enqore's thoughts

I have been spending some time with Cinema 4D r13 and I must say that I am loving every part of this app. Maxon pulled off a beautiful release here. I was initially excited about the Character animation tools and soon realised that the physical renderer is where the bussiness is! I am on day 4 with playing around with some of the new features and I must say that the renderer has taken up most of that time!

Am I ever glad i bought a 7D! the physical renderer boasts cameras that have real world settings like iso, F-stop and exposure. All this lends to being able to creat really good looking render really quickly. I will get round to the character tools too which was my initial concern and play around with that a bit more. My humble opinion if anyone from Maxon should read this:

Please work on a proper skin shader. This is nowhere near things like ssskin or the like. We need features like epidermal and subdermal skin features!

Please include a face rigging tool. You "character object is already creating such a wide Gap from the competition. Introducing a tool like a face rigger would blow them away!

Better documentation... this documentation you have here isnt too inspiring... 

We havent seen anything happenning with Pyrocluster? do you realise the damage krakatoa and other Max plugins are making?

Optimise the renderer... Its new and i love it but render tests on a number of threads still shows Vray as the faster one. maybe its too soon for me to say?

just some thoughts...

The constant selfless awareness of others and one's interaction with them, to ensure the progress of the whole is by far the best philosophy in the world! Being in this city and seeing how some people have a selfish way of thinking has instilled in me a new respect and appreciation for this way of thinking. And it is a way of thinking that will govern all my actions, goals ad future projects. As part of this evolution I think a lot of thisngs will change... I have been saying this for a while but now i am able to identify the exact things i need to weed out.

I employ everyone of us, to embrace this way of thinking. You already do it everyday without thinking... the trick is to be concious of when and how you do it.

Nqo

I have realised after completing the dreamforce event that in as much as I was ranting and raving (internally) and going into all kinds of depression, that If another event that big were to occur (and i pray not any time soon), it wouldnt be as hard for me to cope with. In times of great tribulation and stress, one truly understands the limits that one has... and how far they can be pushed.

I am not too sure where i heard this from but someone once described to me that we have a psycological way of dealing with issues. We have a mental infrastucture in our minds and when faced with a situation that that mental structure cannot accomodate... it must break down, expand, and rebuild itself again to accomodate the situation. If it doesnt rebuild... thats what we call a breakdown... a nervous breakdown. Every so often we need the system broken down so that we can build it up again. Sometimes the process is more unpleasant than other times. I don't mean to overshare but I went into a process were few can walk away from. After a bit of healing, i truly believe that I can do it again... with my eyes closed. The process of evolution is a nesssary evil.

My lesson from this? I always say that evolution is always. I found this last bit of evolution taxing, but i can feel it deeply embeded in my system.

As I enter into the new "form", many things will be cast away. some relationships will die... I can help that... they were part of the old me.