Attached Link: http://homepages.tesco.net/~thistle/

My new website is finally finished. I have lots of animation and images, and even a few downloads for Poser, Illusion and Inspire. If you get a chance, drop on by! Dave (thistle)

The background reminds me of the western end of the Tuolumne Meadows. Now I'm "homesick". :( Carolly

Sorry for making you homesick Carolly! I live on the rain-soaked west of Scotland, and I make myself seriously miserable with these images of glorious wild open spaces! (ho hum...) Still, we always have those 2 dry days in August to look forward to! ;-) Dave

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Good post/composite work!! I use adobe After Effects and adobe Premeir for my post production I also have the Reel explosions CD that i use to composit explosion footage onto my animations have you heard of stratamedia paint?? it a great post effects program program that i got FREE from the cover cd of "Digital arts" Magazine it has fire particle effects lightning, effects lens flares, laser pulse blasts its Awesome!! (1.1 mb mpeg movie) Mocap

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( 363k mpeg) Here is one of stratas lightning effects mocap

WOW! Thanks for that mocap!! That's one issue of the mag I missed. Really need to check that out, thanks. :-) Dave

Great compositing work and excellent attention to lighting angles. How does this program compare to something like Adobe After Effects? Does it use the RLA file format? (This is a special compositing file format supported by MAX and Lightwave)...

Thanks! I think the key to making composites work is getting the lighting right. Can't answer your question regarding After Effects as I don't have it! :-) I do know that Illusion doesn't use RLA files, but it does load a ton of different bitmap formats and does a great job with AVI files. The layering is quite simple, but it works! Dave.