Today, ben gave a class on mantra shaders again. A proper sidefx sanctioned lesson, not like the previous one with his friends from rythm and hue and etc. He covered creating subsurface scattering using a point cloud and also the Frasner shading. As the boffins in sidefx had worked on matra surface(material) in houdini 11, any material can be made using mantra surface. Which includes ng's milk and edmund's water.
I worked on the flight path and folding today. I probably have done 10 iterations of possible flight-path camera shots. It's quite maddening. but, oh well. I'll just render as flip book and ask franklin's opinion next week.
Also i havn't got around to working on the textures. I'll probably work on them from home. Gimp really suck. It over extends on features photoshop has. For example, photoshop combines, scale, skew and distort, but gimp made them seperate buttons. Which is quite maddening as it lacks streamlining. I tried it for a while, and went...screw this i'm going home to edit the textures.
So yeah, i'll probably do that during the weekend.
Oh and we found a nice japanese restaurant which sells meals under 10$. Also, something amazing happened while were here at the restaurant, NG ate a lettuce! yeah, that is all. I have the video. haha.
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