shown on the issue cover, with a little help from Rhino. (1 page) [errata]
3D Stage Design

	20	Scenography Techniques by Adam Watkins	Centuries of stage design have resulted in some tricks you should know about. (1.7 pages)

	21	A Digital Foot in the Stage Door by Adam Watkins	How 3D graphics is changing set and stage design at the university level. (1.2 pages)
LightWave Hair

	12	Tying One On by Jay Turberville	LightWave 3D 5.6 and Sasquatch get ready to go fly fishing. (4 pages)

	16	Tonsorial Delight by Robert Powers	Using LightWave 6 and Shave and a Haircut to create a stunningly complex hairdo. (2 pages)

	18	Making Stock Models Talk by Rich Jackson	Customing a Humanoid male figure to have stronger features and using Morph Gizmo Pro to set up lip sync, plus a dash of hair from FiberFactory. (2 pages)
Great Variety of How-To's

	6	Putting Your Work into Play by Mary Jo Fahey	A 3D SIG report on using Brilliant 3D .b3d files instead of VRML for putting your 3D graphics onto the Web. (1.25 pages)

	8	Patch Modeling a Head by Robert J. Undi	Part 2: Modeling a human head to order using reference photos. (3.25 pages)

	26	Beachcombing by R Scott Cherba	Creating a bit of the Gulf of California coastline using World Construction Set 5. (1.7 pages) [author's supplement]

	27	Run, Don't Walk by Thomsen-Norre	An important notice about Leveller--a great, low-cost landscape and height field tool that may disappear from the market, so get it now! (0.3 page) [full text]

	28	Blender Effects by David Weese	How to go about doing volumetric, particle, and flare effects in Blender. (1.2 pages)

	29	Blender Radiosity by David Weese	It's a bit different in use, and a bit of a pain to use, but here's how to put Blender to work as a free radiosity renderer. (0.9 page)

	29	Animate Low & Render High by David Weese	An explanation of using Blender's MetaNURBS-like S-Mesh, and pointers about how to animate in low res and render in high res. (0.4 page)

	32	Nonlinear Animation by Mitch Butler	Using the new Orchestrate3D meta-app to organize large Maya projects. (1 page)

Errata & additional info:

Page 25: The company that makes the author's Modelmaker II prototyping 3D printer ("stereo printer" is much less commonly used) has changed its name from Sanders to Solidscape. See the coming issue for a lot more about rapid prototyping for artists.

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